I read with great interest your recent article in the newspaper about the Lindale Library. Due to the loss of several key donors, and a decline in individual donations, the library was in dire danger of closing. That would have been a sad day indeed for Lindale, Texas.

For such a small town, Lindale Library has been an exceedingly nice and very well-run facility. Carrie Custer, the Lindale Library director and all of the staff have gone “above and beyond” any time I need help. I have enjoyed using it since the beginning. I have been going at least once a week, and sometimes more. The library also hosts many activities for the Lindale community and beyond.

Therefore, I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to Rusty Braziel for enabling the Lindale Library to remain open.

Alice Wright

Lindale

 

WHAT IF?

What if “hope and change” are promised but the hope is false and the change is bad? What if someone sat in Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Church for 20 years and actually believed the message, “not God Bless America but God D— America”? What if some misguided politicians believed that Iran should be allowed to build nuclear bombs, even with their repeated promises to use them to destroy Israel and the “infidels” of the world? What if open, unsecured borders allow terrorists to easily enter our country and ultimate kill thousands of our citizens? What if someone studied our Constitution and found the weaknesses in it that our Founders warned about — such as using public money and false promises to buy voter groups with unearned benefits, perks, biased rules and wasteful grants? What if incumbents in Congress and even political parties discovered they could buy their own re-elections, year after year?

Answer to all: Our liberty, freedom and Constitution will be collectively lost to all of us.

Harry Bergman

Frankston

 

HILLARY

I was astonished that one of the loudest cheerleaders for Hillary Clinton may have indirectly incriminated her with her recent private e-mail server scandal. Former Clinton advisor James Carville reportedly told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, “I suspect she didn’t want Louie Gohmert rifling through her emails.” Carville is crafty, coarse and controversial, but his candid comment may be close to a confession of possible Clinton criminality by deliberately postulating the circumventing of governmental transparency with official business. Carville has sunk Hillary Clinton’s credibility while simultaneously elevating the diligent scrutiny of Congressman Louie Gohmert.

James A. Marples

Longview

 

SOCIAL SECURITY

Recently, in a discussion with my insurance agent, he and I came across a topic which no one currently acknowledges as important. It’s a very simple question. Since the system began, taxpayers and employers have dutifully paid into the system, year after year. What percentage of these people died before reaching the age of 62 and never received a Social Security check?

What happens to their accounts when an individual dies? Do the moneys which were paid into these accounts merely disappear or fade into the General Fund? When a politician is asked what happens to this money, there is never a definitive answer.

Since the system began, the government continually borrows against it to pay for “something,” usually not defined. Then the Social Security System is left with useless IOU’s.

Clifford Rockwell

Noonday