Opinion
Letters to the editor, June 28
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Published: June 28, 2012
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Marty Moore omitted one tiny detail in his op-ed page column, a typical and relentlessly one-sided attack against Republicans regarding the failure of the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform appointed by President Barack Obama in 2010. The president has totally ignored the recommendations of his own commission, even going so far as to basically dismiss its report in his 2011 State of the Union speech.
But liberals like Moore figure that through name calling and insults they can shift all the blame for the coming "fiscal cliff" onto Republicans. To Moore, it is totally unreasonable for those "rock-for-brains" Republicans to stick to their no-tax-increase pledge. Yet he has no problem defending President Obama and those pure-hearted Democrats who are "unwilling to take the heat for further cuts to entitlements and social programs," supposedly because "they're negotiating with a wall."
I'm not sure what mysterious "further cuts" he's talking about, since I don't know of any significant cuts that the Democrats or Obama have made. A wall, however, has two sides and it's just as high on the Democrat's side as it is on the Republican's side.
Ted Milios
Hudson
Wrong focus
While recently hospitalized I found out that what was once known as "bedside manner" is now being replaced by the Brave New World of computers.
The doctors and nurses seem far too engaged with the computer keyboard and less in actually caring for the patient. Time after time I was given the wrong medication because they consulted the computer rather than the patient and what we really needed; what I actually took and what would help me.
We need to go back to the fundamentals of medicine and rely less on computers to do the jobs of doctors and nurses.
Fred Palensar
Holiday
Clear choice
The choices are clear this election season: supporters of the Ryan budget plan and the Second Amendment or nuns on a bus supporting the words of Jesus. Both say they're guided by God, so where does God wants his followers, holding a gun or feeding the hungry?
Peno Hardesty
New Port Richey