I don’t know about the rest of you but it irks me to no end that some Americans don’t pay their fair share of taxes. For years, some of the richest among us have moved their money overseas to avoid paying taxes on it. That means our country has to either raise taxes on the rest of us or get deeper in debt.

Dear Editor,
The promise of a free meal given all across America showing appreciation to all veterans by Golden Corral Restaurants found Shawnee’s Golden Corral’s parking lot jammed to overflowing, causing people to return at a later time, while veterans with their spouses, families or friends lined up outside down the sidewalk.

During the great depression of the 1930’s Oklahoma’s young people migrated to California to find work.

Shawnee, it is a reality, your teens are drinking. According to the 2008 Oklahoma Prevention Needs Assessment (OPNA), 85 percent of 12th graders who reported drinking alcohol consumed it at a friend’s house and 78 percent drank alcohol at a party within the last year. To bring these statistics close to home, 91 percent of Shawnee 12th graders consumed alcohol at a friend’s house and 82 percent drank it at a party.

I have been reading the articles on your website and in my local newspaper concerning Project K-9 sponsored by your organization and would say that the effort expanded by your employees is commendable and their efforts insured that this pet adoption fair was a total success.

Freedom has many enemies. Among freedom’s many enemies are ignorance and apathy. Ronald Reagan said those who have known freedom and lost it have never known it again.

We’ve seen the leaves clothed in majestic colors the past few weeks, depicting the touch of the Master’s hand, for all to enjoy as we drove down Main Street, Union, Broadway, and all the other streets in Shawnee.

I’m a 72-year-old senior citizen who is happy (and healthy!) with Medicare and a medigap supplement from a private insurance company. I believe that this is the best way to cover all Americans. Our current situation has many people not covered by insurance.

I resent the Second Amendment field guide picture in today’s paper. In case you haven’t noticed, the world has a lot of mean people who like to attack defenseless people.

Normally I don’t let the frequent letters by the “fanatical four” bother me, as a matter of fact I believe these letters as well as those from the far left are of some benefit, causing us all to pause and think. However, after the last letter sometime last week which accused the President of the United States of being a false Christian and a secret Muslim, I had to write. In this country we are allowed to worship in freedom and have no need to hide our true faith. To question the sincerity of another personís faith is without a doubt crossing the line.

There are a couple of things bugging me and I am sure the answer is eluding me so to the answer man I go and also a bit of information to a writer from last week.
All the sidewalk repair being done all over town as requested by one person, who may never travel some portions of town , but is also mandated by law who is paying for this work, and there is a lot of it either already done or to be done and he is still checking access areas all over.

Weldon McGaw tells us that President Obama “said in one of his many speeches that we are no longer a christian nation.” He further tells us that he “got that from Obama himself” (letter 11-6-09). Neither of these statements is accurate.
The source of McGaw’s quotation is not Obama, but instead he got that from one of many e-mails circulating which misquote Obama.

Pfc. Shelley N. Leird graduated from basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, in Missouri.
During the nine weeks of training, Leird studied the U.S. Army’s mission, history, tradition and core values and physical fitness.

Strike the big tent Republicans. In the special elections last Tuesday, Republicans Bob McDonnell and Chris Christie won their respective races while Conservative Doug Hoffman came out of nowhere losing his race by only 3 percent. Their message: Conservatism. There was no talk of reaching across the aisle or expanding the Republican tent. 

I am writing to you in  regards to my daughter. She attends Sequouah Elementary School. She had an incident in school on Oct. 26. She was playing on the monkey bars when three boys from the same grade came over and hit her in the stomach and hurt her. She fell down off the monkey bars onto the dirt, then the three boys had jumped on her back.

Down through the years, we have seen the leadership change between Democrats and Republicans. Myself being registered as a Republican (only because there is nothing else to the right), never got too upset when the Democrats won. I always knew next time we would have another chance and things stayed pretty well balanced.

Senator Coburn is thinking very carefully about our vets on this Veteran’s Day because several Veteran’s organizations are calling him and pleading with him to release his hold on SB 1963, the Veterans’ Caregiver and Omnibus Health Benefits Act of 2009.

In the year 2000, Commissioners of the Land Office (CLO) determined the city’s easement for the majority of 360 acres of school land along the shoreline of Shawnee Lake No.1 reverted back to the state because 28 acres had been leased as cabin sites instead of being used for the reservoir.

I have a personal story to share that may influence your vote in the up coming Shawnee School Bond election.
From 1985 to 1989 I was assigned to Will Rogers Elementary School as principal. In 1989 I accepted the position of elementary principal in a neighboring school district. The third grade classes were located in an older building with a flat roof. The principal’s office, teachers work room and attendance office were also located there.

The people who rescued the dogs from the puppy mill may have been trying to be good Samaritans, but they were not using proper procedures. There are numerous rescue groups in this state, and they are all trying to reach the goal of no more homeless pets, and they never release an animal to a new home without being spayed or neutered.