Letters to the Editor 08-01-2002
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Indiana Economics - Golden Rule
Indiana Economics
Editor, Times-Union:I read Representative Wolkins' response to the "Eye on the Pie" column with great interest. It is true the General Assembly certainly has nothing "to crow about" regarding their accomplishments. If it were not for the governor mandating a special session, the General Assembly would have done nothing to address the state's financial crisis. The special session cost the taxpayers over $500,000. One can only wonder how that plays "in the heartland."
The entire session, including the special session, left education statewide twisting in the wind. For example, Warsaw Community Schools will not receive over $900,000 in funding promised by the state. Further, our summer school programs have been significantly reduced. If school funding does not improve, staff reductions will be necessary in the future. The result would be larger class sizes, and therefore, less effective instruction.
Legislators did tour many large cities in Indiana stating that threatened teacher layoffs were scare tactics to apply pressure to resolve the budget issue. Teacher layoffs and program cuts have occurred in some school corporations. All one has to do is read the local newspaper to conclude that many of our local school corporations are in serious financial difficulty.
Indiana has some serious economic issues to address in the future. Let us hope our legislators can meet the challenge. The education of our children is a heavy price to pay for government gridlock.
Terry Sims, president
Warsaw Community Education Association
Warsaw
via e-mail
Golden Rule
Editor, Times-Union:If Abraham Lincoln could speak at Ground Zero on Sept. 11, I suspect he might be saying something like this:
"Two hundred and 26 years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the conviction that all human life on Earth has value and meaning, and that each, with loving care, should be given the opportunity to develop to their greatest potential and highest ideals.
"Our nation - and our world -Êis now engaged in a great war; a life-and-death struggle of ideas, religions and philosophies of life, testing to see what value we, the people, will put on the Great Creator's gift of human life and freedom for all.
"God's gift of life, love and freedom is for the blonde, blue-eyed girl, the boy with black skin and dark eyes and all shades in between.
"The solemn words 'Ashes to ashes; dust to dust,' have been said in deep grief over the moral remains of many of humanity's finest youth in Europe's Flander's Field, the deserts and jungles of the Far East and at piles of twisted rubble in the West. Great creative potentials lie buried with these ashes. It is fitting and proper that we mourn our great losses today.
"But now, it is for us, the living, to dedicate what may remain of our lives to the highest and best we know of God and his redemptive purposes so that the sacrifice of our bright and hopeful youth will not have been in vain! And that the words spoken many years ago by that sun-tanned youth in Palestine, 'Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you,' will become the whole world's Golden Rule of thought and deed from this moment on, until all Earth's people live together in peace and with a purpose grounded in loving care for one another. So may it be!"
J. Robert Boggs Jr.
Warsaw
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Editor, Times-Union:I read Representative Wolkins' response to the "Eye on the Pie" column with great interest. It is true the General Assembly certainly has nothing "to crow about" regarding their accomplishments. If it were not for the governor mandating a special session, the General Assembly would have done nothing to address the state's financial crisis. The special session cost the taxpayers over $500,000. One can only wonder how that plays "in the heartland."
The entire session, including the special session, left education statewide twisting in the wind. For example, Warsaw Community Schools will not receive over $900,000 in funding promised by the state. Further, our summer school programs have been significantly reduced. If school funding does not improve, staff reductions will be necessary in the future. The result would be larger class sizes, and therefore, less effective instruction.
Legislators did tour many large cities in Indiana stating that threatened teacher layoffs were scare tactics to apply pressure to resolve the budget issue. Teacher layoffs and program cuts have occurred in some school corporations. All one has to do is read the local newspaper to conclude that many of our local school corporations are in serious financial difficulty.
Indiana has some serious economic issues to address in the future. Let us hope our legislators can meet the challenge. The education of our children is a heavy price to pay for government gridlock.
Terry Sims, president
Warsaw Community Education Association
Warsaw
via e-mail
Golden Rule
Editor, Times-Union:If Abraham Lincoln could speak at Ground Zero on Sept. 11, I suspect he might be saying something like this:
"Two hundred and 26 years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the conviction that all human life on Earth has value and meaning, and that each, with loving care, should be given the opportunity to develop to their greatest potential and highest ideals.
"Our nation - and our world -Êis now engaged in a great war; a life-and-death struggle of ideas, religions and philosophies of life, testing to see what value we, the people, will put on the Great Creator's gift of human life and freedom for all.
"God's gift of life, love and freedom is for the blonde, blue-eyed girl, the boy with black skin and dark eyes and all shades in between.
"The solemn words 'Ashes to ashes; dust to dust,' have been said in deep grief over the moral remains of many of humanity's finest youth in Europe's Flander's Field, the deserts and jungles of the Far East and at piles of twisted rubble in the West. Great creative potentials lie buried with these ashes. It is fitting and proper that we mourn our great losses today.
"But now, it is for us, the living, to dedicate what may remain of our lives to the highest and best we know of God and his redemptive purposes so that the sacrifice of our bright and hopeful youth will not have been in vain! And that the words spoken many years ago by that sun-tanned youth in Palestine, 'Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you,' will become the whole world's Golden Rule of thought and deed from this moment on, until all Earth's people live together in peace and with a purpose grounded in loving care for one another. So may it be!"
J. Robert Boggs Jr.
Warsaw
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