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READER RESPONSES

JIM O'NEILL, JANE DAIL ROPER, JACK SMITH, JOSEPH FAHY, RAY HARRIS, NANCY A. BOXILL

2003

Overview

I am saddened by Gov. [Sonny Perdue]'s decision not to raise teachers' salaries. Georgia teachers are truly the professional coaches who determine who will play in the game of life and who will wind up as a tackling dummy. Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor is completely off base when he states that \"under Democratic leadership, Georgia has been a fiscally responsible state.\" (\"State should find an alternative to bleeding taxpayers dry,\" @issue, Jan. 16) If that is the case, then I would like Taylor to explain in some terms that all of the people of Georgia can understand just how the state is $620 million in the red, and how it could happen just as our new governor, Sonny Perdue, comes into office. Those who worship [George W. Bush] and wave the flag from their gas hogs, cheering every word the drugstore cowboy stutters, should not oppose the opportunity of matching their hero with the villainous [Bill Clinton]. They constantly wave the latest polls in our faces, declaring that the appointed president is invincible. If they really feel that way, why would they object to matching him with their departed demon?

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