Letters

How to get her vote

Give me a gubernatorial candidate who will endeavor to undo the travesty and potential (probable?) catastrophe of permitting the Cargill-sponsored hog confinement facility so close to a tributary of the Buffalo River, and that's the candidate who will get my vote! That one issue is so paramount that I don't care if the candidate is Democrat or Republican, blue, red, orange, or plaid--I'd vote for that candidate.

Using a biblical analogy, this state needs a leader to clear the money-changers from the temple.

Kudos to Mike Masterson for another great column articulating this festering and shameful problem.

KAREN WEINRICH

Rogers

See something green

It seems some at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette are quick to mention the contributions of the Koch Brothers to conservative causes, but fail to mention the contributions of George Soros to liberal causes from coast to coast. Then there is also Tom Steyer, the San Francisco billionaire who is pledging $100 million to support congressional candidates who will oppose the Keystone pipeline. This is the same Mr. Steyer who owns a company that profits from "green" projects.

I believe the Keystone pipeline would go a long way toward making the U.S. energy-independent and would create hundreds of jobs at a time when there is a tremendous need for those jobs in Arkansas and the entire country.

It seems liberals want us to depend entirely on solar and wind energy and are willing to see our economy crippled doing it. And, of course some at the Democrat-Gazette apparently choose to focus on the dastardly Koch Brothers and their evil schemes to the exclusion of the "green" do-gooders like Steyer and Al Gore, who have latched on to the profits in the "green" industry in a huge way.

PERRY JOHNSON

Bella Vista

Missing good ol' days

Enough already! I read this paper every day and particularly look forward to the Voices section. Some letters are just plain silly, some make no sense at all and some make my blood boil, but most of them I enjoy even if I don't agree with them.

The reason for this response is to ask Mr. Austin Stewart and Mr. Carl Anderson what rock they were hiding under during the Reagan years. My friends, you are entitled to your opinion, but I must strongly disagree with your assessment of this great American.

I believe Ronald Reagan was a great president who turned this country around after the fiasco of the Carter administration. Also, if truth be known, I think President George Bush (the first), and President William J. Clinton rode the coattails and received credit for a lot of good things that happened because of what President Reagan started early in his first term.

Oh, how I pine for the good ol' days. Peace.

MARK F. SPENCER

Lonoke

On the final frontier

President Barack Obama is my moon landing. No offense to the late, great Uncle Walter, but smart people using gobs of money to make impressive machinery seems pretty routine to me.

The "Take that! USSR" thing was just ... well, sorry, but the most accurate word I can use to describe my reaction is "childish."

As a white child of racist South Georgia, I am excited to think of the strides being made. We have many miles to go and promises to keep as a society, but we are on our way.

The degree of difficulty makes it that much more impressive.

My manned Mars mission, the point of which escapes me, would be a society where black and white are no more significant that Irish and German and Italian and English and Asian and Indian and Hispanic and Christian and Jewish and Baptist and Catholic and whatever.

We can have our racial or ethnic or religious or cultural or whatever identity, if we want it. I don't, by the way. But it would not be something to get bent about, as no-drama-Obama or wha'd'ya-know-Joe might say.

Racial characteristics would be just descriptive. Skin color would be no more significant than eye or hair color. They would be a source of personal identity and pride, but flat noses and big lips would not be better or worse than pointy noses and thin lips. Interracial marriage would be routine.

Imagine that.

It excites me to think how close we are.

HOWELL MEDDERS

Fayetteville

Should be above that

I was really stunned by R.A. Rogers' letter. I spent most of my adult life managing movie theaters, and I'm a TV junkie as well. There is most certainly not an overabundance of Indian actors in the entertainment field. They are there if that part is called for. They aren't replacing any other ethnic group.

As far as funding drying up on film projects, the film grosses for the past weekend most surely put that to rest. Movies are grossing tremendous dollars if they are aimed at the correct audiences. It used to be rare for a $100 million-dollar gross on a movie. Look at the top 20 grosses and they are all over the place.

Here in Northwest Arkansas, we have a substantial population of people from India. They come here for jobs in the tech fields, medicine and other areas that aren't really available to them back home and are in short supply here. We are a very diverse population up here and they are most welcome to join us.

I think Mr. Rogers' thoughts are nothing but racist and uninformed. We as a country should be better than that silliness.

STAN CARR

Springdale

Seems pretty simple

How about this? I show up to vote. I know my name. My name is on the list.

I get to vote.

ED BRICKELL

Austin

Editorial on 08/05/2014

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