Letters to the Editor 06/13/2007

To the Editor:

In response to R.T. Tihista. First of all, the facts that I mentioned are easily obtained by reading the Heritage Foundation Web site. Go to outlawnet.com, click on politics and you will find countless, well researched articles on immigration.

One goes into great depth of the effect of uneducated immigrants on our social service systems. It estimates that for every $9,000 earned by one of these people, $30,000 in social services will be consumed. So spend some time reading.

Senator Kennedy among other was responsible for ramming this legislation through. Many Senators, such as Jeff Sessions, were excluded.

Blip on the scope is a figure of speech. By that I meant the cost of this immigration bill, estimated by the Heritage Foundation as in the trillions, will dwarf the money spent in Iraq. Secondly, chain immigration which allows everyone with a Z visa to bring relatives could bring an additional 36 to 40 million to this country, a large percentage of those seeking government services.

(The letter was intended to state) that if nothing is done we would be faced with the military annexation of Mexico. The Mexican government refuses to provide any solutions for their own people. If we are faced with 40 million Mexicans we will have to consider a change at the borders.

Victor Davis Hanson, classicist and historian at the Hoover, Stanford University, (is) one of my sources and hardly an irrational conservative. He is a fifth-generation Californian and wrote a book titled Mexifornia. He speaks from personal experience:

"There is a final irony: The more Western elites ignore their own laws, allow unassimilated ethnic ghettos and profit from an exploitative labor market, the more their own nations will begin to resemble the very places immigrants come from."

Is this what you want?

Terry Burke

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To the Editor:

For all of you doing your best to have the USFS property developed in a sound and intelligent way, please, please, do not give up. It would be really sad to see a flock of "outlet" stores on that property.

Thank you very much for all of your hard work and desire to keep Sisters the wonderful place that it is.

Pat & Elaine Eastman

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To the Editor:

On April 23, 2007, the Sisters School District Superintendent presented to the board his recommendation to accept out-of-district transfers. The board took no action. There has been no vote on this issue. Accepting transfers without a vote of the board is unlawful. All business of a local school board must be evidenced by a majority vote of the directors. ORS 332.055.

On March 12, 2007, the board authorized the sale of credit obligations not to exceed $2.1 million. The SSD then issued $2.1 million in tax-free bonds. This violates Oregon law specific to local funding of capital projects in public school districts. ORS 328.205. The board must call for an election. ORS 328.210. A bond issue must be authorized by a majority vote of the electors. ORS 328.213.

The SSD cites ORS 271.390 as providing legal authority to sell these bonds without voter approval. It does not. ORS 328.213 is specific to this bond sale and mandates voter approval. The taxpayers and voters of this district deserve an explanation.

Directors Gould, Dumolt and Lasken approved this bond sale. The first two get a pass. This is their first bond issue, and they were not board members when the home-schooling scheme was conceived and implemented. Mr. Lasken was and should resign. He is an attorney and should know better. He was involved in the effort to secure the high school bond and knows that voter approval is required.

Mike Morgan