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The INDEPENDENT, December 7, 2011
Honor students listed for VHS
Letters
From page 3
money we don’t have, taxing not only this gener-
ation but every generation in the future, guaran-
teeing a lower standard of living for our children,
grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. These
short-sighted politcos, thinking only of the pres-
ent, seem to think they can go on forever, steadi-
ly increasing the public debt, by just printing
more and more money without an equal in-
crease in goods and services, hoping to find
someone to buy our consequently less and less
valuable bonds. As history has repeatedly
shown us, this does not work. Every society that
has tried this has collapsed. A prime example is
the Soviet Union. If socialism were a better sys-
tem, we would all be speaking Russian. Previ-
ously democratic civilizations and nations that
have tried this have collapsed into dictatorship.
Some noteworthy examples are the Greeks, the
Romans, and the post-World War I Weimar Re-
public of Germany, the latter printing so much
money that its currency became virtually worth-
less, bankrupting the country, and resulting in
the establishment of Hitler’s Nazi (National So-
cialist) party dictatorship that brought on the hor-
rors of World War II.
It is time to rid ourselves of such history-ignor-
ing, out-of-touch-with-reality, power-mad politi-
cians, ousting them from power, and never let
them in office again.
Harold Bob Jones
Blair, Oklahoma
From page 11
Felicia Schirmeister, Winter
Snow, Robert Stringfield, Lane
Sullivan, Logan Titus, Taylor Ti-
tus, Iryna Verhogliad, Leon
Wiegand, Sara Wilmot, and
Kristian Wredstoem.
Honorable Mention, 3.00-
3.24 – Jacob Barnes, Joseph
Benes, Matthew Bringman,
Kelsey Brown, Riplee Burch,
Shylo Dooley, Cody Haney,
Mandi Hartford, Cierra Henson,
Danielle Hevron, Adonis Hop-
kins, Jerrid Johnston, Connor
Larke, Reecca Levenseller,
Samantha Morgan, Garrett
Mullikin, Melissa Mulvey, Jerri-
an Pond, Dawson Shay, Dean-
dra Solberg, Dominic Szlavich,
NaTasha Talley, and Nicole
Thompson.
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t h e f i re p l a c e
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missionary
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