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Economic sense needed

To the Journal editor: Over the past couple of years, I have had a great deal of contact with Marquette-area health personnel. The experience has been beneficial and positive. But most of it would not have happened if I didn’t have health insurance as part of my retirement package. A recent article published in The Mining Journal stated that a permanent extension of Obamacare premium subsidies would, per the Congressional Budget Office, add $250 billion to the U.S. deficit over 10 years, not a big amount when you look at Democratic and Republican legislation over the past 10 ...

Lack of compassion evident

To the Journal editor: I am very disappointed with (the) headline you chose, "Out on the street," for your article concerning the resignation of Coach Richardson (from Northern Michigan University). I found it very unkind and actually very cruel, especially considering how hard Coach Richardson has worked to renew the tradition Wildcat football. I hope that in the future, if you ever find yourself in a difficult life situation, people will treat you with more kindness and consideration than you have shown Coach Richardson and his family.

Power of propaganda

Very often, people in this country do not see clearly that which is so obvious to non-Americans. The following offers two quotes from a famous modern author from Canada. The author eloquently and succinctly states the obvious: "The unthinkable is made real not through rational thought, but feelings. We'll follow a charismatic leader if they tell us that we have a legitimate grievance. That they will give us back our dignity. Our threatened way of life. If we follow them, our enemies will be vanquished and we will be heroes (patriots). Who doesn't want to be part of something bigger ...

Recycling essential

To the Journal editor: My husband and I recently took a tour of our Marquette County Landfill and Recycling Center. The tour gave us an up close and personal view of how the items we recycle each week are sorted and processed. We realized how important it is for us to recycle items that would otherwise end up in the landfill. We are so lucky to have this facility here and I implore everyone who is able, to recycle and ensure a longer life of our landfill and a better environment for our future generations.

Putting up with it

To the Journal editor: We don't hear whining coming from the babies who've died of starvation, or children who've died from a preventable disease or moans from those who've died of/from painful acute and chronic untreated ailments that were treated in a now shuttered hospital when health insurance offset the expense of medical care and medicine. We are expected to accept an economy having no other plan than to financially and materially enrich those (1%) who strangely enough claim to be taking care of the rest of us while in fact we've been supporting them. We are also expected to ...

‘I was only following orders’

To the Journal editor: That statement was heard multiple times from Nazis during the Nuremburg trials after World War II as a defense to allegations that Nazi soldiers had committed war crimes. On Nov. 20, a half dozen veterans publicly reminded active duty military personnel that the U.S. Code of Military Justice directs our military personnel not to follow illegal orders. President Trump’s immediate response was to publicly state that these respected experts were traitors and should be hanged. President Trump is the commander in chief of our military. His statement is a dramatic ...