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July 18, 2012

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Anonymous The Independent The Daily Independent Wed Jul 18, 2012, 06:00 AM EDT

ASHLAND — Not swayed by political promises

I’m an Independent. I make up my own mind for whom to vote. I certainly do not take my beliefs or talking points from some political party. This has pleased some and angered many.

I guess I’m one of the desired groups of voters this year — Independents — so I get lots of stuff from both parties in the mail and on the computer.

I’m looking at the very points sent to me by the Democratic national party. It even sent me a sample letter so I can write to The Independent to show how much local support there is for this or that political party. Fox “News,” women’s health issues, voter suppression, war on women, war or immigrants — I’m beginning to get paranoid. It appears some voters need a bogey man and political parties are happy to provide one.

In regards to sending jobs to other countries, every time you go to Kmart, Walmart, to the mall, to the shoe store, you’re buying things made in China or some other country. You have one of those big-screen televisions? Where do they make them — here in the United States?

So if anyone is sending jobs elsewhere, it’s you and me. And I’m supposed to care more about what a private company and CEO does with his or her own money than I am the government that is spending my money? Get real!

I’m not swayed by political promises (which are not kept). I do, however, resent the government and its bureaucrats thinking they have a right to spend my money.

It is ludicrous to vote for someone simply because they have an R or D behind their names. If that is your only rationale for voting, then stay home. The political parties may need you, but Kentucky and the nation do not.

Gaylord Cooper, South Shore

Pro-Obama letter elicits a response

Reading Earl Ferguson’s July 15 letter, it just takes a minute to see that he is a left-wing Democrat and a hard-nosed union man.

All he had was the Democrat talking points, and none of them told the whole story.

The Democrats want to let anyone vote whether they are legal or illegal, registered on not registered. If not requiring a legal ID to vote is suppression, then I should have to have a license to drive or have a union card to work for a union shop of have a college degree to teach.

If giving a woman the right to kill her baby a week before it is born legal, then why is killing it the week it is born considered murder?

If being wealthy and having a Swiss bank account if wrong for a presidential candidate, why isn’t it wrong for the men and women in Congress?

In regards to jobs, President Obama ditched our constitution and allowed 800,000 illegal Mexicans to take our jobs from our young people. He refused to let them build the pipeline from Canada. Our EPA officials are shutting down our power plants. They have made coal an evil fuel.

President Obama had a Democratic Congress during his first two years in office. The only thing he was good at was wasting taxpayers’ money, putting us $16 trillion in debt and raising taxes.

I hope the American people are not as blind as Mr. Ferguson is.

Raleigh Blair, Louisa

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