Employee entrance should be for all
We are a nation of signs. Signs guide, protect and teach us. Signs are always found where they should be. You don't see a "keep off the grass" sign in the middle of a parking lot, and you don't see a "beware of dog" sign in a grocery store.
On a recent trip to Nashville, I saw a sign in a place it did not belong.
It is located at the barricaded entrance to the offices of our Tennessee senators on West End in Nashville. It reads, "Employee entrance only. Access card required to enter these doors. No congregating on steps or private property."
Every congressional district office is on private property, but using that as a reason to insulate yourself from your constituents is a slap in the face to constituents.
In our country, we do not need barricades, walls or signs whose purpose is to dismantle our republic.
Congress, if you want to ban something, ban that. If you want to repeal something, repeal the divisiveness that says one nation indivisible is no longer a good idea. If you want to build a wall, make it a wall of love, understanding and caring for each other.
David Clark
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Save Obamacare for all who need it
On the Free Press editorial page of March 2, there was a commentary written by Bradley Gitz in which he seemed to be aligning the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) with what he called "the welfare state." From the content and tone of his column, it appears he views the targeted recipients of a program like this as freeloading deadbeats.
I am grateful to have had access to great insurance benefits in places I have worked. But I have come to know many hard-working folks whose workplaces do not provide these benefits, and they were only able to secure good insurance through the health exchanges and subsidies as a result of the ACA.
Now we all know there are many issues with this program, but if it is thrown out or replaced with nothing more than health savings accounts and tax credits, we will see many folks go back to a situation where they cannot afford insurance and won't have health care.
It is one thing to tell people they can't buy nice cars and vacations if they can't afford them, but to tell them they can't get good health care seems pretty cold and heartless.
David Thomas, Signal Mountain
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Columnist Thomas needs help with 'aging' adjective
Syndicated columnist Cal Thomas wrote last Saturday on the Free Press editorial page: "Is that the best he and his aging fellow Democrats can do?"
May I remind Cal that Sen. Chuck Schumer is 67; Donald Trump is 70, and Cal Thomas is 75.
Maybe Cal needs a remedial course in math.
Nelson Sullivan, Hixson, TN