Comparing public education to health care is comparing apples to oranges

Comparing public education to health care is comparing apples to oranges

As every president in the history of this country has made errors in judgment, so has George W. Bush. The difference is that President Bush is not the darling of the media as have been some other leaders of this country who not only made errors in judgment, but were morally corrupt before they ever reached the White House.

Looking calmly at the alternatives to health care in this country is not what the liberals like D.W. St. John want. What they want is another government solution to a problem that was caused by peoples’ irrational need for the government to solve all our problems to begin with, like jobs, medical care, housing, and natural disasters to mention a few.

Comparison of public education to health care is like comparing apples and oranges. Some of us are intelligent enough to know the difference.

Regina S. Battle
Waverly

What’s the big deal about the tax “rebate” if it comes back to bite us?

I recently read an article by Mike Rogers who, in his pseudo-folksy way, told us of the great economic stimulus package recently passed by Congress.

I wonder why he did not tell us that instead of a “rebate” it is just an “advance” on your 2008 tax return. If I understand it correctly, the $600 an individual might receive (or the $1,200 for a couple) will reduce any refund they would normally receive in 2008. This does not seem to be extra or additional at all; we just get our own money back a little sooner.

What about it, Congressman Rogers? Is the check really additional money to U.S. taxpayers or just us getting part of our 2008 refund back sooner?

Ken Lunsford
Auburn

America needs to be enlightened about nanotechnology and stem cells

The smartest Alabamian ever, judging by prizes and books written, would be E.O. Wilson of Harvard University. In his book “Consilience,” he says something a vast majority of Alabamians would reject: “Descartes insisted upon systematic doubt as the first principle of learning.”

Although a lifelong Catholic, by separating mind from matter, Descartes was able to put the spirit aside and write “Meditation de Prima Philosophia” in 1642, the year Galileo died and Newton was born in the age of The Enlightenment.

ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education) helps track enlightenment in America in 2008 with a February Web report of findings by the University of Wisconsin about nanotechnology having to do with the study of biology and stem cells.

Twenty nine and a half percent of adult Americans, 54.1 percent of British, 62.7 percent of Germans and 72.1 percent of French find nanotechnology acceptable. These figures reflect religious influence. Hopefully, the numbers will increase as fundamentalists learn the first principle of learning as prescribed by Descartes.

William Blakney
Auburn