Letters to the editor 10-6-12


Say no to failed administration


In 2009 when Obama took office, gas was $1.83 a gallon. Now, $3.87.

In 2005 the United States was ranked No. 8 in the world for economic freedom. Now we are No. 18.

We have sent more than $1.3 billion in aid to Egypt in 2009-2012 , and the government allows violent protests at the American embassy.

If you own a home in some areas, you have lost as much as 40 percent of its value since 2009.

The national debt has risen by more than $5 trillion. Our country has lost its credibility, politically, economically and militarily. If things don't change soon, we will be in the same place as Greece (bankrupt).

Are you better off? If your answer is no, you must vote against Obama.

As a Christian country we should be standing behind Israel, but under Obama we have turned our back on them and snubbed their leaders.

Instead of drilling for oil in the United States, where we have rich underground oil and coal fields, Obama sent over $1 billion to Brazil and Venezuela to drill for oil.

We will then have to buy it bck from them at inflated prices. In a sense paying for it twice through tax dollars and again at the pump. Where is the logic?

I feel our country is in far more danger with Obama as president. Four more years of his failed policies will ruin our country for our children and grandchildren.

As far as Romney being dangerous for women, as Obama's ad's are saying, bologna and lies.

They have wives, daughters and mothers, they aren't going to make health care unavailable to women by not supporting planned parenthood. Women can go to a doctor or a free clinic to get the tests needed.

A world without planned parenthood would be a world with less, scarred young women who have been traumatized by abortion and there would be more babies for people who could adopt and love them, The unborn life has a right to live.

Four more years of Obama and his failed policies? By then we will be lucky to have a country left to save.

Are you better off after four years of Obama? Will you be better off after eight years of Obama?

Vote no on a failed administration.

Janice Morrison


Article unfair to Wooster Brush


The Wooster Brush Company has been making paintbrushes and roller covers right here in Wooster for 162 years. On Tuesday, the lead article in The Daily Record Fall Home Improvement section featured the products of one of our competitors.

We have over 500 employees who come to work every day and give their best effort. Our employees take pride in their work and will do whatever is needed to help the company compete in very challenging world market. For The Daily Record to run an article featuring a competitor is a kick in the teeth to all 500 of our dedicated employees.

The competitor featured makes good products, but our best products out perform their best products. It is a message we battle to communicate in the market place but never dreamed we would have to battle in our own back yard.

Bill Fagert

The Wooster Brush Company


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  • You can tell equalizer is lying when you see his keyboard moving.

  • http://www.ohio.com/blogs/mass-destruction/blog-of-mass-destruction-1.298992/lying-for-the-lord-1.339524

  • Talk about lies.And you wonder why the left are loons?

  • "NationofChange / Op-Ed - Paul Buchheit____ Published: Monday 8 October 2012 ______ “Who’s paying for the $1 trillion of annual tax savings and tax avoidance for the super-rich?” ___________________Five Practical Reasons Not to Vote Republican____________________ There is no shortage of reasons not to vote Republican. The litany includes tax cuts for the rich, cutbacks in government programs, obstructing needed legislation, disregard for the environment, denial of women's and other human rights, military escalation. _______________ But the following five reasons have to do with money -- specifically, who's paying for the $1 trillion of annual tax savings and tax avoidance for the super-rich? And who's paying for the $1 trillion of national security to protect their growing fortunes? The Republicans want that money to come from the rest of us. ______________ 1. Economic Darwinism -- Republicans want the Poor to Pay___________ Paul Ryan's proposed budget would take about a half-trillion dollars a year from programs that support the poor. This is a continuation of a 15-year shredding of the safety net by Republicans. The GOP-controlled Congress of Bill Clinton created Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), which has experienced a 60% drop in its caseload despite growing poverty, and which, according to the Urban Institute, provides "maximum benefits [that] even in the more generous states were far below the federal poverty level of $1,525 a month for a family of three." ________________ The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), another vital program that serves 50 million "food insecure" Americans, would be cut by $16 billion under the House version of the Farm Bill. The average recipient currently gets $4.30 a day for food. __________________ Republicans also voted to end the Child Tax Credit, and favor a tax plan that would eliminate the Earned Income Tax Credit. ______________ 2. Payroll Tax -- Republicans want the Middle Class to Pay________________ Encouraged by the steady Republican demand for lower corporate tax rates, big business has effected a stunning shift in taxpaying responsibility over the years, from corporate income tax to worker payroll tax. For every dollar of payroll tax paid in the 1950s, corporations paid three dollars. Now it's 22 cents. ____ It's gotten worse in recent years, as corporations decided to drastically cut their tax rates after the start of the recession. After paying an average of 22.5% from 1987 to 2008, they've paid an annual rate of 10% since. This represents a sudden $250 billion annual loss in taxes. _____________ Republicans claim that almost half of Americans don't pay taxes. But when payroll and state and local taxes are considered, middle-income Americans pay at about the same rate as the highest earners. Only about 17% of households paid no federal income tax or payroll tax in 2009. And average workers get little help from people who make most of the money. Because of the $110,000 cutoff for payroll tax deductions, the richest 10% of Americans save $150 billion a year in taxes. ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬______________ 3. Job Shrinkage -- Republicans want Young People to Pay_______________ The jobs that exist for young Americans are paying much less than just a few years ago. During and after the recession, according to the National Employment Law Project, low-wage jobs ($7.69 to $13.83 per hour) dropped by 21 percent, and then grew back at a 58 percent rate. Mid-wage jobs ($13.84 to $21.13 per hour) dropped by 60 percent and grew back at a 22 percent rate. In other words, the median wage is falling fast. ____________ Unemployment for workers under 25 stands at 16.4 percent, twice the national average. Half of recent college graduates are jobless or underemployed. _______________ Yet Republicans killed a jobs bill that was supported by two-thirds of the public.________ An academic study of employment data over 64 years found that an average of two million jobs per year were created under Democratic presidents, compared to one million under Republican presidents. Similar results were reported by the Bloomberg Government Barometer. _______ 4. Retirement Planning -- Republicans want the Seniors to Pay_________ There's a common misconception in our country that most seniors are financially secure. Actually, Census data reveals that elderly people experience greater inequality than any other population group, with the poorest one-fifth receiving just 5.5% of the group's total resources, while the wealthiest one-fifth receives 46%. _________ The senior wealth gap is further evidenced by data during the great 30-year surge in inequality. The average over-60 wealth was five times greater than the median in 1995, as would be expected with a small percentage of ultra-high-net-worth individuals and a great majority of low-wealth people. Further confirmation comes from 2004 Harvard data that shows rising inequality within all age groups, including the elderly. Indeed, an MIT study found that about 46% of U.S. senior citizens have less than $10,000 in financial assets when they die. _________ For the vast majority of seniors, Social Security has been life-sustaining, accounting for 55% of their annual income. Because of this successful and popular program, the senior poverty rate has dropped from 50% to 10%, and due to life-long contributions from working Americans the program has a $2.7 trillion surplus while contributing nothing to the deficit. Yet Republicans want to undo it. ______ 5. Public Fire Sale -- Republicans want Society to Pay______ The common good is threatened by the Republican disdain for public resources. Drilling and mining and pipeline construction continues on public lands, and the House of Representatives has voted over 100 times since 2011 to subsidize the oil and gas industry while weakening environmental, public health, and safety requirements. The "land grab" is pitting corporate muscle against citizens' rights. ________ Sadly, most of America envisions a new era of energy independence that increases our world-leading consumption of energy while depending on a proliferation of dirty technologies to extract it. Threats of methane emissions, water pollution, and earthquake activity don't deter the fossil fuel enthusiasts._____ It gets worse. Republicans are eager to sell public land. Paul Ryan's "Path to Prosperity" proposes to sell millions of acres of "unneeded federal land" and billions of dollars worth of federal assets. His running mate Mitt Romney admits that he doesn't know "what the purpose is" of public lands.________ That brings us to the heart of the reasons not to vote Republican. Their reckless belief in the free market, and their dependency on corporatization and privatization to run the country, means that middle-class Americans keep paying for the fabulously wealthy people at the top who think they deserve everything they've taken from society."_________ http://www.nationofchange.org/five-practical-reasons-not-vote-republican-1349704598

  • http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/fashion-shows/

  • On my 1st day I will ban birth control. Women have no business controlling when and if they have a family. Women using birth control tramples the religious freedom of men who don't want Jesus to cry. Jesus hates birth control. If you want women to have control of their body then you'll have to vote for my opponent.

  • We all know you commies will lie about anything to promote your communist cause. Everybody already believes you are liars so why keep trying to prove it.

  • This is what Republicans want to put in the White House. (file under: you gotta' be kidding) http://front.moveon.org/romneys-entire-understanding-of-health-care-in-one-itty-bitty-graphic/#.UHBEnENGKKA.facebook

  • Yes and Jr. looks just like his communist daddy. You don't get that by being mentored to.

  • Rat_Trapper, I bet you read on the internet where Frank Davis was Obama's mentor for several years. Obama has had plenty of Communist training. One day I read the pravda news paper on the internet and they had an article about how foolish we were to go communist. They had all they wanted of that style. The democrats just don't understand.

  • We all know how Frank Marshall Davis Jr. is attempting to destroy this country. Just the communists have destroyed the unions and good paying jobs in this country. And just like they have destroyed the DemocRAT party.

  • http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/fashion-shows/

  • http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-last-word/49309012#49309012__________During the debate, Romney said his healthcare plan covered pre-existing conditions - - - The next day his staff said, "No it didn't." - There's more 'interesting' facts about Romney's MA healthcare that Americans need to know about BEFORE they vote.

  • It is impossible to present reasonable non-partisan arguments to someone so blinded and twisted by mindless hatred. bam, There can be no thoughtful or meaningful discussion with you. You are a lost cause.

  • Where did you go MittRomney? I would like to ask you why you want to cut benefits for our Vets.Is that any way to treat our HEROES? If you just give the 1% a little less tax breaks you might not have cut the Vets.benefits.Then again not to many of the 1% ever fight in a war so you won't worry about it.

  • You mean like the Obama claim that because of him domestic oil and gas production is up right?So is Obama lying?

  • bam, Try reading or, possibly, comprehending the entire article (it does seem difficult for you to read past sound bites). Leaving out pertinent facts does not make them any less true. Please read the important paragraphs you neglect to reflect in your partisan rants. "So the claim of gasoline prices doubling under Obama is technically correct, but irrelevant because the reason it happened was that he came into office near the bottom of a price overcorrection. Blaming Obama for the price rise would be like blaming him for cases of lung cancer that were detected during his term. Energy policies that presidents implement will manifest themselves years down the road because of the lag time in developing projects. We have many historical examples of this. I have noted numerous times that a president has very limited means to impact gasoline prices over the course of their term. If McCain had been elected, you would have seen the same pattern, except in that case the exact same attacks would have come from the left. Furthermore, I have noted that President Obama will be the first president since LBJ to preside over four straight years of increasing U.S. oil production. Natural gas prices are less than half the levels they were when Obama took office. I know some like to say “He had nothing to do with that.” And I agree that Obama’s policies did not result in increased domestic oil production, nor the plunge in natural gas prices. But neither did his policies cause the rise in gasoline prices after he took office. You can’t blame him for high gasoline prices during his term if you aren’t going to credit him for increased oil production or lower natural gas prices. That is, you can’t unless you are simply playing partisan politics. There are substantive discussions to be had about President Obama’s energy policies, and how they will impact the U.S. in coming years. Blaming him for high gasoline prices are not part of that substantive discussion." BY ROBERT RAPIER ON SEP 15, 2012 There was more information at the start of the article, but I am sure as soon as you got to the sentence, "In the summer of 2008 — Bush’s last year in office — gasoline prices climbed above $4/gallon for nine straight weeks...", you stopped reading and missed all of the partisan-free analysis that followed.

  • bam, you are not understanding what the article meant by adjusting for inflation. Try these articles: http://www.politifact.com/rhode-island/statements/2012/apr/29/national-republican-congressional-committee/national-republican-congressional-committee-says-g/ http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2109474,00.html

  • MittRomney your postings here are good info. Thanks. bam your reading comprehension is off again when you made that last post.

  • Inflation over 100% in four years?You need to prove that.I'm afraid you must be using that new democrat math where 2+2=whatever you say.Sorry doesn't work.

  • "MittRomney"- LOL!! Thanks for visiting us!

  • From Mercury News 9/12/12: Consider that the average price of a regular gallon of gas at U.S. pumps was $1.85 when Bush was sworn in for his second term in January 2005 and $1.84 when Obama took office in January 2009 on the promise of change, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Adjusting for inflation, prices rose to $2.52 (Bush) and $2.53 (Obama) seven months into their terms, $2.76 and $2.71, respectively, nearly two years in and $3.27 each three years in. This month, gas is $3.85, more than a dime cheaper than at this point during Bush's second term when adjusted for inflation. The average, through 45 months in office? Obama: $3.04; Bush's second term: $2.98. bam, you will have to do better than an article poking fun at our vice president to impress me. When you say "most of us" you must be referring to yourself and nobama. As for the info on Frank Davis being Obama's father? You have a lot of nerve calling ME stupid.

  • Your right breezy,the national average for gas was $1.84 a gallon on Jan.20 2009.Inauguration day.The day Obama took Office.Whatever way you want to say it,it is still a fact.To bad marc,I thought maybe you would have a light come on.But no such luck,so you just go on spreading the loon rhetoric.Most of us know it is lies.

  • Read the link, bam. Nah, it wasn't that interesting to me. I'm sure you enjoyed it, though. Keep trying.

  • Ms. Morrison's first statement is incorrect. Simply go to www.consumerenergyreport.com to find the annual gas prices from 1919 to 2011. No agenda here, just the historical data which can also be viewed as adjusted for inflation. By starting out with such wildly incorrect information, Ms. Morrison makes the rest of her letter and information suspect.

  • Here's a link for you marc.I think you may find it interesting...http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2012/10/06/dems-are-pinning-hopes-of-blunting-romney-momentum-on-joe-biden/

  • "and there would be more babies for people who could adopt and love them, The unborn life has a right to live."******************right up until they are born...then we will ignore them or complain about how much it costs to take care of them......there are 10 kids waiting for every home available right here in good old "Christian" wayne county....

  • Thank you nobama,(Good name) as for you marc,you are the one who should inform yourself.You have no idea how stupid you and the rest are.Just keep listening to that race baiter Rev.Al.

  • Bam, You are fighting a loosing battle with these libs. They want to keep on living off the government. If Obama lose's the election, they will have to get a job like the rest of us. Up to 47 million on food stamps now & growing. Bam, if you google (Frank Davis Obama) you will be able to see where Obama got is communist training. I wish you the best of luck Bam.

  • bam, bam, bam! You wouldn't be so paranoid if you would try to be more informed of what is really happening.

  • Why is it that these Christians are so worried about Israel all the time. All they seem to want to do is start wars and drag us into them. I think the reason we kiss their rear end is because there are more Jews in the US than in Israel and they run our country.

  • Mr.Romney,do you really think you can make the economy worse than Bush did so all the rich can get even get richer than they did coming out of his recession?Now you won't give me an answer today and change your mind the next day will you?I noticed you did that in your debate.You keep changing your mind on how you are going to do health-care,one day your going to get rid of it,then your going to keep some things and then your going to let it up to the states.I will bet you $10,000.00 dollars you won't get elected if you don't quit lying and you might as well tell another lie that gas will be under two bucks if you get elected.

  • Bush isn't invisible.He wants to be left alone.You wouldn't even remember his name if Obama didn't blame him for everything.To bad Obama can't take responsibility for his failed Presidency.I suppose that is to much to ask of a democrat.They never take blame for anything,but they sure will take credit for "saving" government motors.Sad that the loon left can't tell the truth.

  • Bush is not invisible to me. My entire platform is based on Bush ideas, from tax cuts for the rich to more war with Iran to rolling back Wall Street regulation. We need to take America back to the hay days of Bush and on my first day I will make private insurance stop covering pre-existing conditions and I will ban birth control.

  • Here's one question. If repub president policies are so good for the country then why has the RNC made Bush invisible?

  • bam, I am going to use your faulty logic. If Obama is keeping the gas price under $4 then why didn't Bush do the same thing?

  • Why is it Obama is not responsible for anything that he has caused?Will he be the first President in history that completes a term and was never wrong?Will Obama always be remembered as the Teflon President?Will the loon media turn on him?Will anyone on the left ever admit that this administration has lied numerous times to us?Do you wonder why gas doesn't cost over $4.00 gallon here yet?Do you wonder why OPEC is flooding the market with"EXTRA" oil for the U.S.?Even Ira is sending oil.Is it possible that they are trying to influence the election to make sure Obama wins?When will people realize that Obama will do anything to be re-elected?

  • Janice, gasoline was 4.09 in July 2008 under Bush. The price has never been that high under Obama. The price dropped because of the crash of the economy. No president could have kept the price under 2 dollars.

  • For some reason Janice forgets that a great recession happened under Bush and wants to blame Obama for the after effects of that recession.

  • Less government except where we want more government.

  • Another Christian that's completely full of it; what a surprise.