Sequestration myth: No increase = cut
You make $1,000 per week. You have a mortgage payment, two car payments and a hefty creditcard payment because you use it to pay for gas, groceries, utilities and other expenses.
You also use it for dining out, the movies and things. You are living from paycheck to paycheck and behind financially.
On Friday, your boss says business is slow, revenue is down, and he has to cut pay for everyone. You ask how much your pay will be cut. The boss says it will stay the same, but you won’t get that 2.5 percent increase you were supposed to receive.” Oh no! The $25 raise is gone! Nowwhat? The answer is you can keep on doing what you have been doing. You won’t lose the house or the cars or anything else. If prices rise, you may have to go to the movies or out to dinner less often. That’s it.
That is the scenario now facing the federal government, although President Obama and his cronies would have you believe otherwise.
The entire sequestration thesky-is-falling” message is a massive deception of historic proportion and is a major scam being laid on us. Only in Washington is a non-increase considered a cut.
Bill Bradow Oviedo
Word choice is telling
Beth Kassab in her Sunday column, “What we know a year after Trayvon’s death,” used the words “gunned down” when referring to George Zimmerman’s shooting Trayvon Martin.
Even though I found many good observations in the column, I think anyone who read it realizes Kassab’s take on the incident.
Another column in Sunday’s Sentinel, the Florida Flashback, described the “ambush slaying” of Sheriff David Mizell, who was “gunned down” in 1870.
Gunned down is a term I would associate with something sinister, evil and with malice. Perhaps “shot during a contentious scuffle” might be a better way to describe the Martin-Zimmerman incident.
Patti Secrist Winter
No escaping drug test
I need someone to explain how it is against someone’s right to submit to a drug test to obtain money from our state.
WhenI need to support myself and my family, I go find a job. If I amchosen for that job, I will then have to submit to a drug test. If I fail that drug test, I fail to obtain my employment and the money that would go along with that.
If someone doesn’t want to have a drug test to receive assistance from the state, then I suggest that person find a job. But then, that would not happen without a drug test.
Jane Eggert Mount
Ideal capitalism
Capitalism that invites the worker to participate while observing the golden rule and philanthropy toward the worker produces a stable society with a high standard of living, (all else remaining the same).
Frank Vassell