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Faith Community Should Help The Homeless

To The Reader’s Forum: I want to commend the City Council President Tony Dolce and our Mayor Eddie Sundquist for meeting with the community to discuss Safety and Homelessness issues in Jamestown on Sept. 14. We heard that our homeless population has increased this past year from around 20-25 to over 70 mainly due to the lifting of the Covid-19 pandemic eviction moratorium. Eddie mentioned a meeting he had the night before with over 60 pastors to bring the faith community and non-profit organizations together to discuss ideas and solutions to a problem that will only get worse ...

Expand Child Tax Credit To All Low-Income Families

To The Reader’s Forum: Last year, the expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) monthly payments put money back into the hands of American families when they needed it most, monthly bill time, and allowed families to choose how best to use it. New data proves how well it worked. The new 2021 U.S. Census Supplemental Poverty Measure report shows that the 2021 Child Tax Credit (CTC) reduced child poverty by 46 percent! In one year, the expanded CTC pushed the child poverty rate to the lowest level ever measured. But 51 senators let the CTC expansion expire last December. This data shows they ...

State Gun Laws Infringe Too Much On Law-Abiding Citizens

To The Reader’s Forum: This is an open letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul. I just read the list of where,we, the honest, hardworking, taxpaying citizens of New York state, with pistol permits are not allowed to carry handguns. Permit holders are not the problem. Look up the statistics of offenses of the thousands of permit holders for proof. These places, on the list are exactly the places that we need to be able to protect ourselves, our families, our neighbors, and other defenseless folks. You are telling me, an 85-year-old woman, my husband, a 92-year-old man, who was a special ...

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 ...