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Aug. 15 - Sept. 4, 2009 33
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Editor
Keep up the good work
either by insurance agencies or by regulating and law enforcement, but provide incentives for it? Is it a good
First of all, I want to compliment
driving past our banner on Lindsay Rd. even these functions are a cost, albeit thing for everybody? Government
you on your excellent newspaper. I
It is our intention to replace the necessary, to the economy and society. promoting home ownership, especially
look forward to reading it front to back,
banner with a permanent installation 2. Private businesses in a for people who couldn’t afford it,
clipping articles as I go along. I’ve
that would also function at night. competitive free market directed distorted the free markets for housing
also had great success with many of
Each quote we’ve received has been by prices can do almost anything causing the huge real estate bubble
your advertisers and classified ads.
entirely cost-prohibitive at this time. better than governments. that burst and is now causing a
Second, I am so pleased to read
2. Prior to working in this office, 3. Fiscal stimulus doesn’t work. You difficult dislocation in our country.
the new articles about jazz in the
I graduated architecture school in can’t spend your way out of debt. My suggestion to Obama is to
East Valley. It’s so hard to find
Arizona and worked as a residential Every dollar a government spends read the writing of all wise men,
good jazz in Arizona – I’m excited
and commercial contractor for nearly has to first be taken out of the especially our great presidents:
you are highlighting Jazz in AZ,
5 years. Nothing in my years of economy from taxpayers. If not taken “Government is not reason; it is not
and especially East Valley jazz venues.
education or practice would suggest immediately, it is simply in the form eloquence. It is force. And force, like
Keep up the long, hard,
our modestly-sized banner is imposing of a delayed tax increase as it adds fire, is a dangerous servant and a
but highly appreciated work.
an aesthetic distraction to the Lindsay to the gargantuan national debt. fearful master.” George Washington
Linda Peterson-Price,
Groves office park which, like so Government spending is simply wealth “The government that governs least,
Countryside Estates
many others, remains overwhelmingly redistribution. There is overwhelming governs best.” Thomas Jefferson
unoccupied. Without this banner, evidence that fiscal stimulus doesn’t “Government does not
there is literally no visual interest work and has never worked, but this solve problems; it subsidizes
Small biz needs local
in our building for the hundreds of doesn’t fit an agenda being advanced them.” Ronald Reagan
gov’t help, not harm
potential customers who pass daily. to control more and more of our lives. Glenn Hamp, Las Casitas Del Sur
I am the office manager for All
3. This is a rare opportunity in 4. Profit is not a dirty word.
About Smiles Pediatric Dentistry, a
which citizens are literally pleading Profits are the compensation for
small, privately owned business
with the government to take our the investment individuals have
opened May 2008. In April, I was
money when nothing is expected in made and the risks taken to bring
notified by the City of Gilbert’s
return. I think this story is incredibly innovative ideas to market. This
representative Steven Hall that our
relevant in the times we’re all return on invested capital is typically
business was required to renew
struggling through, and I firmly earned over long periods of time,
the permit for a temporary banner
believe the City of Gilbert should is always uncertain and in many
Letters to the Editor
advertising basic contact information
be publicly chastised for hindering cases is never returned. Free market
We know you have an opinion! Share it
with the SanTan Sun News. Unless you’re the
for daily drivers on Lindsay Road.
the success of its own population capitalism is as American as apple
Mayor, however, please keep your Letters
Unfortunately, when I attempted
over an obviously frivolous statute. pie and is what built America into
to the editor around 200-300 words, or they
to pay the $220 fee for 6 more
John Kerbaugh, office manager, the economic powerhouse that it
may be edited for length. Include your first
and last name, community or development
months of use, I was informed the
AAS Pediatric Dentistry is today. It rewards individuality,
name in Southern Chandler (Cooper Commons,
banner could be displayed only half
courage and promotes freedom.
Ocotillo, Sun Groves, etc.) or ZIP code and
of any given 12 month period.
5. Social engineering distorts
daytime phone number for verification.
Anonymous letters are not typically accepted.
This information was very
Obama lacks the free markets and rarely works
Email is the preferred submission method, to
disheartening and confusing, and I
economic know-how as intended. The notion that home
Letters@SanTanSun.com.
composed a letter to Adam Adams,
Everyone knows that Barack ownership is a “good” thing is widely
Opinions expressed in Community
Commentaries, Letters to the editor or
code compliance administrator,
Obama has never run a business, but held. Most don’t argue against this,
cartoons are those of the author, and not that
citing several good reasons why,
did he ever take a basic economics but is it the government’s role to
of the SanTan Sun News.
in these economic times, the
course in college? We don’t know
City of Gilbert should allow us to
because he has sealed his college
extend our contract to its renewal
transcripts and won’t allow the public
eligibility date of Sept. 24, 2009:
to see any of his school records.
1. Ours is a family owned-and-
Chances are that Obama didn’t take
operated business – something
any economics or finance classes
increasingly rare in the tattered
because he demonstrates such naiveté
remains of our economy. We provide
about economics and an obvious
an invaluable and highly specialized
disdain for free market capitalism.
service to children of the Gilbert
Essential things that Obama didn’t
community and surrounding areas.
learn through life lessons or in school:
Like so many others, we simply do
1. Government doesn’t create
not have the budget for a corporate
jobs. The government doesn’t create
advertising campaign; most of our
real jobs that add net value to the
customers are referred to this office
economy. Arguably the government
must play some minor role in
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