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May 25, 2012

READERS' FORUM: May 25, 2012

The Tribune-Star

TERRE HAUTE — Mayor, Republic solve trash issue

This is a follow-up to a letter I wrote which was in the Readers’ Forum on April 28, 2012. In that letter I explained an issue I was having in my neighborhood with our trash cans.

Shortly after that letter was published I received an email from Mayor Duke Bennett stating that he was unaware of the problem and would look into it. I shrugged it off thinking it was just a nice way of saying, “Hey, I’ve got bigger fish to fry.” However, a short time later a very polite, Mr. Bill Edington from Republic Services came to my home and told me that he was going to try to get the issue straightened out and explained that it had something to do with whether they used a side loader truck or a front loader.

Needless to say, I haven’t had to hunt my trash can down for a couple of weeks now, and I am very pleased with our local government taking the time to work on my small little problem. Thank you, Mayor Duke Bennett and your staff, for your time!

— Lacey Miller

Terre Haute



Negative ads pervert politics

We are facing one of the most important elections in our history in 2012. And every day we will be bombarded with lies, half truths and occasionally even a few facts. We are being bombarded with millions of dollars in negative ads coming from where, we don’t know, to defeat certain candidates. Millions of dollars will be spent from outside Indiana to affect our elections and, because of the Supreme Court ruling, we don’t even have the right to know who is paying for those ads. That is not the America I believe in. If you are going to oppose the candidate I support, then have the guts to tell people who you are.

There will be facts, lies and half-truths flying from everywhere from both parties.  Which one will we choose to lead America for the next two to six years. Sort through all the blame games and decide what kind of country you want to live in.  Big government is not necessarily bad government and small government is not necessarily good government. What really matters is which part of America does each candidate really represent. Government is neither good nor bad; what matters is the philosophy of the people running the government. Do they favor a country where everyone should share in the prosperity or do they favor the few richest Americans? Are they willing to tax everyone fairly or do they favor the rich over the working people?  

But I think the most important question we need answers to is how does each party or each candidate plan to get us out of the economic mess we are in. Do they favor only deregulation and tax cuts or do they favor fair regulation, a fair tax system and a plan to reduce expenses while creating jobs and growing the economy. In my opinion it takes both. We cannot have the kind of America where everyone has the chance to prosper by simply cutting spending and gutting the safety net people depend on — Social Security, Medicare, etc. We need a plan for growth in jobs and a plan to cut the budget where it will produce results and lower the deficit without doing it only on the backs of the poor and working people.  We need shared sacrifice.

Cut defense spending especially in weapons procurement and expensive programs we don’t need. Cut parts of the farm bill that provide millions each year to the already rich not to grow crops. Create better enforcement of Medicare fraud and businesses failing to pay their fair share of taxes. It has been estimated recently that businesses and the rich fail to pay over $350 billion in taxes yearly. Medicare fraud has already been numbered in the millions. We need better enforcement of the laws to prevent this. PUT AMERICANS BACK TO WORK. Creating only 1,000,000  new jobs at $10 an hour would create millions of new tax revenue plus create billions in the economy which will help all kinds of businesses and create even more jobs.  

That is the real issue in this election. Which party has the right philosophy that will get America moving again? Don’t get hung up on peripheral issues.  

 — Bill Pearman

Clinton

 

VCSC team gives all-star response

The Wabash Valley Football Coaches Association would like to extend a sincere thanks to the Vigo County School Corp., especially Mick Newport and Superintendent Danny Tanoos.

Our annual football All-Star game, which includes 35 area high schools and gives back over $5,000 in scholarships each year, was in jeopardy due to a new rule proposed by the NCAA. This new rule would have prevented ISU from hosting the game and possibly ending our ability to conduct the game.

We contacted Mr. Newport at the VCSC and without hesitation both he and Superintendent Tanoos said they would do whatever they could to make sure the game would be continued and to make facilities at Terre Haute South available to us.

Since that time the proposed rule was defeated by members of the NCAA, and we will be able to continue the game at ISU but it was great that these two community leaders and the VCSC were willing to step up in a time of our need to help. When the rule was defeated by the NCAA we discussed the option of staying at the school with them, but they agreed that ISU was the best place to host the game and, in the future, if we ever needed them again they would be there for us.

Again, on behalf of the WVFCA THANK YOU!

— Greg Barrett

WVFCA President

and Tom Jones

All-Star Game Director

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