It's great to see Fred Foster and Kerry Sutton among the first people filing for election this season. Foster promises to represent a part of Durham (NC House District 55) in the statehouse that has been underrepresented since the district was created by the legislature. Sutton is the ideal candidate for District Judge -- well rooted in the law and focused on moving cases through the system effectively and responsibly.
DON MOFFITT
Durham
Consider language
On the front page of the Feb. 5 paper, you have a photo of what is purported to be a hot water heater. If the water is hot, why would you heat it? The water goes in cold and comes out hot. So, if you insist on a description in relation to hot and cold, it's a cold water heater. But plain, simple "water heater" will work better.
CLARKE C. SHAW
Butner
Economic chaos
A recent letter writer still believes the Democrat-owned mainstream media's spin that it was solely Democrat Bill Clinton that was responsible for the budget surplus that Bush inherited. Omitted was how Hillary's proposal for an unconstitutional government takeover of the nation's health care system frightened the nation into giving both houses of Congress to the Republicans, who cut taxes and significantly reigned in the insane spending of liberal Democrats. The resulting surplus was no surprise. To his credit, Bill Clinton had political sense enough to follow the more conservative Republicans into prosperity with his grandstanding statement that "the era of big government is over."
Since the radically liberal Democrats took congress in 2006, the economy has predictably gone chaotic with their usual discredited, flawed, expensive social policies.
Their abuse of the Community Reinvestment Act forced banks to give hopelessly unrepayable mortgages to unqualified applicants on a massive scale, which artificially bid up and then collapsed the housing market and the banking system. Bush followed these progressive liberal Democrats into economic chaos just as Clinton had followed the conservative Republicans into prosperity.
Will our economy survive long enough for conservatives to retake Congress and rescue the nation from the historically discredited anti-free market big government suicidal spending of future generations' money?
Congressional support for Obama's alarming disregard for the constitution and conservative policies that historically produce prosperity and his seemingly insatiable lust for absolute power over all Americans that government run healthcare would give him may lead to unthinkable catastrophic consequences.
ARRINGTON HICKS
Oxford
