We can’t accept Republican control
U.S. citizens cannot accept the Republicans policies and control of our government.
They treat their deliberate economic failures as being inevitable and then are 100 percent partisan against Democratic Party principles and their policies, which did prevent the complete economic collapse of our republic.
The big mystery is it appears voters and 47 percent of nonvoters have not cared or have misunderstood that the “over-the-line,” negative political tactics and objectives of elected Republicans deliberately have been trying to cause the destruction of our republic’s economic balance and physical conditions.
There is not any doubt that these anti-democratic and anti-government role Republicans have deliberately allowed and tried to change the way our republic should be governed or not governed by their methods.
Carl Brackin, Georgetown, Tenn.
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Will Trump tap ‘wall’ fund for Houston?
I have been listening to our great president being “presidential” and praising great America for responding to the Harvey disaster in Houston by sending volunteers, medical supplies, food, water and donations.
But I haven’t heard any promise of help coming from the Great Wall fund that is going to shut down our wonderful government. Maybe that wall will scare off the North Korean atomic scientists.
Patty Counts
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Business leaders’ ideas need work
The Aug. 4 TFP article on business leaders’ strategies for schools contains some interesting ideas. A tax dedicated to school infrastructure, technology and innovation is needed. The current budget does not contain sufficient monies for these, and the longer we delay school repairs, the more expensive the repairs become. Technology and innovative practices require dollars.
What is meant by “make the district a part of the planning commission approval process”? If it means we need to be foresighted in planning for new schools as we do more housing development in the county/city, then “yes,” it’s long overdue.
A question, though: Does it really take two full-time performance auditors to track accountability?
One recommendation, beyond any logical thinking, is, how can reducing the number of schools and teachers “boost efficiency and student outcomes”?
It may be cheaper to have four walls and one roof to maintain, but larger classes with fewer teachers will not improve outcomes. Research has shown this.
These leaders have made suggestions to improve efficiency and the budget, but they are not educators. Other issues must be addressed by the school board to improve outcomes and provide students an equal opportunity to learn and achieve.
Martha Butterfield
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Honor USA’s best, not the Confederacy
U.S. history is 241 years old, and the four-year history of the Confederacy is only 1.6 percent of that, just a blip. Yet it seems that 98 percent of municipal monuments are to Confederate “heroes” or generic “ol’ Colonel Reb,” instead of musicians, industrialists, centuries of civic leaders or humanitarians.
Honor A.P. Stewart with a statue of him as an older man in a civilian frock coat when he did good things, instead of a youngster in a Confederate uniform.
Put up a monument to Gen. George Thomas, the “Rock of Chickamauga,” in Chickamauga, next to generic Rebel infantryman.
The Confederacy was an abject failure, a military, social, financial and moral disaster, invented to perpetuate slavery in the face of national and international abolitionism. It deserves no memorials.
Douglas Carson, Flintstone, Ga.