Roswell Daily Record
LETTERS
Will your vote make a difference?
Dear Editor: A vote for Obama or Romney is a vote for Goldman Sachs. How’s that working out for you America? Choosing between Obama and Romney is like choosing between the frying pan and the fire. Although they disagree on some social issues, Romney and Obama are pretty much the same on many key economic issues, and this is what the 2012 election is all about. The world is in a global economic crisis, and only one candidate predicted it, and for 30 years has been trying to prevent the country from going down the exact path that has brought us to this point. That candidate is Ron Paul. Why would liberals vote for Ron Paul instead of Obama? Well how about ending the wars? Wasn’t Obama supposed to be the “peace” candidate? We are still in Afghanistan and Iraq, we got involved in Libya, now Syria and Iran, the list goes on. President Obama is every bit the war monger that Bush was. How about ending the prohibition on marijuana? As a physician, Ron Paul has been advocating for years that people have the right to put in their own body what they want, as long as they are willing to suffer the consequences. This is how a free society works, you have free will, but you must also accept the consequences of your actions. How is that war of drug working out? How about sound money? I haven’t heard Obama say one thing about the Federal Reserve’s monopoly on our currency. Obama is in the back pocket of the bankers just like Romney. Can’t everyone see that choosing between Obama and Romney isn’t a real choice and that either way we’re going to get screwed? Who is the only candidate that has broken free of the two party dichotomies and brought together people from all parties and political affiliations? Ron Paul. Don’t think you’ll get a chance to vote for him? You may be wrong. There is a class action lawsuit taking place in federal court seeking to confirm what many already know: all delegates are unbound. Romney has not clinched the nomination, the GOP and mainstream media want you to think he has, because they, just like Obama, are owned by the bankers. The big bankers own this country, so unless we wise up soon, Thomas Jefferson will be scarily prophetic: “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property, until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” — Thomas Jefferson, letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, 1802.
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ed an oil company, lost two U.S. Senate races and got elected to the U.S. House, where he voted for the 1968 Civil Rights Act. What do we know about Mitt Romney? Not that much. His dad, a committed Mormon, was the successful president of American Motors before winning three terms as the civil rights-championing Republican governor of Michigan. We know that Mitt went to a select private boys’ school, served a 30-month Mormon mission in France, graduated from Brigham Young University, married Ann, his high-school sweetheart and earned degrees from Harvard Law and Harvard Business School. We know that he founded Bain Capital, became a multimillioniaire, successfully headed the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics, won one term as governor of Massachusetts and has been running for president since at least 2005. But Romney must have an outsized zone of privacy. As a Republican who served successfully as governor in one of America’s bluest states, he would have been, on paper, a formidable gen-
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toscopy, in which you receive anesthesia and have a tube passed into your bladder to look for tumors or other causes of bleeding. Finally, you should know about a surprisingly common condition that turns your blood pink or red but is not hema-
OPINION II Which candidate would Thomas Jefferson vote for? Let’s hope that the delegates at the RNC in Tampa have the courage to vote for a republic, not continue some huge centralized federal government. For liberty, Martin Kral Roswell
Softball support appreciated
Dear Editor: The USSSA Alien City Girls Fast-pitch Softball League (ACGF) just completed its second year in existence. Our last game for this season was on July 31. On behalf of the league’s BOD, coaches, parents and players, we want to publicly thank the many individuals and businesses that supported and helped us out this year. We thank the following businesses/organization that supported us financially this year and also thank them for giving girls the opportunity to play softball during the summer: Century 21 – Starla Nunez; Champion Motor Sports; M u r phys Express; and Otero Federal Credit Union. We extend a big thank you to the Roswell Sertoma Club for its generous grant that they provided for us. We thank D&D Motors, Walmart and Neighborhood Watch for allowing us to advertise for sign-ups at their place of business. As always we cannot thank the city of Roswell Recreation Department personnel enough for all the help they provided for us by working on the fields and fixing what needed to be fixed at the complex. We especially thank Mr. Kim Elliott, Damian Cheatem, Rudy Chavez, Mike Raney and Kenny Smith. They went out of their way to help and work with us. We are very appreciative for the support and help that we received from the Men’s Softball League. We thank Mr. George Munoz, “12U Bandits Coach” from Carlsbad, for participating in our league this season. Their season ended May 15 and they wanted to continue playing; so they signed up to participate with our league. We realize that businesses receive sponsorship/support requests by several sports organizations as well as other organizations for support of kids. We also understand that the past couple of years, our economy has not been close to what we would like it to be. However, businesses such as the ones mentioned above continue to sacrifice for the benefit of our youth and our community. This in my opinion speaks volumes of how caring these businesses are. Respectfully, Juan Oropesa, President Alien City Girls Fast-pitch League Roswell eral election nominee. But he spent the last two presidential campaigns running to the right of John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich, while wooing the most conservative of GOP primary voters, especially on the issue of immigration. Romney is not comfortable speaking publicly about his religion or how his faith informs his politics. The Obama campaign has spent time and money defining Romney’s private equity career as regularly putting profits before people and private international paydays ahead of American domestic prosperity. From Romney, there have been no public sightings of humor, candor or empathy. The Romney campaign insists that there will be time to introduce the Real Mitt to American voters at the Tampa, Fla., convention. But the longer he remains silent about who he is and what his personal hopes and, yes, doubts might be, Mitt Romney all but guarantees that essentially hostile brushes will paint his public portrait. To find out more about Mark Shields and read his past columns, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2012 MARK SHIELDS turia. It’s called “beeturia.” If you eat beets, the red coloration in the beets can briefly turn your urine red and scare you half to death, but it’s nothing to worry about. (Dr. Komaroff is a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. To send questions, go to AskDoctorK.com, or write: Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck St., Second Floor, Boston, MA 02115.)
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