Why can’t we see things in a new and fresh way? Excessive government spending on expanded entitlement programs is bringing the country ever closer to bankruptcy. There are fewer of us working each month to pay the government’s bills It is little wonder that the number of new applications for jobless claims is coming down so slowly. It should come down because each month fewer of us are working. We need jobs. The government does not have a clue about how to create jobs other than to talk about how it is “small businesses” that create jobs. These small businesses need markets for their goods or services as do all businesses. The government could help by making a concerted effort to open up foreign markets to American exports and insure that our trade agreements with other countries are truly reciprocal. Our government needs to think of the relationship of markets to jobs in all that they do. A case in point is the devastation that hit Haiti as a result of the earthquake that created over 2,000,000 homeless. As the United States always and rightly does, we came to the aid of Haiti at once and to date over $712,000,000 has been sent to Haiti. Why do we send dollars? Are we assured that the dollars reach the intended? With 2,000,000 homeless why don’t we send homes instead of money. The modular home industry, many of whom are in our Valley, could design a practical housing unit that could be shipped to Haiti for assembly. Our government could purchase these units with the dollars that they would send to Haiti. This would create the jobs that we desperately need. It would also create site preparation and assembly jobs in Haiti with the end result being housing for people who desperately need it.
Henry A. Truslow,
Sunbury
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Unconcerned lawmaker
Republican Representative Kurt Masser's leadership and support of Governor Tom Corbett's agenda have proven to be nothing short of a disaster for everyone from senior citizens to the children statewide and locally.
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Comic relief
Yet again, the Northumberland County commissioners have supplied -- unintentionally I can only hope -- comic relief in these troubled times for our county.
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Belonging here
This morning, as I was leaving the Sunbury Islamic Center with a group of moms and kids from our Sunday school, someone drove by and screamed out their car window to us: "Go back to where you belong."
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Transportation taxes
On May 22, the state House voted on HB 1100. The Democrat-sponsored bill exempted the sale of airplanes, airplane parts and airplane repairs from the 6 percent state sales tax.
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Stepping up for river
I represent a group of 22 retired state Department of Environmental Protection professionals who have more than 600 years of combined service in managing all aspects of the commonwealth's water quality and pollution control programs.
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Catalyst for study
The Susquehanna River, in many ways, unifies our region. Yet this vital ecological and economic engine, and the source of drinking water for millions, has been increasingly showing signs of distress.
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Access to closed school
As a member of the New Berlin Borough Council, I am interested in maintaining access to the New Berlin Elementary School property for the citizens of the New Berlin community.
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Critical period
More than two years ago, Sunbury native Ashley Spotts received a life-saving lung transplant due to cystic fibrosis (CF) and diabetes. Pennsylvania Cystic Fibrosis, Inc. (PACFI) established the Ashley's Angels Transplant Fund to help the family with medical expenses, and area individuals and families responded by donating to the fund and/or having fundraisers.
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Tough to stop a train
To add a bit of perspective to the recent accident in Milton, as well as subsequent reporting and editorial comments, let's keep in mind that a train cannot overcome the immutable laws of physics.
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