Sen. Durbin hurt bank customers twice Re: “‘Durbin Fees’ are coming, thanks to progressives,” editorial, Oct. 2
Regarding this excellent editorial on “Durbin Fees” that will now cost consumers with debit cards another $60 or more per year, there is even more bad news related to this outrage.
Now that debit card transaction fees have been reduced by about 50 percent, one would expect companies to reduce the price on retail purchases. But this is not happening. Business will get to keep this windfall and the consumer is actually getting screwed over times two.
Thank you, Senator Durbin.
Gordon Jarratt
Oak Hill, Va.
America cannot afford any more immigration
Re: “Obama should call for immigration reform,” Sept. 30
I was surprised that The Examiner would publish the boilerplate immigration tripe of Diana Furchtgott-Roth. Her claim that “it should be easier” for new workers to enter the country, coupled with a call for amnesty, is the stuff of liberal newspaper editorials.
With 9 percent unemployment and a nearly $15 trillion national debt, we can afford neither more imported workers nor amnesty. A policy of reduced immigration would appeal to a broad coalition of national security hawks, environmentalists, culture warriors, and labor groups alike. And it would significantly improve the job prospects of America’s unemployed at a fraction of the cost of President Obama’s Jobs Act.
It is time for our political elites (and “conservative” columnists) to advance the interests of America’s workers by abandoning their pernicious acceptance of mass immigration as a permanent feature of U.S. policy. Anything less will only perpetuate our unemployment crisis.
Matthew Gebert
Alexandria
Reaping the seeds sown by Planned Parenthood
Re: “Survey: D.C. eighth-graders try to take their own lives,” Sept. 28
This article states that 10 percent of eighth-graders in the District say they attempted suicide, 30 percent had sexual intercourse, and 15 percent of middle schoolers belong to a gang. Just 59 percent of D.C. students are promoted to the ninth grade, which is when more than half drop out.
Stable two-parent families are necessary for a child’s education, but some 72 percent of black children are born into single-parent families, which generally don’t have the resources to guide children through their early education. How long until school and elected officials recognize that Planned Parenthood has devastated families, especially black families, in D.C.?
Planned Parenthood has pushed premarital sex, contraception and abortion on families for decades, and we now see the horrendous results.
Carolyn Naughton
Silver Spring
