Elgin Opinion
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Economic theory is full of holesSep 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Thank you, Donald Totten, for your tutorial on Supply Side Economics, aka Trickle Down Economics on Aug. 30. Let's take Donald's simplistic theory and tweak it. Which is...
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Palin's politics smack of failureSep 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Watching Sarah Palin's speech last night was validation that John McCain plans to run his campaign with the same approach used by George W. Bush. He plans to stoke our f...
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Don't vote McCain because Hillary lostSep 04, 2008 11:00 pm - I can't speak for anyone else, but I am sick and tired of the Hillary Clinton supporters and their sense of personal injury that they didn't get what they wanted. The be...
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Motivation needed in addition to classesSep 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Jose Torres faces a big job, considering the mess his predecessors have left. I appreciated his comments in the Daily Herald. I think his bicultural, bilingual backgroun...
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Raise income tax to support schoolsSep 02, 2008 11:00 pm - In Illinois we have very little pork in our state budget. But we have to work on the logic of taxing the poorest in Illinois to pay for our services. In Illinois if you ...
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Bean mailer misleads votersSep 01, 2008 11:00 pm - Today I received a mailer from the office of Congresswoman Melissa Bean, sent at taxpayers' expense. In the mailer Congresswoman Bean acknowledges "we need a strategic e...
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Don't rule out seniors for PresidentSep 01, 2008 11:00 pm - I cannot believe that anyone would consider age as the determining factor in the presidential election. From the very beginning of our fight for independence as a nation...
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Support move to universal health careAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Every industrialized country, except the U.S., has a system that provides health care for all their citizens. According to the Institute of Medicine, in the U.S 18,000 p...
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U-46 bias suit could be reversedAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - After reading "Frivolous suit costs U-46 school money," I couldn't have said it any better than Dick Daniels. He hit the nail right on the head when stating that he coul...
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We're not cash poor; we spend too muchAug 30, 2008 11:00 pm - In the news it was pointed out that the states of New York and New Jersey have begun to realize that the problem facing the political leaders wasn't the need for more ta...