Women’s session is empowering
After attending the Nov. 13 True Woman’s Leadership Luncheon with Nancy Leigh Demoss and staff, I wish to encourage all women in the Chattanooga and surrounding areas to take action and register for the True Woman Conference to be held March 25-27, 2010. This conference is for all women, but particularly those who are searching and longing for a more fulfilled and purposeful life.
I believe women from all walks can be empowered by sound biblical teachings with practical instructions of all ages. It is so exciting to interact with other woman who will encourage you as women, no matter where you are in life.
Learn more about how to become a woman God created you to be. Do yourself a favor and go online to register at www.TrueWoman.com, or call 877-966-2608. Now is the time!
RITA BRITTON
Vote for GOP, vote against own good
Republicans never have and never will do anything for their constituents, only for corporate greed. Lobbyists hand them their orders, their talking points, and their amendments for legislation!
Our local GOP senators (Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia) voted no for reducing greenhouse gases by 20 percent by the year 2020, no against the hate crimes bill, and of course say no for any health care reform! How much corporate money are they getting? Forty-five thousand Americans died last year for lack of health care insurance, including more than 2,000 veterans!
If you have Social Security or Medicare, it is because of Democrats. If you want to have decent and affordable health care for the future, it will be only because of Democrats.
But you keep going to the polls to vote against your own good. Just where is stupidity taught? Primarily at homes and some businesses tuned in to the daily lies and hatred of Fox “fake news” and the Limbaugh radio types. One of their big lies now is how “Obama care (?)” will hurt people on Medicare. How sad and disturbing it is for Americans to believe such rhetoric.
WALTER M. BENTON
Signal Mountain
Health bill passed despite pressure
On Nov. 7, a bipartisan majority of the House of Representatives passed the Affordable Health Care for America Act. I believe this was the first time a chamber of Congress has ever passed comprehensive health insurance reform.
I would like to thank representatives who voted for this bill in spite of the insurance industry lobbyists’ pressure. Rep. Wamp, you did not vote for the bill. Not only do you do not deserve my thanks, you’ve lost my vote.
BORIS BELINSKIY
Signal Mountain
Decision on trial puts lives at risk
President Barack Hussein Obama and his attorney general, Eric Holder, have decided to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his gang to New York City to stand trial. A more reckless and irresponsible decision I can’t imagine. These terrorists committed acts of war and should be tried as war criminals before a military tribunal such as the Nuremberg trials of WWII. The location should be where they are now, Guantanamo Bay, a secure facility safe from terrorist attacks.
But because our president is “afraid” of insulting Muslims and whatever political ideology is behind this decision, he is putting at risk the safety of New York City and its residents. Also having them tried in a “civilian court” affords them all the rights and legal loopholes American citizens enjoy.
I can see it now: His legal team, which has the obligation to have these people acquitted, will try every trick in the book to get them off.
This is a slap in the face to all the survivors of the innocent victims and the lost lives of the brave men and women who tried to save them. Does anyone now doubt where Obama’s loyalties lie? Obviously not with his own citizens but with his Muslim brothers.
SCOTT HARRINGTON
Ooltewah
MCR educates on eating disorders
We at the MCR Foundation in Chattanooga (yes, in our own city) would have loved to have been part of the discussion of eating disorders in males. MCR is a non-profit organization dedicated to education and prevention of eating disorders in the Chattanooga area. Our executive director, Jenny Johnston, has a wealth of information to share.
We go into middle through high school talking about body image to females and males and have had great success with our “Body Project” program. We also have our exclusive elementary presentation, the “Ladybug Program,” which is targeted for third grade (where research shows young children begin showing signs of poor body image that can later morph into full blown eating disorders), and is currently being implemented by the Junior League.
We also have a book, “Out in the Garden,” written for us by a local author of children’s books and is used in conjunction with the program.
These are only a few of the services we at MCR have brought to our community.
JAN ROBINSON
Founder and Board
Chairman of MCR
Votes against health reform a disgrace
I am a retired Army officer living in northern Georgia. My family and I have enjoyed for years, and continue to enjoy, “government provided” health care. I proudly served for 26 years in the military, in the belief that we were fighting for, among other things, fairness, justice and equality in this country.
It greatly saddens me to witness congressmen, who also enjoy government provided health care, voting against health care reform. With tens of millions of Americans either uninsured, or grossly underinsured, I believe it is a national disgrace.
My own congressman, Nathan Deal, is among those who have voted against health care for millions of Americans. I will not be able to support him for re-election to Congress or for election to any other public office.
GEORGE WINTON
LaFayette, Ga.
Water cleanup a vital service
On Oct. 24, 201 people spent their Saturday morning picking up garbage — over 3.5 tons of bottles, cans, plastic bags, tires, bicycles, car parts, diapers, mattresses, carpet, and more — from the bottoms and banks of Whitfield and Murray County streams and the Conasauga River.
This year marked the 15th annual Conasauga Watershed Cleanup. Over the years, 70 tons of garbage have been pulled from our area’s scenic water bodies and placed in the landfill. The cleanup organizing committee thanks this year’s volunteers and those of years past for all their hard work!
The goal of these cleanups is not only to remove unsightly trash, but to also raise awareness of the importance of the Conasauga and its tributaries in providing habitats for a remarkable diversity of plants and animals, scenic areas for recreation, and clean water for drinking and industrial uses.
The success of this annual event stems from the collaboration of a number of area agencies and organizations: the Conasauga River Alliance, Dalton State College, Dalton Utilities, the Dalton-Whitfield Regional Solid Waste Management Authority, Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful, Murray County Extension, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), United Way of Northwest Georgia and the state of Georgia’s Rivers Alive program.
JOHN LUGTHART
Dalton State College
Dalton, Ga.
More Americans need health care
Congratulations to the legislators who voted for health care reform. The people of this country deserve better care, and you were instrumental in providing that care. Those who did not vote caved into the insurance industries’ propaganda.
When I called the Tennessee representatives’ offices I was told that they thought the industry could provide reform. That hasn’t worked so far, and there is not any indication that it will work in the future. Isn’t the definition of a failure “those who repeat the same efforts that have failed in the past yet expect different results?”
It hurts to see middle-class Americans going bankrupt because they thought their insurance would cover their illnesses or they lost coverage due to job loss. It is time to get back to the real American values of “justice for all.” It is unjust to leave so many good Americans without health care.
SUSAN FORD
Benton, Tenn.
Reply to Vote for GOP, vote against own good By WALTER M. BENTON
Your letter is very true about people voting against their own welfare. And by this I do not mean free entitlements to anyone who does not "want" to work for earning their "keep." With this in mind, we need to be aware of what has been occurring over the years with the increasing Global Corporations investing and racing to have their goods manufactured in the lowest labor wage countries, who have welcomed the Capitalist. During the years while this shift has beeen occurring and is still continuing, what has happened to our worker's jobs and real wages? The Nation went to a service-debt based consumption economy, reducing the availibility of many different jobs. This does not include the thousands of "visa workers" coming into the US, being approved by Congress, agreeing to the requests of the Global corporations. In my opinion, the Global Corporations with the help of our our Government has caused the displacement of our workers
into the unemployed status of hundreds of millions, there by causing an added load on the Government and the tax payers while we are trying to prevent the country from falling into a deep depression, by spending borrowed money. The key to understanding this entire circumstances and conditions of our Nation, is to ask, why do we have to borrow our spending money?
What Do Voters Think About When Voting? Now that President Obama has been in office for eleven months and has not instantly corrected all of our crisis issues, which took several years to cause the Nation’s crisis conditions. How could we expect the entire crisis corrected in such a short time? Therefore, addressing and correcting the needed problems for getting the Nation's economy back to full employment with a robust economy, even with the large sums of borrowed money used by the FEDs for the bailouts and the administration’s stimulus package, is going to require patience and understanding of the problems. President Obama’s opponents want us to believe that since the Nation is still not 100% cured of its “ills” that this should make him a complete failure. Along with everything else he has done, which his opponents also say, have also been wrong. Whom will the voters believe or whom do they want to believe when listening to the opposing “pundits” whose only objectives are to influence and convince them into getting rid of President Obama in one term and voting against the Democrats running for Congress in the next election?
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