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June 8, 2012

READERS’ FORUM: June 8, 2012

The Tribune-Star

TERRE HAUTE — Hot air of politics swirling around

It’s an election year and the rhetoric is heating up. The theme seems to be that if you repeat a lie long enough and loud enough people will believe it and accept it as fact.

Obama keeps telling everyone that we have a “do-nothing Congress” and that it’s all the fault of the Republicans. So the average person hears that a dozen times a day and blames the Republicans. If people would actually examine the facts instead of just listening to the propaganda they would find that the Republican-controlled House of Representatives has passed 30 bills, yes 30, and sent them on to the Democrat-controlled Senate. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has tabled all 30 bills and refused to let them come to the Senate floor for a vote. One person, Harry Reid, a Democrat, is the person who is actually running the country. Reid is the single do-nothing person holding everything up.

Do you know why he won’t bring the bills to the floor for a simple up or down vote? He won’t even let them come up for discussion, because it would mean the senators would have to go on record with their votes. The average person would see exactly how their senator voted and everybody knows we can’t have that — this is an election year. They don’t want to jeopardize their $200,000 per year jobs by actually going on record.

Remember the Illinois politician (the one who is not in jail) who voted “present” most of the time? He ended up in the White House because nobody took the time to find out and pin him down as to where he stood on issues.

Don’t take my word for it. Look it up yourself and remember it. Then when you hear Obama blowing hot air simply tune him out. Facts are stubborn things.

— Frank Grochowski

Brazil



It’s a matter of opinion

I’m truly sorry if my letter to the Tribune-Star upset letter writer Shirley Thomas. She is correct. She is a liberal and I am conservative. All her Bible quotes are true. So were mine. It has been said God created Adam and Eve. He did not create Adam and Steve. Twenty states have asked that the health care bill be repealed. The U.S. Supreme Court is trying to decide if it is constitutional.

A doctor friend of mine said people just don’t understand that 2,000-page health care bill. He said it is really scary. Doctors will not be able to prescribe the right treatment for their patients. The senior citizens would not have any rights. The government, not the doctors, would dictate their needs. It sounds pretty scary to me.

The First Amendment gives everyone the right to voice their opinions. Enough said.

— Reba M. Hadley-Morley

Terre Haute

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