Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor:

Can you help me put a name to this?

My U.S. Representatives, Paul E. Kanjorski, recently sent out a bulk mailing of a form letter expressing his "concern" for senior citizens who will not get a cost of living adjustment to their Social Security benefits.

He wrote also that he has co-sponsored a bill to correct this.

He "hopes" that the House "will consider this bill in the near future." [Comforting.]

Dear Editor:

Leroy J. Rider was his given name, but to the members of the NORTHEAST VARIETY BAND, he was -BUDD. That's capital B and two DD's, as he would soon tell you after he met you.

In his earlier years, Budd played upright bass with several of his Polka and Country bands, but his love of the banjo brought him to play with The Lehigh Valley Variety Band, The Keystone String Band, The Happy Mummers String Band, The Country Gentlemen and a band that he himself named, The 3-and one Band, three banjos and one accordion.

Dear Editor:

For over 35 Years (after serving in the US Army during the Vietnam mess) I was a Registered Republican. Due to the Republican Party's refusal to promote true health care reform, I switched to being a Democrat. Now it appears as though even the Democrat Party is allowing our Nation's True Need for health care reform slip away!

To correct this Health Care Reform at this time, before it is again too late, we must succeed with the following course of correction:

1 - Open The Health Care Conference Committee To Public Scrutiny (H.Res.847).

Dear Editor:

I hope everyone reads the excellent article in tonight's (1/12/10) Times News by Dr. Edward Miller concerning the many flaws in the current "healthcare reform" bill being proposed by the House and Senate.

I hope you readers write down the phone numbers and call your Senators and House Member so we do not have more government intrusion into our health care.

Janet Snyder,

Palmerton