Resolutions for politicians:
Locally:
"¢ Remove Mr. Moon from office. He has been nothing but trouble, and he would never win if he had to have been elected.
"¢ Tell New York state and New York City that we are going to clean our streams and rivers with or without them. Albany and NYC don't live with our flooding.
State:
"¢ Stop blaming unions and retirees for the mess New York is in. Contracts are negotiated between both state and unions. Both give and take until there is a mutual agreement.
They are then passed by legislators and signed by the governor.
Public unions can't strike in New York. Retirees were promised benefits and the governor should not be able to change them. They held up their end, now the state must.
"¢ Term limits and no benefits after leaving office. It was never meant to be a career.
Federal:
"¢ Same as state, term limit for all legislators and no benefits after leaving office.
"¢ Term limits for Supreme Court.
"¢ Stop the political games and start representing the people. Represent the middle 80 percent and not the extremes.
"¢ Close the borders and stop giving benefits to illegals; find and deport them. No automatic citizenship to illegal children born here.
"¢ Make welfare and Medicaid temporary. Too many on for life, was never meant to be generational.
"¢ SSI and Medicare are NOT handouts; we worked and paid into them for years. Put back what you took with interest and neither would be in trouble. LEAVE THEM ALONE.
"¢ Stop giving money to countries that who hate us, and spend that money here or reduce deficits.
"¢ Revise tax codes so there are no loopholes for the rich and corporations. I should not be paying more than a millionaire.
Robert "Duke" Piroha
Hamden
The Daily Star quotes holy Scripture
Imagine that! The Daily Star quoted holy Scripture.
Its Oct. 26 editorial, "Don't believe food-stamp rhetoric," was headed with Deuteronomy 15:7, 11, and was concluded with Proverbs 21-13 _ doubtless after an exhausting search in the Bible.
Strangely exhilarating it is to discover The Daily Star's turning to sacred Scripture. And I suppose that the editors believed these verses supported its liberal pap about our "cruel economy" creating the need for food stamps (the Marxist Obama has fathered our cruel economy, of course).
However, the quotes from Deuteronomy and Proverbs give no more support to that sorry editorial than Obama has given to his impoverished brother, George Obama, who still resides in that 6-by-12-foot hovel outside Nairobi, Kenya.
Had the editors paid even scant attention to the immediate and larger contexts of Deuteronomy 15:7, 11, and Proverbs 21:13, they would have, perhaps, realized that the charity was neighbor to genuinely needy neighbor, not government to subjects. Such blind use of these quotes (or any other biblical passages) to justify food stamps or any other government (taxpayer-funded) handout at best mischievously misrepresents, and at worst disseminates falsehood. Biblically, government is not a social-welfare institution. Even a cursory reading will uncover that.
Update. Our socialist president, who bleeds for the poor (the more to bleed for, the better), has yet to contribute one penny to his brother, George.
Some good news. Obama's Kenyan Aunt Zeituni Onyango, six years illegally living in South Boston under a deportation order, was in 2010 granted asylum by a U.S. immigration court (New York Post, May 18, 2010, p. 5).
Perhaps Mrs. Obama will invite Aunt Zeituni to the White House for supper for one of Michelle's scrumptious specialties of tofu and sprouts. Before a night in the Lincoln Bedroom.
Mitch Wright
Stamford
