Memorial Day more than a day off
Memorial Day is more than just a day off from school, it is a day we remember those, who have fought for our country.
Many people have lost their lives for our country and Memorial Day is a special day for families of those who have served to honor their loved ones. Memorial Day is a day for all, who have served, to be honored for their service to our country.
RACHEL JEAUXDEVINE
Carson City
Expensive flights home and Medicare problems
According to the Obama administration, we no longer have a war on terror. It's now an "Overseas Contingency Operation," or something innocuous sounding like that.
Why are we taxpayers still paying in excess of $300,000 for Nancy Pelosi's security flights with family and friends to San Francisco every weekend? It is reported that it costs nearly that amount even when she decides not to fly home for the weekends; she orders the Air Force to stand by just in case she changes her mind at the last minute for her free flights home. And she insists on having the larger plane so the plane doesn't require refueling in Olathe, Kan., " isn't all this a needless waste of taxpayers' money?
Do we want national health care? Medicare admittedly paid billions in fraudulent claims. Yet, legitimate claims aren't being paid. Try appealing an unpaid, necessary medical expense through Medicare with dozens of telephone calls and letters of appeal for three years, as Medicare procedures dictate, and then finally reaching an administrative law judge only to be dismissed for lack of evidence.
Do they delete records or round file, making arbitrary decisions who to pay and who not to pay? Are employees lacking medical knowledge deciding our health care, instead of doctors and patients? One Medicare employee admitted "the claim should have been paid in 2006," but amazingly, Medicare ignores procedures for correcting their own errors. We're losing our good doctors. Pay valid claims; deny fraudulent claims " know the difference.
DONNA SIMPSON
Carson City
How will we survive?
I cannot see how our country can survive four years of Obama. He has already done major damage in just four months.
He has weakened our national security by releasing classified memos, he wants to close Gitmo and spend billions relocating terrorists when they are already in an efficient location. He terrorized New York with the Air Force One flyover, he fires CEOs of major corporations and he has threatened states to do as he says or he will withhold funding.
He supports "pay to play" unions and ACORN. His house leader is calling our Central Intelligence Agency liars and he must think that is OK because he has been silent on the issue. He is increasing our cost of living with his health care and energy plans and he is promoting laziness with his social programs. He also gives three speeches a day with all of his adoring sheep as a backdrop, while they smile and sip their Kool-Aid oblivious to the danger he is creating.
He has taken over the auto industry, insurance companies, banks, health care and energy. He bows to our enemies, he bad mouths us to our allies and enemies and every speech he gives is against the United States and Bush.
He said he did not hear the Rev. Wright's tirade but that is a crock because he is preaching the same thing in every speech he gives.
When did it become OK for the United States to have a dictator instead of a president? Is this legal? I want to know who the puppeteer is pulling the strings of Obama the puppet.
RITA BENTLEY
Jacks Valley