National debt still growing
      The interest payment on the national debt for 2007 was over $429 billion, totaling nearly as much as 2007 budgeted defense spending, and this should speak for itself as to the weight of this increasing national problem. Interest owed has risen from the $352 billion in 2005 to $405 billion in 2006 ...
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Funding cuts hamper CASA
      Congress has cut victim assistance funds 22 percent over the past two federal fiscal years under the Victims of Crime Act. The administration's 2009 budget request would cut another 20 percent from VOCA victim assistance funding. The VOCA Fund is a separate account generated by federal criminal fi...
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Democrats don't hate their country
      I had the unsettling experience of reading Donald N. Baker's most recent letter to the editor. Since before I could vote I have identified myself politically as a Democrat but never have I thought of Republicans so lowly as to believe that they hated America, despite how many times we have been le...
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Cost to taxpayers
      After allowing myself an ample amount of time to filter through and study the profuse rhetoric of "More concerned than ever" [April 29 letters to the editor], I did manage to identify and condense its overall theme.
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