Traverse City Record-Eagle

Archive: Tuesday

February 7, 2012

Letters to the Editor: 02/07/2012

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Calling us to account

I read recently that a majority of folk in our community answering the question regarding the Obama administration and "class warfare" believe that the Obama administration is responsible for encouraging the "warfare."

The rhetoric that surrounds this issue is not one used by Obama but by his critics. He has stated time and again that he has no issue with wealth in America. He just believes that over the past several decades those who have been given much have given less to the support of common concerns. The fact that so many pay such a small percentage of taxes indicates the growing numbers of people finding themselves in poverty. They don't make enough to pay taxes.

That is a problem. Government spending contributes to corporate welfare as well as human welfare. To ask for more is not class warfare unless the class you are in believes it is being attacked. Those who live with less could talk about class warfare that has been inflicted upon them and their style of life over the decades. The changes in our country have not benefited the majority, and the current administration is simply calling us all to account.

President Obama seeks "class welfare."

Robert McQuilkin

Frankfort

A healthier alternative

We are a nation bent on killing the messenger and ignoring the message. We deal with the symptoms and not the cause. We kill pain by taking painkillers. We kill organs of our bodies by surgery and radiation. We kill the bacteria and fungi that attack our weak cousins: human, animal and plant.

All life forms depend on good nutrition to supply life-force energy for optimal health — from cells to organs to organisms, otherwise they sicken and die.

All plants, including fruit trees, need a full and balanced menu of macro and micro nutrients. Agricultural practice today depends on a few elements rather than providing all the organic nutrients plants need for healthy growth. It is no wonder the crops weaken and are attacked by disease. Antibiotics only treat the symptoms and not the problem. The problem persists and as a consequence the food we eat has little nutritional value. Then, too, do we really want to ingest the fungicides and antibiotics sprayed on the trees?

Using a natural product such as Azomite, which supplies all the nutrients that healthy plants require, would be a healthier alternative. Let's build the soil, not poison it further with more antibiotics.

Charlotte Seager

Northport

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