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Letters to the Editor
January 2, 2009
Residents in and about Seguin owe their thanks for successfully securing the Caterpillar project to many people — city, county, state, and SEDC officials, and so many others.
I want to publicly single out SEDC attorney Angela Nickel for her diligent and professional service for SEDC, and for us all.
Over the months of Operation Snow, Angela dealt with innumerable officials, board members, politicians, their staffs, landowners, realtors, landowners’ lawyers, Caterpillar corporate lawyers and officers, title company officers, and no doubt others I am not aware of.
Every person with whom she dealt had a specific interest or issue that conflicted to some degree with that of her client. Dealing with those interests and issues required extended negotiations, conversations, drafting and review of documents, re-drafting and re-review, telephone calls and e-mails into the night and resuming early the next morning, repeatedly.
Angela Nickel’s duties not only called upon her professional expertise and required a sophisticated understanding of countless issues — her labors involved agonizing frustrations and difficulties. I am among those who contributed to her burden.
Angela Nickel rendered superb legal service, under intense, sustained pressures. Everyone in Seguin and Guadalupe County owes a debt of gratitude to Angela Nickel, Attorney at Law.
James S. Frost,
Attorney at Law
Good for fireworks ban
A VFD selling fireworks? What’s next, a cancer care center selling cigarettes? What is the chief trying to do, drum up some business.
Thanks to the wisdom of our county officials, we are going to be spared a rash of fires this winter.
G.W. Sanders,
Seguin
Fundraiser a success
The Seguin High School boys basketball players would like to extend our thanks to the community for supporting our first barbecue fundraiser on Nov. 20. Many thanks to L&L Haulers, Brite Construction, El Ranchito, Guadalupe Regional Medical Center and CMC Steel Texas for their donation of resources or products in support of our efforts. We would also like to thank Coach Gerlich and our family and friends who were instrumental in planning, coordinating and guiding our event.
We are grateful for the support of the community of our team efforts. We invite our fans to come out to witness us in action and cheer us on to victory. Go Mats!
SHS boys basketball players
Carrying the Texas flag
I was born and raised in Seguin, and never forgot this.
I am grateful to serve my country, and when I finally go to Iraq I will take my Texas flag to fly wherever. Thank you to all my great family that got me to this point.
God Bless Texas!
Sgt. 1st Class Ramiro O Vasquez,
Pueblo, Colo.
In search of truth
It is a puzzlement why there is so little room for the truth in America.
For instance, for most of the past 30 years America has been a plutocracy, rather than a democracy.
Webster’s defines a plutocracy as “a government in which the wealthy class rules.” And for us, it has been an America “of the wealthy, by the wealthy, and for the wealthy” — until Nov. 4.
In short, America has been stuck in the eighth century for most of the past 30 years — when we had kings and serfs!
And an even greater puzzlement is why would any of us common folk buy into that — that is, shoot ourselves in the foot?
OK, most of us didn’t and the truth is — Bush was never legally elected president of the United States — a truth that makes some common folk bristle with resentment — and blurt out “class warfare” — or some other blather to sabotage the truth — or look at it objectively.
And that is a large part of the problem — the propaganda that got us into this mess!
It all started in the 1970’s when nine of America’s most wealthy, and most far right, foundations pooled their money to steal America’s political agenda.
And they invented to term the “Reagan Revolution” — what a bunch of hogwash! Returning America to the Dark Ages is hardly revolutionary!
But what is most egregious was their tactic in shifting America’s wealth upward — into the coffers of the already most wealthy — creating an enormous disparity in wealth distribution — the same as happened in the 1920s.
And it was all about greed. There was no interest in America, Americans — or investing in a better America.
It is the loss of power that disturbs Republicans when they lose — that is why they are so vitriolic against their “enemies” — rather than the loss of what is good for America, and the human race, which concerns Democrats.
For Republicans it was all about lie, cheat and rob America blind to get elected — so they could lie, cheat and rob America blind once elected!
For instance, starting with Reagan — the scheme was to drive up massive deficits so they could then give massive tax cuts to the most wealthy and pass the bill along to our grandchildren!
In short, it was a total perversion of Keynesian economics, in which Keynes suggested that governments incur deficits “to benefit the people,” when there is a downturn in the market economy!
And this perversion of Keynesian Economics was the Republican agenda from 1980 — right up to Nov. 4, 2008! Sarah Palin was still trying to peddle this grotesque concept.
McCain at least understood the fallacy in this thinking. Palin still doesn’t get it! It is like building our home on quicksand — and that it would all come crashing down on our heads is not a someday, maybe but an absolute certainty. We are currently living it.
And the real tragedy is that our only way out, at present, is via a massive infusion of government money to shore up and keep our economy from falling apart.
The alternative would cause excessive damage to present and future generations — if we didn’t use this tool to correct.
Once fixed, of course, then we can start paying down the debt — but not now! And the real tragedy is the obscene increase in our deficit caused by the folly of the Bush administration — which has infinitely compounded the problem!
That was the lesson of the Great Depression — when Hoover did not believe that the government had a role in fixing the problems caused by the excesses of the 1920’s.
Hoover suggest we all sing songs so we could forget about the growing unemployment — and the problem only got worse, and worse, and brought on the Great Depression.
Jim Green,
Seguin
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