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EDITOR’S NOTE: The following letter to the editor appears after a back-and-forth between letter-writer Richard D. Pope of Hendersonville, N.C., who raised the idea of free housing, and other letter-writers — all of whom strongly opposed Pope’s proposal.
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There is no such thing as a “FREE LUNCH.”
And as Dr. Thomas Sowell so famously said; “THE REAL MINIMUM WAGE IS ZERO.”
The ongoing debate in Hendersonville (aka “Hooterville”) about providing free public housing for the homeless is a non-starter, in my view.
Every burg in the USA now, with the assistance of the federal government, wants to provide more “AFFORDABLE HOUSING” in their burg.
Nothing is “FREE.”
What one receives for nothing makes “SLAVES” of the ones who must pay for the “FREE OR AFFORDABLE STUFF.”
What is the true definition of “AFFORDABLE HOUSING?”
For the vast majority of Americans, it means whatever they themselves can afford for housing. Why should working Americans be enslaved, requiring them to also pay for the cost of others housing? Anyone with two (2) brain cells would know that they could afford more/better housing for themselves and their families if they were really free and not forced into “SLAVERY.”
Bottom line is simply this: Everyone comes into this world unclothed and with nothing.
All who live in America are exceedingly blessed. Everyone is assured of equal opportunity. And everyone has equal opportunity to take advantage of that equal opportunity.
Those who are of sound mind and body who choose not to avail themselves of America’s equal and many opportunities deserve nothing, especially, ESPECIALLY a share in the labor of a slave.
Bleeding hearts scream “WELL WHAT SHOULD WE DO WITH THEM”?
My answer to that is “NOTHING.”
If they can find someone who will take on the responsibilities of caring for that individual, including housing, clothing, food, health care, final expenses, etc., then everything is fine.
If they cannot find a sponsor, then “sine quo non.” They can maintain public parks, public school facilities, etc., but I repeat “sine quo non.”
For those of unsound minds and bodies, we MUST see that their needs are provided.
LEWIS R. VAUGHN
S.C. Sen. Ret..
Greer, S.C.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The letter above ended the with the following postscript:
“In general, the art of government consist of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.”
— Voltaire, 1764
Yes, keep AM radios in cars; vehicle sought with no electronics
I liked your opinion piece (The Daily Planet’s Opinion) on keeping AM radios in cars.
To me, that is just the tip of the iceberg...
I’m pro choice, so I want to be able to buy a car with no electronics.
I want a car with a gear-driven motor, with real gaskets in the motor and a real transmission (not a CVT one, which is a flawed design).
From my experience, the only positive innovations that have been done in the last 35 years is fuel injection (which has a computer chip in the motor) and symmetrical all-wheel-drive (which also necessitates a computer chip).
I’ve heard (and I’m sure you have, too) many horror stories related to what goes wrong with all of these sensors and computer chips in cars now.
JOHN BROWN
Hendersonville, N.C.
In ‘The Age of Rage’ in which we now live,it’s wise to avoid criticizing anyone, ever
We are living in “The Age of Rage.”Americans are so-o-o-o-o angry with each other!Social scientists say there isn’t much that can be done to dampen down this anger.But perhaps there is!We all criticize others, yet nobody like to be crticized.Criticism hurts.All criticism causes us to get our back up and to become defensive.And criticism makes us angry.There presently are 330 million Americans.And we all are guilty of criticizing others, and of hurting their feelings — and of causing them to get their backs up, and of making them angry.If the 330 million Americans would stop criticizing others, and hurting their feelings, and of making them defensive and arching their backs and of making them angry, this would be bound to damp down the level of anger in society.But criticsm is part of human nature!Everybody criticizes, just like everybody lies.Can we, as a society, pull it off?Sure we can!Using the “N-word” also was ingrained into us and our society, but, just as we have stopped using the “N-word,” we can stop criticizing people.
RICHARD D. POPE
Hendersonville, N.C.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The letter above also included the following postscript:
As a matter of fact, according to those who have had a near-death-experience and who claim to have visited Heaven...Heaven doesn’t invite people into paradise who, in life, were negative and critical, and who can’t get along with others, and who cause dissension and disharmony and hurt feelings.This should be a incentive to give up criticizing others!
N.C. Dems urged to listen to scholars of genocide
The North Carolina Democratic Party is reportedly divided over whether to call Israel’s actions in Gaza “genocide.”
However, Israeli Holocaust and genocide researchers — Amos Goldberg, Omer Bartov, Daniel Blatman, Raz Segal and Shmuel Lederman — have all identified Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide.
Goldberg writes: “What is happening in Gaza is genocide because the level and pace of indiscriminate killing, destruction, mass expulsions, displacement, famine, executions, the wiping out of cultural and religious institutions... and the sweeping dehumanization of the Palestinians — create an overall picture of genocide, of a deliberate, conscious crushing of Palestinian existence in Gaza.”
Other genocide scholars, including Martin Shaw, author of the book What is Genocide?; Melanie O’Brien, president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars; and Dirk Moses, senior editor of the Journal of Genocide Research, have drawn the same conclusion.The United Nations Genocide Convention placed prevention at the center of international law. Rejecting credible evidence of genocide risks undermining that legal and moral commitment, and the postwar promise of “never again.”
TERRY HANSEN
Grafton, Wisc.
‘Lying Zionist shysters’ destroy Israel, reader says
John 8:44 (NKJV) states: “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do.
“He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
“When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.”
Hey, you genocidal, kill-crazy, bloodthirsty Orthodox Jewish supremacist levelers of Southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip (soon to be jagoff Jared Kushner’s Zionist Riviera, which is really just a timeshare), how stupid are you spoiled, filthy rich brats?
Just because most of your fascist war criminal clan of right-wing racist Israeli religious crackpots can’t stop themselves from whining and complaining loudly in public about how the majority of the United States voting population no longer wants to pay for Israel’s continual crimes against humanity, stop crying about it already!
America doesn’t owe you anything.
Give Germany a call instead, putz. You schmuck.
It’s not our fault that you’re short, angry, ugly, hairy and hostile.
While you’re whining, why don’t you give your fellow mentally ill midget pervert Woody Allen and his daughter-wife Soon-Yi, a call — and I’m sure they can refer you to an experienced Freudian therapist.
Use your billions of dollars of blood money on buying YOUR OWN tanks, planes and missiles, because cheap and chintzy Israel’s days of freeloading at the American trough will be over soon enough.
You’re getting cut off, son! (Just like a Mohel would say at a Jewish baby boy’s bris.)
Get this straight, you diddlers on the roof, Israel ain’t worth the land stolen to form it.
As King Trump would say, Israel is a “sh--hole.”
Genocidal Israel’s only real asset, other than all of its deadly weaponry given to it free-of-charge by the forever fleeced and thoroughly-lied-to American taxpayers (including Israel’s illegal thermonuclear arsenal by way of Jewish Zionist espionage against the United States), is Israel’s “special relationship” with the American federal government, which officially ends for good as of January 2029, when an anti-Zionist Democratic president (just like JFK was) takes our executive branch back from the foreign billionaire bribers and their terrorist thugs.
The American public isn’t waiting for confirmation from official sources anymore. We the people know Israel is over, whether wealthy, homicidal pedophile Zionist racist tools of Israel’s Crime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, realize it or not.
And by “special relationship,”
I am of course referring to immoral Israeli Jewish supremacist thieves on Wall Street robbing mostly Christian-Americans blind every decade and always getting away with it, then Silicon Valley Semitic scumbag pornographers and South Florida Satanists sexually exploiting and molesting mostly Christian-American children — and always getting away with that as well.
Who do you think disgusting Donald “Tel Aviv” Trump’s best friend and favorite child rapist Jeffrey Epstein was working for?
ISRAEL is the correct answer, in case you’re a low-IQ, completely clueless, corporate media moron paid not to think or ask any real questions.Turn off your TV, for once.
The so-called “Star of David” (which is actually a hexagram, the most evil symbol in Witchcraft and Satanism) stands for raping children in “the Synagogue of Satan” that Jewish apostate Jesus Christ, your personal spiritual savior told you about in The New Testament’s Revelation 3:9. Israel is evil.
It always has been.Moses and Jesus knew that — and didn’t have any fear in saying so publicly, which is why those greedy Pharisees murdered Jesus Christ!
Just take a look at Gaza, if you have any doubts.
Or take a look at the child sex trafficking tunnels Chabad built under NYC.
Israel is demonic, not to mention being under the complete control of plutocratic pedophiles.
The United States of America’s next war should be against Israel.
Give the people what they want: a smoking hole in “The Holy Land,” where Tel Aviv’s rich pedophiles used to be.
JAKE PICKERING
Arcata, Calif.
Political karma could be decisive for Democrats in Fla. Senate race
Mid-term Senate speculation frequently focuses on Texas and Maine.
Understandably so.
But Florida could not only be key for the Democrats, but karmic for the GOP.
It’s the state where the well-entrenched incumbent, Sen. Marco Rubio, made his Faustian deal to leave the Senate to move up to secretary of state and post-Trump presidential ambitions.
Democrat Alex Vindman, a former Army combat vet, Purple Heart honoree and bipartisan foreign-policy advisor, is in a statistical tie with Republican Ashley Moody, who was appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis,å when Rubio left the Senate.
Vindman’s Florida First Agenda prioritizes cost-cutting for families and ending unchecked corruption (including Congressional stock-trading).
He’s also “Hell no” on ill-considered, poorly-conducted forever wars.
His straight-talking demeanor and military background prevents a partisan “woke” characterization when he opines on cutting costs and crushing corruption.
Vindman’s been a fund-raising success who’s attracting national media attention and targeting independents.
He’s known to criticize “both parties when they failed.” He’s also notably reaching out to the politically potent South Florida Cuban-American demographic.
He doesn’t mince words. “I’ve talked with many Cuban Floridians, and what the Cuban people want is clear,” Vindman has stated, adding, “Regime change, freedom and a fresh start. My family fled (Soviet) communism when I was 4 years old. I hope Raul Castro rots in jail.”
Rubio would agree.
JOE O’NEILL
Asheville, N.C. |
