VOL. LV, NO. 117
California State University, Long Beach May 11, 2005
.
     
 
 
 


Editorial Staff

Sonya Smith
Editor in Chief

Jamie Rowe

Managing Editor

Jeanette Prather
City Editor

Lesley Nickus
Assistant City Editor

Austin Lewis
News Editor


Gerry Wachovsky
Diversions Editor

Elysse James
Opinion Editor

Matt Pearson
Sports Editor

Bradley Zint
Calendar Editor

Beverly Munson
General Manager

Jennie Lessel
Assistant Ad/Business Manager

Sara Watanasirisuk

Stacy Hopper
Office Assistants

Jamie Eggleston
Production Manager

Kari Schneider
Assistant Production Manager

 

 

. News  
 

Surveys dissuade choice

Do you also receive those legislator surveys that guide us to mark what "they" want? Yee Haw! Lets contact our members of Congress now, and tell them what "we" want. Like, penalize those who created or keep the extreme detainee treatment doctrines.

After 229 years of legislative leverage, the filibuster tool must stay.

Elevate ethical rules.  Prohibit district gerrymandering and uncontested elections.  All legislators, regardless of party, must have enough time to read legislation, prior to any action. Grow Social Security and stop raiding its funds. Stop ignoring excessive executive public corporation compensations.

Raise the regard for regulatory agencies and higher education.

They partially-privatized Medicare, gave us the doughnut-hole and denied medicine price-negotiations. What do you think we (and corporations) will get, if they privatize social security? Do we want them interfering with our personal life and death decisions?

Do we want the wealthiest to get more tax giveaways and sink our nation into deeper debt?  Wouldn't we prefer, pay as you go? Meanwhile our president is spending many tax-dollars, barnstorming state-state, city-city, pushing mere theories.

Wouldn't it be better to only have a couple of productive fireside chats each year ?

— John Bauer, Martinez, Ca.

 


Calendar

Display Ads

Front Page

univmag

 

Sports

.... LBSU Dirtbags avoid sweep with win in series finale

 

ADVERTISEMENT


.
©2004 Daily Forty-Niner. All rights reserved