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Letter to the Editor

Build refineries

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Editor:

In 1984, Kansas had 13 refineries. Now, three. Build refineries in Alaska, Canada, North Dakota, etc. Why pipe oil to Texas for export or haul back as fuel?

Abolish retirement ($) for every elected official. If the budget doesn't balance, dock their pay, same percent.

Government debt is taxation without representation.

(The unborn can't vote.)

"As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb, of her that is with child, even so thou knowest not the works of God, who maketh all." Ecclesiastes 11:5

Frank Sower

Benkelman, Nebraska

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  • Who closed those refineries, the government? No, the OIL companies did..

    -- Posted by mickhaney on Fri, Sep 14, 2012, at 12:24 PM

  • Oil companies are a for profit business with many individuals and retirement systems investing in them. They could not make a profit with the governmental regulations so they closed.

    -- Posted by dennis on Mon, Sep 24, 2012, at 11:23 AM

  • Government debt is spending by representation.

    -- Posted by bberry on Mon, Sep 24, 2012, at 1:33 PM

  • I do like Franks comment "Abolish retirement ($) for every elected official. If the budget doesn't balance, dock their pay, same percent." Something needs to be done to stop this out of control spending. We would be cutting our own retirement and docking our own pay if we tried to run our own households the way the goverment is running our nation.

    -- Posted by quick13 on Mon, Sep 24, 2012, at 5:09 PM

  • If we ran our households the way the government is, we'd be printing our own money.

    -- Posted by bberry on Mon, Sep 24, 2012, at 7:12 PM
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