A lottery would raise money for education
To the editor:
How many times can our legislators in Carson City reject a proposal to start a state lottery? And why is it always the schools that have to face the ax when politicians are looking for direction and answers?
Why is a state such as Nevada that receives gambling revenues one of the worst at maintaining a high level of education for children?
I believe that our elected lawmakers need to pass legislation for a state-run lottery to benefit schools and education, and get it done next session.
WILLARD MORRIS
HENDERSON
Trojan horse
To the editor:
I consider myself a member of the "Tea Party" and plan to take part in the March 21 rally in Sen. Harry Reid's Searchlight stomping grounds.
The fake "Tea Party of Nevada," led by Jon Scott Ashjian, has sprung up as a convenient Trojan horse that is meant to split the Republican Party, thereby permitting Sen. Reid, with a favorable rating hovering in the mid-30s, to retain his Senate seat.
The good news is that this Trojan horse is actually a gift horse to the Republican candidates, if they make good use of the following factors:
1) To date, no one in the legitimate "Tea Party" advocates a third-party run.
2) If conservative Republicans push for a new "Contract with America," based on the conservative principles of the Tea Party, those candidates signing on will negate the need for a third party.
3) Re-establishing the conservative principles of Ronald Reagan is what the "Tea Party" is all about and what will consolidate all good Republicans to support true conservative candidates.
Let's put Sen. Reid and his Trojan horse out to pasture in November.
John J. Erlanger
Las Vegas
Right path
To the editor:
I just received an e-mail from Rep. Dina Titus in which she ranted about the "greedy" insurance companies and the "unbridled corporate greed and complicitous (sic) government action during the eight years of the Bush Administration."
Give me a break. The Obama administration needs to find some new ways to spin its Marxist policies and quit playing the "Blame Bush" card.
Insurance companies are like casinos. They offer people odds that certain events will or will not happen. They hire actuaries to calculate the odds, then they factor in a "house edge" so that they can make a profit for their stockholders. The Obama administration has no right to tell insurance companies how to run their business. If a business charges too much for its products, then people won't buy those products. If they charge too little, then the company will become bankrupt (like the government).
What ObamaCare proposes is analogous to telling MGM Mirage that they must offer table games that give customers a better chance to beat them. Forcing insurance companies to accept bets from people with pre-existing conditions is no different than telling a casino sports books they must accept bets on yesterday's games.
They just don't seem to get it. Mr. Obama doesn't know anything about running insurance companies, or banks, or automobile companies, or anything else in the private sector. His whole resume consists of redistributing tax monies as a community organizer. Government should work within the framework of the Constitution and stay the hell out of the private sector.
Obviously, I don't feel that Rep. Titus and Sen. Harry Reid are representing my views in Washington. Current polls seem to indicate that they are not representing the views of the majority of Nevadans, nor the views of the majority of Americans. I hope we will be able to put America back on the right path in November.
Ralph House
Las Vegas
Good ride
To the editor:
There is an old adage that democracy will cease to exist when the voting populace begins to vote for the candidates who promise the most from the government coffers -- and this is becoming so true within our own country today.
When I read letters to the editor such as Tuesday's "Big government is here to protect us all," by Keith Hubbell, and Saturday's "Health care," by Richard J Mundy, I cannot help but feel that this country and its republic style of government are doomed.
Mr. Hubbell states that the Bush tax cuts did not generate one single job. Well, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics; 8.4 million jobs were created during the eight years of Mr. Bush's presidency. If the Bush tax cuts did not generate these jobs, I guess Santa Claus did.
In Mr. Mundy's letter, he touts the government entitlement programs of Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security, and argues that they are working so well we should pass this new ObamaCare entitlement. But if this health care bill is so good, why have the Senate and House members exempted themselves from it? And if Social Security is working so well, why does it spend more than it takes in?
The ugly little truth is that this is not a health reform bill, it is a tax and spend bill that will put one-fifth of the private sector under government control. If this bill passes, this bunch of leftists will have destroyed the best health care system in the world and will put us on a course to be a second-rate socialist democracy like many countries of Western Europe.
Goodbye, America, it's been a good ride.
Warren Willis Sr.
Las Vegas
