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Global warming and Ice Age
I suppose that since everything else is blamed on Republicans, you might as well blame global warming on them as well.
If memory serves me right, the arable land that most of us live on now, came about because of the global warming that caused the end of the Ice Age.
Marie-Cecile Gehrdes
Huntsville, 35803
Immigration law reform 2012
Alabama is again in the process of shooting itself in the foot. The current collection of state laws, including ours, regarding undocumented immigrants, all of which are hung up in court, can be traced back to the Kansas secretary of state.
Kansas, however, has refused to pass its own anti-immigration law, even though both the Kansas House and Senate are heavily Republican. Maybe Kansas knows something that we don't. The business community is strongly in favor of immigration regardless of documentation. The best source of solid information and documentation in my opinion is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce web site. The Justice for Immigrants web site is also a very reliable reference. From the U. S. Chamber of Commerce:
• Immigrants typically do not compete for jobs with native-born workers and immigrants create jobs as entrepreneurs, consumers, and taxpayers.
• Immigrants give a slight boost to the wages of most Americans by increasing their productivity and stimulating investment.
• Immigrants will replenish the U.S. labor force as the Baby Boomers retire.
• Undocumented immigrants pay billions of dollars in taxes each year, often for benefits they will never receive.
• Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for federal public benefit programs, and legal immigrants face stringent eligibility restrictions.
• Today's immigrants are buying homes and becoming U.S. citizens.
• Immigration does not cause crime rates to rise and immigrants have lower incarceration rates than native-born Americans.
What is it that we don't understand about "neighbor"?
John O. Dimmock
Owens Cross Roads, 35763
Stagger postal hours
Last week I went to the Harvest post office to mail a package to our son-in-law who recently left for deployment overseas. I needed help with all the information on how to mail a package to an APO address.
When I walked in with three packages in my arms, I was met at the door by a postal employee who informed me that the post office would be closing an hour for lunch.
The USPS is losing millions of dollars each year. I worked in retail for many years and learned that to get repeat customers, you must make shopping convenient, easy and enjoyable. I cannot understand why the post office closes the doors for one hour at lunch.
Many customers run errands on their lunch break and it is definitely not convenient, easy or enjoyable to walk into the post office and find the doors locked so all of the postal employees at this location can eat lunch at the same time.
Why not stagger lunch breaks just as they do in retail stores so the front counter can be covered during this time? This is poor management on the part of the USPS and it may end up permanently closing the doors of some of the post offices, which will make it even more inconvenient for the customers.
Janet D. Ford
Ardmore, 35739
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