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Letters To The Editor, etc. 2010

Valencia County News-Bulletin Wednesday 3 February 2010 Opinion / Letters [page 4A] Blaming Obama for the debt is unproductive        Mr. James Crawford has not been paying attention, either in these pages or in the real world.        Blaming President Obama for the national debt of $12 trillion that he inherited on the day that he took office is typical Republican persiflage. Having no ability to devise any plan or program, the Republicans simply blame Obama for the gigantic mess created by Republican incompetence.        The Republican national debt, however, is actually $25 trillion, all racked up by Dubya and Republican predecessors at the behest of the oligarchy. (The last balanced budget and surplus was during Clinton’s second term.)        Today’s Republican National Debt consists of:      •  The official national debt, which has a ceiling of $12 trillion; it will soon be reached and then raised by Congress      •  The $5 trillion paid to rescue the banks involved in the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debacles      •  The $2 trillion for the Wall Street bailout      •  The $1 trillion of the Detroit auto makers bailout      •  The $3 trillion for maintenance not performed on America’s crumbling infrastructure during Dubya’s term — falling bridges, pot-holed roads, cracking dams and levees, etc.      •  The $2 trillion that it will cost to bring our military home from the pseudo-war in the Middle East, for which necessity Dubya budgeted zero dollars        And then there are many trillion dollars that are necessary to fix the failed economy that was dumped in Barack Obama’s lap.        George 'Dubya' Bush ran up the most debt of any person in the history of mankind, and the Republicans are responsible for paying that debt off.        Dividing by the (dwindling) number of Republicans, that comes out to $400,000 dollars for each and every Republican in Valencia County (and across the nation), and they — individually and as a group — have no political honor until that debt is paid.        G.E. Nordell        Belén, NM

Valencia County News-Bulletin Saturday 9 January 2010 Opinion / Letters [page 4A] Right-wingers have no interest in the facts        The recent letter from Mr. Bovee proves that he has done no homework regarding the serious problem of climate change.        He merely repeats the right-wing propaganda from – you guessed it – the right-wing propaganda machine. (Fox News is an oxymoron.)        The criminals who hacked the U.K. e-mails proved nothing. The climate data is peer-reviewed, the e-mails were internal and about writing the report, and Mr. Bovee did not read any of the hacked and posted e-mails. One university’s internal memos changes nothing of the scientific evidence for the dangers of global warming.        Of the last 10 calendar years, nine were the hottest years on record. The last decade is the hottest on record since – oh, my – the decade just before it, which was the hottest since accurate weather data began around 1850.        The government of the Maldives Islands is buying land elsewhere to relocate its citizens [to], because the Indian Ocean is rising and many low-lying islands in the Maldives are already submerged due to climate change.        Half the glaciers in the Andes Mountains are gone. Greenland is melting. Ice chunks the size of Connecticut have broken off of the Antarctic ice shelves and are melted away already. Penguins there can no longer swim to feed on the krill in the South Atlantic because the ice is not there. The krill are now hundreds of miles from shore. The penguins are starving, and will die off rapidly.        And citing a book that was written 5,000 years ago as proof of anything, is ridiculous. The world will be a better place when Republicans and other Christians start to obey that pesky commandment not to bear false witness.        The right-wing sheeple have no interest in facts; the propaganda machine tells them what to say so that they do not need to think.        Reason is the only frontier left.        G.E. Nordell        Belén, NM Valencia County News-Bulletin Wednesday 13 January 2010 Opinion / Letters [page 5A] {scroll to bottom} Fight continues from last century        What a juxtaposition! G. E. Nordell v. James Crawford – the fight of the century (continued from the last century).        Nordell is especially productive: Fox News is oxymoron, right-wing propaganda machine, false witness, and, my favorite, right-wing sheeple.        Not to be completely outdone, Crawford counters with corruption, extortion, tax evasion and whore mongering.        Keep up the good work, boys!        In full disclosure, I admit that I’m a sheeple and unreconstructed believer in free enterprise, capitalism and individual responsibility; unlike my leftish brethren.        Robert Sanders        Belén, NM

Letters To The Editor, etc. 2009

Valencia County News-Bulletin Saturday 31 October 2009 Opinion / Letters [page 4A] Propaganda machine lied about panels        The recent blather of Valencia County GOP chairman Garza and others says nothing of substance and takes a ludicrous stand for preserving some imaginary “American Way” of health insurance.        All that the GOP (Greedy Oligarchy Partisans) have to say is endlessly repeated propa- ganda talking points handed down from headquarters via radio and TV talk shows, all of which are designed to interfere with the democratic process.        The Republicans intend to preserve the extortionary profits of the misnamed U.S. health care industry because the Republican Party long ago sold out to the robber barons.        But bilge can be countered with facts:        The United States pays 16 percent of GDP for rotten health care (47th in the world for quality) and one third of the citizenry can not get coverage at any price. (South Korea pays 5 percent of GDP, and every person in the country gets excellent health care.)        Nobody in Canada or Europe or Japan has to worry about losing their home or life savings because a member of the family gets cancer or another terrible disease; their health systems take care of the people, not the robber barons.        The national and local GOP insist that profit-based health care corporations should continue the practice of devastating further lives of the hundreds of thousands of patients caught in a health crisis each year.        The GOP propaganda machine lied all summer about death panels (never proposed, except by GOP), mandatory abortion (GOP fantasy only), and the fear-mongering “government takeover” of the current health care cesspool because they are paid to do so. And it works because Americans are too busy working two or three jobs per household to have any time to seek out the truth.        Basic health care premiums have gone up 20 percent in each of the last several years. Did your paycheck go up twenty percent?        America needs single-payer health care, both for its own sake and to be competitive in the global markets, and America needs election reform so that elected officials of any party are no longer swayed by the “campaign donations,” i.e. bribes from corporations who get that cash by rejecting life-saving medical procedures and by raising premiums to extortionary levels.        G.E. Nordell        Belén, NM

Valencia County News-Bulletin Saturday 11 July 2009 Opinion / Letters [page 4A] Belén overpass elevator idea is a 'boondoggle'        The proposed $3 million grant for elevators to and from the Reinken overpass will not be enough.        The top of the overpass is a blind spot, and confused tourists will be crossing the road in the winter dark (if not the occasional rain and snow), and local speeders won't be able to stop in time.        Plus, any injured pedestrians will have to be driven by ambulance 30 miles to the nearest hospital, since Valencia County has no emergency facility.        So the big cost – the real cost – is going to be the wrongful death and medical liability lawsuits against the city of Belén.        This entire elevator proposal is a boondoggle and a bad idea.        G.E. Nordell        Belén, NM

Valencia County News-Bulletin Saturday 30 May 2009 Opinion / Letters [page 4A] Obama is working to restore Constitutional law        Recent writers of letters in the local newspaper avoid certain facts, because objective reality is their enemy.        1. Barack Obama won the election for President in November 2008. That an African-American won the popular vote is a major accomplishment (in this racist country), and the landslide in the electoral college is equally important. The people are now back in power.        2. The Japanese surrendered in 1945, but the permanent opposition to the people did not surrender in November. Those seeking to render the U.S. Constitution worthless continue to spew their propaganda, as regularly appears in local newspapers across the country (including this newspaper), as well as on national hate-talk radio and on the faux TV news channels        The Party of No – no facts, no rights, no health care, no accountability, no security, no jobs, no education – is made up of the Republicans, fascists, racists, Federalists, Wall Street barons, members of P.N.A.C., all the unindicted traitors and criminals of the Bush Admini- stration, [the] war profiteers, and just plain demagogues plotting together and separately to reverse the intent of the Constitution and to further destroy the Nation. Their evil job is not done.        3. The Republican national debt today stands at $25 trillion. If – and that is still a very big if – Barack Obama and his team saves America and the world from suffering the decade-long Second Republican Depression that looms on our horizon, then he will have done a greater thing than F.D.R. did, because President Obama has only eight years to rescue the country. The matter is extremely urgent.        4. The economy of America and the world has not yet reached bottom. We have yet to go through the turmoil that awaits from the credit card crisis. If President Obama makes the right choices and his plans get enacted in time, then the economy won't get too much worse. If what needs to be enacted is faulty or is blocked or watered down by the Party of No, then the Republican Great Depression of 1929 to 1938 will look like a picnic in the park in comparison.        5. A recent national poll by ABC News found that only 21 percent of American voters will admit to being registered as Republicans. The Party of No has lost power because their lies are both the cause and the result of believing their own propaganda.        Barack Obama and his team are the only chance that America has to restore Constitu- tional law, to survive the Republican economic meltdown, and with a little luck maybe even prevent your grandchildren from living as slaves to the oligarchy.        G.E. Nordell        Belén, NM

Valencia County News-Bulletin Wednesday 8 April 2009 Opinion / Letters [page 5A] Problem dates back to Republican years        County Republican Party Chairman Daniel J. Garza complains about the urgency of the Economic Recovery Act, legislation that might correct some of the economic damage caused by eight years of the Republican Party's misguided policies, an urgency required due to Republican malfeasance (and to 28 years of Reaganomics).         Mr. Garza complains of the "staggering debt" from the Recovery Act, which is nothing compared to the debt put on the books from Reaganomics — he never complained about that debt. The disaster of the Republican National Debt now stands at $25 trillion, and there is no one who can or will bail America out. It must be paid down. Your grandchildren will be paying off the Reaganomics disaster for their entire lives.         Divide the present full Republican National Debt by 300 million citizens and residents and that is $85,000 for each and every man, woman and child in America — including each and every man, woman and child in Valencia County. But there is no reason that Democrats and Independents owe this debt nor are responsible for paying off the cost of the Republican Party's crimes. So divide by the number of U.S. voters, it comes to about $160,000 each; then double the figure because half of November voters mindlessly voted for the McCain-Palin loonie ticket, and that makes a $320,000 share for each and every Republican in Valencia County.         Mr. Garza and his disreputable party ... should keep their individual and collective mouths shut until they produce and make public their plan for paying off their personal share of the Republican National Debt.         When each Valencia County Republican pays his/her $320,000 share to the U.S. Treasury in full, only then will that person's political honor be restored.        G.E. Nordell        Belén, NM

Op Ed News postings for 2009 Open Letter to the Attorneys General   [9 January 2009] click here to read Reason-Based Taxation (Redux)   [23 March 2009] click here to read The 2012 Hoax   [11 April 2009] click here to read The Evil of Dick Cheney   [18 May 2009] click here to read The Party of No   [29 May 2009] click here to read The Festival of Stupid   [24 June 2009] click here to read      www.working-minds.com      author / philosopher / revolutionary G.E. Nordell lives & works in rural New Mexico

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