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“Man up and raise taxes, Chambersburg caller? Forget it. Every time Republicans have agreed to tax increases with promises of future spending cuts, those cuts never, ever happen. You want more revenue, install a corporate flat tax everybody pays, and get rid of all loopholes, special tax credits, and favoritism for politicians’ favorite industries, like GE, which paid no federal income tax last year. Raising rates on millionaires won’t change that. And get rid of the de facto Gulf drilling war ... allow drilling off our coast and approve the Keystone oil pipeline, for starters. That’d create hundreds of thousands of real, good-paying jobs.”
— Frederick, Md.
“We have a large, empty aircraft plant here in Hagerstown, Md. I see Congress wants to build a big new aircraft plant in South Carolina. Where’s our congressmen? We could save millions for the taxpayers, by putting it here.”
— Hagerstown
“Everyone should keep a diary.”
— Hagerstown
“This is in regard to the efforts to revitalize the downtown. A number of ideas have been circulating, and proposals have been made, but one major thing has been overlooked, and I feel it is a necessity, and that being the need other than parking decks, to have totally free curbside parking in all four geographic directions within a two-block radius of the center of Hagerstown.”
— Hagerstown
“In response to George Michael’s opinion column of Dec. 2: First, he criticizes the Occupy Wall Street people for their demand that the rich help the poor, citing Karl Marx and suggesting it’s communist to ask these things, yet ignoring that this is pretty much the same thing that Jesus said. Then, when it comes to the common people demanding that Social Security, which they paid into, be protected, he turns around and says that they should all share. In other words, reversing his logic. And this man was principal of a Christian school? Wow.”
— Keedysville
“Mark Keller should not preach to the choir, unless he endorses the same attitude. There are some schools in the county that could win every game, tournament, but if it is not the team that he and the paper endorse or favors, then they might as well not expect any front-page headlines or great write-ups. Yes, you do favor certain teams, and the other schools seem to be dropped by the wayside. A Hall of Fame is a good idea, if it is done properly, and not by The Herald-Mail’s sports department.”
— Hagerstown
“I would just like to thank the person who stole my ceramic gray cat. It was a headstone, and it was put there in memory of my cat that was killed, that was a family member for 14 years, and I hope it makes you happy that you had to walk by and steal something from somebody. This happened on Summit Avenue, and I used to think Summit Avenue was a good neighborhood, but this part of Summit Avenue is a bad ... Since I’ve lived in this neighborhood, I’ve had four bicycles stolen, and now my ceramic cat.”
— Hagerstown
“To Boonsboro caller, who wants Hagerstown caller to check facts so they can talk intelligently, I suggest you check with the U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2001 when Bush took office, the unemployment rate was 4.2. While he was still in office in 2008, the rate took a drastic rise to 7.3, in December 2008. The rate was 7.8 when Obama took office in 2009 (not 4.9). Unemployment rates began their climb while Bush was still in office in 2008, and continued to climb as the country was headed toward the second worst depression/recession ever.”
— Smithsburg
“Reading about the Appalachian Trail race reminds me again that we don’t have to wait to be conquered. We have done it to ourselves. Our autocratic bureaucracy and suffocating regulation would make (anyone) proud.”
— Keedysville
— Frederick, Md.
“We have a large, empty aircraft plant here in Hagerstown, Md. I see Congress wants to build a big new aircraft plant in South Carolina. Where’s our congressmen? We could save millions for the taxpayers, by putting it here.”
— Hagerstown
“Everyone should keep a diary.”
— Hagerstown
“This is in regard to the efforts to revitalize the downtown. A number of ideas have been circulating, and proposals have been made, but one major thing has been overlooked, and I feel it is a necessity, and that being the need other than parking decks, to have totally free curbside parking in all four geographic directions within a two-block radius of the center of Hagerstown.”
— Hagerstown
“In response to George Michael’s opinion column of Dec. 2: First, he criticizes the Occupy Wall Street people for their demand that the rich help the poor, citing Karl Marx and suggesting it’s communist to ask these things, yet ignoring that this is pretty much the same thing that Jesus said. Then, when it comes to the common people demanding that Social Security, which they paid into, be protected, he turns around and says that they should all share. In other words, reversing his logic. And this man was principal of a Christian school? Wow.”
— Keedysville
“Mark Keller should not preach to the choir, unless he endorses the same attitude. There are some schools in the county that could win every game, tournament, but if it is not the team that he and the paper endorse or favors, then they might as well not expect any front-page headlines or great write-ups. Yes, you do favor certain teams, and the other schools seem to be dropped by the wayside. A Hall of Fame is a good idea, if it is done properly, and not by The Herald-Mail’s sports department.”
— Hagerstown
“I would just like to thank the person who stole my ceramic gray cat. It was a headstone, and it was put there in memory of my cat that was killed, that was a family member for 14 years, and I hope it makes you happy that you had to walk by and steal something from somebody. This happened on Summit Avenue, and I used to think Summit Avenue was a good neighborhood, but this part of Summit Avenue is a bad ... Since I’ve lived in this neighborhood, I’ve had four bicycles stolen, and now my ceramic cat.”
— Hagerstown
“To Boonsboro caller, who wants Hagerstown caller to check facts so they can talk intelligently, I suggest you check with the U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2001 when Bush took office, the unemployment rate was 4.2. While he was still in office in 2008, the rate took a drastic rise to 7.3, in December 2008. The rate was 7.8 when Obama took office in 2009 (not 4.9). Unemployment rates began their climb while Bush was still in office in 2008, and continued to climb as the country was headed toward the second worst depression/recession ever.”
— Smithsburg
“Reading about the Appalachian Trail race reminds me again that we don’t have to wait to be conquered. We have done it to ourselves. Our autocratic bureaucracy and suffocating regulation would make (anyone) proud.”
— Keedysville
