LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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Election fraud

We should welcome voter ID law

The Dec. 6 issue of The Sun News reports that the NAACP “rallies to fight voter ID laws.” I beg to differ with the NAACP in that this law is a “coordinated and comprehensive assault” on Latinos and black voters.

Rather, it is a coordinated effort by states to limit voter ID fraud.

I don't see what the argument is here. If you want to vote, you get a picture ID for a minimal fee that allows you to vote. What is the problem?

Further, what is even more appalling is that the NAACP would fight this law to ensure that there is in fact no voter fraud. Why do they not say anything about the Caucasian people? I am sure there are many Caucasian voters who do not have proper ID to vote. Again, it is a one-sided racist attempt to allow any person to walk in and vote without proper ID.

This law has absolutely nothing to do with limiting black and Latino voters. The law is to set up legal and honest polls with people of all race, color and creed. Is it so terrible to register to vote with a proper new ID and spend a few bucks to do it? If you are in South Carolina or any other state for that matter who has passed the law, and there legally, you should have no problem abiding by the law. I fail to see the argument here in any way shape or form.

I moved here from another state six years ago, have been using my S.C. drivers license as ID to vote, and have no problem what so ever in obtaining a second ID to vote legally. So my question is, why should anyone else have an issue with this if they are a legal resident?

This “fight” of the voter ID law is hogwash and it is an insult that the NAACP should think that it is solely unfair to Latinos and blacks and not to whites.

David Carlson

Longs

Communism?

Bailey picking and choosing targets

It is interesting that Issac Bailey (see Dec. 11 column) continues the rant against capitalism, or at least his version of capitalism.

Issac would have you believe the super wealthy have just recently appeared on the scene. Nonsense, and he knows it.

You can go back into most of the last century and find hundreds of names from the Rockefellers to the Vanderbilts. The list could on and on of those who were considered the super wealthy. The Kennedy family influenced American politics for decades and their wealth had lot to do with it.

Mr. Bailey has been guilty of class warfare both in this newspaper and his blog. However, there are groups that he conveniently forgets to mention when it comes to the super wealthy. It is professional athletes and Hollywood entertainers.

For instance, Tiger Woods earns hundred of millions of dollars. My grandson used to idolize Mr. Woods, but no more. I am sure my 12-year-old nephew will want to see his idol on the St. Louis Cardinals, Albert Pujols. No, he took his $254 million and left town. Young boys and girls in Cleveland wanted to see LeBron James play. No, he left for Florida with his $200 million.

You ever read Mr. Bailey discussing these people? Just a few people of the Hollywood type. For instance, Oprah is worth what, a billion dollars or some other obscene number? Do you think she is super wealthy? If I started to name every super wealthy Hollywood type there would not be enough ink to print all the names.

All of the above have two things in common, and that is they are super wealthy and liberal Democrats. In the end, Mr. Bailey’s society would look like something like this: Athletes and entertainers would live a privileged life along with certain politicians. The rest of us would all be same. We would finally find equality.

There was a country like that at one time. We used to see pictures of people standing in line to buy bread. Do any of you remember those pictures? That country was the Soviet Union.

Ronald Poole

Little River

Majority

The country

isn’t liberal

The fatal flaw of Obama and the Democratic Party is the country isn’t liberal. Liberalism is a small, minority view.

In order to have power, liberalism must govern against the will of the people, which is what President Obama and the Democratic Party in Congress have done.

And it isn’t going to work anymore. He is attacking the achievers of this country, the people who are self-reliant, who are paying the bulk of the taxes. Most of us Americans do not want Obamacare (nationalized medicine).

We must wake up and understand we are in the majority. The Democratic Party is what is destroying this country. The only hope they have is to play the class warfare game. The more programs they pass for people to be dependent on them, the more power they obtain and a voting base for life. Look back in the past at Russia and Cuba, which made their citizens dependent for the existence upon the central government.

Remember, we are the majority in this country, and we are the ones who make it work.

For the people who are complaining, you had a choice and voted Democrat. You get what you pay for.

Dennis Kalos

Myrtle Beach