In the dark about the new light bulbs
To the editor:
President Obama did not have complete information when he pressed for the use of fluorescent light bulbs for the home (Review-Journal, June 30). He did not say:
1) All of the fluorescent light bulbs that he talked about are made in China. Most of the incandescent bulbs used are made in America. What is the cost of the loss of American jobs?
2) The fluorescent bulbs contain mercury. No proper way has been developed to dispose of this mercury. If a bulb should break at home, most people do not know about the danger of the mercury and will likely end up contaminating the home during cleanup.
3) Most of the available information about the life and light output of these lamps is incorrect and exaggerated.
So if the president wants to put American workers out of work and pollute homes, ban the incandescent bulb.
Sonny Sonnenfeld
HENDERSON
Military man
To the editor
The June 24 issue of the Review-Journal had on the front page a bio of Ed McMahon. Yes, he was well known as a show business personality, but nowhere was it mentioned that he was a decorated veteran of two wars, World War II and Korea, achieving the rank of colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps. Isn't his military service as a fighter pilot, worthy enough to, at least, be recognized along with his show business record?
FAYE KITRAL
HENDERSON
Got it right
To the editor:
As a former San Francisco resident and also a health care administrator, I read the thoughtful Sunday commentaries by Patrick J. Buchanan, "California, here we come!" and Larry Elder, "Forty-five million uninsured?" Both got it right.
Regarding the first, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had to deal with majority state lawmakers. Spending beyond our means has consequences (more new taxes on the middle class). Also, I agree that "diversity" has lost its glow. Not that diversity is a bad thing, but as I have experienced, it isn't all that good either. Gang wars in he Bay Area, for example, are mostly between "diverse" groups.
As for Mr. Elder's piece, millions more can access health care through government "socialized" programs already. Why is it proposed that we cut programs such as Medicare by 21 percent in favor of some kind of unplanned expensive (taxpayer) program? Why are out emergency rooms so overcrowded already? Many hospitals have closed their ERs altogether. Where will this trillion dollars go? Most of the injured who come to the ER do not have insurance and are not signed up for Medicare. The hospitals (those that still accept Medicare) are underpaid for their expenses. Those hospitals have to eat the extra costs or pass the "loss" onto "insured" patients.
I hope our Congress will read these commentaries and get the message.
SUSAN OVUKA WELLS
LAS VEGAS
Lying pols
To the editor:
I noticed that your June 26 article about the celebration at the Rio in favor of the domestic partner rights law passed by the 2009 Legislature that there was no mention of elderly or heterosexual domestic partners in attendance. Yet it was for those people, we were told, that in was necessary to use "common sense" and see the "broader implications" in passing the law over voter objections.
Obviously, legislators snowed the public again about their true agenda. But I guess voters shouldn't be surprised anymore. Recently we have been snowed everywhere from the statehouse to the White House on issues we were told wouldn't or would happen if we elected them. Now their excuse is "things change."
It would appear the only things that don't change are candidates lying to voters to get elected and voters not holding those they elect accountable for "changing things."
KENT RISCHLING
LAS VEGAS
Energy tax
To the editor:
As citizens of this nation, we should all maintain adequate knowledge of what transpires within our government. In these difficult days, people should have focused their attention on the massive energy bill that was pushed through the House of Representatives in an absurdly rushed manner last month.
The president, leaders of his administration, the speaker and Democratic senators joined in a concerted high pressured effort to induce representatives to vote for this bill, which none of them had an opportunity to even read. Of course, citizens also had no access to the bill before it was jammed through this House.
The reason for this massive energy bill was allegedly to save the planet Earth from global warming due to man-made CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use. The Democratic Party religion! But why the insane rush? I think now we know. It appears this was all a fraud.
A few days before this June 26 vote, some good citizen leaked a secret April 2009 draft of an Environmental Protection Agency scientific report on climate change and man-mad CO2 causation, which had been effectively suppressed by the administrator of the EPA and the Obama administration. This scientific report found that the U.N. report indicating global warming was political and unreliable. The EPA study shows no global warming, but actual cooling. The EPA science also shows CO2 gas doesn't raise atmospheric temperature.
The scientists were immediately ordered to suppress the report and not to talk about it. Threats of firing were involved. It was hidden. Leaked e-mails show the suppression ordered by Democratic politicians. When Obama and his political conspirators learned of the leak, this fraudulent bill was rushed immediately through the House.
The bill will increase everyone's energy bills, require government approval on use and sales of our homes and generally control everything we do if it affects energy use. The tax on energy is huge.
Government control of all energy and use? Just business as usual by the most corrupt government ever seen in this country.
JOHN TOBIN
LAS VEGAS
