We Shouldn’t Be So Quick to Find Fault With Our Leaders
We Shouldn’t Be So Quick to Find Fault With Our Leaders
Editor,
I hope we join together in praying for our leaders starting with President Bush including all the way down to the ones who carry responsibilities in making local decisions. Let God guide them in making fair choices.
To me the world is going bananas because lack of conscience, lack of following the Ten Commandments, lack of listening to the word of God.
Nevertheless, all of them carrying lots of responsibility are exposed to criticism.
I have been watching when they catch our president off guard and being unprepared. Sometime he comes out with not the choice words. There are always the ones prepared with a camera or a microphone trying to find fault to make a buck or a story.
In speaking after the word is out, there is no way to get them back. It happens with all the speakers.
Myself, I choose writing because you always can change or cover any mistake as you see it before you print. Can’t happen to any speaker.
No question, we have to keep our eye on corruption. There have been the ones who have let everybody down to overload themselves.
We have our right to criticize them.
It’s like enjoying living under the laws of God, but in the meantime you have to keep your eye on the devil.
I feel city and county need lots of expertise, vision, attitude, and the will to see things in a way everybody will be treated fairly. Not be afraid to work and be happy with the results.
Being positive is a must. There are always those negative ones that you must ignore. The ones with sore feet who are not wild to follow with the others out of the mud. Those are worthless. Negative is fail word.
Amadeu Lima
Hollister
Airport Funds Can’t Be Used to Cover Police, Fire Cutbacks
Editor,
In a letter to the editor published on Jan. 16, N. Brooks questions the city on its proposed cuts versus better management (“Hollister Needs Better Management, Not Cuts”).
In one of the letter’s five points, the writer questions the salaries for the newly expanded airport staff, and whether they are more important than the fire and police department’s cutbacks.
This merits clarification.
Funds raised by the airport by hangar rents, tie down fees, landing fees etc., go into the airport enterprise fund. They are raised by the airport for running and maintaining the airport, making it self-supporting.
Airport enterprise funds, which were being paid to city departments for various airport services, are now being paid directly to an increased airport staff.
All enterprise funds are created to support only those specific enterprises and cannot be used for other purposes. Those departments or projects must be self supporting.
Ruth Erickson
Hollister
