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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Pay for home care
On Dec. 15, President Barack Obama announced a proposed rule that would extend federal minimum wage and overtime protections to home care workers. This is an exciting development for home care workers across the country.
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Public investment
Public investment? Pennsylvania's funding of our local schools is a crying shame. Sure, times are tough, but the state managed to come up with $10 million for Bucknell University, a private school, to have a new bookstore in downtown Lewisburg. I'm still not sure how Bucknell wrangled that deal or why a private university is entitled to public funding.
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Ill-conceived measure
Ill-conceived plan. It is imperative that motorists drive safely and courteously when approaching bicyclists. The only problem with the new bicyclist law requiring motorists to allow four feet of distance between their cars and the bicyclists is that this will place the car in the opposing travel lane or require it to cross the yellow line in a no-passing zone.
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Heroic workers
I was astounded when I saw Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011's headline "Workers tackle robber over $603".
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Cell phone ban
Last week I was reading "Cell ban tough to enforce" in The Daily Item and it was very controversial.
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Worth $603?
The article on Dec. 20 in the edition of The Daily Item about the Dollar Tree robber caught my interest.
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Alarming ailment
In the Dec. 20, 2011 issue of The Daily Item, I read the article "Childhood disorder bolsters research."
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Public obligation
As part of her argument for home schooling, "Studying in Pajamas", Jan. 20, Joanna Wert dismisses public schools and "the majority of American workers" with a few condescending generalizations. She goes on to extol her own children's virtues and accomplishments, and then lists famous people whom she claims were home-schooled.
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