Medicare, Social Security, U.S. Post Office, etc., all in trouble due to lack of funds. Terrible federal deficit. Sequester. States and the fed trying to create novel ways to squeeze us for more taxes.
Please Google USA Foreign Aid for just 2012. All our funding problems would vanish if we stopped federal aid to the top 10. The deficit wouldn’t exist. Review what our government has given away in your name in the last 10 years.
Look at the countries who received your hard-earned dollars. Please write your elected representatives and demand this must stop. Sure, some of these places need help but Americans need help too and are not getting it because Israel, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Jordan, etc. have priority over you and me. Our new secretary of state just gave Egypt another $250 million. I wonder what they did with the $1.557 billion they got in 2012 from you and me?
John Rue
Frostburg
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We give money away, but don’t have enough for ourselves
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Maryland has stopped being “The Free State”
I am a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans and, last but not least, the National Rifle Association. I am a yearly member of the American Legion.
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Outrageous
Distrust of government secrecy has been elevated to an exceptional level with the disclosure the Justice Department covertly examined two months of Associated Press phone records to determine who leaked details to the AP about a foiled terrorist plot.
This amounts to spying on an American news organization — common practice in dictatorships but scary conduct in a democratic system that prizes the public value of an independent watchdog press. -
Prevention
The Allegany County Board of Health on Tuesday heard some alarming numbers involving overdoses involving drugs and alcohol. Fortunately, the group already has a plan to ease the situation.
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Financial gutting will damage school system
I am writing in response to the Allegany County Commissioners’ efforts to cut local education spending to the lowest possible level allowed under state law.
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Cemetery organization plans events to mark Memorial Day
This upcoming Memorial Day marks the 30th anniversary of the Cumberland Historic Cemetery Organization (CHCO).
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Better fix it
The West Virginia Division of Highways should not give up on improving safety at the intersection of U.S. Route 220 and Stoney Run Road in Keyser merely because the intersection does not meet the state’s criteria for a traffic signal.
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That many?
Only about one in every four people trust the federal government, according to a recent Pew Research survey.
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It’s time to ratify Equal Rights Amendment
I have three words I want to say: “It is time.”
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Preserve these things for future generations
This is an open letter to the mayor of Cumberland and Allegany County commissioners:
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