The "enlightened" inmates at the left-wing indoctrination camp, known as Guilford College, recently attempted to simulate conditions under which the peace-loving Palestinians are forced to confront each day of their lives.
And since only one side of any issue is permitted at these indoctrination camps, there was no "simulation" as to why these conditions exist.
Was there a "simulation" of the Yom Kippur war? The one where Israel was attacked by its peace-loving Arab neighbors on the eve of its holiest holiday of the year?
Among the results of the attack was a humiliating defeat for the Arab states, and the loss of most of the land now "occupied" by Israel.
Was there a "simulation" of Palestinian terrorists strapping bombs to themselves and blowing up buses, malls, etc., murdering countless innocent people?
Israel then "continues the cycle of violence" by reacting to the killings. It responds by attempting to seek out those responsible. Israelis do not train their children to become suicide bombers.
They do not celebrate in the streets at the slaughter of thousands of innocent victims in the name of God, as did the Palestinians after the World Trade Center bombing.
Israel has checkpoints for the same reason we have security checkpoints at our airports: safety. Mr. Arafat was offered almost everything he claimed he wanted.
His reply: More terrorism.
And Palestinians wonder why so few Americans support them.
Tony Moschetti
High Point
News & Record
December 31, 2001
Monday, December 31, 2001
Monday, November 26, 2001
Airport bomb scare highlights problem
So, the leftist News & Record editorial staff cheers the federalization of airport security. The leftists think that big government is the answer to all our problems, when in fact, government is the source of most of our problems. If recent events in the name of increased security are examples of what we can expect in the future, I cringe.
Consider the Air Tran bomb threat at Piedmont Triad International Airport. I am not a federal employee, but if someone suggested a bomb on the plane my immediate reaction would be to get the plane emptied as quickly as possible. But that's me. Apparently the government agencies involved thought it best to let the passengers sit on the plane with the potential bomb for 30 minutes. When questioned, all agencies insisted that they had acted properly. Sadly, they actually believe that they did.
A passenger makes the mistake of having to go to the lavatory at the wrong time. Before the federal government got involved, a flight attendant would merely have asked the person to return to his seat. I've seen it dozens of times.
Now, with the federales involved, the person gets a gun pulled on him and gets put on the floor. The other passengers are told to put their hands behind their heads as if they were federal prisoners rather than paying customers, and the plane is diverted to another airport.
Boy, I feel safer now.
Tony Moschetti
High Point
News & Record
November 26, 2001
Consider the Air Tran bomb threat at Piedmont Triad International Airport. I am not a federal employee, but if someone suggested a bomb on the plane my immediate reaction would be to get the plane emptied as quickly as possible. But that's me. Apparently the government agencies involved thought it best to let the passengers sit on the plane with the potential bomb for 30 minutes. When questioned, all agencies insisted that they had acted properly. Sadly, they actually believe that they did.
A passenger makes the mistake of having to go to the lavatory at the wrong time. Before the federal government got involved, a flight attendant would merely have asked the person to return to his seat. I've seen it dozens of times.
Now, with the federales involved, the person gets a gun pulled on him and gets put on the floor. The other passengers are told to put their hands behind their heads as if they were federal prisoners rather than paying customers, and the plane is diverted to another airport.
Boy, I feel safer now.
Tony Moschetti
High Point
News & Record
November 26, 2001
Thursday, October 04, 2001
The real price gougers
On Sept. 23, Tony Moschetti wrote about gasoline price gouging and asked that someone associated with that business respond. I do not meet that criterion and I am not certain he really wanted an answer, but I will try.
First, if Moschetti has ever sold his home, was his selling price based on his cost or on the current prevailing market prices? I suspect the latter since he would be replacing it at those current prevailing market prices.
Second, when Moschetti goes to the grocery store to buy chicken noodle soup, he probably finds the shelves fully stocked or near-fully stocked most every time; if the shelves were sparsely stocked with just a few cans, he would probably go elsewhere. This base stock is as much a necessary requirement for doing business as are the shelves and store. A business person who sells off the basic assets for an ongoing business only to replace them at higher prices will not remain in business for long.
I detest price gouging as much as Moschetti. I just think he is kicking the wrong dog. Proper examples could include a local book store more than doubling the printed price of a Sept. 12 Washington Post; the Pinehurst U.S. Open charging $3 a bottle for the only available water; and Piedmont Triad International Airport raising the price of 20-minute parking from 25 cents to 75 cents.
Bruce B. Raynor Jr.
Greensboro
News & Record
October 4, 2001
First, if Moschetti has ever sold his home, was his selling price based on his cost or on the current prevailing market prices? I suspect the latter since he would be replacing it at those current prevailing market prices.
Second, when Moschetti goes to the grocery store to buy chicken noodle soup, he probably finds the shelves fully stocked or near-fully stocked most every time; if the shelves were sparsely stocked with just a few cans, he would probably go elsewhere. This base stock is as much a necessary requirement for doing business as are the shelves and store. A business person who sells off the basic assets for an ongoing business only to replace them at higher prices will not remain in business for long.
I detest price gouging as much as Moschetti. I just think he is kicking the wrong dog. Proper examples could include a local book store more than doubling the printed price of a Sept. 12 Washington Post; the Pinehurst U.S. Open charging $3 a bottle for the only available water; and Piedmont Triad International Airport raising the price of 20-minute parking from 25 cents to 75 cents.
Bruce B. Raynor Jr.
Greensboro
News & Record
October 4, 2001
Friday, September 28, 2001
Price-gouging charge was a very low blow
Tony Moschetti (letter, Sept. 23) asks why a few price gougers come out in times of crisis. I would ask a different question: Why, when we are all busy uniting against terrorism, must a few whiners complain that gasoline prices are too high?
Normally I am against coercion, but perhaps the time has come for mandatory economics classes for the masses. Maybe then we wouldn't have people complaining that prices shouldn't increase when demand increases or supply decreases. Maybe then people would appreciate the fact that higher gas prices keep a few people from running out and pumping all they can in a state of panic, saving fuel for the rest of us. Maybe then we would recognize that the private act of "gouging" serves the public end of conservation.
We have been exposed to many macabre sights and sounds over the past few weeks. Statements equating our nation's gasoline sellers with the real terrorists are among the worst.
Jack Bladel
Greensboro
News & Record
September 28, 2001
Normally I am against coercion, but perhaps the time has come for mandatory economics classes for the masses. Maybe then we wouldn't have people complaining that prices shouldn't increase when demand increases or supply decreases. Maybe then people would appreciate the fact that higher gas prices keep a few people from running out and pumping all they can in a state of panic, saving fuel for the rest of us. Maybe then we would recognize that the private act of "gouging" serves the public end of conservation.
We have been exposed to many macabre sights and sounds over the past few weeks. Statements equating our nation's gasoline sellers with the real terrorists are among the worst.
Jack Bladel
Greensboro
News & Record
September 28, 2001
Sunday, September 23, 2001
Gas price increases are unconscionable
Why is it that in times of crisis when most Americans unite against a common enemy, a few profiteers show their fangs? Among the usual suspects are the oil profiteers. We have seen huge increases in gas prices overnight. Why? In almost every case that product has been paid for. It is current stock. How can that price change?
Once the tanks are filled and the bill paid I doubt whether a request for additional payment is sent. If the dealer paid $1 per gallon and charged $1.10 per gallon, why all of a sudden with no new delivery does he begin to charge $1.20 per gallon? He is still selling the same product for which he paid $1.
The dealers, whom most of us trust, tell us that they are told what price to charge by those from whom they buy the gasoline. If this is not gouging, what is it, and who is responsible?
Don't tell me about probable cuts in production, or rises in the price of crude oil. Those products will not arrive as refined gasoline for 90 days or more. We will understand a price increase at that time. But will someone in the oil distribution or wholesaling business please explain to us why you are again profiteering during a time of crisis? And what kind of people are you to do such a dastardly thing?
Tony Moschetti
High Point
News & Record
September 23, 2001
Once the tanks are filled and the bill paid I doubt whether a request for additional payment is sent. If the dealer paid $1 per gallon and charged $1.10 per gallon, why all of a sudden with no new delivery does he begin to charge $1.20 per gallon? He is still selling the same product for which he paid $1.
The dealers, whom most of us trust, tell us that they are told what price to charge by those from whom they buy the gasoline. If this is not gouging, what is it, and who is responsible?
Don't tell me about probable cuts in production, or rises in the price of crude oil. Those products will not arrive as refined gasoline for 90 days or more. We will understand a price increase at that time. But will someone in the oil distribution or wholesaling business please explain to us why you are again profiteering during a time of crisis? And what kind of people are you to do such a dastardly thing?
Tony Moschetti
High Point
News & Record
September 23, 2001
Friday, September 07, 2001
Election holiday isn't union plot
Regarding the proposed Election Day holiday, Tony Moschetti wrote (letter, Aug. 17), "This is just a ploy to give the unions, who already have a holiday on Election Day, even more time to round up folks, take them to the polls and direct them to vote for Democrats even if they know nothing about the person for whom they are 'voting.' "
Being a registered Republican and union worker whose wife is also a registered Republican and union worker, I would like to know where these so-called Election Day facts came from. Our neighbor is also a union worker and between the three of us we are members of three of the largest unions in the country. None of us gets the day off for elections.
Is this just another right-wing zealot who thinks he can throw the words "union" and "liberal" together and it is automatically the truth?
Because North Carolina is one of the least-unionized states in the country and, nationwide, there are only about 16 million union members in a country of about 200 million voters, the writer seems mighty nervous. Why?
Is it because he knows the extremists in the Republican Party are pushing us moderates away and we could eventually pull a Jim Jeffords and abandon him and his party?
Oh, and I expect there were a few people who voted for Republicans even if they knew nothing about the person for whom they were "voting."
Doug Ross
Burlington
News & Record
September 7, 2001
Being a registered Republican and union worker whose wife is also a registered Republican and union worker, I would like to know where these so-called Election Day facts came from. Our neighbor is also a union worker and between the three of us we are members of three of the largest unions in the country. None of us gets the day off for elections.
Is this just another right-wing zealot who thinks he can throw the words "union" and "liberal" together and it is automatically the truth?
Because North Carolina is one of the least-unionized states in the country and, nationwide, there are only about 16 million union members in a country of about 200 million voters, the writer seems mighty nervous. Why?
Is it because he knows the extremists in the Republican Party are pushing us moderates away and we could eventually pull a Jim Jeffords and abandon him and his party?
Oh, and I expect there were a few people who voted for Republicans even if they knew nothing about the person for whom they were "voting."
Doug Ross
Burlington
News & Record
September 7, 2001
Sunday, August 19, 2001
Citizens get passionate when discussing a potential state tax increase
State wrestles on taxes; Citizens get passionate when discussing a potential state tax increase.
By Paul Muschick
Staff Writer
If you're going to talk taxes with Tony Moschetti, pull up a comfortable chair - but not too close. Moschetti tends to get loud when cursing governments for taking too much of his paycheck.
''It's a subject that just angers me to no end,'' the High Point insurance agent said.
Karla Ewald isn't so loud, but supporters of higher taxes are rarely heard over tax opponents. The Greensboro woman would rather pay more so the state doesn't cut services.
''The level of service that we are talking about cutting would be catastrophic,'' said Ewald, executive director of the Association for Retarded Citizens of Greensboro.
North Carolina lawmakers and Gov. Mike Easley have yet to decide who they will appease as they debate whether to raise taxes. As they argue, one thing is
clear: Both Moschetti and Ewald have a point.
North Carolinians already pay plenty of taxes, especially gas and income levies, and people in other states pay less.
But plenty of people pay more, too. North Carolina isn't even close to being one of the heaviest-taxed states when all state and local taxes are considered.
Governments erase less from our paychecks than the national average.
The state and local governments took nearly $ 11 of every $ 100 earned in North Carolina in fiscal 1997-98, ranking the state 30th in the country. That does not include federal taxes.
When compared on a per-capita basis, or tax-per-person, the state ranks 33rd at $ 2,557, also lower than the national average.
The comparisons, from an annual survey by the U.S. Census Bureau, were released last month and are the most recent available. They include all taxes - property, income, sales, corporate and others.
Maine had the heaviest tax burden, with people paying more than $ 14 of every $ 100 earned to state and local taxes; New Hampshire ranked lowest at about $ 9.
People like Moschetti say North Carolina needs to do better because the state is taking a bigger hit in these hard times than other places. North Carolina experienced the sharpest drop in employment in the nation from May to June.
''They continue to raise the taxes of the people of this state while they're losing jobs,'' said Moschetti, a former member of the Guilford County Mental Health Board who has criticized public officials of all sorts in person and on radio talk shows.
Some lawmakers say North Carolina's taxes are acceptable.
''When you put the whole tax burden together, I think we have a pretty good place to live,'' said state Rep. Nelson Cole, a Rockingham County Democrat.
He said lawmakers have no choice but to raise taxes this year.
Legislators have to look at North Carolina's needs, he said, and not worry about how it ranks with other states.
''I don't think we necessarily look at that,'' Cole said. ''That's just a barometer that's out there.''
Nonsense, said state Rep. Harold Brubaker, a Republican on the other side of the tax talks.
''If you get your tax out of kilter, if you're going to be higher, people are going to flock to lower-tax areas,'' said the former House speaker from Asheboro. ''That's why it's critical to keep them in a good balance.''
He wishes the state had placed even lower on the list of how much earned income goes to taxes and won't support calls to raise them.
The Democrat-controlled legislature is pondering various tax hikes, including levies on liquor, managed care companies and personal income greater than $ 200,000.
Gov. Easley, a Democrat, last week suggested that lawmakers instead raise the state sales tax 1 percent.
North Carolina already ranks among the highest states in personal and corporate income tax, with $ 3.96 of every $ 100 made here going to those levies, ninth-highest in the land in 1997-98.
The state ranked 12th in the percentage of all income going to fuel taxes and 13th in alcohol taxes.
Some lawmakers say taxes will have to get higher. And though no one likes to lose more of their income, some taxpayers agree it's the right thing to do instead of cutting services.
''Not having a tax increase and devastating persons with special needs is just not the right way to go about it,'' Ewald said.
Others also have come forward urging people to support higher taxes to improve services.
Several local preachers lobbied people to support giving more money to the Guilford County Schools, even if it meant a tax hike, which it did.
''Nobody wants tax increases, but unfortunately the underpinnings of so many of our programs are at stake,'' Ewald said. Contact Paul Muschick at 883-4422, Ext. 231, or pmuschick@news-record.com
News & Record
August 19, 2001
By Paul Muschick
Staff Writer
If you're going to talk taxes with Tony Moschetti, pull up a comfortable chair - but not too close. Moschetti tends to get loud when cursing governments for taking too much of his paycheck.
''It's a subject that just angers me to no end,'' the High Point insurance agent said.
Karla Ewald isn't so loud, but supporters of higher taxes are rarely heard over tax opponents. The Greensboro woman would rather pay more so the state doesn't cut services.
''The level of service that we are talking about cutting would be catastrophic,'' said Ewald, executive director of the Association for Retarded Citizens of Greensboro.
North Carolina lawmakers and Gov. Mike Easley have yet to decide who they will appease as they debate whether to raise taxes. As they argue, one thing is
clear: Both Moschetti and Ewald have a point.
North Carolinians already pay plenty of taxes, especially gas and income levies, and people in other states pay less.
But plenty of people pay more, too. North Carolina isn't even close to being one of the heaviest-taxed states when all state and local taxes are considered.
Governments erase less from our paychecks than the national average.
The state and local governments took nearly $ 11 of every $ 100 earned in North Carolina in fiscal 1997-98, ranking the state 30th in the country. That does not include federal taxes.
When compared on a per-capita basis, or tax-per-person, the state ranks 33rd at $ 2,557, also lower than the national average.
The comparisons, from an annual survey by the U.S. Census Bureau, were released last month and are the most recent available. They include all taxes - property, income, sales, corporate and others.
Maine had the heaviest tax burden, with people paying more than $ 14 of every $ 100 earned to state and local taxes; New Hampshire ranked lowest at about $ 9.
People like Moschetti say North Carolina needs to do better because the state is taking a bigger hit in these hard times than other places. North Carolina experienced the sharpest drop in employment in the nation from May to June.
''They continue to raise the taxes of the people of this state while they're losing jobs,'' said Moschetti, a former member of the Guilford County Mental Health Board who has criticized public officials of all sorts in person and on radio talk shows.
Some lawmakers say North Carolina's taxes are acceptable.
''When you put the whole tax burden together, I think we have a pretty good place to live,'' said state Rep. Nelson Cole, a Rockingham County Democrat.
He said lawmakers have no choice but to raise taxes this year.
Legislators have to look at North Carolina's needs, he said, and not worry about how it ranks with other states.
''I don't think we necessarily look at that,'' Cole said. ''That's just a barometer that's out there.''
Nonsense, said state Rep. Harold Brubaker, a Republican on the other side of the tax talks.
''If you get your tax out of kilter, if you're going to be higher, people are going to flock to lower-tax areas,'' said the former House speaker from Asheboro. ''That's why it's critical to keep them in a good balance.''
He wishes the state had placed even lower on the list of how much earned income goes to taxes and won't support calls to raise them.
The Democrat-controlled legislature is pondering various tax hikes, including levies on liquor, managed care companies and personal income greater than $ 200,000.
Gov. Easley, a Democrat, last week suggested that lawmakers instead raise the state sales tax 1 percent.
North Carolina already ranks among the highest states in personal and corporate income tax, with $ 3.96 of every $ 100 made here going to those levies, ninth-highest in the land in 1997-98.
The state ranked 12th in the percentage of all income going to fuel taxes and 13th in alcohol taxes.
Some lawmakers say taxes will have to get higher. And though no one likes to lose more of their income, some taxpayers agree it's the right thing to do instead of cutting services.
''Not having a tax increase and devastating persons with special needs is just not the right way to go about it,'' Ewald said.
Others also have come forward urging people to support higher taxes to improve services.
Several local preachers lobbied people to support giving more money to the Guilford County Schools, even if it meant a tax hike, which it did.
''Nobody wants tax increases, but unfortunately the underpinnings of so many of our programs are at stake,'' Ewald said. Contact Paul Muschick at 883-4422, Ext. 231, or pmuschick@news-record.com
News & Record
August 19, 2001
Friday, August 17, 2001
Election report bares liberals' hypocrisy
After reading your ''idiotorial'' on Aug. 8 concerning the ''messy'' election system and detailing many of the problems with the last election, I must wonder.
Is one a liberal because one is ignorant and dishonest, or is one ignorant and dishonest because one is a liberal?
You liberals, who went apoplectic over Florida, would not listen when many of us tried to tell you that what happened in Florida was no aberration - that the same problems occurred in almost every state and have happened in every election. It has taken a team of ''experts'' eight months to figure out what some of us knew all along. You continue to speak of ''uncounted'' ballots as if someone (Katherine Harris, of course) took perfectly executed ballots and tossed them in the trash, thereby ''disenfranchising'' the paranoid among us.
In fact, machines kicked out improperly executed ballots.
Now you want a holiday to vote. Is it too much to ask today's citizens to do what Americans have done without problem for 225 years? If you can't spend 15 to 30 minutes one day every four years to vote, you probably shouldn't be voting.
This is just a ploy to give the unions, who already have a holiday on Election Day, even more time to round up folks, take them to the polls, and direct them to vote for Democrats even if they know nothing about the person for whom they are ''voting.''
Tony Moschetti
High Point
News & Record
August 17, 2001
Is one a liberal because one is ignorant and dishonest, or is one ignorant and dishonest because one is a liberal?
You liberals, who went apoplectic over Florida, would not listen when many of us tried to tell you that what happened in Florida was no aberration - that the same problems occurred in almost every state and have happened in every election. It has taken a team of ''experts'' eight months to figure out what some of us knew all along. You continue to speak of ''uncounted'' ballots as if someone (Katherine Harris, of course) took perfectly executed ballots and tossed them in the trash, thereby ''disenfranchising'' the paranoid among us.
In fact, machines kicked out improperly executed ballots.
Now you want a holiday to vote. Is it too much to ask today's citizens to do what Americans have done without problem for 225 years? If you can't spend 15 to 30 minutes one day every four years to vote, you probably shouldn't be voting.
This is just a ploy to give the unions, who already have a holiday on Election Day, even more time to round up folks, take them to the polls, and direct them to vote for Democrats even if they know nothing about the person for whom they are ''voting.''
Tony Moschetti
High Point
News & Record
August 17, 2001
Saturday, July 14, 2001
Florida vote critique just liberal claptrap
Six months after the fact I'm still being bombarded with the never-ending liberal lunacy. This current dose emanates from the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, paragons of political correctness run amok, and purveyors of paranoia. We're told ad nauseam about the ''disenfranchisement'' of a single group of voters in Florida and elsewhere. I hear this same term used repeatedly by the self-anointed leaders of America's eternal victims, so I looked it up in the dictionary.
Disenfranchised: ''Generally too ill-educated, stupid or ignorant to perform simple tasks such as walking into a voting booth and following elementary instructions. Unable to find simple four-letter words such as 'Gore.' Cannot follow a large arrow leading to a circle where the 'franchised' among us simply punch a hole or make a mark.''
That sounded rather harsh until I later learned that great numbers of 6-and 7-year-olds were able to complete the task correctly.
Word has it that this same esteemed commission suggests one more Florida recount, this one to be conducted by the Gore family, James Carville, and the Florida Supreme Court. The tally would include, but not be limited to, those who really wish they had voted for Gore, those who really wish they could understand enough English to read and understand voting instructions so they could vote for Gore, and most important, those who didn't make the effort to vote but now wish they had and would have voted for Gore if they had.
The recount will be overseen by the Congressional Black Caucus.
Tony Moschetti
High Point
News & Record
July 14, 2001
Disenfranchised: ''Generally too ill-educated, stupid or ignorant to perform simple tasks such as walking into a voting booth and following elementary instructions. Unable to find simple four-letter words such as 'Gore.' Cannot follow a large arrow leading to a circle where the 'franchised' among us simply punch a hole or make a mark.''
That sounded rather harsh until I later learned that great numbers of 6-and 7-year-olds were able to complete the task correctly.
Word has it that this same esteemed commission suggests one more Florida recount, this one to be conducted by the Gore family, James Carville, and the Florida Supreme Court. The tally would include, but not be limited to, those who really wish they had voted for Gore, those who really wish they could understand enough English to read and understand voting instructions so they could vote for Gore, and most important, those who didn't make the effort to vote but now wish they had and would have voted for Gore if they had.
The recount will be overseen by the Congressional Black Caucus.
Tony Moschetti
High Point
News & Record
July 14, 2001
Wednesday, May 30, 2001
The Democrats fuel corrupt government
Wonder why the Democratic Party symbol is a jackass? They should be renamed the Demagogic Party.
They've had no new idea since Social Security. They call the tax cut ' 'massive'' when it's only a fraction of what we've been overcharged during the past eight years. Then we hear ad nauseum the worn ''tax cuts for the wealthy''
rhetoric.
Their definition of fair is to give tax cuts to those who pay no income taxes, then demagogue the tax-cutting issue for those who actually pay most of the taxes. They can't ''afford'' to let us keep our own money. They call tax reductions ''spending.'' The ill-informed who populate this once-great country believe it.
If you purchase an expensive item, then discover you've been grossly overcharged, do you tell the merchant, ''Just keep the difference, or you can give it to your needy neighbor?'' Hardly. You want your money back.
What if he tells you he ''can't afford'' to return your money because he must buy prescription drugs for his wealthy parents so their friends will shop at his store? Would you say, ''Gee, great idea. Next time, overcharge me again and take your family on a junket to the Caribbean?'' Well, if you're a Dumbocrat you might, but most of us would contact the Better Business Bureau or the Attorney General.
The same people who go ballistic over a $ 1.50 ATM fee remain silent as they 're overcharged hundreds to thousands of dollars each year by our corrupt government.
Tony Moschetti
High Point
News & Record
May 30, 2001
They've had no new idea since Social Security. They call the tax cut ' 'massive'' when it's only a fraction of what we've been overcharged during the past eight years. Then we hear ad nauseum the worn ''tax cuts for the wealthy''
rhetoric.
Their definition of fair is to give tax cuts to those who pay no income taxes, then demagogue the tax-cutting issue for those who actually pay most of the taxes. They can't ''afford'' to let us keep our own money. They call tax reductions ''spending.'' The ill-informed who populate this once-great country believe it.
If you purchase an expensive item, then discover you've been grossly overcharged, do you tell the merchant, ''Just keep the difference, or you can give it to your needy neighbor?'' Hardly. You want your money back.
What if he tells you he ''can't afford'' to return your money because he must buy prescription drugs for his wealthy parents so their friends will shop at his store? Would you say, ''Gee, great idea. Next time, overcharge me again and take your family on a junket to the Caribbean?'' Well, if you're a Dumbocrat you might, but most of us would contact the Better Business Bureau or the Attorney General.
The same people who go ballistic over a $ 1.50 ATM fee remain silent as they 're overcharged hundreds to thousands of dollars each year by our corrupt government.
Tony Moschetti
High Point
News & Record
May 30, 2001
Sunday, February 25, 2001
Florida vote problem remains unexplained
So, elections will never be the same after Florida 2000. I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me what happened in Florida that was substantially different from what happened in every other state, and every previous election in Florida and elsewhere. We were told ad nauseam by the Democrats, and repeated faithfully by their lapdogs in the mainstream media, that every vote must be counted. Every vote was counted, many ballots were not. There were two to four million ballots not counted nationwide.
We do know that 2,000 to 3,000 felons were permitted to vote in Florida. We didn't hear Democrats complaining about that. In fact, Democrats have been lobbying to put voting booths in prisons. At the same time, Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., wants to move voting locations off military bases to make it more difficult for overseas military personnel to vote.
The reason many ballots were rejected in Florida and elsewhere is that far too many citizens are not literate enough to read and understand some very simple voting procedure instructions. There was a directly proportional relationship between illiteracy rates and voting problems in each county.
Despite this obvious fact, the ''nonpartisan'' (consisting of four liberal Democrats and four liberal independents) U.S. Civil Rights Commission conducted a sham ''hearing'' to blame the Republican governor and secretary of state for voting and ballot problems in three counties where the entire election apparatus was controlled by Democrats, including the design of the infamous butterfly ballot, and use of punch cards.
Tony Moschetti
High Point
News & Record
February 25, 2001
We do know that 2,000 to 3,000 felons were permitted to vote in Florida. We didn't hear Democrats complaining about that. In fact, Democrats have been lobbying to put voting booths in prisons. At the same time, Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., wants to move voting locations off military bases to make it more difficult for overseas military personnel to vote.
The reason many ballots were rejected in Florida and elsewhere is that far too many citizens are not literate enough to read and understand some very simple voting procedure instructions. There was a directly proportional relationship between illiteracy rates and voting problems in each county.
Despite this obvious fact, the ''nonpartisan'' (consisting of four liberal Democrats and four liberal independents) U.S. Civil Rights Commission conducted a sham ''hearing'' to blame the Republican governor and secretary of state for voting and ballot problems in three counties where the entire election apparatus was controlled by Democrats, including the design of the infamous butterfly ballot, and use of punch cards.
Tony Moschetti
High Point
News & Record
February 25, 2001
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