GOVERNANCE
DeKalb residents put
hope in interim CEO
Regarding “Sewer fix troubled from start” (News, Sept. 24), the word “boondoggle,” when applied to government, is generally meant to express mismanagement and ineptitude. However, there is a new definition of government mismanagement and ineptitude, and that term is “DeKalb County government.”
Can DeKalb County not manage any aspect of the governmental process in a competent and professional manner? It seem as though DeKalb leaders are always promising to address a flawed procedure — after that shortcoming is pointed out. Interim CEO Lee May certainly has his agenda filled with correcting past misdeeds, corruption and failures in leadership. We as DeKalb residents can only hope Mr. May is up to the task — and replace him if he is not!
MICHAEL L. SHAW, STONE MOUNTAIN
HEALTH CARE
Why should I pay for
others’ medical costs?
We already pay through the nose so that folks who choose not to buy health insurance can get medical care when they need it — and need it they will, because of illness, injury or old age.
Unfortunately, those of us who buy health insurance have no choice but to foot the bill for these folks, through higher costs for medical services and insurance. When will a law be passed that says the cost of caring for the uninsured cannot be passed on to me unless I choose to subsidize their care?
MICHAELENE GORNEY, JOHNS CREEK
Libraries give access
to Obamacare details
The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) will soon institute insurance exchanges across America. Citizens can use the Internet to obtain inexpensive and (often) federally subsidized health insurance.
Many of our poor don’t have access to the Internet at home. Our county libraries are a suitable and comfortable haven for them to find free access to the Internet, if they have a library card. If we publicize this, they will come.
FRANK W. GADBOIS, WARNER ROBINS
SECOND AMENDMENT
Gun control advocates
disregard Constitution
An article in the Sept. 23 edition, “Obama: Gun laws urgent” (News), and a letter to the editor on the same date proposing significant changes to gun rights (“Permit system could screen gun purchases,” Readers write, Opinion) have one very significant common flaw: They both disregard the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
No big deal, right? Wrong. The Constitution is, and must remain, the supreme law of the land. Otherwise, some presidents and some Congresses will disregard it, and take away individual rights.
Yes, changes need to be made. But they can be legally made only if the Constitution is amended to so allow. Let’s respect and follow the law, and the Constitution.
ALLEN BUCKLEY, SMYRNA
