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On El Tinklenberg, health care, past letter |
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Wednesday, 30 April 2008 |
Pleased by El
I was pleased to see that El Tinklenberg received the DFL endorsement to run for Congress. I have specific reasons for my support of Tinklenberg.
They are rooted in El’s positions on the issues and my judgment of his character, but the underlying reason is that his approach to the economy would be great for our district, state, and our nation.
He vows to support universal health care as a means to making American workers more competitive in the global marketplace. He proposes a farm bill that rewards responsible land management practices and supports local family farms.
But underlying these examples is an understanding of the American economy that is essential to our future prosperity.
He certainly isn’t the tax-and-spend Democrat that our current Congresswoman will attempt to peg him as.
El knows better than to kill the golden goose of the American businessman and worker with taxation. Nor is he the even worse borrow-and-spend type that President Bush has been and that our current Congresswoman strongly embraces.
He insists that it’s downright immoral to build up the bill, walking off to leave it for our kids and grandkids to pay.
That’s the path to a prosperous America. Join me in supporting El Tinklenberg for Congress in Congressional District Six, and he will stand up for working families.
We badly need his sane, moral intelligence representing us in the halls of Congress.
Gerry Parzino
Forest Lake
The right thing
The Community Scholarship Foundation set an ambitious goal of raising $75,000 to distribute to 2008 graduates and post-graduates. With two weeks left in our official campaign and awarding of scholarships we have yet to make our goal.
The number of student applications for scholarships has increased by more than 50 over last year when we awarded $61,000.
You may access our yearly brochure, donor information and volunteer board member names at forestlakecsf.org. CSF accepts donations, endowments, named memorial, family and honor contributions.
CSF is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation and all contributions are tax deductible subject to IRS regulations.
Very simply, you can help out deserving students and extend the tradition of supporting students by writing a check today to CSF and send it to Community Scholarship Foundation, Forest Lake High School, c/o Student Services Department, 6101 Scandia Trail N., Forest Lake MN 55025.
Since 1973, CSF has awarded students more than $660,000. Our thanks go to the generosity of the many civic-minded businesses, service organizations and individuals like you.
As one of our board members said, “investing in students is always the right thing to do.”
Bill and Jill Somrock
CSF Board Members
Forest Lake
Funds Needed
Funding for nursing homes is often a large debate at the State Capitol. Making sure our older citizens are taken care of should be a priority. That is why I have supported, on numerous occasions, giving a respectable increase to those who care for our parents and grandparents.
Last year in the Health and Human Services bill nursing homes received a mere 2% increase.
That increase does not go very far at all, especially when people have to pay more at the gas pump, grocery store, and post office. We should provide a larger increase, especially because the money is there to do it.
The Health Care Access Fund has nearly a $300 million surplus. This fund can only be used for health care related expenses. Paying those who work in nursing homes through these funds makes good, common sense.
I, along with my fellow House Republicans, believe nursing home and long-term care workers are a critical part of our world-class health care system.
We propose using $20.8 million from the Health Care Access Fund to provide a 2.25% cost-of-living increase of nursing home workers and a 1.25% increase for other long-term care providers.
These people work hard to care for people in the nursing homes. They deserve to be compensated fairly for their work.
Making sure residents of nursing homes are well cared for means making sure the people who care for them are paid what they are worth.
Let’s make sure they get the money they need, and use the funds that are already dedicated for such uses.
Rep. Bob Dettmer
District 52A
Forest Lake
Tell the vets
In a recent Forest Lake Times Open Forum, Curtis Nelson writes: “We all support our troops, but that is not what this about and those and Mayor Stegner who wear their so called patriotism (nationalism/militarism, really) on their sleeves know it, or should know it.”
I say tell that to the veterans who fought and died for your freedom.
While over 3000 people died during 911, who were they, just some number?
These vets for freedom had agreed to a forum and experience in Afghanistan and Iraq. Not to justify a war, but to give their experiences which could have concluded some of your observations.
An anonymous author wrote: “War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed state of moral and patriotic feeling, which thinks nothing is worth a war, is worse.
“A man who has nothing which he cares more about than his own personal safety is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless he is made free and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
Eugene Huerstel
Forest Lake
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