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Reasons not to trust government with our health care
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775. They had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.   Social Security was established in 1935. They had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.    Fannie Mae was established in 1938. They had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.   The War on Poverty started in 1964. They had 45 years to get ...




Recalling the Salk vaccine and 1956
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, I remember when the Salk vaccine came out in 1956; we all got it, the whole family; my mother and father, baby sister and younger brother; all five of us.  Dad drove to the clinic on Monday the weekday his barbershop was closed.   We were insured by the Permanente Health Plan (a division of Kaiser Steel Corporation) the shots were free with no co-pay and there were no problems with shortages; ...




We need broad base of housing
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, In 2008, I raised the issue of two communities in one--the new subdivisions and the existing older community.  There is plenty of evidence where communities have grown without much consideration given to their existing older neighborhoods and then after decades of neglect it was necessary to come back to these older neighborhoods to address entrenched issues such as declined property values, crime, infrastructure maintenance, property maintenance, etc.  Many of these problems could ...




Turn Manteca golf course into condo village
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, The City Council has approved a series of outlet stores and smaller home development In Manteca. The outlet stores will provide the city with one time fees and a tax base for the city. With the Bulletin stating that sales are down by $100 million, I can’t see where the mall will provide much of anything, except what I mentioned. I see the small homes approved, as a project that will continue ...




Schlafly a liar & is plain wrong
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, Not only is Phyllis Schlafly a liar, she is just plain wrong about health care reform. There are no “death panels”. Never was and never will be. The “death panels” was just a wild urban myth perpetuated by the wing nut conservatives because they have no plan of their own to help Americans deal with the issue of accessible and affordable health care. In addition the Congressional Budget Office, which both the ...




All of GOP isn’t exactly on moral high road
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, When I sent in my letter voicing my concerns about the Bulletin maybe leaning a little more to the right than usual “(Is Bulletin leaning to the right?”), I more or less expected the local fringe to become somewhat upset, and I expected a few letters to be sent to the Bulletin from the local fringe, making their feelings heard. I expected those letters to contain more than a few attacks about ...




Reasons to support SSJID over PG&E
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, I decided to write this letter because of PG&E’s dominance of the electric and gas service. I call them Pacific Graft & Extortion. Being a utilities system worker (high voltage electrician), my job required travel around the world with the Air Force and later Defense Logistics Agency DLA Tracy Depot. I feel qualified to make the following comments. PG&E is fighting to keep the Manteca area territory. They are replacing high voltage ...




We don’t need cheaper housing
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, Your latest article (“End of Manteca’s McMansion Era” – Saturday, Oct. 24) is a case in point of the rampant stupidity of Manteca’s city council and mayor. There is absolutely no regard to the home owners living in this city. I moved here seven years ago, and bought my 20-year-old home with the hope that the community would grow and thrive. Now police are being laid off, home prices are plummeting, and ...




City should charge for police escorts
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, I would like to respond to the question about providing police escorts for funerals.   Manteca is one of the few cities that provides a free police escort for funerals.  When my husband died, I had to pay for a police escort  (in another city).  The fee is charged by the city and paid through the funeral home.  If you do not have a police escort, there is some question about the ...




Democrats should denounce NAMLA
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, If I were a Democrat in this city, I would be embarrassed by what Mr. Baca and Mr. Sadlowski wrote in the paper. I have also seen the ridicule to anyone who opposes NAMBLA on the Manteca Bulletin blog.  I felt Mr. Aquila’s letter about NAMBLA’s relationship with the Democratic Party was informative.  I also agreed with the letter from Mr. Blanch and the passion from Mr. Simoni.  When I first read ...




Melmac: The dishware of Nuclear Age
Melmac and Alf. If you understand what those two things are - and have in common - then you were alive during the 1950s or shortly thereafter and have an unusual sense of humor as far as the TV comedy shows you like. Melmac, for the unacquainted, is the trademark of an indestructible material used in dinnerware that hit American stores at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s. Melmac could survive a ...




Guilt by innuendo can go both ways
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, This morning I am reading the opinion section of your paper, and I found an interesting letter from local extremist, Robert Blanch. I am sure that most readers remember Robert Blanch from the dressing down, or should I say dressing up as a clown that Larry Baca gave him after his last letter. It seems that Robert is trying to be a protégé of Frank Aquila by stating lies and innuendo in ...




Who decided art work of praying wasn’t OK for City Hall display?
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, I would like to applaud the wonderful work of artist Jessie Marinas, whose art exhibit at City Hall this week was something to behold.  How sad, however, that two different pictures, one depicting the passion of Christ, and the other a circle of American soldiers obviously praying before going into battle, was excluded in the name of “separation of church and state”.   I feel like I’m beating a dead horse when ...




Likes being able to read different views
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, I would like to comment on Larry Baca’s comments to the editor where he states he detects a disturbing trend that the Bulletin seems to have taken since the demise of the Sun Post. Larry thinks the Bulletin should have a duty to be a little more neutral than it has been lately.  I guess Larry doesn’t get enough of the Obama worship and outright lies and yellow journalism the leftists pass ...




Represent our interests not insurance firms
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, We must tell our representatives they are to represent our interests, not the insurance industry’s interests. Contact Congressman Jerry McNerney, and Senators Boxer and Feinstein, and tell them to support the Single Payer Amendments. The insurance industry is spending millions of dollars a day to protect their interests, we must fight for our interests. All it takes is a few minutes, just do it.  Joseph Holder Manteca Oct. 22, 2009







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