Re: October 8 issue

Edward Kennedy | Oct 14, 2015

Reading the October 8, 2015 Frontenac News gave me an insight on a few people whose names graced the insides therein.

Anita Payne, Green candidate said, on the front page (Reid Takes Heat For Government Record at All-Candidates Meetings), "The reason for teaching many of the subjects was to prepare students to live in the world, not always to get a job." Perhaps that opinion of a teacher which is synonymous with her fellow academics would explain why the Three R's of Reading, "riting and rithmetic" have been replaced by the near useless new Three R's of recycling, revisionism, and reproduction. It is easy to see why many students are functionally illiterate anymore but can sort recyclables.

Ross Sutherland who stated that "Every good town needs a beer store", in the council report (South Frontenac Council, Oct 8/15), appeared to be short-sighted, considering there have been serious tragic accidents resulting in loss of life and serious injuries to innocent men, women and children victimized by drivers under the influence of alcohol. Perhaps every good town would rather need a church where solid moral principles and personal responsibility were taught. Sadly, many churches today are in error and even apostate, functioning better as social clubs hosting BBQ's and strawberry socials.

The article Fact Check on Cimate Change as usual, as all such articles do, neglects to mention that carbon credits and environmental fees are but hidden taxes, embraced by the tax-and-spend policies of the NDP and the LPC/LPO. The "degrowthers" of course want to take us back a few centuries by reducing our industries, and oil production in favor of envirofascism and income redistribution, a socialist policy.

Jeff Green says, "This time it feels different for what it is worth." I would remind Mr Green that all is never as it meets the eye. If the electorate chooses some misguided and misinformed teacher as PM, one who has in all his majesty promised to legalize marijuana, which produces more toxic smoke than tobacco, or the tax-and-spend NDP, all I can say is they are as vapid as the fools who voted into office the POTUS.

All wrapped up, the whole first three pages draw a final comment from me, in reference to the meetings Scott Reid attended...he is a good man, having learned to suffer fools.

Good luck, Scott, you were always the best man in the mix. My vote will already have been cast for you by the time the editor reads this.