Ruling an example of a failed system
Regarding “Court rules DeKalb fire captain should be reinstated” (ajc.com, Jan. 9): What a disgrace — reinstated with full pay, while the victim is dead.
It’s no wonder we all have lost confidence in the system!
Gene Henry, Atlanta
It’s all about profits, not employment
The Republican Party in Georgia (and nationally) refers to businesses as job creators. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Being in business is not about creating jobs. It is all about making a profit.
If a business owner decides that hiring more workers will result in more profit, then people will be hired. If the owner thinks that having fewer workers will increase profits, then layoffs occur.
The attempt to paint business owners as benevolent job creators is being done to mask the true intent of the Republican Party. Its main goal is aiming to enact policies that make it easier for their core constituency to make as much money as possible.
When will the average voter wake up — and realize that voting Republican is voting against their economic self-interest?
Mike Haremski, Tucker
You can’t shoot them, but beatings are OK
Syrian President Bashar Assad, I apologize for our interference in your country’s affairs.
I have no idea how it happened, but someone in the West leaked to your people that it is not the norm in a lot of countries for the leaders to have their military fire on their own people when they are demonstrating.
Perhaps you, too, can learn from us to just billy club them, pepper spray them in the face and/or wrestle them to the ground, and knee them in the neck while their face is on the pavement.
Shooting them is strictly verboten. Jim Sutherland, Atlanta
Election 2012
Democratic process the loser to super PACs
Candidates in the race for the Republican presidential nomination have discovered the problem of super PACs, which give huge (and often anonymous) control to the very rich and powerful.
When the Supreme Court weakened the McCain-Feingold Act, it dealt a huge blow to the democratic process in the United States.
It is evident that super PACs (and those who fund them) now have the largest voice in determining the outcome of elections in this country — severely disadvantaging many candidates and all voters, regardless of party affiliation.
The dismay of current Republican candidates in finally discovering the impact of a weakened McCain-Feingold would be amusing — if the problem were not so serious.
Arnold C. McQuaide Jr., Berkeley Lake
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