Eisenhower warned us about military-industrial complex
Re: “Chances of peaceful resolution in Iran shrinking,” March 15
And so the blatant hypocrisy continues under the auspices of a nuclear “apartheid,” because it’s a lot easier to wage war than to negotiate or compromise.
Why Iran, with all the other nations in Asia and Europe that possess the bomb, including Pakistan, India and Israel? Many of these powers also have effective delivery systems: strike aircraft and guided missiles. You don’t deliver a nuclear bomb with a U-Haul truck.
Warmongering over Iran serves to oil our military arsenals, as the late President Eisenhower warned us all in his 1961 farewell speech, in which he expressed great concern about our growing “military industrial complex.”
Soon after, the carnage against Vietnam, and now Afghanistan, commenced.
Edward Abramic
Washington
Speed cameras are cancerous revenue raisers
I thank Del. Tiffany Alston, D-Prince George’s, for her introduction of H.B. 1030, titled “District Court – Prince George’s County – Masters for Traffic Offenses,” but I just want to express my concern over funding. The bill “establishes that its implementation may be funded with county revenues from speed monitoring systems.”
I have two specific concerns. First, I do not like the concept of expanding the target uses of revenue collected from the cameras.
Second, I worry that this type of bill could be used as an excuse to increase the numbers of cameras in general in Maryland. I am concerned about a cancerous revenue concept leaking into other jurisdictions.
Del. Frank M. Conaway, Jr., D-Baltimore
Maryland House of Delegates
Congress fails to stop executive power abuses
Now that it has squashed Catholics’ (and everyone else’s) First Amendment rights to religious freedom, the federal government has effectively nationalized the health care industry. Our government now instructs private insurers who they will insure and what they will charge. It controls the health insurance companies.
Where are members of Congress, whose job it is to oppose and prevent such an overreach of power from one branch of government?
Congress is failing the American people. Rasmussen shows its approval rating is 5 percent. Why do we keep re-electing the same ineffective representatives?
The nonpartisan GOOOH movement is working to make needed changes to Congress. Americans must get involved now to restore integrity to our government. Time is short. Together we can make a difference.
Cecilia Rice
Texas City, Texas
