VA medical policies skewed
A story on AJC.com reports the U.S. military is paying for inmate Chelsea Manning’s gender identity treatment — sex change — during her 35-year imprisonment with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s approval. (The inmate was formerly Bradley Manning.)
But the military can’t afford to treat real veterans in VA hospitals. No wonder Mr. Putin and the rest of the world aren’t paying any attention to us. We are totally stupid.
DENNY WEBB, ATLANTA
Waiting for climate change
A fellow came by to see me wanting to sell car insurance. I used to always keep my car insured, but lately I’ve been listening to those smart people who won’t spend a penny to do anything about climate change until somebody can guarantee them what’s going to happen and when.
I told that insurance fellow that when he could tell me when and where I was going to have a wreck, and how bad, then I’d buy his insurance.
HUGH W. LOWREY, AUSTELL
America held hostage to oil
The Senate recently failed to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline project that would carry oil from Canada’s “tar sands” to U.S. refineries by the Gulf of Mexico.
This lack of leadership by our elected officials will cause oil and gas prices to rise while holding us hostage to foreign oil. Furthermore, the Keystone Project would create thousands of jobs across the U.S., from construction to safety inspectors. Most importantly the pipeline is the catalyst to help the U.S. become energy independent.
BRIAN DINAPOLI, DECATUR
GSU should keep priorities straight as it grows
How good it is to see that Georgia State University is more and more an asset and producer of good things in Atlanta. Having several graduates from there in the family, I hold this institution in high regard. But the latest suggested plan made me stop for thought. More and greater athletic facilities, shops, restaurants, grocery stores, apartments and homes for a center of education? What kind of education? Groceries for graduates? A classy casino for the study of probabilities. Modest mansions for the Mensa-minded? A restaurant “chair” for Rhodes scholars? This does take imagination! But good luck to GSU! May their didoes with developers not diminish their aim for exciting the intellect of every mind amongst them.
CATHERINE BOONE SHEALY, ATLANTA
