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6A Daily News – Wednesday, October 16, 2013 Opinion Movie thanks DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U NTY S I N C E 1 8 8 5 Greg Stevens, Publisher gstevens@redbluffdailynews.com Chip Thompson, Editor editor@redbluffdailynews.com Editorial policy The Daily News opinion is expressed in the editorial. The opinions expressed in columns, letters and cartoons are those of the authors and artists. Letter policy The Daily News welcomes letters from its readers on timely topics of public interest. All letters must be signed and provide the writer's home street address and home phone number. Anonymous letters, open letters to others, pen names and petition-style letters will not be allowed. Letters should be typed and cannot exceed two double-spaced pages or 500 words. When several letters address the same issue, a cross section of those submitted will be considered for publication. Letters will be edited. Letters are published at the discretion of the editor. Editor: I would like to thank Mr. Sharp and Mr. Young for keeping their theatre open. We are seniors so this is very inexpensive entertainment. Some of the movies nowadays are pretty awful but we like the movies so we go every week. I expect with the new digital we will get some better ones. We support you. See you at the movies! Esther Anderson, Red Bluff Dog owners Editor: The owner or owners of the dogs that killed those 4-H animals should have to pay full restitution, plus the cost of original price for these animals. I would surmise next time they will keep them where they belong. Once they have drawn blood there is not stopping them. I think restitution should be the market price of the grand champions. So bidders get the price up. Thad Blanchard Sr., Gerber County Board and City Councils on pot Editor: Well, no, not really. But I trust all of our elected officials will stay the course in not allow- ing marijuana to grow in this area of God's Country. It should stay this way on the matter of marijuana and all illicit drugs. Don't legalize it. The Tehama County Young Marines of the Marine Corps League (the national program is among the elite in national youth programs) will forever be well known in Washington D. C. as the warriors' elite in the war on drugs. The Young Marines organization is the youth organization that has taken on Red Ribbon Week (last week in October) which leads the whole campaign from the front into the schools and homes across America. They, along with only a few other organizations like them (PAL, Scouting, Venturing, FFA, etc.) may be the last hope for a sane America. Marijuana has no known major health benefit to the masses. None. Where is the medical evidence? Our great intelligent kids understand this. And our Tehama County elected officials do, too. In 2009 your local Young Marines won the coveted and prestigious Fulcrum Shield from the Secretary of Defense and travelled to the Pentagon to receive the award. Three young ladies, Carlin Bowles, Debbie Ortiz and Annie Bennett learned about leadership, teamwork and Courage while taking part in the war. They and others in their program earned a legacy in this community. I feel so fortunate youth in Tehama County believe to have been a part of each of in heroes like Kiki. Kids need heroes and role models, not a lot their lives and that program. The Police Activities League of stoned out people who could is also a driving force and like choose to be role models but their Young Marine counter- have lost their way because they parts have earned another title, can't see and think straight. That's not what these "A Force in Readikids want. Neither do ness." That term arose Your our elected officials. out of the National Public Safety and Security Act of 1947 other emergency seras it was added to vices personnel and everything the United our elected officials States Marine Corps had already proved. Now our are heroes and you can be, too. The weapon in the war on youth are earning that distinction. The entire military and all drugs is education. Youth drug veterans, deep down, support all demand reduction education. At youth in this war. A war being PAL's Run Drugs Out of Town waged against America's youth. Run on Oct. 20 there will be It's become, "An Enemy With- plenty of handouts from the National Institute on Drug in." The upcoming PAL Run Abuse made available and it's Drugs Out of Town Run on all free. Support our youth in all October 20 is going to send a their efforts to grow up clean reminder that Tehama County and to "live a healthy, drug free residents aren't really for mari- lifestyles." It is their right. It is juana and other drugs to take our responsibility to give them root here. The Young Marines these opportunities. A number also won several other honors, of local businesses have already including the 2011 Enrique donated money and raffle items "Kiki" Camarena Award by the and are sponsoring PAL's efforts Drug Enforcement Administra- in this war. They've made the tion. Kiki had been a cop, commitment. Become a part of Marine and DEA Special Agent their lives and their legacies, and was murdered by the drug too. It's America 101. Everycartels in the early 1980s as he thing else is cheap imitation. was preparing for making What does "Made in America arrests and seizing the largest mean to you? For more inforvisit shipment of marijuana coming mation into the United States from http://www.tehamaso.org/ and click on the link for PAL's free Mexico at the time. Kiki paid with his life in programs. John Minton, Red Bluff something he believed in. 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"Yes. The media love to por545 Diamond Ave. tray these people as close-mindRed Bluff, CA 96080, or ed or even racist, but the vast majority of them are good midP.O. Box 220 dle-class people who are afraid Red Bluff, CA 96080 that their children and grandchildren will never know the opportunities they enjoyed as young STATE ASSEMBLYMAN — Dan Logue, 1550 Humboldt Road, Ste. 4, Chico, CA 95928, 530-895-4217 STATE SENATOR — Jim Nielsen, 2635 Forest Ave., Ste. 110, Chico, CA 95928, (530) 879-7424, senator.nielsen@senate.ca.gov GOVERNOR — Jerry Brown, State Capitol Bldg., Sacramento, CA 95814; (916) 445-2841; Fax (916) 5583160; E-mail: governor@governor.ca.gov. U.S. REPRESENTATIVE — Doug LaMalfa 506 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515, 202-2253076. U.S. SENATORS — Dianne Feinstein (D), One Post Street, Suite 2450, San Francisco, CA 94104; (415) 393-0707. Fax (415) 3930710. Barbara Boxer (D), 1700 Montgomery St., Suite 240, San Francisco, CA 94111; (510) 286-8537. Fax (202) 224-0454. Commentary The real deficit's in leadership people if America doesn't get its finances in order." "Cheers to that!" "The backlash to Obama's policies resulted in Republicans taking over the House in 2010 and some seats in the Senate, and putting lots of fiscal conservatives in office. Many won on a promise to stop ObamaCare. Sen. Ted Cruz really rocked the boat when he promised House Republicans he could get the votes in the Senate to defund ObamaCare." "And so we've had a shutdown?" "Yes — House Republicans initially voted on a spending bill that would fully fund the government but defund ObamaCare. Then Republicans voted to delay its implementation for one year. Then they asked that nobody, particularly Congress and its staff, get special waivers to pay for ObamaCare." "That doesn't sound unreasonable. It's not fair that politically connected people and groups are getting waivers or funding credits that millions of us will never get." "Now, we are approaching the debt-ceiling deadline this Thursday and Republicans hope to negotiate various entitlement and spending reforms with the president as part of a new debt-limit deal." "I thought President Obama established a commission to to salvage Social Security, he reccome up with proposals on how ommended that we index the retirement age to increases in life to do that." expectancy. Or, to "That is correct. bring in more tax revDuring his first term, enue, cut down on the the president estabexemptions and deduclished the National tions that disproporCommission on Fiscal tionately benefit the Responsibility and wealthy." Reform — also known "Sounds reasonable as the Simpson-Bowles to me." Commission. The "It isn't just reasonbipartisan commission able. It is completely offered several sensible necessary. Real reform ideas to get our governrequires extraordinary ment in order over the leadership and that long term. UnfortunateTom leadership has to come ly, the president has from the president. He pretty much ignored the is the only leader in commission's findWashington for whom ings." "We are on an unsustainable all Americans had a chance to vote, according to Walker. He has path, aren't we?" "Absolutely unsustainable. the bully pulpit." "What if he doesn't take the David Walker, a political independent who was the nation's top lead on these issues?" "Then one day in the future, auditor in the Government Accountability Office, told the when we can no longer borrow or Seattle Times how bad our finan- print money, we could have a cial situation really is. He said government shutdown that will our debt is $17 trillion, but our make this one look like a picnic." unfunded promises for Social Tom Purcell, a humor Security and other entitlement columnist for the Pittsburgh programs total $73 trillion." Tribune-Review, is nationally "That's a lot of cabbage." "Walker has several ideas to syndicated exclusively by address the spending challenge Cagle Cartoons newspaper and many mirror the findings of syndicate. Visit Tom on the Web Obama's commission. Some are at www.TomPurcell.com or ehim at not horribly painful and can be mail enacted over time. For instance, Purcell@caglecartoons.com. Purcell