Letters to the Editor 04-08-1997
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Impeachment - School Calendar - Partial-Birth Abortions
Impeachment
Editor, Times-Union:If a president is impeached does he still get retirement pay?
When a president (whom nobody can accuse of being dumb in the sense of being mentally incapable or as one who cannot speak out of both mouths) shrewdly endorses:
1. NAFTA while knowing that this would virtually open our borders to narcotic imports.
2. Free trade with China and former USSR's Russia without any concern about how that would cause a lot of USA business and industries to close.
3. Increases in immigration that destroy jobs and cause lawlessness because of the type of immigrants permitted.
4. A balanced budget policy (just so that it does not happen while he remains in office) then let someone take the blame when our commerce collapses and our country's industries move their plants "offshore" to enable them to survive when the "big band" happens at Wall Street and this country imitates Albania.
What would happen if we try impeachment? We are seeing the selling and rape of our nation by a pro "gay" president. Who's behaving a lot worse than Nixon's group that only broke into Democratic party's Watergate room. Breaking and entering is considered by judges as being a lot less criminal action than betraying our country for which some people get hanged.
Rex Bradt Warsaw
School Calendar
Editor, Times-Union:Mr. Bradt's recent letter regarding the school calendar is misleading and untrue. It is obvious Mr. Bradt has no knowledge of the state law or the local teachers' association. The facts are:
1. The local teachers' association, the Warsaw Community Education Association, is not affiliated with the National Education Assocation or the Indiana State Teachers Association. WCEA broke ties with these organizations six years ago. The association is independent and the exclusive representative of the local teachers.
2. Warsaw teachers have not attended any union conventions for approximately 10 years. No days in the calendar are set aside for that purpose.
3. The state legislature mandated the expansion of the school year from 175 days to 180 days approximately 10 years ago. The result was five extra days of school for students and not one extra day of school, as Mr. Bradt suggested. This was not a raise; it was extension of our contract. In other words, a day's work for a day's pay.
4. State law mandates inclement weather days must be made up. This year the Warsaw School Corp. will make up two days.
The heat issue in our schools is not one we regard lightly. Effective learning cannot take place in rooms with temperatures exceeding 95 to 100 degrees.
Mr. Bradt's comments were a transparent attempt to demonstrate his contempt for NEA. Having been a former teacher, Mr. Bradt must know the value of research and truth. Perhaps he should review those two lessons.
Questions pertaining to local school policies and state educational laws can best be addressed by contacting the Warsaw School Corp. central administration or the Warsaw Community Education Association.
Terry Sims, President Warsaw Community Education Association
Partial-Birth Abortions
Editor, Times-Union:One question that has been overlooked in the partial-birth abortion debate is why such a procedure is performed instead of other abortion methods. Recently it has been revealed that a prominent pro-abortion spokesman deliberately lied to understate the number of partial-birth abortions perpetrated. I think that perhaps partial-birth abortion is employed because it vitiates what has been called "the dreaded complication." For an abortion, the dreaded complication is when the baby is born alive.
For instance, Baby Rosa was the target of a D&C abortion about a half dozen years ago. However, all they got was an arm and baby Rosa was born alive and perfectly healthy ] that is, minus the arm. Many states have laws that require a baby subjected to abortion who is born alive to receive full protection and medical care like any other newborn infant. With a partial-birth abortion that would never happen, and that may be why that inhuman practice has become a method of choice for abortionists.
John Goertzen Winona Lake
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- Impeachment - School Calendar - Partial-Birth Abortions
Impeachment
Editor, Times-Union:If a president is impeached does he still get retirement pay?
When a president (whom nobody can accuse of being dumb in the sense of being mentally incapable or as one who cannot speak out of both mouths) shrewdly endorses:
1. NAFTA while knowing that this would virtually open our borders to narcotic imports.
2. Free trade with China and former USSR's Russia without any concern about how that would cause a lot of USA business and industries to close.
3. Increases in immigration that destroy jobs and cause lawlessness because of the type of immigrants permitted.
4. A balanced budget policy (just so that it does not happen while he remains in office) then let someone take the blame when our commerce collapses and our country's industries move their plants "offshore" to enable them to survive when the "big band" happens at Wall Street and this country imitates Albania.
What would happen if we try impeachment? We are seeing the selling and rape of our nation by a pro "gay" president. Who's behaving a lot worse than Nixon's group that only broke into Democratic party's Watergate room. Breaking and entering is considered by judges as being a lot less criminal action than betraying our country for which some people get hanged.
Rex Bradt Warsaw
School Calendar
Editor, Times-Union:Mr. Bradt's recent letter regarding the school calendar is misleading and untrue. It is obvious Mr. Bradt has no knowledge of the state law or the local teachers' association. The facts are:
1. The local teachers' association, the Warsaw Community Education Association, is not affiliated with the National Education Assocation or the Indiana State Teachers Association. WCEA broke ties with these organizations six years ago. The association is independent and the exclusive representative of the local teachers.
2. Warsaw teachers have not attended any union conventions for approximately 10 years. No days in the calendar are set aside for that purpose.
3. The state legislature mandated the expansion of the school year from 175 days to 180 days approximately 10 years ago. The result was five extra days of school for students and not one extra day of school, as Mr. Bradt suggested. This was not a raise; it was extension of our contract. In other words, a day's work for a day's pay.
4. State law mandates inclement weather days must be made up. This year the Warsaw School Corp. will make up two days.
The heat issue in our schools is not one we regard lightly. Effective learning cannot take place in rooms with temperatures exceeding 95 to 100 degrees.
Mr. Bradt's comments were a transparent attempt to demonstrate his contempt for NEA. Having been a former teacher, Mr. Bradt must know the value of research and truth. Perhaps he should review those two lessons.
Questions pertaining to local school policies and state educational laws can best be addressed by contacting the Warsaw School Corp. central administration or the Warsaw Community Education Association.
Terry Sims, President Warsaw Community Education Association
Partial-Birth Abortions
Editor, Times-Union:One question that has been overlooked in the partial-birth abortion debate is why such a procedure is performed instead of other abortion methods. Recently it has been revealed that a prominent pro-abortion spokesman deliberately lied to understate the number of partial-birth abortions perpetrated. I think that perhaps partial-birth abortion is employed because it vitiates what has been called "the dreaded complication." For an abortion, the dreaded complication is when the baby is born alive.
For instance, Baby Rosa was the target of a D&C abortion about a half dozen years ago. However, all they got was an arm and baby Rosa was born alive and perfectly healthy ] that is, minus the arm. Many states have laws that require a baby subjected to abortion who is born alive to receive full protection and medical care like any other newborn infant. With a partial-birth abortion that would never happen, and that may be why that inhuman practice has become a method of choice for abortionists.
John Goertzen Winona Lake
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