Thanks for writing Agnes. Letters of the Editor for Tuesday, Sept. 3 Posted: 09/02/2013 05:06 p.m. Spending waste I continue to be amazed at how willing those who claim to be fiscal conservatives are to spend our tax dollars in order to restrict the freedoms and curb the rights of others. The money spent on voter ID laws would help equip this state with reliable voting machines. Voting machines, not voter fraud, are the real problem with accurate voting. The money that will be spent to build a border fence and patrol that border would go a long way toward improving our education system. The waste of time and taxpayer dollars in the push to control women’s reproductive health care might rather be used to assure the health of pregnant women and infants. Federally, our House of Representatives has wasted time on a string of nonsense votes to repeal Obamacare. Those proposals would deprive both those who have pre-existing conditions and young people who are now able to remain on their parents’ insurance. And here in South Carolina, our governor is doing everything in her power to thwart the Affordable Care Act. I can only assume that the effort put into stopping Obamacare exists out of fear that this federal health care plan, like Medicare before it, will actually work. Meanwhile, it is those same people who are wasting federal and state dollars with this obstructionist legislation who tout freedom and complain the loudest about paying taxes and rising deficits. We need to tell our legislators to stop wasting our money trying to scare us with false bogeymen and get to work. Agnes F. Pomata, Ph. D. Foxfire Road Wadmalaw Island
Posted on: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:40:57 +0000
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