Connolly wants to continue government shopping spree
Re: “Rep. Gerry Connolly: ‘Is there enough spending to be cut?’ ” June 14
During a recent House Budget Committee hearing, Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., again demonstrated his lack of knowledge on debt reduction when he asked Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke: “Is there enough spending to be cut?”
“Well, of course,” Bernanke replied.
The embarrassing and almost comical exchange shows how lost Connolly is. He thinks the only way to reduce the deficit is by raising taxes. When Connolly tried this trick as chairman of the Fairfax County Board, what followed was a budget shortfall nearing $1 billion, even after the average property tax bill had doubled under his “leadership.”
Proving once again that raising taxes leads to more government waste and debt.
Rob Paine
=”text-align:>
Mitch Daniels needs to explain his ‘truce’
Re: “Daniels right on prioritizing debt,” June 14
Mark Hemingway wrote that Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who is supposedly pro-life and pro- family, wants the next president to call a “truce” on social issues in order to prioritize working on the national debt.
Hemingway thinks Daniels is presidential, but he couldn’t even answer a simple question on what the truce meant when he was asked if he would reinstate the ban on federal funding of abortions abroad that President Obama lifted. Will he reduce Medicaid funding of abortion in the new health care plan? How about the United Nations’ Fund for Population Control, which funds the hideous Chinese forced-abortion policy? Will he stop funding Planned Parenthood?
If Daniels won’t stop using taxes for abortion at home and abroad, his prioritizing of the debt is absurd. If he will stop funding the killing, it’s not a truce.
Francois L. Quinson
=”text-align:>
Why didn’t Obama ask for help in BP oil spill?
The nation has been saturated with nonstop coverage of the massive uncontrolled BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, yet the mainstream media has yet to ask a crucial question: Why didn’t President Obama waive the Jones Act within days of the BP explosion and request help from all available clean-up boats around the world?
President Bush waived the Jones Act immediately after Hurricane Katrina hit. Why has President Obama not done so, and why has Congress and the media not pressed him to do so?
Could it be that the Obama administration, congressional Democrats and complicit media want to take advantage of this crisis to advance their green energy climate change legislation?
That’s on the way. The clean-up boats are not.
Daniel B. Jeffs
=”text-align:>
