Initiative is source for funding projects
Commuters, shoppers and sightseers complain about the traffic and the time it takes to get to their destinations. This takes place all over metro Atlanta.
Motorists complain about Georgia’s Department of Transportation and why it isn’t doing something about this problem.
Georgia’s Department of Transportation is trying to do something — on the July 31 ballot.
Voters are shunning this move because it involves a tax increase. This is the only money the DOT can come up with to do many of the highway projects that are so needed. The proposed T-SPLOST fund would go to counties around Atlanta.
People pay taxes on many things. Why do they hate to pay taxes for rebuilding highways that get people to the places they go, and to and from their homes?
Barry Needham, Loganville
Did we learn anything at all from Vietnam?
I would like to know what my government is doing with my tax dollars and why it is not making its best efforts to “make the world a safer place for democracy” as we have been promised by recent presidents.
We will not win the “hearts and minds” of noncombatant people in a country where they are the daily, innocent victims of drone attacks.
Nor will we win people’s undying gratitude by continued military occupation (even in a merely “advisory” role) of a sovereign land, and support of a patently corrupt and inept government.
Did we learn anything at all from Vietnam?
We must let the people of Afghanistan recognize their internal problems and unite to solve them.
Meanwhile, we have problems of our own that require our full attention.
Arthur Gibert, Atlanta
Scriptures remind us to treat sojourners well
Thank you for your coverage of the important public debate swirling around immigration.
Three cheers for President Barack Obama for doing the right thing by formally welcoming young people — born elsewhere — who found themselves in this country not by their own decision.
Those youngsters have gotten an education, become gainfully employed, and, in some cases, served in the military. We are a stronger nation because of them.
The polarized Congress could not act, so the president did. Not only is his decision correct from a public policy point of view, but it is also correct from a theological point of view.
In Scripture, God questions folks about how they treat the sojourners — the strangers among them.
God reminded the folks from ages past and reminds us today that we are all sojourners. At one time or another, all our families were strangers somewhere.
Jim Watkins, Decatur
