Opinion Stories from June 3, 2011 (Change date)
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Contrast these presidential callsJun 03, 2011 12:00 am - “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” — Ronald Reagan “Mr. Netenyahu, stop building those houses!” — Barack Obama Scott T. Schlief Lincolnshire ...
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Obamacare is typical fairy taleJun 03, 2011 12:00 am - Most fairy tales begin with “once upon a time” and Obamacare is not any different. The 2008 Obamacare fairy tale started out magical, idealized, and with promises of a h...
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Increase in tax rate is puzzlingJun 03, 2011 12:00 am - When home assessments go down, the tax rates go up because as taxpayers we still need to meet the taxing bodies’ budgets that were voted on and passed by the board membe...
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Don’t balance budget on backs of poorJun 03, 2011 12:00 am - Dear Congressman Hultgren, We are deeply disappointed in your vote for Paul Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity.” We take exception to both the politics and the economics of this...
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Why you had to go elsewhere for Noah’s quoteJun 03, 2011 12:00 am - Now that the topic of personal slurs has died down, I’d like to stir up that hornet’s nest again. Actually, the topic is closer to how we handle racial and cultural slur...
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Stop blame game and fix pension systemJun 03, 2011 12:00 am - I found a statement released in Springfield recently very disconcerting. It promised to find a solution to public pension reform this summer and was signed by Illinois H...
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State can solve much by fixing legislatureJun 03, 2011 12:00 am - Practically everyone in Illinois is tired of the financial crunch the state is currently experiencing. Our governor thinks that extracting more money from the taxpayers ...
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Enough of the liberal social engineeringJun 03, 2011 12:00 am - Just what we need — more liberal social engineering. According to the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, and Historical Statistics of the U.S., between 1962 a...
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Union ads equal to biting one’s own handJun 03, 2011 12:00 am - It is getting confusing with commercials airing on both the radio and TV being critical of the public service employee pensions in Illinois. By the constitution, the pen...
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Funds were stolen from Social SecurityJun 03, 2011 12:00 am - There has been much talk recently by that enlightened group in Washington about balancing the federal budget. They believe that a tightening in some areas could certainl...