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March 8, 2010

Letters to the Editor: March 8, 2010

Colleges must inform about safe drug use

Reading about the SUNY Delhi student who died from a drug overdose convinces me that more should be done by colleges to educate students about drug use. Telling them to say “no” to drug use will make no impact.

Having rented to college students back in the 1970s, alcohol and marijuana were in common use.

Today, the drugs that students use, including Xanax, methadone and cocaine, are much more powerful and the mixture of these drugs is deadly.

Colleges have a responsibility to educate. Student lives should not be in danger because of a lack of knowledge concerning safe drug use.

Gerald L. Wood

Colliersville

Arcuri’s votes will hurt seniors

Central New York seniors, take heed, because from now until Election Day “wolf man” Mike Arcuri will be dressing in sheep’s clothing attempting to fool us into thinking he truly cares for the needs of seniors. His recent voting record demonstrates he’s more interested in pleasing “His Highness” Obama than caring for those of us who have paid our dues to society.

This summer, Arcuri, acting like a thief in the night, shoved thousands of Central New York seniors under the bus by voting to steal $500 billion from Medicare so that illegal aliens could get a free ride.

Arcuri supported Obama’s “death panels” language for seniors whereby government bureaucrats, not our doctors nor our loved ones, will have the final say in deciding our eternal destiny. It’s called, “thumbs down” health care with Hitler, I mean Obama, playing the “Grim Reaper.”

Arcuri supported the “Cap & Tax” bill that would substantially increase the cost of living for seniors, most of whom live on fixed incomes. More sinister however, is that “Cap & Tax” would allow government bureaucrats to interfere with the selling of our last bit of equity, our homes.

As grandparents, we hope for a better life for our grandchildren and their children. That’s no longer possible because Arcuri and his Obama-led gangsters have looted our nation so badly that our grandchildren and their children will be bankrupt at birth.

No matter what Arcuri says, his record of dumping on senior citizens speaks for itself.

He simply can’t be trusted, especially dressed in sheep’s clothing. This is no longer a political party line issue, it’s now a matter of survival. Seniors and soonto- be seniors, let’s throw “wolf man” Arcuri and his sheep’s clothing out to pasture this fall.

William Eckardt
Oneonta

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