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TO THE EDITOR
is that the local government takes a look
at where they are distributing their money,
and fi nd a worthy solution to fi xing
the insuffi cient funds that threaten to
demolish quality education as we know it.
Alicia Luck
Eugene
TEA PARTY OF THE ’20S
Glenn Beck has repeatedly claimed the
National Socialist German Workers’ Party
were liberals. This is comparable to saying
the law of gravity states when you drop
something it will fall to the ceiling. The
Nazis were not liberals, on the contrary,
they were the Tea Party of the 1920s —
far-right conservative militant nationalists
who blamed all of their earthly woes on,
you guessed it, liberals.
Glenn Beck warns of a liberal elite
destroying America, Adolf Hitler
described Germany’s enemies as Jüdische
Bolschewistizchen intelligenz, or the
Jewish-Bolshevik intelligentsia. Jews are
the very origin of modern liberalism and
their contributions to arts and sciences so
far out of proportion to their population
intimidated Nazi eugenicists.
The truth is plain to see in the makeup
of inmates in those concentration camps
Glenn Beck is so worried about. With strict
Teutonic attention to detail, each group
of inmates had a different color uniform
patch. The Jews wore the infamous yellow
stars; Roma gypsies got brown; Jehovah’s
Witnesses — who were killed for being
pacifi sts, not for their religion — got
purple; homosexuals got pink, of course;
communists and intellectuals got red;
habitual criminals, green; and vagrants,
alcoholics and others of no economic
value to the Reich got black. They were
called arbeitsscheu, meaning “work-shy.”
There were no patches for the elderly
and children, those who couldn’t work
were sent to the gas chambers. No patch
for black Africans, they were shot on
sight. No one “came for” conservatives;
they were the ones coming for everyone
else.
Warren Weisman
Eugene
LOOMING DEFICIT FOR LCC
LCC’s Strategic Plan (2010-14) in
part promises to “Promote responsible
stewardship of resources and public trust
[and] ... apply principles of sustainable
economics, resource use, and social
institutions to Lane’s learning and working
environments.” Lastly, the 2010—11
budget commits to “focus on our mission
of teaching and learning.”
Reports on the best current available
estimate for LCC’s combined downtown
projects of $52 million pencil out
to approximately $294 per sq. ft.
Problematically, remaining downtown
projects’ construction costs unfunded
liability attach to the 90,000 sq. ft. learning
facility planned at the former Sears site.
Depending on the accuracy of various
available yet sketchy estimates, the budget
defi cit approximately oscillates between
$650,000 and a whopping $8 million.
Although according to The Register-
Guard 85 percent of the funding is
virtually guaranteed through the issuance
of bonds and state and city of Eugene
funding, moving forward in spite of
as much as an $8 million funding hole
during this extraordinary economic time,
may expose the Board of Education to an
even more on-point charge of governance
entropy than recently leveled against the
college’s administration. Lest LCC’s
board panic, reasonable taxpayers may
consider embracing a PAYGO or similar
funding methodology.
Jose Ortal
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ENFORCEMENT LACKING
I would like to respond to the two
recent letters regarding pedestrian safety
in crosswalks from Dave Heying (1/6) and
Leila McElroy (1/13).
Driving through a crosswalk while
a pedestrian is in it is a Class B traffi c
violation under ORS 811.028, “Failure to
stop and remain stopped for pedestrian.”
As ODOT explains the law on its
website, “When turning at a signal,
it’s your lane plus six feet: Stop for the
pedestrian, who must clear the lane into
which the vehicle is turning and at least six
feet of the next lane, before you proceed.”
However, as Heying pointed out,
Eugene police will not enforce the law.
They did not when I was hit by a truck, in
a crosswalk, with the walk light, sustaining
two fractures which took a few months to
heal. No citation.
If you are hit by a car, get the driver’s
name, contact and insurance info. If
paramedics come, and you have health
insurance, accept their offer to take you
in an ambulance to the hospital. Not only
will that get you checked out and start a
medical record, but it will make the police
fi le a report. Otherwise, you have to call
them to get an interview and a report fi led.
Go to the police station downtown and buy
a copy.
Call the driver’s insurance company and
start a claim. They’ll give you a number to
pass on to your doctors. Then see a lawyer.
They’ll take a percentage of the settlement,
but you’ll probably get more that way
than dealing with the driver’s insurance
company yourself.
There is a lot that could be done about
this, but I don’t see Eugene doing it. Cars are
king, and it’s open season on pedestrians.
Be very careful what crosswalks you use.
Lynn Porter
Eugene
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