Not ‘time-proven’ for good-paying jobs
1. 41-vehicle wreck ties up traffic Sunday on I-81 in Rockbridge County
2. Virginia Tech football roster has holes on picture day
3. Medicare penalties hit hospitals in Roanoke, New River Valleys
4. Microfestivus beer event gets downtown Roanoke hopping
5. McFarling: 2 little numbers are a big hurdle for Virginia Tech football
6. Arrest made in case of missing Nelson County teen
7. DAN CASEY: Copter cost still stirring up dust
8. Roanoke farmers markets making local foods more accessible
9. Virginia attorney general's office grows under Ken Cuccinelli
10. Man's drowning is 5th in Lynchburg area
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Not ‘time-proven’ for good-paying jobs
Cher McCoy (“Elect Cuccinelli for state economy,” July 6 letter) writes that Republican candidate for governor Ken Cuccinelli “has a simple time-proven” jobs plan: “Keep taxes low in the commonwealth, reduce the regulatory burden on small business and protect our right-to-work laws.”
If we do this, she assures us, “Businesses will open and stay open, and workers will find more work for better pay.”
In fact, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has ranked the top 10 states for low business taxes and regulations.
The No. 1 state, Tennessee, ranks 49th among the 50 states and the District of Columbia for median household income.
Only one state on the chamber’s list, Alaska, ranks among the top 10 states for median income.
Further, states with “right to work” laws — which forbid employers and workers from negotiating union shop agreements — have a median household income of about $6,400 less than states without these laws. That goes for union and nonunion households.
Cuccinelli’s plan may be simple, but it is not time-proven. Quite the opposite, especially when it comes to better pay.
GENE ZITVER
LEXINGTON
Deen is up against a double standard
Every time I pick up a paper, I see the woes of Paula Deen.
Listen up, folks. She’s not the Lone Ranger by any means.
Several years ago, a taped conversation between Richard Nixon and Billy Graham hit the media in which both men were discussing the Jews.
An apology was made, but nobody got their wind up or filed a lawsuit.
It is also a known fact that people, Northerners and Southerners, have at some point referred to whites, ethnics and people of color by using slurs.
My point is that nothing is ever said or done about it. It’s just ignored.
No big deal is made about it.
Whatever happened to freedom of speech?
JANE HARMON
ROANOKE
1. 41-vehicle wreck ties up traffic Sunday on I-81 in Rockbridge County
2. Virginia Tech football roster has holes on picture day
3. Medicare penalties hit hospitals in Roanoke, New River Valleys
4. Microfestivus beer event gets downtown Roanoke hopping
5. McFarling: 2 little numbers are a big hurdle for Virginia Tech football
6. Arrest made in case of missing Nelson County teen
7. DAN CASEY: Copter cost still stirring up dust
8. Roanoke farmers markets making local foods more accessible
9. Virginia attorney general's office grows under Ken Cuccinelli
10. Man's drowning is 5th in Lynchburg area
THE ROANOKE TIMES
