Deal or no deal?

Sir,

If this were 1943 (WWII) most of the Democrats in the senate would be indicted for treason, and about half of them would be hanged or shot. A good start! Jane Fonda became one of the most reviled persons in our country because of her open support for our enemies.

Today we have not mindless private citizens, but mindless U.S. Senators doing their very best to aid our, and the world's, enemy of today, Muslim terrorists. Let's not even get into the WMD fiasco, and which prominent Democrats said what concerning the issue, and when they said it. A key aspect of being a Democrat is the obvious inability to understand the concept of videotape, and a penchant for rewriting history.

But now, let's talk about torture. The Senate Democrats love to tell the world how our soldiers are torturing their favorite people (after abortionists, who also murder innocent children), Muslim terrorists.

When actual torture was visited upon American citizens (by the Clinton gang), including many innocent women and children who burned to death, at Waco in the 90's no outraged senators flooded the airwaves with talk of torture. I guess they approve of the torture of some oddball Christian sect, but draw the line at Muslim terrorists. The Democrats were livid when chained dogs were allowed to show their teeth at terrorists, but had no problem with the military (despite Posse Comitatis ) ramming a tank into the living quarters of the oddball Christians, or with a government agent shooting to death Randy Weaver's wife, who at the time was holding their child, and who had been charged with no crime other than being a conservative Christian.

I wonder what Al Qaeda would trade us for four "blue" state senators of their choice?

Tony Moschetti

Policy problems cause poor graduation rates

It's obvious to many of us why the Dudley graduation rates are so low: We don't spend enough money on education in Guilford County. What is it now, about $10,000 per student? How can we expect these folks to read at an eighth-grade level when they graduate?

Hey, look on the bright side - not everything is down. Crime is up 5.2 percent in the North Carolina public schools. When I was in high school they didn't have to report crime statistics, and almost everyone graduated, and we could actually read our diplomas. Of course, we weren't blessed with diversity, as are today's left-wing indoctrination camps.

We are outraged by failed and failing policies in Iraq, and many demand our withdrawal, but we continue with failed and failing policies in our public schools with demands for more money, which thus far hasn't worked.

Maybe we need a bipartisan FSSG (Failing Schools Study Group) to make recommendations to get us out of these failed and failing schools. It would be comprised of five liberal Democrats and five moderate (liberal) Republicans. It 's the only hope for our schools, except, of course, for increasing spending. I vote for withdrawal.

Tony Moschetti
High Point

News & Record
December 15, 2006

Rest well, Osama

The Demo-rats’ most admired foreign “dissident,” Osama B. Laden has praised their recent election victory. Saying that he also hates George Bush, he was happy to be able to help his good friends defeat their mortal enemy. He added that he will continue to help them bring down the Bush presidency, and would like to meet with Comrade Pelosi, and Mohammed “we killed the Patriot Act” Reid to discuss their mutual interests. Bin Laden, since the election, has apparently been able to leave his mountain cave to move into a nice condo in downtown Peshwar, complete with cable so he can watch his favorite television channel, Al Jazeera West (CNN). B Laden, while reciting the Demo-rat’s talking points, even mentioned a recent Gallup poll indicating that they share many of the same goals. How did the Dems get those talking points to the correct cave in Pakistan? Howard Dean must have Osama's cell number on his speed dial! B.Laden particularly praised Reid for killing the Patriot Act, which is a real thorn in Osama's side. Kudos also went to house leader Pelosi, Senator Durbin, and Admiral Kennedy, hero of the battle of Chappaquiddick, for leading the fight for the Al Qaeda "Bill of Rights”, including Habeas Corpus rights for captured terrorists. Moveon.org, the new self proclaimed owners of the shameless Demo-rat Party, was also signaled out for procuring thousands of online signatures demanding the president not retaliate against the 9/11 "freedom fighters," as the left identifies them. Next item on the Osama’s agenda is getting John Kerry elected in 08.” Osama will provide financial backing if Kerry will promise not to say anything that is not written down for him! Sleep well, Osama, the Dems will continue to fight to keep us from intercepting your calls to our country!

Tony Moschetti
High Point, NC

November 15, 2006

Vote Democrat

How is it possible that the good people of this state continue to keep the Democrats in charge of the legislature? Perhaps it’s our terrible public education system, ranked among the lowest of all 50 states, that fails to properly educate people. Or perhaps our citizens simply like living in the highest taxed of the 12 Southern states, or having the second or third highest gas tax in the country, while being provided the fifth worst roads, as the Democrat controlled legislature steals 500 million dollars from the highway fund, apparently so Jim Black can bribe Mr. Decker to change parties, and then pay Mr. Decker’s legal bills after Decker is indicted for corruption. Hopefully they will soon be cellmates in Central Prison, the Raleigh location best suited for them!

We also, of course, have to provide in-state tuition to illegals, and also provide them with medical coverage, something that far too many of our citizens lack. Who else but Democrats, self-identified champions of the “little” guy, tax the purchase of food, the most regressive of all taxes?

Tony Moschetti
High Point, NC

October 27, 2006

Fertility gap

Okay, when I’m wrong I admit it. Take abortion for example. Perhaps we’re not having nearly enough abortions. I’ll explain. Arthur Brooks, a Syracuse public affairs professor has released a study saying that liberal households are producing children at a rate 41% less than conservative households, 147 babies per hundred households as opposed to 247 babies in conservative households. I assume that this “fertility gap” has many causes, including the liberal’s love affair with abortion, and a real fear that more than 1.47 children per household will hasten the end of the world by exhaling carbon dioxide when we exhale, which causes, according to liberals, the “greenhouse” effect, which, according to liberals, causes global warming, which according to liberals, will kill us all within 10 years.

More importantly, if this gap persists, in 2012 a state with a current 50-50 split will be 54-46 conservative. Better yet, in 2020 a “blue” state like California, which is now 55-45 liberal will become 54-46 conservative. I was wrong about abortion. I apologize. To make amends I intend to open a “reproductive rights” clinic, and offer buy one get one free abortions to all liberals!

Tony Moschetti
High Point, NC

September 26, 2006

Liberals

If ignorance were a crime our jails would be bulging with liberals. Amazingly, these lunatics wear their ignorance as a badge of honor. Let’s explore the enemies of the left. Their newest target is Wal-Mart. The liberals have declared war on Wal-Mart, as they have on most institutions that are good for our country. When asked by Pew Research whether Wal-Mart is good or bad for the country, real people, by 64-24% answered good, while only 45% of liberals answered good.

Next on their enemies list are the oil companies. Oil is the lifeblood of Western Civilization. Without oil we’d be Afghanistan. 1000 years ago (or today!). Liberals have demagogued this industry for as long as I can remember, while using their products each day to enhance their otherwise miserable lives. When gasoline prices rise, they are the first ones to wail. Now that oil and gasoline prices have plummeted, the idiots on the left are actually talking about a “conspiracy” by Bush to lower gasoline prices! Honest. You can’t make this stuff up. Once again, what’s good for America is bad for Demo-rats. Lower gas prices are suddenly bad. Madness. Despite having been told for 35 years, that we’re running out of oil, including Jimmy Carter telling us in 1978 that there were only ten years reserves left, we now discover that we’ve used only about 18 percent of total supplies, leaving enough for about 140 years. Don’t tell Al Gore or Jimmy Carter!

Also, abortion: good. Executing convicted murderers: bad. Illegal drugs: good. Pharmaceutical companies: bad. Calling Bush a Nazi in our schools: good. Saying, “under God” in the pledge: bad. Harsh questioning of terrorists: bad. Using the same tactics on women and children at Waco: good. Liberals are God’s joke on the rest of us.

Tony Moschetti
High Point, NC

September 16, 2006

$7.2 million surprise

“School repair tab hits $7.2 million. It’s a complete surprise,” says the COO for the schools. The head of the school board was only somewhat surprised! Were we—the taxpayers—surprised? Why would we be? This is not the first time that taxpayers have been screwed by contractors hired by elected officials to “fix” a problem. Is every elected official a mindless bleeping idiot who has never heard of “due diligence,” who feels it is their God given right to waste and misuse taxpayer dollars? The media love it when corporate executives are sent to prison for ripping off employees and shareholders. We are continually ripped off by the sheer dishonesty or incompetence of elected officials. The difference being, elected officials merely say, “Oops, guess we’ll demand more taxpayer dollars.”

I once, half jokingly, suggested that all elected officials be required to carry malpractice insurance. If a surgeon removes the wrong leg he can’t simply say, “Oops, sorry. I’ll fix it, but you’ll have to pay for two surgeries.” The surgeon would be sued for millions. Only elected officials can continually—without sanction—misuse taxpayer dollars. Incredibly, these projects are 400 percent over budget and these incompetents apparently had no clue or didn’t care. If it were their money they would care. Every person involved with this fiasco should be held accountable. They should be immediately removed from office, or if not elected, fired and forced to pay some sort of restitution. We’re already hearing from these obviously tone-deaf idiots that they will need to issue more school bonds (raise taxes). If these people were held to the same standards as corporate executives few of them would be still running loose! Why is the media not clamoring for their heads?

Tony Moschetti
Old Winston Rd

August 26, 2006

Democrats still too soft on worldwide terrorism

The recently foiled terror plot hatched in England is a striking example of why we cannot afford to have the weak-kneed Democrats in charge of our security.

The tools used to discover this diabolical plot, including foreign money-tracking and monitoring citizens' phone conversations, have been vociferously opposed by the Democrats. Obtaining search warrants based on "reasonable suspicion," not probable cause, as were the warrants in England, would be a non-starter for Democrats. Had this plot been hatched here, thousands may have died while Democrats clamored for Bush's impeachment.

Thank God the British don't have a party like the Democrats during this most dangerous period. This is a clash of civilizations, long wanted by the radical Muslims. They can't escape their 10th century mentality. Yet, we have a political party that believes we are the problem, and that Bush, not the terrorists, is responsible for terrorism. They continue to wail about Iraq being a terrorist breeding ground. Was Iraq the reason for the 1993 World Trade Center attack? The Africa embassy bombings in 1998? The USS Cole attack in 2000?

If you Democats don't want to join the terror war, at least please stop trying to impede it.

Tony Moschetti
High Point

News & Record
August 26, 2006

So they hate us

Dear Mr. Friedman:

So the world hates us, except of course when they have a major catastrophe, earthquake, Tsunami, etc., or need us to fix something somewhere in the world. We've been here for 250 or so years and have left the rest of world in the dust in terms of our economy and our military strength. We had to save full-grown Europe twice when we were still children and adolescents.

Who cares if they hate us, mostly because of their envy of our success?

"His own ideological bubble." Does that mean he does what he says he'll do? Does that mean he won't waste his presidency sucking up to vile terrorists such as Yassar Arafat? Arafat spent more time in the White house than did Hilliary. What good did it do. What long term affect did Jimmie's love affair with the terrorists have? What about all the Clinton Administrations dealing with North Korea do? Now the remnants of that administration criticize Bush for not doing what they did. What exactly is it they did right. They, like most deranged liberals, thought we could just sit down and talk with these people, let them male their nuclear weapons, don't attack terrorist strongholds, refuse the Sudanese offer to hand over O.B. Laden, give missile guidance technology to the Chinese, and so on and so forth. Gee, all of that worked out really well didn't it?

May his "ideological bubble" is simple common sense, and a recognition of what has been tried since "Jimmie's" beloved administration has made the world a much more dangerous place. And now they, instead of looking for a long-term solution, want yet another useless "cease fire", or let's give the terrorists time to regroup and rearm. Give me a break, please. We should re-arrange the world map without the Middle East. The terrorism and the Middle East conflict would cease. See how simple it is?

Tony Moschetti
High Point, NC

July 31, 2006

Road widening

My previous letter concerned the pickpockets (City Clowncil & Mayoress) who continually have their hands in our pockets to fund their favorite projects, which usually benefit only a small percentage of city residents. A clowncil member suggested I should be happy because my street is to be widened. Happiness was not my reaction! My street, Old Winston Rd, runs from Crescent Ford for approximately 2 miles where it dead ends into two gas stations. Going north, Hartley Dr. is the only through street to N. Main. All others dead-end after a block or two. There is little traffic north of Hartley. If Old Winston Road carries so much traffic so as to require widening, why is the waiting time at the traffic signal at Hartley/ O.W.R more than twice as long for the O.W.R. traffic?

When O.W.R was a main route from High Point to Winston Salem via 311N, there was considerably more traffic. The new 311 Bypass, and Hartley Drive have eliminated most of that traffic. It’s now mostly local traffic. Spending millions to widen a road that goes nowhere is idiotic. I suspect that outdated traffic figures from pre-Hartley/311 bypass days were used to justify this needless project. Why are they doing this? Because they can steal our property without compensation, then force us to fund the project with tax dollars. Didn’t we fight a war for independence from this kind of government tyranny? No matter the state of the local economy, the outrageous cost of energy, or anything else that forces most of us to re-evaluate spending priorities, and postpone or cancel projects, the politicians are going to continue to view us as their bottomless piggy banks. They are not about to postpone or cancel any project no matter how unnecessary or senseless.

Tony Moschetti
Old Winston Rd

July 29, 2006

How about declaration against local whiners?

It's time for a "Declaration Against Intolerable Black Paranoid Whiners."

These self-anointed "leaders" (an oxymoron) do their community a disservice by blaming all of their problems on white racists.

I did not see an outpouring of community support, crossing racial, ethnic and religious lines, for Willie Best like we saw for David Wray. Yet, there was no outrage from Concerned White Leaders at his ouster.

The decision was accepted and everyone moved on.

Apparently, the BPWs feel that if you are black, you can't be fired whether or not you are competent.

Apparently, the BPWs think that school authorities are going into classrooms and randomly picking out black students, who are simply quietly doing their lessons, and suspending them. It's not a secret that blacks create most of the discipline problems in our schools.

That's why they are suspended, not because they are black.

Not many of these black "leaders" could get elected dogcatcher in a district where the qualifications are more than simply being black. This is true not because they are black, but because they are out of the mainstream of society.

Make all candidates run county­wide to test my theory.

Tony Moschetti
High Point

News & Record
July 19, 2006

City Clowncil is a joke

Following publication of my last letter blasting our tax happy City Clowncil, and their ringleader in picking our pockets, the Mayoress, I got phone calls from two of the good folks involved. One was all for the never-ending tax hikes for our citizens, some who have not had a pay raise in two or three years, and one (the only one) who voted against the budget. He told me that he was tongue lashed by the Mayoress for his no vote. She must be a Democrat! She should move to New Jersey and run for office, a place where the Democrats shut down the state by arguing over WHICH taxes to raise! If high taxes solve budget problems, why isn’t New Jersey rolling in dough?

The other clowncil member insisted that I was wrong when I said we pay considerably more for electricity than Duke Power customers, and that our rate increase was less than 1 percent. I sent him the figures from my bill, and cost per kilowatt-hour posted on the Duke Power website for my zip code. The difference was 18 percent. So with only a small increase, it’s now 19 percent! He also asked me which services I’d like to see cut. I asked him if he thought we had enough ball fields yet in High Point. I also asked what percentage of the residents used these ball fields. I also suggested that if people want more ball fields they should pay a usage fee just as golfers do at the two city courses. Why can’t they have their neighbors pay for their golf? Finally he suggested that since the street on which I live is to be widened, so I should be happy. That one really set me off, and I’ll explain why in my next letter.

Tony Moschetti
High Point, NC.

July 11, 2006