Horse show a savior
TO THE EDITOR: This is the time of year when as a community and particularly as a business community, we should reflect upon how fortunate we are to have one of the premier horse shows in the world coming to our area.

The first week of the show (starting June 23) would be a relatively slow and difficult week without the horse show. Even the second week with July 4 could very well be less than optimum. The presence of the horse show pretty much guarantees that both these weeks will be economically productive for Lake Placid/North Elba. This is absolutely the most important event we host all year.

In return for this good fortune (especially in this year of high and escalating costs), as a community, we should sincerely open our arms and welcome all the participants (workers, trainers, grooms, exhibitors, riders) and make each and every one of the them individually feel as if we consider them to be the most important person in the world, or as Ruth Newberry put it back in the seventies, "you've come and we're delighted."

To all the participants in this year's horse show, thank you for being here.

Edwin H. Weibrecht, Jr.

Owner/Operator

Mirror Lake Inn

Expensive solution
TO THE EDITOR: Have you ever thought out what socialized medicine actually is? If we can't afford to pay our own health care costs, how can we afford to pay each others? If you say "only a fool would think that is possible," you are correct.

The Democrats who are talking about "a single-payer system" don't tell you that that single payer is the American taxpayer, who will be hung by his heels and flogged with a government stethoscope until the last penny he possesses falls from his pockets. If Obama care is going to save us money, why do we have to pay $3 trillion to get it?

At this time, people without health insurance go to the emergency room, are treated and the costs added to the bills of the insured. Liberal Democrats (who, by the way, think they know everything) say that this is the worst and most expensive system possible, but it is a simple, efficient and direct method of stealing and far cheaper than paying the salaries of hundreds of thousands of government bureaucrats and the billions of dollars funneled to cronies and special interests by thousands of politicians.

Obama says that government health insurance will not replace private insurance plans because people will still be able to have private or work provided insurance. Our president is a liar, Americans have the freedom to send their children to private school but still have to pay school taxes to support government schools. There will be no way to opt out of paying for government health insurance and how many of us or our employers can afford to pay for both?

As humorist P.J. O'Rourke famously said, "if you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free."

Leo Seney

Dannemora