A return to limited government is up to us
Re: “The GOP finds some backbone, but will it last?” editorial, Dec. 19
The answer to your editorial’s question is: We’ll see. During the past hundred years, America has been subjected to a liberal/progressive/socialist ideology and expanding government power.
That power is administered by unconstitutional social programs, public education indoctrination, punishing taxation, tyrannical lawmaking and regulations, and a legislating judiciary.
The ever-expanding federal government, which has usurped power from the states and shattered our liberties, peaked under a power-mongering 111th Congress and President Obama.
Fortunately most Americans have not forsaken our unique history and founding principles. It’s time for a reckoning, as evidenced by spontaneous resistance to overreaching government exploiting an economic crisis in an era of extreme terrorism directed against us.
What’s next is up to us.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.
School safety article doesn’t match survey results
Re: “Many students don’t feel safe in school,” Dec. 16
In her recent article, Lisa Gartner claimed that 88 percent of Fairfax County Public Schools 8th-, 10th- and 12th-grade students said they had been threatened with a weapon. Actual survey results show that 91.2 percent of FCPS students reported that they have NEVER been threatened with a weapon.
The actual data cast a totally different perspective on safety in Fairfax County schools than does the figure provided by the article.
Mark H. Emery
Administrator, Office of After-School Programs
Fairfax County Public Schools
New START treaty is a bad deal for U.S.
Re: “Senate votes 66 to 32 to take up START treaty over GOP objections,” Dec. 16
The Soviet bear is a mere shadow of the menace it was before, so why is the Obama administration negotiating with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and the former communist KGB chief Vladimir Putin? Why the urgency to sign it blindly?
The constitutional duty of the Senate is to advise the president of the United States before he signs a treaty, yet this administration refuses to provide the minutes of the discussions to the appropriate committee.
Senators should vote “No” on this treaty, which makes America subservient to the former U.S.S.R.
Mike Finley
Easton, Md.
