POLITICS
Election blame? Try
looking in the mirror
If one wonders how our nation’s current financial ills and sequestration could happen, one has no one to blame but oneself.
In the last election, we voted in 91 percent of our elitist, do-nothing Congress. If you voted your federal elected official back in, you are the cause of our problems. We need leaders — not those only interested in furthering their quest for more personal power, money and special entitlements.
GEORGE P. HERGEN, ROSWELL
As GOP diminishes,
rich will just get richer
Given the current Republican political ideology, they will probably wind up holding their party’s next convention comfortably in a phone booth.
To be sure, before they head there, they will make the rich richer — and leave the rest of us what we already are, and where we already are.
HERBERT SHAFER, SANDY SPRINGS
MEDICINE
Health care coverage
long overdue in U.S.
The goal of the Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare) is to take health care off the table for all Americans — that is, regardless of one’s personal circumstance, affordable health care will be available for individuals and parents. This comprehensive program will provide basic and advanced medical coverage through government and private entities. It will essentially remove medical coverage concerns from a person’s life.
Of those countries designated as advanced or developed by the United Nations, the United States is the only one without some form of universal health care coverage. America is the richest country in the world, and there is no question of affordability or competitiveness. It is certainly past time for universal health care coverage.
JERRY HULSHULT, CANTON
MOBILE PHONES
Put cell towers where
they’ll likely not offend
Future cell phone towers should be installed (if at all possible) in cemeteries.
These structures would not bother the “residents” or affect their health or that of those living around them. There would be no lawsuits or complaints.
Fees resulting from the towers could be used for the upkeep of cemeteries, and to make them into “monumental” art. This would be a win-win situation.
ANNE WILLIAMS, LAWRENCEVILLE
TRAFFIC CONGESTION
HOT lanes not meant
as DOT profit centers
I take great exception to Mark Arum’s recent column (“Numbers show 1-85 HOT lanes working,” Metro, March 4). I did not know Georgia’s DOT was in business. I thought it existed to serve the citizens. The inference by the author is that the goal of the HOT lanes is to generate money.
This is crazy. We already had something that was working well — but now we extort money from people to ride on the same asphalt. It’s not like a new toll road was built and needed to be paid for. Our Department of Transportation is not a fast-food restaurant that should be measured by the revenue it generates. Mr. Arum’s thinking is flawed.
DREW DAVIDSON, ATLANTA
