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6A Daily News – Thursday, November 21, 2013 Opinion Obamacare 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 Editor: What politician should we contact to see about getting an independent audit done on the Obamacare website? I for one want to see where every penny of the billions of our tax money went to. Kelly Walen, Red Bluff Greg Stevens, Publisher Marijuana gstevens@redbluffdailynews.com Editor: I wish to commend Mr. Minton on his well thought out letter on marijuana Oct. 30. I whole heartedly agree, children should be taught by example not to smoke, get drunk or experiment with drugs whether legal or not. Where we disagree is the legal status of marijuana. He evidently believes it should continue to be illegal and I obviously do not. My reasoning is not because marijuana is no more dangerous than regular cigarettes or fermented liquids, which anyone can purchase at any grocery store, which it isn't. It's my contention that laws should restrain people from harming other people not add to the misery one self-inflicts. Morals have to be taught, they cannot be legislated. Another reason I would like to see marijuana legalized is the 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. 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And we want our limited and fiscally responsible government to adhere to the Constitution of the United States. The parts that Bob is mistaken about, Hitler? Bob is freaking out. Get real. The Tea Party is comprised of all races, religions and sexual orientations. We call them Patri- ots. Future generations will look back and call them Patriots. Just one more thing. Being called "well funded" is a little hard to stomach for folks that take a sack lunch to lobby day in Sacramento. Michael Smith, Paskenta cans; therefore there are more rich Democrats than rich Republicans, so the Democrats are better at milking than Republicans. The champion at squeezing milk out of the proverbial government teat is Obama. This fist-bumping president has spent trillions of dollars on shovel-ready jobs. Oh that's right, there were no shovel-ready Your Editor: jobs. Hugh Merhoff The shovel-ready makes a mountain out job money became of a mole hill when it money for loans and comes to Doug LaMalgifts to his supporters for such fa's government crop subsidies projects as green energy where that amount to $5.1 million, they got rich going bankrupt. which is a mere pittance when Then there's the gorgeous and you compare that to what elegant First Lady whose classBoxer, Feinstein and Pelosi mate got millions for the conhave bilked the government out tract to design and build the notof by channeling government so Affordable Healthcare webcontracts to their husbands. site that nobody could access. Whether Republican or Oh, that's right, there were six Democrat from Bizz Johnson to that managed to sign up the first Happy Chappie, Wally Herger few days. The same classmate and now Doug LaMalfa, when has received millions for other we send them to Washington government contracts. D.C. they all come back a lot Incompetence is the hallbetter off than when they left. mark of the Obama administraWhether it's farm subsidies tion. or welfare, once someone is in I would like to see a big cut the system for a while they learn in all government hand-outs and how to milk the government a more prudent oversight of teat. I ask you, is there more government contracts and fraud in the welfare program or spending. We are a wealthy the farm subsidy program? nation with a corrupt governThere are more Democrats in ment. our government than RepubliLes Wolfe, Red Bluff LaMalfa Turn Your officials Mission Statement We believe that a strong community newspaper is essential to a strong community, creating citizens who are better informed and more involved. The Daily News will be the indispensible guide to life and living in Tehama County. We will be the premier provider of local news, information and advertising through our daily newspaper, online edition and other print and Internet vehicles. The Daily News will reflect and support the unique identities of Tehama County and its cities; record the history of its communities and their people and make a positive difference in What he was, he was: What he is fated to become the quality of life for the resiDepends on us. dents and businesses of -- W.H. Auden, "Elegy for Tehama County. JFK" (1964) How to reach us Main office: 527-2151 Classified: 527-2151 Circulation: 527-2151 News tips: 527-2153 Sports: 527-2153 Obituaries: 527-2151 Photo: 527-2153 enormous economical potential of hemp and the numerous uses of it. Orval Strong, Gerber BOSTON -- He has become fodder for an interpretation industry toiling to make his life malleable enough to soothe the sensitivities and serve the agendas of the interpreters. The quantity of writing about him is inversely proportional to the brevity of his presidency. He did not have history-shaping effects comparable to those of his immediate predecessor or successor. Dwight Eisenhower was one of three Americans (with George Washington and Ulysses Grant) who were worldhistoric figures before becoming president, and Lyndon Johnson was second only to Franklin Roosevelt as a maker of the modern welfare state and second to none in using law to ameliorate America's racial dilemma. The New York Times' executive editor calls Kennedy "the elusive president"; The Washington Post calls him "the most enigmatic" president. Most libidinous, certainly; most charming, perhaps. But enigmatic and elusive? Many who call him difficult to understand seem eager to not understand him. They present as puzzling or uncharacteristic aspects of his politics about which he was consistent and unambiguous. For them, his conservative dimen- STATE ASSEMBLYMAN — Dan Logue, 150 Amber Grove Drive, Ste. 154, 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 JFK we had sion is an inconvenient truth. Ira Stoll, in "JFK, Conservative," tries to prove too much but assembles sufficient evidence that his book's title is not merely provocative. A Look magazine headline in June 1946 read: "A Kennedy Runs for Congress: The Bostonbred scion of a former ambassador is a fighting-Irish conservative." Neither his Cold War anti-communism, which was congruent with President Harry Truman's, nor his fiscal conservatism changed dramatically during his remaining 17 years. Visitors to the Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum here, on the salt water across which his ancestors came as immigrants and on which he sailed his yacht, watch Kennedy press conferences, such as that of Sept. 12, 1963, when, responding to a question about Vietnam, he said his policy was to "win the war there" -- "That is why some 25,000 Americans have traveled 10,000 miles to participate in that struggle." He added: "We are not there to see a war lost." His answer was consistent with a 1956 speech calling Vietnam "the keystone to the arch, the finger in the dike," adding: "This is our offspring -we cannot abandon it." A few years later, with the war going badly, several Kennedy aides claimed that he had been planning to liquidate the intervention. But five months after the assassination, Robert Kennedy told an oral his- now." John Kenneth Galbraith -tory interviewer that his brother "had a strong, overwhelming Harvard economist, liberal polemicist and reason for being in Kennedy's ambassador Vietnam and that we to India -- called this should win the war in "the most Republican Vietnam." speech since McKinInterviewer: "There ley." It was one of was never any considmany. Kennedy was eration given to driving to the Dallas pulling out?" Trade Mart to propose RFK: "No." "cutting personal and Interviewer: "The corporate income president was contaxes." Kennedy vinced that we had to changed less during his keep, had to stay in there..." George F. life than liberalism did after his death. RFK: "Yes." The Kennedy Interviewer: " ... library here where he And couldn't lose it." lived draws substanRFK: "Yes." As president, JFK chose as tially fewer visitors than does Treasury secretary a Republican Dallas' Sixth Floor Museum at Wall Street banker, C. Douglas Dealey Plaza, where he was Dillon, who 30 years after the murdered. This is emblematic assassination remembered of a melancholy fact: How he Kennedy as "financially conser- died looms larger in the nation's vative." Kennedy's fiscal policy mind than how he lived. His provided an example and ample truncated life remains an unfinrhetoric for Ronald Reagan's ished book and hence a temptasupply-side tax cuts. Kennedy tion to writers who would comendorsed "a creative tax cut cre- plete it as they wish it had been ating more jobs and income and written. This month, let it sufeventually more revenue." In fice to say what Stephen Spender did in "The Truly December 1962, he said: "The federal government's Great" (1932): "Born of the sun, they travmost useful role is ... to expand the incentives and opportunities elled a short while toward the for private expenditures. ... It is a sun. And left the vivid air signed paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax rev- with their honour." enues are too low and the soundGeorge Will's email address est way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates is georgewill@washpost.com. Will