Tacky campaign signs ruin view for everyone
Seriously, does anyone decide to vote for a candidate because of a sign or poster placed in a vacant lot or field? Shouldn't we be focusing on driving rather than looking at campaign slogans? Maybe we can text someone about this great candidate's poster while we are driving and persuade them to vote for this person.
Does this sound a little crazy? Well, all these signs are worthless pollution, trash and a real eyesore. I have no problem with those who wish to campaign on their own private property as that is their right, but this endless mess of campaign signs and posters all over town just adds to the rest of the trash and mess that gets blown around Carson City.
It is a terrible eyesore driving down Carson Street, or for that (matter), many other streets in and around the area that have these ridiculous campaign posters sticking out of the ground in empty lots.
The two candidates for sheriff are the worst of the lot when it comes to endless signs everywhere. Neither gets my vote just because of their tacky campaign efforts.
Lindsay Pulliam
Carson City
Reflections on lost heroes nine years later
Nine years have passed since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and I still feel the pain of those who lived through that horrible day.
We should all remember that day as if it happened yesterday; please don't forget. If we do, we will not be honoring those who not only died because they were trapped, but those who put their lives on the line to help and lost theirs in the process. We are still alive to keep our freedom, our ideals and our hopes alive, not just for ourselves, but for our future generations.
Remember how we all felt on that dreadful day. The terrorists did not destroy our resolve to be the best we can possibly be, to continue loving this country, to stand united against those who want to destroy us. We are made of a great diversity of people, but we are all here because this is the only country where we can be just that - different. May God always protect us, and continue to bless America - its people, and most especially our troops.
Eugania Soga
Carson City
Government has no right to raid trust funds
A recent letter by Frank Johnson stated that, in reply to his letter, I said the government's tax for Social Security, Medicare, education, etc., was stealing.
False.
What I was saying is that the government has no right to take money from these accounts, which do not belong to the government, but rather to the people who contribute to these funds, and doing so is stealing money from the owners of those funds.
If one puts money in an account, does their neighbor have a right to abscond with those funds? No. I don't care who the neighbor is, including the government, which has no right to touch that money - something they have been doing for years to the point of totally wiping out some. That does not make it any less morally wrong.
He wrote, "No mention of tax breaks for big oil, ag and pharmaceutical companies," adding, "or hospitals, schools, police, firemen and the cost of the military."
That is because those are not trust funds. They are taxes the government collects from everyone in order to provide services to all Americans.
Mary Santomauro
Stagecoach