Deal’s ethics case expensive for Ga.
As our governor claims he has done nothing wrong regarding ethics violations, I wonder how he can use taxpayer money to settle the lawsuits. If the charges are a result of his actions, why do I need to pay so the cases disappear? If a governor has this much access to our money and enough supporters ready to look the other way, perhaps he could settle any case regardless of the charges. I would be willing to bet that if a Democrat used taxpayer money to settle their cases, the outcry would be nonstop. And I would join them, because I believe the citizens of Georgia are owed a full accounting of the governor’s actions and not a receipt for bailing him out.
MICHAEL BUCHANAN, ALPHARETTA
In cartoon, sleazy is as sleazy does
If there was an extraordinary effort to denigrate the governor and expose “sleaze,” then Mike Luckovich’s June 13 cartoon exposed only Luckovich’s own sleaziness. It was a paid, printed political effort without integrity against a successful Republican governor. Obviously, a newspaper that prints sleaze is known as a sleazy newspaper.
CATHERINE BOONE SHEALY, ATLANTA
Pay higher taxes? Libraries worth it
I am willing to pay higher taxes to keep the library open for most of the day, every day, Sundays included. The library is my savior. It keeps us — my wife and me — from the boredom of watching TV. In my home, we read at least two books each week in addition to magazines and newspapers we read at the library. Let’s hear it for libraries.
DON GALLUP, POWDER SPRINGS
Odd to tie student loans to economy
The article “Wrestling with student debt” (Metro, June 20) makes the case that the burden of paying back student loans is curbing economic growth. If this is true, doesn’t it suggest that if we reduced the amount of student loans that are given, it would improve the economy? Why not stop student loans entirely for an even bigger boost to the economy? Or are we saying that expecting people to pay back money that they have borrowed is bad for the economy? Is this true for all people, or just people President Obama thinks will vote Democratic this fall?
JOHN ALLERS, ROSWELL
Real reasons to deny climate change
Leonard Pitts states climate change skeptics lack the imagination to envision what will happen if global warming is not taken seriously. On the contrary, climate change skeptics can foresee exactly what will happen if climate change becomes accepted fact: more regulation, and more government. Thus these skeptics will continue to deny the obvious even as they wade across what was Florida. These skeptics are more concerned with their rights and rightness than they are about the welfare of the globe.
JOHN BILON, NEWNAN
