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Wal-Mart was never mentioned
Scouring news stories back to 2001, one finds articles detailing the demise of Western Center and the birth of Southpointe II. There was no mention of a Wal-Mart until March of this year. However, there were numerous reports outlining a town center, featuring upscale shops, upscale restaurants and an upscale department store. Lord & Taylor brings to mind an upscale department store, not Wal-Mart.
Now that the economy is in the toilet, waiting to be flushed, it looks like Horizon appears to be downscaling the consumer attractions, looking for low-buck investments with big-buck profits. Will a gentleman's club fit the bill? How about an adult bookstore?
Lou Marra
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Social Security
has to be safe
If Social Security is in trouble, it's because Congress stuck its fingers in it year after year to try to get the country out of debt. Was that money ever paid back? I doubt it very much.
You can kick President Roosevelt around on Social Security, but his idea was right even for these times. If not for Social Security many more people would be sleeping and begging on the streets. Do we want to end up like some foreign countries - full of diseases, beggars, our stomachs big not from food but from lack of food.
It all depends on our government. That's why people must go out and vote for offices from the presidency down to local governments. Putting the wrong people in could cost us our freedom. It's slowly being taken away now.
Do you think a 401(k) or investing Social Security funds into the stock market is safe? I don't think so. I want Social Security to be safe, so it's there for all of us.
We are sending billions overseas when our country needs the money here to help the poor and middle class people get our country back on track again.
Barbara Jordan
Amity
Parker is wrong
about evolution
In regard to Kathleen Parker's column May 21, perhaps she should do a little Bible study before boosting evolution. To choose evolution as a means of creation would be the most cruel and devious way to make man and woman. Helping fundamentalist scientists see the error of their ways would transform them from Christians to non-Christians.
I believe evolution theory completely voids the Book of Genesis. It would be nice if those who criticize fundamentalists would be as devoted to studying the Book as accepting evolution promoted by "science."
I suggest Ms. Parker go to Pastor John MacArthur's Web page and order "The Battle for the Beginning" and listen to his sermon on creation, evolution and the Bible. It is quite informative.
Lloyd Alfred
McDonald
D-Day should
be remembered
On June 6, let us all remember that this was D-Day in World War II, the day our troops invaded Europe. This was the largest invasion in the world and the most costly in the lives of our servicemen, but it was the beginning of the end for Hitler.
We must let our children and grandchildren know that the freedom they have today was not free. My husband received a plaque which reads: "Those of us who've never gone, don't always understand, the sacrifice that you made, protecting our land, we take for granted freedom, from the war to Holocaust." He was seriously wounded in the Battle of the Bulge.
Let us all say a special thank you and a prayer on this day.
Freda Bails
Scenery Hill
Social Security Trusts : 6/3/2009
The following site is a table of the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, 1937-2008. Go to http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/table4a1.html to view. The aggregate SS Trust fund is stated at over 2 Trillion dollars. Of course the money is not sitting around, it is in US Treasury Bills and Bonds. Yes, the US government owes the SS administration that amount. They need to stop spending the trust funds as general funds.
Lloyd Alfred : 6/3/2009
Besides evolution and the science of biology, you should also be rejecting physics, chemistry astronomy, and all other modern sciences since they also refute the book of genesis and all of the other explanations of nature given in the bible. However, the bible does acknowledge astrology, magic, great winds and big deeps, alchemy, and a host of invisible, insubstantial beings including demons, angels, Yahweh, and other gods who must not be put before Yahweh, so all of these ideas remain available to you and Pastor John MacArthur as explanations for the world. You can also use them to resolve practical questions and problems, such as “what do I do if a loved one gets sick” (pray and summon a holy man to cast out the demon), or “what do I do if my car won’t start tomorrow” (pray for a great wind to blow me to work or maybe a host of angels to bear me up). Good luck Lloyd.
Lloyd A. : 6/5/2009
I totally agree with you that “evolution theory completely voids the Book of Genesis.” Most Christians are too wishy-washy to acknowledge this, and so they make accommodations to reality, and interpret Genesis and other Old Testament books as metaphorical or symbolic, when they obviously were written as literal statements of what the authors believed.
Walmart : 6/8/2009
Lou.... you're such an @$$. You know as well as everyone else, Lord & Taylor will not survive this economy. Nothing else was going change with Southpointe II except the ADDITION of Walmart as a large scale department store to attract other retail and restaurants. Except that is all up in the air now thanks to our typical elected officials in this county. Without a large store like Walmart, the other retail shops, restaurants, theater, convention center, housing.... and those other places you metioned may never be built. Many of us in Cecil Township can only hope Mr. Piatt makes a deal with Walmart on the 50 acres Horizon owns in Southpointe II and then the County Authority and our wounderful elected officials can pound salt ! By the way Lou... the next time you're in a Walmart shopping, think of what you wrote here and how you compaired it to a strip club. Oh thats right, the evil empire Walmart is only evil when you don't have to shop there!
Walmart : 6/11/2009
Don't need a Walmart or any other retail stores or restaurants in Southpointe. Business is lousy all over, why risk another disaster in building more places for people to shop who can't afford to pay for these things. Sure a tax break is good for the township, but where does this leave the taxayers. Scrimping and scrounging as usual. High end stores DO NOT belong in this area, people just cannot afford the prices!! Anyway with the crime in the area, Walmart will just bring in more. We don't need more crime, there is enough going on that the police aren't able to handle. For instance SPEEDERS, especially those in Southpointe!!!!!!!!!!
WalMart : 6/12/2009
Hopeful resident, I haven't shopped at WalMart in over 15 years. I make less than 30,000 a year. I do feel the "empire" is "evil" NO ONE has to shop at WalMart.
