Letters To The Editor -
Letters from July 6
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It’s time to give Davis a pink slip | |
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Biblical history unfamiliar to many | |
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City shouldn’t target bottled water |
Rep. David Davis received $11,000 from BAE after he got a contract for them with a firm in Kingsport. The contract was awarded without a bidding process. The congressman said, “It doesn’t mean it’s evil. It doesn’t mean it’s wrong. It’s just a way for them to have a voice in the political process.” Sounds like good East Tennessee values to me.
The congressman, who is a respiratory therapist, received a large amount of PAC money from the tobacco industry and $1,000 from the Florida sugar cane industry. Let us not forget Michael Vick’s dogfighting scandal. Davis voted against a bill banning interstate transportation across state lines for the purpose of dog fighting. As a state representative, he voted for the highest tax increase in Tennessee history.
Davis is employed by us, but won’t give answers to his decisions. It’s time for the pink slip. He has wasted taxpayers’ dollars in sending his glossy brochures for re-election via the mail. All the funding a letter writer thinks that the congressman obtained is pretty much on an annual basis.
Larry Reaves
Johnson City
Biblical history unfamiliar to many Return to topMary Powers is correct; most individuals are ignorant of world history as well as American history. However, the largest area of ignorance is biblical history. We are living in the dispensational age of history, which the Bible teaches is the time that individuals — humans of all races and ethnic groups — will call good evil and evil good. It is truly a great time to be called a Christian.
The moral issues are the issues that God is looking at according to scripture. If you have all knowledge and have not love, you are nothing. God is Love. Jesus said, “I and the Father are One.” Therefore, Jesus is saying that, He is God — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Ancient, world and American history parallel with biblical history.
Mary needs to study up on the Bible since she’s already a scholar on all other history. She’ll be greatly surprised to find that the word of God is the final word.
Doris Early
Kingsport
City shouldn’t target bottled water Return to topI don’t think the city of Kingsport realizes that by targeting bottled water it will hurt the economy. Yes, there are people employed by companies that bottle water. These people are making a living to pay for gas and groceries and even water bills in the city.
I am all for going green, but instead of cutting out bottled water how about recycling the bottle? I could understand eliminating an item that is not recyclable, but last I checked a plastic bottle is recyclable. What about sodas and laundry detergent? They are in plastic bottles and people are urged to recycle, not quit buying these items.
There are not a lot of jobs still left in this area. Please don’t target bottled water; just urge people to recycle. You could be putting people out jobs. I really don’t think our economy can handle any more unemployment.
Shanna Barber
Fall Branch
