Letters on budget excuses, black-market guns, Angelou Library
More lame excuses for state budget woes
Our leaders in Topeka are telling us their disastrous tax cuts are failing because of the down trend in stocks in China. Earlier they told us their game plan has failed because of President Obama. What’s next – there was a full moon last month and that caused the economic calamity in Topeka?
The fact that they cut 330,000 business owners off the state income tax rolls has nothing to do with the dire situation we are facing, according to these leaders.
What is most dismaying is that they seem to believe voters in Kansas are stupid enough to buy into their lame excuses. Or they lack the courage to face facts. Either way, our elected leaders in Topeka are failing us miserably.
Happily, this is an election year. Let’s show them we are smarter than they are giving us credit for.
Michael G. Nichols, Wichita
Black-market guns
President Obama has invited a new industry: black-market guns.
Guns and drugs are similar. When a person wants one, he finds a way.
Remember Prohibition?
Elmer Pinkerton, Wichita
Visit Angelou Library
With the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday just around the corner, and African-American History Month approaching, I encourage anyone reading this to visit the Maya Angelou Northeast Branch Library, 3051 E. 21st, as a resource for learning about contributions to society by prominent African-Americans.
Angelou is not a large branch, but it’s loaded with books, videos and music about black leaders, from Booker T. Washington to the Rev. Jesse Jackson, from King to President Obama, as well as black entertainers, athletes and writers. There was once even a photograph of the first African-American elected as Wichita’s mayor holding a copy of Colin Powell’s autobiography.
Don’t cheat yourself out of a opportunity to learn about the history of people who made some very important contributions to society while struggling for acceptance in a society that once oppressed them.
Troy Cox, Wichita
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This story was originally published January 14, 2016 at 6:04 PM with the headline "Letters on budget excuses, black-market guns, Angelou Library."