Two checks that were not in the mail Re: “Audit: MontCo police missing overtime records,” April 14
Thank you very much for publishing Hayley Peterson’s story about the independent audit of the Montgomery County Police Department, which found “… noncompliance with existing policies and procedures and poor controls, which can cause serious accountability issues.”
I hope that auditors and The Examiner will also look into the salaried employees who post speed camera payments in Montgomery’s Automated Traffic Enforcement Division. I sent two U.S. postal money orders in printed envelopes provided by the county, yet I never got a receipt. Almost six months later, I was told that both payments were never received.
To this day, the division has made no concerted effort to find out what really happened, nor did I receive any verbal or written apology for their missteps and delays. The public deserves much better from local public servants.
Steve Spacek
Germantown
Obamacare still standing one year later
It’s been one year since Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid ram-rodded Obamacare through Congress against the wishes of the American people. This unconstitutional federal mandate must be repealed.
This is about liberty. Americans don’t want federal bureaucrats making health care decisions instead of patients and their doctors. This government takeover of one-sixth of our economy will mean higher insurance costs, bigger deficits, and more government waste. It will stifle medical innovation and limit our health care choices.
If the Democrat-dominated Senate won’t budge, the Republican majority in the House should defund this reckless plan.
Al Eisner
Silver Spring
Republicans trying to roll back FDR’s ‘New Deal’
While the right wing of the Republican Party is busy trying to dismantle President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal,” we should recall what is literally written in stone on the FDR memorial: “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
The chart showing mounting government debt that Rep. Paul Ryan likes to pull out on TV does not show how it would look if we rescinded the tax cuts given to the rich and corporations that have done so well over the past decade.
Something is wrong when an average retiree pays more federal income tax than two-thirds of all American corporations. This revenue problem is just a severe as any spending problem.
Jack Donner
Alexandria
