Center break-in ruins good work
What a terrible story in Thursday’s paper of the Westside Recreation Center break-in.
Here is a place that is doing the kind of community work that is needed in so many ways (tutoring, sports, arts and crafts, summer camps, church services, etc.).
For a place that has worked against crime, this kind of destruction is more than a physical one. It is an attack on the very heart of the community.
If, as is suspected, the culprits are juveniles and are caught, it seems a proper punishment would be to have them help with the repairs. Then, maybe some good will come of this.
BARBARA BELL
Dalton, Ga.
Massive debt burdens economy
A few thoughts:
Democrat and Republican leaders have both let us down over the years in spending the Social Security fund, increasing government and getting us into unsustainable debt.
More workers now would be supporting Social Security recipients of today. This would have been possible, if as a nation, we hadn’t aborted 60 million precious babies since 1973.
Our government cannot continue to take in $180 billion a month in revenue and borrow an additional $120 billion. We are unable to continue a sustainable economy with such debt.
On Aug. 4, Maureen Dowd called the tea party “a maniacal gang, cannibals, vampires, zombies, metallic beasts, and slashers,” while other media liberals have called them “terrorists.” It seems President Obama’s friends did not follow his directive for kinder speech toward fellow Americans.
Many today disparage Christians, but who have been on the front lines helping tornado victims? The very ones some love to criticize.
SANDY HARRIS
Cloudland, Ga.
Act together for greater good
In the middle of the “Sturm and Drang” of our U.S. representatives, the killings in parts of Africa, and the just “turned up” news of Somalis dying because of a famine heretofore apparently ignored by the rest of the world; a plagiarizing Christian college president who moved on from the Highland Park Baptist Church to a faith-bound non-profit in Kentucky; an American child going hungry from 2 years old until in kindergarten, not forgetting Japan, New Orleans, Joplin, and Norway, let us raise our voices to Nicholas Kristof and ask our readers to hand out reprints of his Aug. 2 column reminding us that our differences should not keep us from acting together as one for the greater good.
MARYMOR CRAVENS
Sewanee, Tenn.