LETTERS: Obama gets credit where it’s not due

To the editor:

In recent weeks, many liberals have jumped back on President Barack Obama’s bandwagon, bragging of low gas prices and low unemployment, both of which are not related to current administration’s policies.

It’s been reported over the past two years that most companies, big and small, have been hiring. Fifty percent of new hires are part-time, the simple reason for that being Obamacare. Many employees have to carry two part-time jobs — and no full-time work — to get by, hence we have a double count on many of those who have been hired. The actual unemployment rate is closer to 11 percent.

Gas prices are lower not because of President Obama. Continued drilling on private lands, such as in North Dakota, along with the successful method of fracking have now made the U.S. the No. 1 oil producer in the world. But fracking is something the president and his EPA are dead-set against. The previous administration should get all the credit for the drilling on private lands because of its bidding process, as well as the opening of lands for drilling and fracking.

Liberals are totally against the Keystone XL pipeline, which will not cost taxpayers one thin dime. The administration’s own state department concluded that it would have no environmental impact. Get ready liberals, because the pipeline will happen next year in the next session of Congress.

Lower gas prices have finally come, and that will put dollars into many pockets instead of oil companies’ profits. Hence we will see a fast rise in the gross national product, all because of the previous administration’s policies — not because of the most liberal administration this country has ever witnessed.

PETER SAMS

HENDERSON

Language barrier

To the editor:

As a teacher and school counselor of nearly 30 years in Colorado Springs, Colo., I was shocked to find that the Clark County School District chose to use an attorney who equated suicide with murder (“Hailee’s family shocked by language, timing of motion,” Dec. 16 Review-Journal). Everyone knows that’s just a way to cover one’s rear, by blaming the victim. But for a school district to even consider this sort of language about a 13-year-old who was bullied and finally chose to end her life seems to shout to the observers that CCSD has no compassion for either the children it is supposed to educate or the parents of those children.

I would suggest that CCSD post a sign outside administrative offices that warns parents they will not be alerted when their student’s physical or mental health could be in danger. Perhaps the district will next want parents to sign a waiver stating that they don’t mind if schools don’t follow state guidelines requiring them to warn parents of bullying behavior toward their students.

My heart aches for the Lamberth family as they mourn their young daughter and still have to deal with a school district whose only aim is to run for cover. It is time for the Clark County School Board to oversee administrators, whose goals seem to include passing on any blame for their inadequacies to the victim and her family.

RAYNETTE EITEL

LAS VEGAS

Sex education reform

To the editor:

Dr. Joanne Leovy’s letter to the editor was absolutely correct on all points (“CCSD right to seek sex ed overhaul,” Dec. 12 Review-Journal). The tragedies of abortion, sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted children make it plain that an expanded sex education curriculum is important for our students. Let parents have an opt-out choice if they prefer to do this education at home.

MARIETTA NELSON, M.D.

LAS VEGAS