Letters

In response to Sheila Bickford’s Carolina Gateway letter, “Mulvaney lacks ability to compromise: You’ve got to be kidding!
Before you make a statement like that, you have to recognize what Washington, D.C., is. Beyond all the statues, pillars, monuments and columns are the lobbyists and special interest groups, whose only job is to extract as much taxpayer money as possible for the interest group they represent.

I would like to respond to Sheila Bickford’s recent letter about compromise. Compromise means both sides giving up some things and getting some things.
I keep up with the goings-on in Washington and it looks to me like President Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress want Republicans to roll over and play dead, so they can continue spending us in oblivion.

I had the opportunity to attend the recent swearing-in of Lancaster County Council members. As it is the first time that County Council will have a Republican majority, it was a historic moment.
While I was encouraged by the general show of unity among council members, I was disappointed to see Councilmember Charlene McGriff’s remarks in the newspaper, where she viewed Lancaster as a small and rural county.

You recently published a guest column by Franklin Whittlesey Sr. (in the Dec. 26 paper) that is a complete misstatement of facts and a total distortion of reality.
You should be embarrassed to publish anything so patently, religiously biased and beyond the pale with respect to what we should be doing to protect our world so that our children and their children will not be living in a nightmarish environment.