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Firefighting is a calling
The life of a volunteer firefighter isn’t easy. Speak to any volunteer and they’ll tell you about the constant training, late night phone calls and missed family events, all done to protect the lives and property of neighbors and strangers alike.
And with no compensation, this isn’t just a job for these volunteers – it’s a calling.
That calling has become even more difficult over the last decade for Indian Land’s volunteers, as the Panhandle has quickly swelled into a bustling suburb of Charlotte.
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Heath-care bill contains many surprises
Did you know that if you sell your house after 2012, you will pay a 3.8 percent sales tax on it? That’s $3,800 on a $100,000 home, etc.
When did this happen? It’s in the health-care bill. Just thought you should know. That sales tax goes into effect in 2013. So, this is change you can believe in?
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Spratt has lost sight of people's needs
Joblessness continues to rise in South Carolina while U.S. Rep. John Spratt votes 98.2 percent with the Washington cartel: Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and President Barack Obama.
From July to August, joblessness rose from a terrible 10.7 percent to a horrific 11 percent. Unemployment was 4.6 percent when Mr. Spratt and his party took control of Congress in January 2007. The Dow was 12,621.
Last month, the private sector, which pays the taxes that Mr. Spratt loves to spend, just lost another 2,200 jobs in South Carolina.
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Mulvaney has pledged to fight for all Americans
“A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user,” said Theodore Roosevelt in 1913. It is as true today, as it was a century ago.
Americans know they have been herded – at stampede speed – down a steep, treacherous and unfamiliar path by Democrats such as Congressman John Spratt to “fundamentally transform America.” But transform America into what, exactly?
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Scouts put training into action
Ryan Phillips and Luke Pittman, Life Scouts in Boy Scout Troop 74 of Kershaw, are in line to receive their coveted Eagle Scout badges, the highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouts of America.
When the badges are presented to them in the near future, it will be a red-letter day for the two Andrew Jackson High School juniors who are members of Kershaw’s First Baptist Church.
Given the Scouts’ latest honors, it would be safe to say the Eagle badges would be quite an encore.
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Spratt has country's interest at heart
Jack Simpson’s guest column in the Oct. 1 edition of The Lancaster News attacking John Spratt is a model of wild assertions and misguided perceptions.
He claims Spratt voted for “federal control over almost every facet of our lives.” What bill was that in?
The failed incomprehensible bailouts he mentioned must be the complex federal support that stopped the collapse of our free market financial system, most of the funds for which have been paid back at a profit to the taxpayer.
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Know difference between right and wrong
It is not about the Republicans or the Democrats, nor about the left vs. the right. It is about right vs. wrong. But who is right? If you or I select what is right then it is subjective and neither of us is actually right.
If our definition of right comes from our creator, which is found in the scriptures, then we have an objective truth, which is right.
For example, some people in America believe the following:
u That former President George W. Bush caused 9/11
u Rosie O’Donnell is a Patriot
u The Constitution is a living document
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Spratt is a true friend of our 5th District
In 2009, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve System, was chosen by Time Magazine as Man of the Year. I enjoyed reading the article about Bernanke.
It contains interesting information about Bernanke including his childhood in Bennettsville and about monetary policy and the role of the Fed.
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Great teachers deserve recognition
The Lancaster County School District’s Celebrate Great Teaching Award presentations didn’t have the fanfare of past events, but nonetheless four outstanding educators were duly honored for their wonderful work.
In recent years, the recipients were saluted during a special assembly in front of their peers to launch the new school term.
This year, district officials still opted to honor the teachers, but the ceremony, as part of a cost-cutting measure with a furlough day, wasn’t held.
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Mulvaney. Haley call for return to principles
Sam Slack’s guest column Sept. 15 might be subtitled “Label it libertarian " that makes it bad.” One might hope ideas would get examined on their merits, not arbitrarily applied labels.
For Mr. Slack’s last paragraph, in which he asks how the various social and economic policies espoused by Ms. Haley and Mr. Mulvaney would stand for the good of all people, I would offer the following comments.
Most of what Mick Mulvaney and Nikki Haley are saying derives from a few basic principles from which government has seriously strayed.
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