News From Terre Haute, Indiana

Opinion

Discussion

Welcome to our online comments feature. We welcome your thoughts and your opinions, including unpopular ones. We ask only that you keep the conversation civil and clean. We reserve the right to remove comments that are obscene, racist or abusive and statements that are false or unverifiable as well as posts that are attacking other users. Repeat offenders will be blocked. You may flag objectionable comments for review by a moderator.
comments powered by Disqus
September 5, 2012

READERS’ FORUM: Sept. 5, 2012

----

Better reasons for parade exclusion

Charles Toth, head of the Wabash Valley Central Labor Council AFL-CIO parade, claims that exclusion of Republican Caleb Fleschner from the Labor Day Parade had nothing to do with politics. Uh-huh. I have to believe that Charles’ nose is growing to compensate for his shrinking credibility.

Man up, Charles. The top ten better reasons you could have given for excluding Caleb are that he might:

10 — not have a valid worker ID;

9 — refuse to organize his supporters;

8 — demand that the parade march backward into history;

7 — be unrecognizable under the tar and feathers;

6 — ride an elephant in donkey’s clothing;

5 — challenge “collective marching rights”;

4 — be unable to follow in the footsteps of trained workers;

3 — consider the $25 to be compulsory dues;

2 — continually whine about “right-to-walk”.

And the number one reason you could have given for excluding Caleb is that he might trip over his own hypocrisy.

— Jim Hughes

Terre Haute

Common people paying the price

I will soon be 65, and I started babysitting and cleaning houses when I was 11 years old. By the time I was 16 I was working for a company where I received a W-2 and have paid taxes every year since.

I want to say this about the upcoming elections. I am a middle-class worker, now retired, and have been all my life, and so were my parents. Now, my children are also, and every time since Ronald Reagan there was a Republican president sitting in office my personal assets and finances have gone down the tubes. When a Republican is in office, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

I personally don’t believe that anyone who makes over $200,000 a year needs a tax cut.

I don’t agree with everything Obama has done, and I don’t think we will ever have a president that everyone agrees with everything they do, but at least I have not lost what I had left of my finances after the Bushes got done with us.

Has anyone noticed how the gas prices soared upward when we had “oil people” for presidents, and now the common people are paying the price.

I have never considered myself a Democrat or a Republican, and have always tried to vote for the person and not the party. That is why I don’t vote in the primary elections.

— Vicki R. Rainbolt

Brazil

Please display parking placards

To the gentlemen I seem to have offended at Menard’s on a recent morning:

I apologize for saying I didn’t see a handicap license or placard on your truck. I didn’t say you didn’t have either one, just that I couldn’t see one. Actually, you are supposed to hang them from your rear-view mirror so they can be seen. And, I don’t think it was necessary for you to get sarcastic with me.

I get frustrated because I, too, have a handicap placard because of a lung condition (and no, I never smoked a day in my life). It is very difficult to find a handicap parking space sometimes, and when a person doesn’t see a placard, or special license, it becomes frustrating.

So again, I apologize if I offended you in any way, but I hope you will start putting your placard on your mirror so someone else doesn’t ask about it and get the offer to “feel your wooden leg.”

— Blanche Fifer

West Terre Haute

Text Only | Photo Reprints
Opinion
Latest News
Community Calendar
Loading…
Events by eviesays.com
TribStar.com Poll
AP Video
Hoffa Mystery Still Fascinates After 4 Decades Raw: NASCAR Driver Jason Leffler Dies in Wreck Ex-NFL Star Chad Johnson Out of Jail 3 Charged in Ohio With Enslaving Mom, Daughter Raw: Huge Fire Near Yosemite National Park Tiger on Sergio: 'It's Time to Move On' Raw: 1 Dead in Shooting at Mo. Apartment Complex Raw: Marines Land Osprey on Japanese Ship Failed Cuba-to-Florida Swimmer Won't Try Again Raw: Obama Arrives in Berlin Pa. Girl Who Took on Donor Rules Gets Lungs Raw: Volcano Erupts Near Mexico City Prosecutors Push for Smartphone "Kill Switch" Raw: Australian Begins Cuba to Florida Swim Unusual Heat Wave Bakes Alaska Google Launches Internet-beaming Balloons Obama Welcomes WNBA Champions to White House Obama Seeks G-8 Support on Syria RAW: NSA Director Says 50 Plots Foiled Civil Rights Groups Sue NYPD Over Muslim Spying
NDN Video
Rihanna Hits Fan With Microphone During UK Concert Miami Heat Wins in Overtime Raw: Arizona Wildfire Scorches 8 Square Miles Three Charged for Enslaving Mother and Daughter Journalist Michael Hastings Dies in Fiery Hollywood Crash Raw: Huge Fire Near Yosemite National Park Inside Kim Kardashian's Premature Labor Spurs' Popovich has no problem with Spurs' intensity RAW: NSA Director Says 50 Plots Foiled Paige Butcher Scorches on Hawaii Beach Video: worst way to load cargo onto a plane Never-before-seen footage of '08 Times Square bomber Obama: NSA Secret Data Gathering 'Transparent' WATCH IT: Lil Wayne tramples American flag Mariah Carey Looks Beautiful in a Tiny Cut-Out Swimsuit Out of Control Boat Throws Passengers Overboard See Lindsay Lohan in Rehab Sofia Vergara Posts Perky Backside Pic in Thong Gaga Ditches Her Crazy Couture Caught on Tape: Teacher Accused of Beating Autistic Child
Parade
Magazine
Click HERE to read all your Parade favorites including Hollywood Wire, Celebrity interviews and photo galleries, Food recipes and cooking tips, Games and lots more.
  • -

     

    March 12, 2010

activity
Real Estate News