Web letter: Hurricane repair not duty of swamped government

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Web letter by Jim Lambert: Coach Riley a leader by example for two generations of student-athletes

Just recently, we lost an excellent man and coach, David Riley.Look out, heaven, here comes an educated, well-dressed man in coaching attire with a basketball. His teams have won numerous championships:Tuesday

Web letter by Bart Corricelli: World War II vet has first-class Memorial Day at Parkview Field

It all started on a rainy Memorial Day. We went up to our veterans memorial in North Manchester as we do every Memorial Day. It was not a very good day. Our post commander, Johnny Wheeler, was ill and not present.Tuesday

Call me hard-hearted, I don’t care, but I don’t understand when we became a socialistic country. New York and New Jersey want $60 billion to repair the damage from hurricane Sandy and people are all up in arms because congress has not granted it yet.

Don’t those people have insurance? When you build a few feet from the ocean, or beneath the level of the ocean such as New Orleans, shouldn’t you expect to be flooded out now and then? Why should the rest of the country be expected to compensate for their stupidity?

This country is already in debt over $16 trillion and borrowing $4 billion a day. That $60 billion would require borrowing another $24 billion. When is it all going to stop?

WILLIAM COOK Leo