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Help For Homeless Isn’t Here, Despite Claims To The Contrary

To The Reader’s Forum: Today The Post-Journal carries an article about a man who, through hard luck, is out of money, is too disabled to work, and has no home or shelter. No one is helping him. There are hundreds of thousands of coercive Utopians in this country, hundreds in this county alone, who dedicate their lives to enacting laws and policies to take money from those who have it, rich and poor, and distribute it to others. They spend billions of dollars to elect politicians and they distribute billions enforcing these laws. If the total annual budget for welfare was ...

Student Loan Forgiveness Is Bad Federal Policy

To The Reader’s Forum: President Biden’s recent idea of forgiving up to $20,000 in federal student loan debt for millions of borrowers while welcomed I’m sure by those who owe money on their loans is bad public policy. The debt is really not cancelled the monies have been spent. This proposal just transfers the debt from the people who borrowed the money to the federal debt which requires that taxpayers such as you and I to pick up the obligation to repay. People who paid their debt, people who never borrowed for their education, people who never went to college and work ...

Answer Trump Questions Regardless Of ‘Violence In The Street’ Threat

To The Reader’s Forum: Senator Lindsey Graham, a former officer in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, warned that there would be “riots in the streets” if former President Trump is prosecuted for his mishandling of highly classified materials found in his beach resort that had previously been infiltrated by foreign nationals. Dear Senator Graham, Republicans have already rioted in the streets because they simply did not like the results of a free and fair election. The Republican Party is now so extremist, so far out on the right wing fringe that they threaten violence ...

Gates Of Violence Open At Chautauqua Institution

To The Reader’s Forum: It was three years ago when alert Chautauquans knew black persons were being stopped and searched at the main gate at the very moment Chautauqua was touting diversity and inclusion. Those black persons turned out to be hired actors performing at the Bratton Theatre. Then the pandemic. Now it is summer 2022 reaching into our hearts with a longing to see people again, to be with families, to enjoy Chautauqua. While Michael Hill sends out sugar-coated letters to all, Chautauqua opens its gates to violence! Chautauqua’s President and Board of Trustees do not ...

Who Is Making America Great?

To The Reader’s Forum: Other than appointing federal judges committed to suppressing voting rights and civil rights, including women’s reproductive rights, and seeking to overturn an election while coordinating an attack on our Capitol, former President Trump’s singular legislative accomplishment while having GOP majorities in the Senate and House was passing the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017. The Act cut the corporate tax rate from about 35% to 21% and personal income taxes, especially for the wealthiest households with incomes over $308,000. The law had little real impact on ...

Chautauqua’s ‘Diversity Of Thought’ Is Gone

To The Reader’s Forum: Wall Street Journal Publisher Almar Latour must not have attended Chautauqua Institution recently. A review of the speakers in recent years shows that his statement (WSJ editorial Aug. 13-14, 2022) that Chautauqua “hosts open discussion as well as championing diversity of thought, religious pluralism and free expression”, is not true any more. As a fourth generation Chautauqua attendee who has participated since the 1950’s, it is clear to me that Chautauqua allows only one perspective now. Due to the lack of diversity of expression, the independent ...