We lived in a very small apartment over top of a country grocery store that was owned by an aunt and uncle for several years. We then moved into a small house — five children and our mother. We did not have a very good life as far as money was concerned. My mother did house cleaning and did ironing for other people.
At an early age we learned to work on a farm and we all worked very hard. We would start at sunrise and work until the sunset. Our breakfast consisted of oatmeal, Cream of Wheat and occasionally eggs. We were dirt poor. We never complained because we never knew that there was any other way to live. We just assumed that is how everyone lived.
My mother has gone on to be with the Lord and I am glad she is not here to see how lazy people are in America today. We never were on welfare and we never even thought of getting government assistant. We were a proud people. America is now a nation that thinks our government owes us a living. Let our government take care of us.
Well, folks, you are about to get your wish with the re-election of President Obama. America is on the way to becoming a socialistic country. Obama with his welfare mentality feels that government is the cure for everything. I, like other people, if I could afford it, would move out of the United States. I am proud of this country, but I am not happy with the direction Obama is taking us. There are those who think Obama is our next messiah. Well, those people are in for a rude awakening. I am of the firm belief, if you don’t work, you don’t eat.
Come tell me in four years that you made the right choice by re-electing Obama.
Paul Williams
Cumberland
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Family worked hard, never took government assistance
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Which buck is it, and where is it supposed to stop?
Barack Obama has made Nixon look like a choir boy! “Obama worse than Nixon” the supermarket tabloid’s headlines read recently.
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Theft of car’s bike rack sour note during Scouts’ visit here
On the evening of June 6, while our Boy Scout troop camped at the Paw Paw Tunnel (Route 51, Mile 156.2 of the C&O Canal) someone stole our bike rack.
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All ‘gave some,’ but these from our local area truly ‘gave all’
Between June 14 (Flag Day) and July 4 (Independence Day), I’m responding to several recent editorials and letters to the editor.
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Freedom isn’t exactly what he thinks it is
In the June 2 Times-News, R. Steele Selby (“Just how free are we?) defines freedom as “the capacity to do whatever he or she wants to do” and asserts that this definition is “most likely nearly universal.”
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What Maryland calls the Fair Share Act isn’t fair at all
The Fair Share Act was passed in 2009. This law allowed for service fees to be part of the collective bargaining process.
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We have lots to show for our education dollars
I would like to take this opportunity to respond to Judith Weller’s latest anti-education diatribe, “The money they already have isn’t being spent wisely,” (June 3).
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Western Md. Veterans continues its mission
My name is Dan Brashear, I am the founder and director of Western Maryland Veterans.
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Maybe the cyclists and casino workers should be armed
Again, unfortunately I have to remind Don Carns Jr. of Beans Cove, Pa., on his latest repeatedly inaccurate letter published June 10 in the Cumberland Times-News (“Township is nothing like either Pittsburgh or Philadelphia”).
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Let’s all kick in $1 to help save Frostburg’s Palace Theatre
As a former resident, I have many fond memories of the Palace Theatre (“Theater wall crumbles: Palace exterior collapses, unfit for entry: officials,” June 6 Times-News, Page 1A).
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Develop the waterway
Since the debate over removing the dam started about four years ago, I have been concerned about the effect the dam removal would have on the area’s welfare.
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