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The Tampa Tribune

Published: August 12, 2008

Walk On By

This is a rebuttal to the letter entitled "Teaching Children to Beg."

I do not feel that the use of "begging" is the correct word to be using at all. Apparently, you do not know and realize what it takes to keep children occupied through the volunteering of parents and coaches in the sports field. Parents are willing to help out all they can, working a full-time job and many also have two jobs to keep their children off of the streets. Maybe in your eyes it is better that we pay higher taxes for children that do not partake in any of these sports and develop their own addictions of a different sort where we then pay for the rehab or jail time.

When you feel you do not want to give just walk by and say good luck. Where the children on their knees? That is begging. Those boys and girls work hard for the sport that they are in and their grades also have to be kept up in order to partake.

How can they earn their way when they are too young to get a job? These kids are working toward possible scholarship availabilities.

They are far from being beggars. All the children come from highly respectable families. When you call them beggars, you are calling their family it as well. Next time just keep walking by.

Norma Krause

Brooksville

Editor's note: Begging, according to Webster's New World College Dictionary, is to ask for as charity or as a gift; to ask for earnestly as a kindness or favor. There are many other ways to earn money than getting a job. Student athletes can wash cars, mow lawns, host bake sales and a number of other projects to raise funds other than standing outside stores asking people to "give" them money, which, according to Webster's, is begging.

Send Illegals Home
Three cheers to Betty Dobson on her letter to the editor on "Press 1 For English."

I agree with Betty 100 percent. Why, in America, do we have to press 1 for English? It's not only in schools, but in almost every phone call you make to a business, church, school, doctor's office, etc. Why?

I traveled for business many times to different countries, and never did I find a phone that said press 1 for English. If I didn't understand the language of the country, I was out of luck.

All the illegals should be sent home to their own countries, and then maybe the good old USA will be able to help our own, who need the help.

Betty, you go girl!

Annette Shanley

Weeki Wachee

Billions Of Excuses

I modified this email a bit to share with the community.

The next time you hear a politician - Democrat or Republican - use the word "billion" in a casual manner, think about whether you want the politicians spending your tax money. A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its releases.

A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the Earth on two feet.

E. A billion dollars ago, was as fast as possible; That's the rate our government is spending it.

Washington, D.C.: Hello! Have you all lost your senses? You have access to too much money through excessive taxation.

None of these taxes existed 100 years ago (over 3 billion seconds ago), and our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and one parent stayed home to raise the kids.

What happened? Can you spell "politicians?"

And I still have to "Press 1 for English."

Fred Greenwalt

Spring Hill

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