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OPINION
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Why is Plainview gas so expensive?
To the Editor:
My daughter and I made
a trip to Lubbock on June 7.
She fi lled her car at the Murphy’s
by Wal-Mart before
she left Plainview. Gas was
$3.60 a gallon.
We took care of our appointments
in Lubbock and
prepared to leave Lubbock.
There by the dental offi ce
was Murphy’s by Wal-Mart
off the Marsha Sharp Freeway
with gas at $3.39 per
gallon.
My question is why do we
folks in Plainview pay some
21 cents more per gallon? I
just don’t understand why it
should be any higher. Does
it cost more to get it to our
city?
It is hard to wrap your
As many as 300,000
children are taken from
their homes every year from
neglect and abuse. In light of
that, it is a blight on America
even to think or to know that
a member of the Congress
of the United States has
been sending e-mail tweets
to young women he doesn’t
even know — taking advantage
of them for his own
apparent sexual pleasure.
Anthony Weiner, you are
a pervert and you should
step down NOW!!
Your blatant hypocrisy
is never more evident than
when your record as a
self-proclaimed defender of
youth is examined.
Mallard Fillmore
mind around paying more
just because it is Plainview.
We need to be getting breaks
just as well as the folks in
Lubbock.
I must agree with Wes
Naron who wrote several
weeks ago about our gas
prices. Why? Is there anyone
out there who can answer the
question.
Patsy Hall
Plainview
Editor’s Note: Phone
calls to a Murphy USA
district manager were not
returned. The Herald has
reported on higher local gas
prices on numerous occasions,
and the explanation
from distributors centers
around greater transportation
costs.
Save by fi lling gas cans in Lubbock
To the Editor:
It seems so strange that
gas prices in New Deal are
10 cents a gallon cheaper
than Plainview, and Lubbock
is 20 cents a gallon
cheaper. Does it really cost
that much more to transport
fuel to Plainview? I can’t see
how. Even Wal-mart here is
20 cents a gallon higher here
than in Lubbock. Why?
If the people of Plainview
got together we should be
able to do something about
the problem.
One solution could be if
you know someone who has
a pick-up truck, and every
car in Plainview would
send gas cans to be fi lled
(in Lubbock), on a 20-gallon
tank they could save $4
a tank. Think how much
money you could keep in
your pocket! Then Plainview
would be forced to
drop their fuel prices. Think
about what you could do
with the money you save,
even in a month’s time.
The oil companies are
keeping their hands in our
pockets and we are told there
is nothing that can be done. I
think there is. When we say
enough is enough, see what
happens.
The only way is to force
the government to take action,
and that is not by forming
a commission or committee
to see why prices are
so out of control. Tell your
congressman and representatives
we want something
done. Force them to take
action or not be re-elected,
including the president. This
is the only course of action
to obtain results.
The American public
are the only ones that can
change the outcome. Let
your government know how
you feel by your vote!
We work hard for our
money and should be able
to keep more of our paycheck.
Sharon Fuller
Plainview
You have bragged about
your efforts to defend children;
for example, writing
that in early 2007 your offi ce
“did a study that found that
over 85 percent of registered
sex offenders in New
York City live less than
fi ve blocks from schools,
and 670 sex offenders live
within just two blocks. Some
offenders are even closer,
permanently residing less
than 500 feet away from
unwitting parents, educators
and children.”
Do those “efforts” include
setting an example of moral
rectitude by living a life
free of sexual episodes? It
appears that this is not the
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Keep sexually-oriented businesses out of city
To the Editor:
I just wanted to say, “Has
anybody been reading the
newspaper?” The crime has
almost doubled since we allowed
alcohol to be a part of
our city, and now you want
sexually-oriented (businesses)?
Come on, folks. Let’s step
up to the plate and fi gure out
a way to fi x this. This is our
town and our children and
grandchildren are growing
up here. Some things are not
worth the money.
Look around. It’s already
Become a CASA volunteer to foster child
To the Editor:
Father’s Day is upon
us. While many sons and
daughters struggle to fi nd
the perfect gift, thousands
of children in the foster care
system have no father to
recognize.
Many of them have never
met their fathers, or their
fathers are in prison or dead.
Increasing numbers of
children are entering the
Texas foster care system —
more than 43,000 last year
— children whose families
failed to care for them,
feed them and protect them
from harm. These children,
especially boys, need strong
To the Editor:
What do we need to do
to keep Islam from taking
over the United States of
America?
The U.S. can’t print paper
money and buy everything
we need. We have to start
working and becoming a
producing nation. Let us
change our laws before our
country is destroyed.
The biggest problem in the
U.S. is laws that are against
the Bible. They are against
Hypocrite Anthony Weiner should step down now
case as your e-mail “tweets”
laden with sex show.
Nowhere is your hypocrisy
more evident than in your
recent press release where
you bragged that “along
with several colleagues in
Congress, we introduced
& passed the KIDS (Keeping
the Internet Devoid of
Sexual Predators) Act of
2007, a bill to require sex
offenders to register their
e-mail and instant message
addresses with the National
Sex Offender Registry. The
‘Kid’s Act’ implemented
one of my six recommendations
to keep a closer eye
on sex offenders both near
school grounds and online.
a mess to begin with. Our
children are having children,
youth are drug addicted,
dropping out of school, no
laws, oh, and have you heard
them talk?
Please step up to the
plate and let’s get rid of all
this mess. Don’t allow it in
Plainview.
I grew up in an alcoholic
home and it was a nightmare
to have to deal with my
brothers every other night,
and when we moved to
Plainview some 30 years ago
I loved it because it was dry.
adult male role models to
prepare them to make their
way in the world.
I challenge you to make a
promise this Father’s Day:
Take action to help at least
one child. I chose to be a
court appointed special
advocate, a CASA volunteer,
trained by CASA of the
South Plains and assigned
by the court to speak up for
abused or neglected children,
offering solutions and helping
judges make informed
decisions about what is right
for a child.
I’ve seen fi rsthand the difference
that can be made in
II Thessalonians 3-10. Child
labor laws keep children
from getting an education.
You go to school to get your
schooling, but go to work
to get your education. Some
people call it experience.
1. Minimum wage law
does not let millions get a
job.
2. Child labor laws that
keep children from getting
an education
3. Welfare people don’t
work because they don’t
MICHAEL
REAGAN
I also proposed stricter GPS
tracking of sex offenders,
tougher enforcement of
registration laws and more
public disclosure of sex offender
data.”
You go on to say, “Sadly,
the Internet is the predator’s
venue of choice today. We
need to update our strategies
and our laws to stop
these offenders who are a
mere click away from our
children. “
It would seem that the
Internet is also your “venue
of choice” when you choose
to send sexually explicit
photos of yourself to women
you don’t know and who
have never expressed any
desire to see you in sexually
compromising situations.
In your apologetic press
conference you freely admitted
your guilt in these mat-
People are going to drink
no matter what, but what
was securing was that my
teenage son couldn’t walk to
the store and have someone
buy him a six pack of beer,
because that’s what they are
doing now. For a few dollars
more adults do this for
teenagers, and now to allow
these sexual-oriented clubs
and stores?
Lord, forbid! Please wake
up and smell what’s cooking
in Plainview.
Rosalinda Perez
Plainview
a child’s life. The reward for
me is knowing that the child
I’m advocating for goes to
sleep tonight in a place that
is clean and safe and that
his physical, emotional and
educational needs are met.
There are 23 children in
Hale County waiting for an
advocate. Accept my challenge.
Your involvement
will be the best Father’s Day
gift you can give to a child
— and to yourself.
For more information:
www.casaofthesouthplains.
org, or call 806-293-1970.
C.W. Moore
Roaring Springs
How to keep Islam from taking over
want to lose their welfare
check.
4. Unions cause jobs to
be sent to countries with
cheaper labor
5. We have employers pay
unemployment benefi ts, but
it only helps the employee
6. Printing up paper
money causes it to lose
value every day. The U.S.
trade defi cit is growing
every year.
Harold Smith
Hart
ters but you left unsaid the
words your actions demanded
— namely your intent to
resign from the U.S. House
of Representatives, which
you have disgraced.
Your critics have often
characterized you as being
arrogant. You have now
proven them right. Nothing
could be more arrogant
than your outright refusal to
do the honorable thing and
resign from the House of
Representatives which you
have, by your actions, seriously
demeaned.
In your arrogance you
have failed to understand
that you are now the butt
of jokes — not exactly the
status a member of Congress
seeks.
You owe your constituents
an apology; you owe
your bride more than that.
It’s time to pay your debts
to both.
Go home, Rep. Weiner,
and contemplate your offense
against decency and
the people you are obliged to
represent.
Michael Reagan is the son of
President Ronald Reagan, a political
consultant, and the author of “The
New Reagan Revolution”
Reagan@caglecartoons.com
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BILL
O’REILLY
What kind of
a country do
we want?
Throughout the ages,
Robin Hood has carried
a very positive image: a
dashing hero who steals
from a corrupt kingdom
and distributes the loot to
the poor. Errol Flynn was
among the fi rst to bring
Robin to life in the movies,
and more recently, Russell
Crowe advanced the
legend.
President Obama, I
believe, sees himself as the
noble Robin. Certainly,
his tax-the-rich mantra
and health care giveaways
demonstrate a strong desire
to redistribute income from
the affl uent to the poor in
America.
How is that playing in
Peoria? A new Gallup poll
tells us.
The question was simple:
“Do you think our government
should or should
not redistribute wealth by
heavy taxes on the rich?”
Most Americans said no.
Forty-nine percent do not
support Obama’s vision,
including 69 percent of Republicans
and 53 percent of
independents. But 47 percent
of Americans do want
to be shown the money,
including a whopping 71
percent of Democrats.
The demographic breakdown
is instructive: Fiftytwo
percent of women
but just 42 percent of men
support wealth redistribution.
But the real gap is
between whites and nonwhites.
Here, 64 percent of
nonwhite Americans want
federal money given to
those who have not, while
just 41 percent of whites
want the same.
Gallup concludes that
most Americans do support
the wealthy paying more
in order to solve specifi c
problems (like Social Security),
but Americans are
not “anti-rich.” A majority
believes the USA does not
have “too many” rich folks.
For Obama, the call is
easy. His core constituency
fervently believes that a
“just society” takes from
the rich and gives to the
poor. The problem is that
the Founding Fathers did
not believe that. So instituting
legislation mandating
the redistribution of private
wealth runs up against a
variety of constitutional
issues. That’s why the
Supreme Court will have to
decide on Obamacare.
Madison, Jefferson,
Franklin and the boys did
not want a strong federal
government meddling
in economic affairs or
much else for that matter.
They did not impose
a federal income tax
(that fi rst arrived during
the Civil War), and they
did not support government
intrusion on the free
marketplace. In the latter
part of the 18th century,
the colonists were absolutely
fed up with King
George intruding upon
their economic lives. That
anger drove the revolution.
Those of us who actually
studied history remember
the war cry: “No taxation
without representation!”
But today the Founding
Fathers are considered obsolete
by some on the left
who want to join Western
Europe in the cradle-tograve
entitlement zone.
Never mind that countries
like Greece and Spain are
going under economically
because of their nanny
state spending. Liberal
doctrine requires “sharing
the wealth,” consequences
be damned.
With the country almost
evenly divided over wealth
redistribution, the next
presidential election really
becomes a referendum on
that concept. Things were
never this complicated in
Sherwood Forest.
Veteran TV news anchor Bill O’Reilly
is host of the Fox News show “The
O’Reilly Factor” and author of the
book “Pinheads and Patriots: Where
You Stand in the Age of Obama.”