Financial hole dug by too-low millage rate
Senior centers, libraries and the Cobb County parking garage are charging fees and/or cutting services. Cobb is $30 million to $50 million in the hole. Cobb’s pension fund is $500 million in the hole. How did Cobb get in this situation? It’s not the recession. I found the answer when I reached into my pantry. Under some papers were unsolicited political flyers from a few years ago. One flyer boasted how the millage rate has gone down: “7.72 percent in 2012, 7.52 percent in 2013, 7.32 percent in 2014, 7.12 percent in 2015, an over 7 percent drop.” And, “On July 26, the Cobb County Commission is voting on Chairman Tim Lee’s recommendation to cut the millage rate a FOURTH time – this time by 6.5 percent.” Cobb politicians, you have dug the hole we are in. To undo your mistakes from previous years, raise the millage rate and raise it again.
MIKE HOLZKNECHT, ATLANTA
All Americans should support Syria strike
Yes, we struck Syria, and the show of force was justified. The United States should not stand idly by when evil dictators kill people by dropping poisonous gases on them. Chemical weapons have been outlawed by treaty, one that Syria, Iran and Russia signed along with 189 other countries. Those who remember or have studied World War II understand the horror and inhumane treatment inflicted by these methods. We said then, “Never again!” Our allies, France and the United Kingdom, also had the courage to confront this merciless regime. This is now time for a united front, America. It matters not who gave the order to destroy chemical weapons in Syria or how you feel about it. We don’t need distractions or naysayers or whiners. We acted with conscience, so get off your high horses and be proud of our country and the stance we’ve taken.
DON MATUSZAK, DACULA
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