Letters: Eco-commies go too far

Jodi McFarland | By Jodi McFarland |
on February 03, 2009 at 2:40 PM, updated February 03, 2009 at 2:42 PM

Editor, The News:

Landfills are a very good thing for the environment.

According to the prevailing theory that humans are responsible for global warming, and everything else the cosmos does to Earth, carbon gas is too thick in our atmosphere and we did it all. So, the eco-commies all conclude that we humans don't sequester enough carbon gas in our daily activities to help reduce the major greenhouse gas keeping all that heat in.

The greatest chemical component of landfills is carbon. Wood, paper and plastic all are carbon-rich substances and they are the major components of a sanitary landfill.

We all know that unrecycled plastics do not break down until the crust folds into the magma along some fault line. Since the microbes that break organic matter down operate best within 12 inches of the surface, the deeper we stash the sequestered carbon, the longer it will stay out of the air.

While we're at it, let's go whole hog and give all of our carbohydrates to animals that waste as much as possible for each pound gained. Cattle would fill the bill nicely. It takes more carbon input per pound of food output in cattle than any other domestic food source, including hogs and chickens. Instead of making sure Johnny gets all his vitamins and minerals directly from whole vegetables, it's every American's patriotic duty to green living to quit eating them directly. We should then cram supplements into the kids while feeding all of our own food to something else. Then we should put them in the landfill too. That's extreme green right there.

We could make a landfill out of the Middle East, North Africa and Venezuela. Just quit drilling oil there and pave it over or plant shrubs. If we pave it with asphalt, just think of how much carbon we'd put away. Or isn't that what the eco-commies really want?

Sooner or later our kids, the ones who will be paying for all this guff with their liberties and living conditions, will wise up to all us gray-haired hippies. I hope our kids will have more guts than we did and stand up for our freedom like our parents did.

We never stood up for anything remotely resembling the truth.

Michael Howe
St. Charles

Catch the spirit

Editor, The News:

President Barack Obama has energized the country and the world. He brings hope across the seven continents. But, what now?

He is not going to send a check to our home or to our city to make everything all right. If we want change, and if we believe in this man's word that we all must contribute, then we must start without Obama. It's going to be necessary to keep that energy he helped create by starting change right now in our own life, neighborhood and community.

Students can go to school everyday and learn to enjoy learning. Get ready for the new wave of job opportunities that will surely come. Make Obama proud that you as an individual are contributing to change.

Teens can teach a child to read and they will themselves be better readers. That is change. We can treat all people with respect and understanding without judging them so we can get an understanding of how hard it is to get up everyday and walk in their shoes. Don't condemn, contribute. That is change.

That brings out the freedoms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Wealthy people might share their wealth with the impoverished. They can develop a legacy of creating change in the lives of the needy.

Intellectually gifted people can tutor or mentor those in need of guidance. Single parents mired in poverty can stay strong and provide inspiration to their children just like Obama's mother and grandmother did.

Teens can clean neighborhood yards and then not tell anyone what they did but rather taste the change in their lives in proud private moments.

Neighborhoods can develop opportunities for kids on drugs to escape, to let them know what love, marriage, children, opening Christmas presents with their children, the pleasure of owning a home or a new car is all about, thus changing their lives and saving them from violence and early death. Saving just one teen is change.

We just have to embrace the energy Obama has created and make it happen everyday in some small way.

Richard Wallen

Close to enemy

Editor, The News:

GM and its dealers are talking about cutting dealerships.

GM should shut down dealers who are selling foreign cars on the same lot. That reminds me of that movie "Sleeping with the Enemy."

Ron Fisher
Kochville Township

Good stewards

Editor, The News:

I am writing to comment on the article of Jan. 24 concerning a sister representing the public in recommending her brother's salary increase in the county maintenance department.

The article implies that politics entered the discussion, and I think avoids the issue.

I do not know Patrick Wurtzel, Michael Boyd or Cheryl Jarzabkowski, nor do I know their politics. We must always remember as public servants that it is important to speak up when a conflict of interest may exist and let others decide if there is or if there is not. The best defense against criticism of conflict of interest is lots of open discussion.

I am glad we have people willing to represent us like these folks, but with the responsibility comes accountability and good stewards of public funds and trust must come first.

Larry Tibbits