Published: January 07, 2008 11:50 am      

1/6/2008 Letters to the Editor

Thanks for help



On Jan. 1 my husband, mother-in-law and I visited Cleburne, stopping at a favorite restaurant. My mother-in-law took a tumble on the curb, requiring a 911 call. In the meantime, a gentleman and his family stopped to see what they could do to help and another couple stopped to help. The lady said she was a doctor. The fire truck and ambulance arrived quickly, and the EMTs and all involved were very helpful and courteous getting us to the hospital in a timely manner. Her injuries are not serious but will take a while to get over. I just wanted to commend all these people for their generosity and caring spirit. I can hardly find the words to thank all of you appropriately. We have visited Cleburne many times in the past years. Now there will be even more reason to visit. Our heartfelt thanks to those who helped.



James, Sandra and Darlene Jacobs

Cedar Hill



Greed is the new religion

We are developing a real problem in America. I mentioned in a previous letter that greed had become the new religion, but it has gone past that. When I was a child a company president would generally make about 100 times the salary of his employees. Today this has risen to 4,000 to 5,000 times, and in some cases, even higher.

This morning Mike Jackson, the CEO of Auto Nation, said that gasoline needed to rise to $6.42 a gallon to force the average American to buy a hybrid or other type of high mileage automobile, from him of course. These hybrid vehicles are priced from the upper $20,000 range to above $50,000.

Cleburne’s median family income in 2006 was about $34,000, while America’s family median income was about $52,000. The Democrats have already passed laws forcing manufacturers to increase corporate average fuel economy and that means that cars’ cost will increase even more. Environmentalists don’t want us to drill for oil in the arctic area because it might endanger the polar bears. I really don’t care about saving an animal that would consider me lunch.

In my youth America was the pre-eminent world power, and Cadillac was the standard of quality in manufactured goods. Today we mainly manufacture dope heads, gang bangers and illegal immigrant babies. Toyota has taken over from General Motors the position of No. 1 vehicle manufacturer worldwide. Ford bought Jaguar and Land Rover when England started declining, and an Indian car company, Tata, is buying them from Ford now that America is declining and the prospects of a recession are looking grim.

Our government is now trying to bail out the financial institutions whose greed has succeeded in getting them $3 trillion in the hole on bad loans. Just to put it into some type of perspective, the earth is considered by scientists to be 4,700,000,000 years old, which means that if you convert dollars to years this one debacle is around 600 times older than the earth. And you are going to pay for it.

It seems that no matter which party we elect, they only increase spending and/or taxes. George Wallace years ago said that there wasn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the Democrats and the Republicans, and except for gun control, I believe he may have been correct. By the time you read this, Iowa will have started us on the way to another election. I would love to see Ron Paul get elected, but there is no way that can happen.

Too many people are on the dole in America in one way or another, and Paul said the other day on TV that were he elected he would immediately start dismantling the government. As I understand it, the Libertarians basically believe the government should print the money, guard the borders and leave us alone.

Meanwhile, the Local Crank, Patrick Barkman, and his bunch (and more and more Republicans) would have all of us controlled by the government from the cradle to the grave, i.e., socialism.

I read some time ago that Swedish parents were upset because while they had free daycare, they had to take their children to the center dictated by the government instead of the one they liked or that was nearer to their home. Of course, it really isn’t free when you pay 70 percent-plus of your pay in taxes.

May you all have a better new year, and God bless America.



W.V. Bonds

Cleburne