Oscillating Romney

To the editor:

Willard continuously switches positions to appease his audience. I am citing only a few examples.  In the January presidential debate he said the Supreme Court should overturn Roe v Wade, but now says he was never pro-life and he supports women’s rights (oops, he changed his position again yesterday).

Said he did not want to join the military and go to Vietnam, but now wishes he had. Says he does not want to privatize Social Security, but now says it is the easiest place to cut by using vouchers.

Says he wants a 20 percent tax rate for everybody and eliminate taxes on capital gains and that this will not lower taxes on the rich? He firmly believes in “the trickle down” effect. He absolutely refuses to release any tax returns prior to 2010, but stated he has always paid about a 14 percent tax rate. However he did not claim all his charitable contributions in 2011 because his tax rate would have dropped below 14 percent.

He invests much of his fortune overseas to avoid paying taxes. Says he is not concerned about 47 percent of American because they are leeches on the government and therefore would not get their vote. Now he says he is concerned about the 100 percent. Sheldon Adelson will personally donate $100 million to the Republican campaign and expects nothing in return? Willard’s wealth exceeds the combined wealth of all presidents wealth combined since Nixon. And he can identify with the middleclass? This is an important election so please exercise your right to vote.

Ron Rookstool

Maggie Valley

Schandevel would be great on school board

To the editor:

Rhonda Schandevel, a  Haywood County native, a community leader, and proud parent, would serve the students, parents, and schools of Haywood County well by being elected to the Haywood County Board of Education. Rhonda has extensive experience with numerous organizations throughout the County and has tirelessly worked to help its residents and students better their lives. I have personally worked with Rhonda and know that she will do what is best for the students, parents and teachers of our schools here in the county. Earlier this year, Rhonda again showed her dedication to Haywood County Schools by being named the Haywood County School Foundation’s Mardi Gras Queen by personally raising over $6,000 for Haywood County Schools. It is clear that Rhonda cares deeply for Haywood County’s students and schools, and I invite you to consider her for Haywood County School Board.

Patrick Willis

Canton

Health care law too complicated to fix

To the editor:

A writer on Oct. 12 wrote: “I have never been a big fan of Obamacare. It was passed too quickly without enough discussion.” She then says “there are a few good parts” and then proposes electing people who want to just fix it. She says that if you have lemons, you don’t throw the lemons out, you make lemonade.

So her proposal is we keep a really bad government takeover of health care that is “so good” that the government will hire 16,000 new IRS agents to force people to participate, sets up a 15 person “death panel” to decide what will be covered, and required a thousand pages (which wasn’t read) to write.

It makes much more sense to repeal this monstrosity (this gets rid of all the bad parts) and replace it with a 10 page bill that implements all the good parts. The lemonade analogy doesn’t work —  when you have rotten eggs you don’t look for a recipe; you throw them out and get fresh eggs! This means we should elect Mark Meadows.

Robert Persons

Waynesville

Beware of misinformation

To the editor:

It seems this election is about misinformation and flat out lies.  I would like to respond to a recent letter that attacked the owners of Eagle’s Nest Grocery and said that ObamaCare and penalties to hospitals for re-admissions would limit benefits for the elderly and result in their death.  This is not true.

First, these penalties have nothing to do with ObamaCare.  Yes, beginning Oct. 1, 2012, hospitals are penalized for a select few diagnoses if the person is re-admitted within 30 days.

This is a hospital penalty not a patient penalty.  There are no reductions in services to the elderly or to Medicare.  The reality is hospital length of stay for sick elderly has decreased by 25.5 percent and 30 day re-admission rates have increased 16.1 percent.  The penalties are designed to improve care.

Although I do not agree with the penalties, they do not limit care to anyone.  The greatest thing about our country is we can choose any candidate to support.

Shame on you for vilifying the owners of Eagle’s Nest Grocery just because they do not support the same candidate you do.  They are good, kind people who have worked with the elderly too.  They do no deserve this.

Support whichever candidate you want, but don’t attack others for their beliefs and get your facts straight.

Lisa Leatherwood

Waynesville

Good job

To the editor:

The Power of Pink pages and features are just outstanding.  Great job.

Juanita Dixon

Canton