“Concerning the issue of right to work, I am a proud union member who doesn’t mind paying union dues. This small amount of money ensures that I have a living wage, health care benefits, safety improvements, and workplace equality. I wouldn’t mind if a coworker didn’t have to pay these dues, as long as he or she didn’t receive the same benefits.”
— Clear Spring


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“On CNN, Wolf Blitzer just made a great statement. He said he doesn’t care how much the government raises the taxes on the 109 million people that work; they still can’t support the 87 million people who don’t want to work or who only work part time.”
— Williamsport

“Yeah, just because Maryland put, legalized same-sex marriage doesn’t mean they have to keep putting it all over the news and putting it in the newspapers, because I don’t want to read about it or see it. It’s wrong. Get saved. Get Jesus.”
— Martinsburg, W.Va.

“My comment is about, or to, all these gun control nuts who say that armed people at our schools won’t work. Then answer one question: Why is there a county sheriff or a state police car sitting at all these schools all over the country, if an armed person at a school isn’t what’s going to deter people from doing stupid things like what happened up in Connecticut? Simple answer: They go into a place that’s not armed. They won’t go into a place where they know someone is going to be there that can shoot back. End of story.”
— Huyetts

“I’d just like to ask these gun lovers who want all these weapons like the Army uses, whether they’d sooner have a grandchild, hold a grandchild on their lap, or have one of their guns on their lap. So think about it a little bit. We don’t need all the guns on the market.”
— Hagerstown

“This is in response to a lady who had a piece in Mail Call, this was in Wednesday morning’s paper, Jan. 2. She’s willing to pay more taxes to have police officers put in schools because she’s a mother, an aunt and a grandparent and everything, and she thinks it’s a good idea to have cops in schools to watch the kids. Well, ma’am, I’m a taxpayer, too. I’m not willing to pay more taxes. Let them take some of that $540,000 they got off the speed cameras around the school, and let them take that money and put cops in the schools.”
— Hagerstown

“Couple of decades ago, a notorious international gang held a summit meeting in the Tri-State area, endangering the local citizens. Government and the media looked the other way. This is one good reason why we need a strong Second Amendment.”
— Hagerstown

“How dare the president of the U.S. blame people who are on retirement and getting Medicare for being the problem of the deficit. It’s all these federal, state, county and city office buildings that have way too many people sitting around all day, not doing anything. About every office in the U.S. could have at least one person removed from the office, and the office would still function just fine. This is what we did back in the ’80s, and the country didn’t shut down. Just makes people who are getting all the benefits and good money working for the county and the federal government to actually do some work. Cut those jobs, not the old people.”
— Hagerstown

“I am sick and tired of this argument that guns don’t kill, people do. If there were no guns or if the guns were controlled, people couldn’t kill. The finger couldn’t pull the trigger without a gun.”
— Hagerstown

“If the gun had been banned during colonial times, we would still be bowing and kissing the hand of the king and queen of England. If we ban guns now, we will bowing to kiss the hand of President Obama. Not something this American will ever do.”