Letters: Contributions to Clothe-A-Child still being accepted

Contributions to Clothe-A-Child still being accepted

We would like to thank the friends of Lee County for their support of the Clothe-A-Child for School Project. It has been a great success this year. Many generous people have donated a great deal of money for this project.

Through your donations, we have been able to help 443 children of Lee County buy warm clothes for school this year.

Contributions are still being received by Lee County DHR as we always have children that need our help.

All monetary contributions for this project are used to purchase clothing articles for the children. There are no administrative or overhead expenses for this project. A contribution of $75 will clothe one child.

Checks should be made payable to the Lee County Department of Human Resources/Clothe-A-Child and mailed to 1715 Corporate Drive, Opelika, AL, 36801-1514. All contributions are tax-deductible.

If additional information should be needed, please feel free to contact Carolyn Mooty at 737-1100.

Carolyn Mooty
Clothe-A-Child Coordinator

There are plenty of reasons why Rogers dislikes health care bill

Pitting the “haves vs the have-nots,” Richard Penaskovic asks why Congressman Mike Rogers dislikes the current Democratic Party’s “health care reform bills.” Well, here are a few reasons:

1) The Democratic Party leadership has physically locked the Republicans out of the crucial considerations of these and have not given an equal time to considering other approaches.

2) That same party will not allow 72 hours of time for people to read the final bill before they will call for a vote. The bill will be more than 1,500 pages long.

3) Name one government run health program that is a model of efficiency that has cost what the estimators said it would?

4) Cost: Current estimate is $1 trillion, but this assumes $500 billion cut in Medicare, additional taxes and higher premiums for everyone; requiring a “penalty” for those who choose to not participate; reducing payments to doctors and hospitals.

5) Constitutionally, where did the government get the right to penalize citizens who don’t want federal health care?

6) Public option: since the government doesn’t operate under the same rules and market forces that business do, they will ultimately dominate; they can write “bad” checks but private insurers can’t.

7) Abortion: It isn’t health care, but Obama has promised Planned Parenthood it will be central to his bill; everyone must pay for these immoral procedures; medical personnel cannot refuse these services based on a conscience objection.

8) There will still remain some 15 million uninsured after wrecking the system we have.

And finally, yes, Iraq costs us plenty, but what would a nuclear Iraq under Saddam cost us if those weapons had been used? How many lives would have been lost to his and other fanatical Islamic regimes?

Carl S. Gagliano
Auburn