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Republicans want one of their own, at any cost
The Republican nomination process has been nothing less than laughable. We have heard ad nauseam that we, the American people, need someone who is not a Washington insider.
Mitt is the one! No, Newt is the one! No, Ron Paul is the one! The reality is Dems elected a man who could by no means at the time, be called a Washington insider and look at the result. He did have fresh ideas but couldn't move a bread crumb much less the mountains that need to be moved because the big-time Washington insiders made it their singular goal (Mitch McConnell, Eric Cantor, et al.) "to make Obama a one-term president" at any cost.
It does not matter to them if America crumbles; they just cannot be humiliated by another Democratic president (like Bill Clinton) actually turning our deficit into a surplus.
No, we need another Republican to further drag us into deeper debt, and let's face it, my Republican brethren, it was not Barack Obama who created this mess -- it was your man. Wake up and drink your spilled milk.
JANICE TRAPUZZANO
Crafton Heights
Foolish Corbett
My apologies to the people who will think I am being disrespectful to the office of the governor of Pennsylvania. I am not. I am being disrespectful to the man who is in that office. Only a fool could not understand the value of education for the good of our state and betterment of all of our lives now and in the future.
Gov. Tom Corbett's budget proves him to be just that.
ELEANOR R. SIEGAL
Edgewood
The funding facts
It gets tiresome and somewhat irritating to continually read the incorrect allegations regarding Gov. Tom Corbett's 2011-2012 education budget. In the Jan. 31 PG, a letter writer (Elaine Rybski, "Downward Slide") lamented the "defunding" of education by the governor.
In point of fact, when the one-time 2010-2011 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds provided by President Barack Obama (from our tax receipts) are deleted from Gov. Ed Rendell's budget, the present Corbett budget for the basic education fund increased from $4.734 billion to $5.355 billion. It is disingenuous, if not dishonest, to continue to allow such misrepresentations to take place.
First Published February 14, 2012 12:00 am
