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This is a response to the letters of Heather Smith (November 16th), suggesting that we show respect for our new president, and of William Folger (November 23rd), stating that "President elect Obama does not respect Jesus" and therefore doesn't deserve our respect. Heather shows some wisdom; Folger shows some arrogance.

Folger gives Smith a nice smack down by writing that she "in her youth," does not really understand things as well as he does. He, being a very righteous older person, I gather, finds that Obama has "convicted" himself because Obama supports abortion and stem cell research; ergo, Obama is a bad Christian and "disrespects Jesus."

Poor, young Heather, to be thus taken to task for so foolishly and ignorantly wanting us to be respectful when the righteous elders of the world know so much better!

While talking about deficit spending as a cause of the current financial meltdown, it would inform your viewers to acknowledge that it's cause was deficit spending to support neo conservative agendas: 1) tax cuts without reducing expenditures almost entirely attributable to the Reagan and Bush II administrations; 2) the belief that government is incompetent to address ANY problems and should be bankrupted to prevent "interference" with market forces.

Mike Argento strikes out at conservatives one more time. This time it's Joe-the-plumber being described as semi-literate. Does Mike have Joe's SAT scores and/or fifth grade report card? Certainly the Ohio politicos obtained this information via the all important background probe.

During the recent campaign season I had difficulty finding a candidate deserving my support, but had no problem understanding Plumber Joe's concerns for our country's future. For some reason Americans couldn't get enough of inarticulate Joe. Meanwhile the Obama endorsement by Mr. Argento and the York Newspaper Company was essentially ignored by York County voters.

I would like to say that when I was in the Marine Corp and needed to get a security clerance, I was checked out back to my mothers womb. I also had to show my birth certificate in able to serve my country. Why is it today the to run for the most TOP SECURITY JOB in our country, you have to SHOW no proof to be the President of the United States. I was always told there is an age limit, 39 I believe, to even be allowed to run for President. Doesn't this country understand that Mr. O'Bama has not SHOWN proof of age or citizenship to the people. This man in my opinion has no right to be the President Elect until he can prove to the citizen of this great country he is of age and he is a citizen. I think the people need no one else except Mr. O'Bama to SHOW us proof before he is sworn into office.

Ron Manns
Airville

Billions of dollars for bailouts...Billions with a "B". It's the lead story on every newscast. I think we've lost sight of how much money $1,000,000,000 really is! We were told that the bailouts were necessary to preserve our economic system. They said we needed to "sure up" the banking industry to prevent a collapse. Then we needed to save AIG...and a few weeks later, lo and behold, AIG needed to be saved again. Now we are considering bailing out the auto industry. Who's next? Exxon/Mobil because the barrel price of oil has dropped so low?

This letter is in response to Mary Bixler's rant posted Nov. 10 ("Why All The Race Talk?). It is clear that Ms. Bixler is filled with anger at Obama's decisive election victory, and her letter contains subtle racist undertones that need to be challenged.

She claims, "People are people, I don't care what color you are." But this statement follows a tirade about the alleged laziness of people of color who look for handouts: "People should stop looking at the color of their skin and step up to the plate and work and earn money instead of playing the welfare money game." Pardon me, but what does welfare have to do with the election results or the rest of her letter? This is clearly thinly-veiled racism.

The Chamber of Commerce and the Associated Builders and Contractors are against the Employee Free Choice Act because the laws have been in their favor for the last 25 years. The following facts represent how the Act will bring the favor back for the middle class employees:

1. The Employee Free Choice Act would give workers a fair chance to form unions to improve their lives.

2. Research shows nearly 60 million American Workers would form a union immediately if given the chance. Too few ever get that chance because employers routinely block employee efforts to form unions and our current legal system is too broken to stop them. As many as one-quarter of employers illegally fire workers who try to form unions.

I am totally outraged and disgusted with the biased reporting during the recent election campaigns. Be it in print or over the air, you know who you are. The untruths, cover-ups, failure to be fair and outright lies. I am sure your parents didn't raise you to be like this. You should be ashamed of yourselves. I, in truth, can no longer believe anything you report. Maybe your zombies will keep watching and believing, but I have a brain and can think for my self.

The York Daily Record has reached a new low in its viciously personal attacks on the Kohr Family, Peter Alexihs, and Commissioner Steve Chronister in your editorial on Veterans Day.

There are many good reasons to preserve lands for public use for the future, however the Lauxmont Farm plan was ill conceived, and disastrously executed. Although the loss of funding for the taxpayers is deplorable, what I find equally appalling was the demonization of a family trying to get out of bankruptcy rather than walking away from their debts, and a developer protecting his business.

I find it completely ridiculous that Bush and his gang of terrorists can kill 1000's of innocent people for the sake of oil and whatever else is in their own, self-serving agendas. They never looked out for the people of the United States, they merely abused their authority and the constitution to further enslave the people while enriching their financial well being. Haliburton, waterboarding, spying on Americans, taking away our rights by falsely misleading us into thinking it was the only way to avoid terrorism - the war in Iraq, the list goes on and on and on and yet Clinton got harassed for having an affair.

Justice needs to be served and I suggest that our representatives get their heads out of their ----- and do the right thing before the people have to take care of business themselves.

Stephen Conklin, Jr.
Rossville