PUBLIC VIEWPOINT

Where Did Conservative GOP Go?

I... suggest Congress forget Petraeus and Sanford and Spitzer and Weiner and Gov.

Arnold and get on with restoring the tax rates we once had where the rich paid a fair share of the burden and our economy thrived. A cursory examination of the tax rates in our past or in other countries will demonstrate this is the way to go.

And while you’re at it, make it illegal for CEOs to make more than 50 times the rate of the next guy/gal in line for that job. That would do more for our country than outlawingthe use of a few ounces of marijuana.

Where did the oncefi scally conservative, proud and honest GOP go? I see little evidence of it in Washington anymore.

Republican Sen. Jim Jeffords said the same in his book “An Independent Man.”

Anyone can quote scripture. I bet the moneychangers in the Temple were really good at it before Christ tossed them out on their greedy ears.

EILEEN MERICLE

BentonvillePOODLE WEIGHS FUTURE

It’s Thanksgiving morning

and despite all the doom and gloom talk recently about the economy, I believe things are getting better over the last two years.

My little Poodle, Velcro, trots out for the paper each morning and the Rogers Morning News has become heavier and more packed with sale fliers. Two years ago the paper had become so small we were afraid it would disappear with a small “poof,” and take Flip and Boat Dock with it!

This Thanksgiving morning, not only was Velcro not able to carry in our newspaper, but I had to use two hands to help her carry some of it. This is now also the case on each Sunday morning.

So Punxsutawney Phil has nothing on us here in Northwest Arkansas.

We have Prairie Creek Velcro. Let that ground hog predict the weather;

little Velcro will weigh the economic future when she totes our forecast to the door.

JUDY DUGUID

Rogers

Opinion, Pages 5 on 12/04/2012

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