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Letters to the editor - Saturday, Dec. 15, 2007

Recycle this Christmas

During the Christmas season, all of us think about the gifts we are giving and receiving. What we don’t often think about is all of the trash produced in the process. According to countyrecycling.org, a landfill’s highest waste flow comes in December. After some reflection it certainly makes sense, but what can be done about it?

One way is to produce products that are made of recycled materials. Most items can be found with a label that says “recycled content” or something to that effect. Wrapping papers alone that are made from recycled material would make a significant contribution.

When it is not possible to purchase something that has been recycled, recycle it instead of throwing it away. Paper, plastic and cans are generally known to be recyclable, but there is more that can be recycled. Electronics can be hazardous to landfills. According to an article on pubmedcentral.nih.gov by Valerie J. Brown, the average cathode ray tube (CRT) contains four pounds of lead, which could seep out of the landfill and into the water supply. Instead of throwing them away, CRTs and other electronics can be dropped off at the Howard County Solid Waste District at 4102 Cartwright Drive in Kokomo to be recycled. Please call ahead at (765) 456-2274. Visit their aforementioned Web site for more information.

Tim Brown

Kokomo

Bush administration destructive

It’s possible that when I was in the Army, I might have missed voting in the presidential election once in over 60 years.

In all these years I have never seen an administration as destructive to our country and hated by the world as the one in power today.

Our jobs are going overseas, mainly to communist China. We are seeing wages decline, while the price of gasoline and food keeps rising.

Heating bills are ridiculous, and home owners are losing their homes due to foreclosures. There are no benefits for poor, elderly or middle-class Americans, while big business has taken over running our country.

Our hard-earned tax money is being spent on an illegal, undeclared invasion of a small, helpless country while the president and his Vice load this country with no-bid contractors.

Meanwhile, while we’re borrowing money from commies, we are supporting millions of convicts who have crossed our border with Mexico, with the approval of this administration.

There is much more, but I’m getting low on ink and must

end here.

Richard Bartley

Kokomo

‘Wake up, America!’

The “Bush-Clinton dynasties” sold out the U.S. middle class by giving “most favored nation” status to communist China. Now America is being flooded with tainted fish, dog food, toothpaste, deadly toys, etc. How great the loss?

The Bush-Clinton dynasties and the “dark lords” of the world government conspiracy they serve wiped out the shield of constitutional tariff-based trade that built American industry and kept the nation strong and free for over 200 years. They sold out the middle class. The very hard-working, tax-paying people who bust their hump every day of every year believing in the American dream.

Americans are squeezed between ever-rising prices and shrinking buying power – but the plutocrats who run the kleptocracy tell us, “The economy is great. Look at the stock market. American companies are rolling in profits.”

Is Mattel Inc. – world’s largest toy manufacturer – an American company? Or a Chinese company operating under an American brand name? Is Wal-Mart an American company? Or a coast-to-coast factory outlet for China? These may still be technically American companies. But foreign countries, awash with boondoggled Federal Reserve notes, are buying what is left of America at fire-sale rates. If the foreign countries should suddenly withdraw all of their investments from Wall Street, America would plunge headlong into such a depression, it would make the 1929 crash look like a fairy tale!

In the current, sad state of affairs, our government has allowed foreigners to own or control shocking percentages of what once were U.S. industries: sound recording, 97 percent; commodity contracts, 79 percent; motion picture and recording industries, 75 percent; footwear, 92 percent; audio and video equipment, 90 percent; apparels, 75 percent; household appliances, 44 percent; plastics and rubber products, 52 percent; sugar, 58 percent; cement, concrete, lime, gypsum products, 62 percent; pharmaceutical and medicine, 49 percent; and the list goes on, on and on!

Current data show foreign takeovers – because of unfair advantages over American workers – have exploded to appalling ratios from the previous year. Once slaves were sold on the auction blocks, now entire nations are sold into slavery. America is being looted and its people are being chained to unpayable debt slavery, one worker, one job, one family, one industry – and one pink slip – at a time. Meanwhile, the world spreads U.S. troops all over the world playing “world sheriff” while our borders are being overrun; and the president throws border agents in prison for doing the very job they were told to do; then Americans turn their collective heads while the president, vice president and their lackeys allow an endless deluge of illegal aliens to cross our borders, to take away what jobs are left, that has not already been outsourced overseas. Wake up, America. We need to take our homeland back!

Richard E. Tedlock

Kokomo

        

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