Outsourcing plan would hurt school district
To the editor:
So we're going to save $10.4 million and $7.2 million by eliminating our custodians and bus drivers (Oct. 20 editorial). Does anyone really believe that when budget time comes, the state is going to provide us with an additional $17.6 million to put "into the classrooms"?
"Additional teachers" will be hired? To teach whom, if our custodians and bus drivers lose their houses, leave the state and take their children with them? Can secretaries and food service workers be far behind?
The day will come when even teachers are outsourced for a computer screen with a tech administering the final test.
Stand up for your co-workers -- before they are gone and there is no one left to stand up for you.
Jean Ann Holihan
Henderson
Guess who?
To the editor:
Who among the several GOP presidential contenders has a a 100 percent voting record on the Conservative Index, the Constitutional Index and the Freedom Index?
Who among them has spent a lifetime using his office to oppose undeclared U.N. wars?
Who among them has spent a lifetime relentlessly working to avoid our monetary disaster which has led to unemployment, repossessions and great family distress?
Who among these contenders has been at the vanguard opposing the Obama and Bush bankster bailouts?
Who among them has used his office to oppose every D.C. unconstitutional "gun bill"?
Which has never voted for any corporate welfare?
Do you think you should find out who that one man is before you vote?
Massachusetts' health care costs continue as the highest in the nation, and RomneyCare served as a model for ObamaCare. And our brain dead media are calling Mitt Romney the leading contender?
THOMAS F. JEFFERSON
ELKO
Not racial
To the editor:
In reference to Dale Drennan's diatribe to the editor, "GOP obstructs Obama because he's black":
Mr. Drennan accuses everyone and everything opposed to the president's spending plans with having a racial thing. It's not. It's a capitalist belief thing, it's a fiscal responsible thing, and it's a government intrusion thing.
I, being a white American male, support Herman Cain (as well as the rest of the conservative presidential office seekers). This is not based on race, but rather on their beliefs -- and I will vote accordingly.
When Barack Obama was running for the presidency, he told us exactly what he was going to do. Once in office, he followed through. How are they working out for you? We are still stuck in the mode of thinking that a fair systen takes money or property from one and gives it to another. It does not work.
Mr. Cain's plan is a starting point for a fair tax system. Yes, most Americans should pay a federal tax, including the 47 percent of American families who do not. Only then would our system be fair.
Les Carey
Las Vegas
