Giving all facts aids opinion formation
I have noticed that writers to the Times Free Press tend to put forth only the facts and figures, which sometimes seem made up, that support their positions and opinions.
On Friday, June 8, on the editorial page, right side, the editors put forth the argument that the Democrats spent $4 million only to lose the recall in Wisconsin. Funny they didn’t report that the Republicans spent $30 million (7.5 to 1) to defeat the recall and most of the money came from wealthy donors out of state. The failure to give all of the facts doesn’t give the readers the information to arrive at their own opinion. This is disingenuous at best or a flat-out deception to support the writers’ agenda. Money is the “mothers milk” of political elections and agendas, and thanks to the Supreme Court it is flooding our country and drowning the fairness and equality of our system to the detriment of the citizens of our great country.
JIM RICE
Red Bank
Vote for Wamp to regain hope
We’re instructed in the Bible “to not have a spirit of fear.” But as a mother who repeatedly hears from the older generations that these are the scariest days in America’s history, fighting fear is an immense daily struggle. The debt my two young children will inherit simply for being American citizens is incomprehensible and unfair.