May 14: Get tough and the ongoing fight

By Published by The Editorial Board

Published: May 14, 2008

It’s time for us to get tough

To the editor:
As for the story about the robbery at Wal-Mart, “Woman injured in purse snatching,” (May 9, page A3), this person was out minding her own business and spending money she earned by working.
Then you get the lowlifes that are too lazy to work and just want to live off others by stealing or sitting on their rear ends and waiting on a welfare check to get to them.
Get a job!
The American people need to start standing up and quit letting all these crackhead punks do whatever they want. When people start defending themselves with lethal force, maybe some of these junior thugs will get the message. I believe in carrying a weapon and I am not afraid to use it in self defense. I will not give these people a second chance. America needs to wake up. We are at war at home — not just in the Middle East.

TIM CASSELL
Danville

To the editor:
Which candidate would make the best president? What does America need to do to get its people back to work so they can feed their families, pay taxes and make the country vibrant again?
Sending jobs overseas is definitely not the answer. Workers are, without a doubt, the most important people in any country.
All those workers need is a fair shake from the leaders in charge. Give a fair wage and most people will do their best. But I don’t think the leaders are doing their best by sending jobs overseas and causing so much anxiety in their own country.
Listening to the presidential candidates squabbling causes a lot of anxiety. Clinton and Obama started out hugging one another, but now the barbs are flying. McCain said if he had to, he would keep the troops in Iraq for 100 years. Now that would be something to look forward to — agony on top of agony.
America needs to take care of its own people for a change, and I don’t think the Republican Party is the one to do it. It seems like they want to take care of the rich and let the working class get along as best it can. It doesn’t add up that the population of this country has about doubled since World War II because production should have doubled.
But now the people in charge are sending their factories overseas to get cheap labor in places like China and India.
China, the biggest communist country in the world, is getting rich, thanks to the American business people —  and to the detriment of American workers.
Clinton and Obama need to get their act together. I think they would be a great team together to get health care for everyone. The workers need to earn bread, but the rich like to have cake with their bread. It is the same old story, the fight for the “buttered crust.”

HARRY WARD
Danville