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Letters to the editor for March 18, 2010

The human thing

A recent letter was sent in declaring that 45,000 die each year because of lack of health insurance. That is false. The left uses the figures from a 1987 study that said 45,000 die because of lack of health care.

What they didn’t tell you is everyone was used in the study. If you died and didn’t have health care, you were counted. Traffic accidents, gunshot wounds and natural causes were also used in the study.

Right after we get health care for everyone, we should start upgrading everyone’s house and car, that’s a right too and not a privilege. It’s the human thing to do.

Raymond Martin

Mont Belvieu

Hush-hush?

Why is Baytown’s “QOL” rating such a big secret? Did you know that Baytown’s new buzzword is “Quality of Life?” (Some call it “QOL” for short). The mayor uses it at chamber of commerce meetings. The city manager says it’s one of the city’s defined core responsibilities.   

Economic leaders in West Chambers County even think “QOL” might put Baytown’s future at a crossroads.   

Are there actual standards, (or criteria) the city uses to measure Baytown’s quality of life? Does our city actually have a quality of life rating, or score?    

With so much lip service from city officials, “QOL” in Baytown seems to be a priority issue ... but is it really?

Alan Hudgins

Baytown

A second look

I did not want to fully read the story of Terry Flood, written by Luke Hales, but I did, then re-read the ending few paragraphs over a couple of times. Why? I did not want to be trapped into what I call cafeteria-style religion that is being peddled today, with its disciplines preaching one Bible verse at a time to family and friends. Usually when my relations do it is to stick a stick in my eye, showing that my way is wrong and their way is right.

So, some family members I stay away from and friends know me well enough to know me for who I am and that I do not tolerate the quoting of Bible scriptures. They know that actions speak louder than words with me, but the relatives who preach do not understand that concept.

I even feel that we are in the Reve-lations time and the end is getting closer day by day. It has even split my family as it says that it will and that is a bitter pill to swallow with age as our time is rapidly coming to a natural end and time is very precious and should be spent with the ones you love, not alone.

Flood sure seems to be grounded and his message seems to be, as they say in politics now to be elected, completely transparent.

Thanks, Luke Hales, for the excellent article I nearly missed, and Mr. Flood, I don’t think the church offering suggestion will ever be seen or heard by anyone who is involved in the leadership of any recognized religion in America. The dollar has the power to allow many to be fooled, into following them and pouring more money into the pot, looking for salvation, when you could simply go to a hotel/motel and look in the draw for the answer in whole, not in a verse.

Murrie Gene Kinney Jr.

Dayton
March 18, 2010

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