One man's change is another's despair
The nation has spoken — change it is. Change, according to the majority, stands for hope and more government intervention. This is free houses and income redistribution as reported by the media.
My view of change is somewhat different. It stands for agony, despair and doom.
I thought that by working hard during the boom years of Clinton and Bush that I was part of the solution. Obviously, the only direction I can go from here (next four years) is to become part of the problem.
I'm opting not to watch the inauguration on TV. I plan instead to read "The Manchurian Candidate" by Richard Condon and hope that my family will survive the next four years.
— Glenn Mess
Pensacola
Read the Book
It is estimated that less than 50 percent of those who claim to be Christians have ever read the Bible from cover to cover. Some will quote the Bible by saying "I think it is in the Bible" or "I think I read it in the Bible."
This is not the case for one reader who wrote to the editor that the Bible reads, "All nations that bless Israel I will bless and, all nations that curse Israel I will curse," and offers the first book of the Bible, Genesis 12:3, as the reference. For all who have used this quote, they should read Genesis 12:1-3 and find that the blessing is given to Abram, verse one, and not to Israel.
The late Rev. Jerry Falwell was also fond of giving the same quote and attributing it to the same source. I wonder, why did the Rev. Falwell not know that the quote he and others attribute to Genesis is not there and does not exist in the King James Bible or, to my knowledge, in any other biblical translation?
Perhaps you have to follow the money.
— Charles W. Presson
Milton
Money and elections
In answer to Mona Clark's letter "No more excuses" (Nov. 10), I see the Nov. 4 election a little differently. I see the office of the president of the United States of America no longer being held in the high esteem it once was, and that money, enough of it, can buy anything, even one of the things that should be held most dear to one, his or her vote.
I have been voting since 1947. I have never seen campaigns run the way these were in my lifetime. Shame on us.
— Lena Harrison
Gulf Breeze
