To the Editor:
Imagine the little, matronly lady walking her grandchildren along U.S. 40 in Plainfield in 1955. Dwight Eisenhower is President. Imagine she passes on to the Lord in 1958. Imagine she returns for a month now, to be with family, read papers, watch TV.
She understands she is in a different world. Homosexual marriage, abortions in the millions, a divorce rate about 50 percent. Prayer is not in schools, Christians are under attack. Americans wanting to prosecute military men and women, CIA types, for the way they handled the enemy. The military, stretched thin, is all volunteer, no politician willing to even consider a draft.
She hears of California, $42 billion in debt, with the legislature wanting to give themselves raises, with the government unions gaining the President’s help to avoid layoffs intended to save taxpayer money.
On average, government workers make 47 percent more than their civilian counterparts. Polls consistently show since 1975 Americans want more government, not less. Over 40 percent of the nation pays no federal income tax.
She sees a nation mostly overweight, two-thirds of the public school students in Indianapolis not graduating. She learns of the Internet, legalized pornography in the home. A lady at the local library, just moving here from California, refuses to reveal the ages of her children for fear of pedophiles stalking her home. “I’m not used to Indiana yet,” she says. “You take too much for granted.”
Her government is running close to a $12 trillion deficit, owning car and loan companies. There is talk globally of America on the wane. In Europe, church attendance is 4 percent, Islam the fast growing faith there.
After a month, she says her good-byes, gladly returns to her heavenly home. She knows the only way to restore the attitude she knew of this country, the spirit of sacrifice and unity, of servanthood and faith, self reliance, courage, patriotism, is to turn to Jesus Christ.
Greg Black
Plainfield
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Things certainly are not what they were
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From the bench ...
A judge sentencing a criminal defendant takes many factors into consideration. I cannot describe them all in one article, so this article will have a sequel.
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Donation gives boost to this volunteer
Most people I come into contact with know that I am a board member for Susie’s Place, Hendricks County’s Child Advocacy Center.
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— Senior moment —
In addition to all of the major happenings here in Hendricks County, sometimes this paper, the Hendricks County Flyer, holds a little gem, a surprise of a happening. Such was the case last week when I read of a play scheduled to take place at Brownsburg High School. This was not a play rehearsed for weeks and weeks, but a work completed just this summer by a college student, a BHS graduate of 2009.
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The tax that wasn't
Prior to the passage of the health-care law, President Barack Obama was at his most emphatic and condescending in insisting the penalty for defying the mandate to buy health insurance is not a tax.
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Letter to the Editor Oct. 27, 2010
I am not a citizen of the Avon community, but I feel compelled to point out what I consider to be a mis-statement in the article published in the Oct. 13 edition of the Hendricks County Flyer titled "ACSC considers school addition."
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An education in spending
Of all the things the Newark, N.J., school system needs, the last of them is more money. Newark spends more per pupil than any other city in the country, and gets dismayingly little for it. For $22,000 per pupil — more than twice the national average — it graduates half its students.
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From the bench ...
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