Letters to the editor Dec. 12
What’s that smell?
Did you read the story in the Daily Inter Lake about the University of Oregon football coach leaving his job to accept a football coach job in Miami? If you did not see it, this is what it says: Miami fired their current coach, Diaz, whose pay was $4,000,000 per year and hired Oregons Mario Cristobal at $8,000,000 per year.
The article says, and I quote, “The university has said it plans to give the athetics an influx of cash, in part, because the schools hospital system has seen profits skyrocket during the pandemic.”
Doesn’t that smell?
Where does the money come from? Typical government waste, excess taxes, our taxes used to pay for football coaches. Smell. Smell.
— Felix Dupuy, Whitefish
Mandates vs. legislation
In the current public discussion there seems to be some confusion between legislation and mandates. Legislation is the result of voters electing representatives to introduce, debate and vote on such things as laws requiring motorists to obey traffic signs or wear seat belts. The recent mandates emanating from the current occupant of the White House forego this legislative process and appear to be diktats from on high. While the author of said mandates claims the mantle of “necessary for public safety”, some citizens have not completely forgotten the idea of separation of powers as outlined in the U.S. Constitution. I suspect they are the heart of the resistance, via ongoing lawsuits, to the evolving authoritarian direction of the federal government. The endless struggle between liberty and security continues. We all have to decide how much liberty we will forego to achieve our desired level of safety. For those having trouble with this decision, I recommend a few hours perusing histories of governments throughout the world. The examples of foregone liberties being reacquired after a “crisis” has passed are few and far between.
— A.C. Fisher, Missoula
Tester has forgotten Montana
Senator Jon Tester recently published an opinion article indicating that he was creating jobs and lowering costs, but he is doing just the opposite. We are still paying farmers not to farm, and now we are paying everyone not to work. Many small businesses have shut down because they do not have workers and inflation makes us all poorer by the day.
He ended by saying he is proud to have worked hand-in-hand with Republicans, Democrats and their leaders. Having been a Montana state representative and senator, I know by personal experience that he did not work with Republicans when he was in the Montana Senate, and it is very evident that he does not in Washington D C.
Tester has had the unique opportunity to stop much of the damage done to Montana by the Biden administration. He could have used his precious vote to negotiate because he could make or break a tie vote.
The Keystone pipeline, which was helping Montana and Canada recover from the present drought, was in Tester’s back yard. Jobs and businesses have disappeared, and crime (the city of Missoula reported an alleged rape by an alien) is increasing as a result of 2 million illegal aliens, many with Covid and other diseases.
Tester has forgotten Montana and has chosen to support and promote crazy spending ($1 trillian is $3,300 for each person when divided by the present population) made available by printing money which raises prices on everything which is obvious in the cost of gas and food. Printing money, borrowing, and selling government bonds causes inflation which will eventually bankrupt our country. China has been buying our bonds for years and will eventually be in a position to buy the bankrupted United States without firing a shot.
— Verdell Jackson, Kalispell