Reader upset with Obama’s leadership



“We are no longer a Christian nation ...” — Barack Obama

“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” — Obama in his book, “Audacity of Hope.”



President Barack Obama promised us change — no specifics, just change, and he has surely delivered on that promise. Will our nation recover?

The stimulus package was loaded with pork and is focused on the public sector whereas real job creation must come from private business. Government, having no requirement to show a profit, cannot be trusted to manage anything efficiently.

Furthermore, cap-and-trade and the high inflation which will inevitably come form multitrillion dollar deficits — when the current deleveraging of financial instruments is complete — may not be called taxes, but they have the same effect and hurt the poor the most. Obama people have called those who would disagree with these policies “terrorists.” Interestingly, our Founding Fathers would fit that criteria.

Obama has also loaded his administration with hard-line socialists, of which Van Jones, a self-avowed communist, is an egregious example. Our Founding Fathers knew that power and greed are problems of government, so they established a Constitution based on the separation of powers in the federal government, and also, between the government and the states in the 10th Amendment.



“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.” — Edmund Burke



Obama’s staffing of the White House with 34 Czars says much about his plan to rule our country without opposing views, which might arise from the traditional Congressional vetting process. On the legislative side, we have these thousand-page bills, created in an atmosphere of panic, so that they would be passed quickly before anybody had a chance to read them. Fortunately, the country was waking up with the health care bill, delaying its passage, so we could see what was in it. And much of what was in it was ambiguous, of which those who would deceive us know how they would interpret it later. Any bill over 100 pages should be seen as an attempt to deceive.

For a century now, those spoken of by Presidents Woodrow Wilson and FDR as the “hidden money power” have made end runs around the Constitution to centralize power in Washington. The Constitution leaves management of public education to local authorities.

The federal government now controls much of it, together with the National Education Association, whose Executive Secretary Givens in 1935 said that the mission of the public schools was to implant socialist values in our children. Their agenda, stated at their annual conference, is to have complete control of the education and values of America’s children.

It’s graphic sex-ed to even the youngest children — and it’s throwing God out on dishonest grounds of church and state — have contributed immensely to a moral demise in our nation, and moral demise always precedes physical collapse.

Such physical collapse may come through the bankrupting spending policies of our government and the continuing war in Afghanistan, which is being fought under impossible conditions. A good general picks his battlefield, and it is certainly not one where the enemy can shoot from ambush and hide among innocent civilians.

Although this quote of Voltaire — one of the major architects of the French Revolution —is against Christianity, it would equally apply to what we get from some of our politicians. “In the war against Christianity, it is necessary to lie like a devil, not timidly, and for a time, but boldly and always.” — Voltaire.

— Quentin R. Davis, Clarksville



Supporting clean energy means better security



I’d like to take a moment to share my voice on the clean energy issue. As a former staff sergeant in the Army from 1980-92, I have witnessed many men and women serving overseas in harm’s way because of the American dependence on foreign oil.

If we can help businesses and other innovating solar, wind and geothermal — all renewable energy — efforts, then we can move forward in becoming less dependent on foreign oil. As long as America depends on foreign oil, our country will never be secure. We have 200,000 troops deployed overseas. We need them here at home to protect and support us when we need them during, for example, natural disasters.

In addition, supporting clean energy legislation is not just about investing in better technology, but it’s also about creating new, green jobs.

According to the Hoosier Environmental Council, Indiana has more than 1,300 manufacturing firms that have the potential to benefit from a burgeoning renewable energy market. Supporting clean energy is an investment in our future, not a cost.

We need to come together to make sure our leaders in Washington know we’re past ready for a clean energy future. A clean energy, nonpartisan group,

Repower America, has just launched an online forum to capture and broadcast the diverse voices calling for clean energy action. This cause doesn’t just affect a handful of us, but everyone.

— Ed May, Jeffersonville



Malysz responds to jeer

Please allow me to clarify a comment I made that was published in The Tribune regarding the good fortune recently bestowed on the City of Georgetown. You implied in your Cheers & Jeers column on Nov. 4 that my comment was politically motivated and, in your wife’s words, a “dig” against State Rep. Ed Clere who assisted Georgetown and Floyd County in securing the funding. That simply could not be further from the truth.

While it is true that eliminating Georgetown from the City’s sanitary sewer system will eventually restore some capacity to the City’s treatment plant, your readers need to understand that the reputed economic development benefits will not materialize until the Georgetown Plant is completed and other critical infrastructure improvements are implemented in the northeastern watersheds of the New Albany sanitary sewer system. Stating or implying that the Georgetown project alone is New Albany’s economic development panacea grossly over-simplifies issue. That was and is still is my point.

In closing let me tip my hat to State Rep. Ed Clere for his effective efforts to solve the Georgetown sanitary sewer problem. That said, I can only surmise that Mr. Clere’s urban constituents now look forward to his help to secure financial assistance for very worthy New Albany sanitary sewer projects.

— Carl E. Malysz, New Albany Deputy Mayor/Director of Community Development