Published: May 07, 2008 07:10 pm            

Letters to the Editor

Does anyone care

about the deficit?

To the Editor:

Congress spends over $2 trillion of our tax dollars a year on programs it believes we want and war in the Middle East.

The god of Congress is re-election, another word for power.

Our national deficit is over $7 trillion. Unclear to me, but true: the deficit and interest rates the Federal Reserve keeps lowering to keep us borrowing, spending, devalue the dollar.

This makes goods, especially foreign ones like oil, more expensive to us.

Now, when leaders trying to feed us more money to spend fall down, the Fed joins Congress to give more tax money to lenders to keep loaning. More money from us to government, for us.

We could amend the Constitution to make the budget balance. History is we will not.

It once was assumed we would balance the federal budget. No longer. We neither expect nor demand a balanced budget. Many do not care.

Too prevalent today is our own profligacy, a collective demand we have programs from the U.S. that help us, daily, no matter the cost. And we cannot afford the lifestyle we have wrought.

Missing is a sense of shared sacrifice, a collective resolve of self denial, postponed enjoyment, an insistence on long term goals, not just immediate ones. Politicians know they who do not heed what we want are dismissed.

An analogy from Glenn Beck: a million seconds are 12 days, a billion 32 years, a trillion 32,000 years. True or not, it is staggering. Seven trillion? More of the same will impoverish, even imperil, my grandchildren Isaac, Madelyn, Asher, and Katja.

We may be the home of the brave. But we are governed by the people, as Mr. Lincoln said, know it or not. Trend is we are self centered weaklings on discipline, prey to foreign creditors in a world economy, set to prove another phrase of Mr. Lincoln: “Divided (selfish) we fall.”

Sincerely,

Greg Black

Plainfield



Symphonic Society

is gift to community

To the Editor:

Wake up, Avon. Wake up, Hendricks County.

You’ve been given a gift. In the last year the Hendricks Symphonic Society has been formed. Three concerts have been performed in the Avon Middle School auditorium. You need to know, we are good! I mean really good.

While attendance has been good, it has not been great. If you realized how good we are, it would have been packed.

The part you may be missing is what an organization like this brings to the community in terms of economic and cultural development. Please understand that the arts is seasoning to the neighborhood as seasoning is to our food. I don’t know why, but it draws people to the community with money.

The choir is 80-plus members strong and the orchestra is 60-plus members and the director (Maestro Benjamin Dellveccio) is as good as they come. The music isn’t easy to perform. It is classical, written by the masters of the world. It isn’t sing along, but it sure is entertaining.

We are performing in Hummel Park in Plainfield this fourth of July. While I haven’t seen the music yet, I’m betting you’ll be able to sing along with a lot of it and thoroughly enjoy it all.

Nest year we will do four or five more concerts.

We need more stage space and better electronics to do the stuff we do. So, who is going to step up — Avon or Plainfield? I think one of those performances will be done at Ellis Park in Danville.

Besides the Maestro, part of what makes us so good is that you have to audition to get in — no walk ons. Where did all these musicians come from? I have no idea, but they are really good and they make a valuable contribution to the community.

I’ve watched Hendricks County grow since 1950. I’ve not only watched it grow big, but also grow strong. This organization will help it to grow stronger.

I can’t tell you how much we appreciate the business and community support. If you continue your support as you have, we’ll be able to provide some of the best entertainment you’ll find anywhere

O.R. Woody

Avon

        

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