Page 6 — THE LACONIA DAILY SUN, Wednesday, October 3, 2012
LETTERS Maybe we can learn more about Forrester at Tea Party meeting To the editor, Looks like the citizens in State Senate District 2 will not have an opportunity to question their senate candidates in a public forum facilitated by an objective moderator. Senator Forrester has repeatedly refused to appear publicly in a forum with opponent Bob Lamb. This is a totally different Forrester than we were treated to at the League of Women Voters Forum in Meredith in September of 2010 when she had no record, but was eager to attack Senator Deb Reynolds’ voting record. Now that the tables are turned, I suspect Senator Forrester does not want to have to answer to her constituents as to why she ran in 2010 on a platform that included, among other things, education as a priority, and after being elected voted to cut $48.4 million from the UNH budget, effectively upping instate tuition for families, $2,000 per year. UNH now ranks first in the country for highest tuition for its own residents. Scholarship money has been removed from the university budget rendering it
unattractive to bright, qualified students with financial needs. The quality of schools and universities ranks high with companies choosing where to locate their business, higher than a tax code according to a recent quote from Paul O’Neill, former CEO of Alcoa and President George W. Bush’s former secretary of the treasury. Businesses need to know an area will provide a skilled labor force. Senator Forrester’s vote struck a damaging blow to the desirability of New Hampshire as a business location. Voters have a right to know why Senator Forrester says one thing and then votes with Tea Party colleagues in the House to cut funding to education. Maybe we can find out why when Senator Forrester addresses the Lakes Region Tea Party organization at the Moultonborough Library at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 17, about her past two years in the State Senate as published on their website. Kay M. Anderson Laconia
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To the editor, Have we, as a society, watching our children and grandchildren, play sports, gone over-board in our reaction about the importance of games. Here are some examples of how we abuse, what should be, a recreational past-time! A friend’s son played four basketball games, back-to-back on the same afternoon-evening because it was a playoff. The boy must have been exhausted, even at his age! I watched a succor game after it had rained steady, soaking everyone. The weather looked ominous, still they played the entire game. My neighbor tells me her son would play the football game even if it continued to rain all day. Does that make sense to you? Parents fail to speak up about game schedules, even if it places a unreasonable burden on their children’s
work load! Why do coaches ask for double practice times when it can keep children up late trying to do their home-work and having a late supper? Adults have created near hysteria about playing games, whereas they (games) should always be a pleasant recreational past-time for the kids. And parents are to blame for letting coaches get away with demanding and unreasonable schedules. In my way of thinking, games have taken on a bizarre hold on all those that are involved. Schools that cannot teach math and science successfully, can always divert our time and attention away from academic classroom failures, to a bunch of kids trying to have a good time on the playing field! Leon R. Albushies Gilford
I’d like to be the one questioning Obama at tonight’s debate To the editor, Gov. John H. Sununu had it right. Hussein is lazy. Finally, a face to face with Romney and Barack: 1. There are no expectations of fairness from those who will be doing the questioning during the debate process. If the Mitt Romney who wants to win the presidency shows up the questioners will not be able to help the empty suit. Proceed with minimum respect for Obama, he has none for you Mitt — or for America! What would I like to hear regarding the “domestic” issues: Barack, four years ago you made promises to the American people; without making excuses, where are the jobs, where is the most transparent administration ever, why did you increase the national debt by 5-trillion dollars, why do we see our stimulus money gone to public and private unions,
what has your administration done to stop “black on black crime”, how have worked to bring Americans together when you remind us you are the president, and when did you cut the debt in half, and when are you going to resign as you promised? That was just the first question. Now ask Barack why we have slipped so much in world standing regarding economy and respect? Mitt, would you ask Obama a question for me: Niel Young from Laconia, NH, wants to know why you dislike his grandchildren so much, that you would take their hope away, their freedom, and the opportunity to study hard, work hard, and realize their financial success without being penalized by you in taking their money to give it to those who didn’t? Niel Young Laconia