Rowan would be great site for future Legion series
I enjoyed reading Chris Verner’s Friday (Aug. 14) article about the World Series in Fargo, N.D. Sounds like a pleasant place, much like Salisbury. I believe this area would be the perfect place to host the Legion World Series.
Many people in this area generally love all sports, including Legion baseball, and we have a great venue in the Intimidators’ stadium, if we would use it to its potential. It would be a great boost to tourism, if marketed correctly.
ó Susan Faggart
China Grove
Shame on the Eagles for signing Vick
If Michael Vick felt remorse as he said he did when he was abusing those dogs,why didn’t he stop? The only reason he stopped was because he got caught. The Philadelphia Eagles have made a deal with the devil. We all know the end result of that.
ó Jack Cornatzer
Salisbury
Hinson has helped improve Spencer
Thank you so much for the coverage on the candidates who’ve filed for office in Spencer. I’ve enjoyed reading about our candidates. However, I was surprised when I read the article profiling our current alderman, Donnie Hinson. There was hardly any information about his distinguished career or the impact he’s had on our community.
To say that Donnie Hinson has been a staple in the Spencer community is really an understatement. His resume is long and impressive. Before he served as the Spencer chief of police for four years, he was a town employee for nearly 26 years. Most importantly, Donnie has impacted the lives of many of the youth in our area. The six years he spent as a resource officer for North Middle School are certainly among his most cherished and memorable.
Donnie has also been involved in our community as a member of the Spencer Moose Lodge, a coach for the Spencer Little League ball teams and a member of the Methodist Church.
He continues to loyally serve our community as a bailiff for the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office and as a part-time employee for Whitley & Jordan Law Firm.
Because he and his wife, Karen, are such great and loyal friends to the Spencer community, I felt it necessary to share this little bit of info with readers. I hope our community will appreciate his efforts and embrace him for another term as an alderman.
ó Beth Morris Nance
Spencer
Who’s really satisfied with current system?
Who are the people Richard Roberts (Aug. 12 Letters to the Editor) is referencing who are satisfied? I yearn to meet someone, anyone, who is pleased with the current health care system. We all lose if we fail to move toward real health-care reform now.
ó Julie E. O’Neal
Salisbury
Sky’s the limit on medical costs
I just had hip surgery. Just the hospital bill ó $43,889.65. This does not include the surgeon, his assistant or the anesthesiologist. I anticipate the total will be about $65,000. I have Medicare, but what if I were paying 20 percent of the usual insurance breakout? Do you have $12,000 or $13,000 to pay such out-of-pocket expenses? Figure out how long it would take you to do that. That’s what I had to do three years ago when I had my first hip replaced and before I had the “Big Devil Government” program, Medicare.
Ask yourself if these fees are anywhere near reasonable and what drives them skyward.
“Follow the money” and you will find the answer. We must get people insured for the sake of all. The more people who fall out of the ranks of the insured, the higher your premiums will go. The more people who are insured with a public-option plan, the lower your premiums will go.
Please write your congressional representatives and ask them to vote only for a plan with a public option. There are now five plans being worked over. If you have details that you are concerned about, make those known, too. We all are concerned with how we will pay for this, but doing nothing simply ensures that the current system will get more unaffordable and out of control.
ó Whitney Peckman
Salisbury
Let’s stay focused on health-care target
Over the past 10 years I’ve heard health-care costs were out of control and needed attention. It’s in the news, campaigned on by politicans, used as an excuse by health-care providers to raise their rates, used as an excuse by health insurers to raise rates, claimed to be the reason companies can no longer afford to provide healthcare for employees, complained about by employees because they have to pay rising copays and deductibles ó and then it all gets blamed on individuals who don’t have health-care insurance.
We are now doing something about taking care of these non-covered individuals which would stop rising costs, prevent higher insurance premiums, allow employers and employees to budget costs more efficiently, and folks are mad as heck about it. I would much rather pay a little more tax to help people doing without than to pay for health-care company investors, insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies. They use the uninsured as an excuse to raise costs every time they don’t make the profit they think they should make at my expense. How all of this other non-related stuff got involved is beyond reason when you look at the real problem, people with no health insurance. It has nothing to do with people who alreadly have health care, other than to cut the cost of it.
I wonder who’s trying to take our eye off the target?
ó Michael Hicks
Salisbury
Put through wringer by foreign washer
A while back my wife and I needed a clothes washer for our home.
I decided to purchase a well-known American brand ó even though similar brands were cheaper ó with the hope it would last longer.
When I got home and installed it, I saw the little tag proclaiming “made in China.”
Before the warranty ran out, a clutch broke. We did without the washer until a repairman installed the new part.
Less than a year after our warranty ran out, the pump went bad and we did without the washer again.
Businessmen, I would rather pay more for an American-made product than the junk being fed into our country due to free-trade deals ó something made with metal parts, not plastic.
Politicians, where is your backbone? Can you not stand up for our country? If I ran my household like America is being run, I would be bankrupt.
Common sense, not handouts, would go a long way toward getting our country out of this mess.
ó Jim Sargent
Salisbury