Marching toward socialism

When I retired 12 years ago, I began wondering about so many politicians who were calling themselves “Progressives” in both parties. Many were people that I had admired and respected for years. I was questioning exactly what does this mean, when both Hillary Clinton and John McCain seemed to be bragging on TV when they’d say, “more so than my party, I am a Progressive”. At some point in time, long before Obama became the elected Democratic choice for our President, I came to realize that all of the people calling themselves by this “Progressive Party” name were in a different party, above both parties. Therefore, that makes Hillary Clinton and John McCain, along with many others, in the very same party.

Think about that, if you haven’t already.

Now, we have had several people, “The Gang of Four” are the most outspoken over everyone else, that have come along and hijacked the Democratic Party! Some have realized this, others, not so much. I figured this out a long time ago. They are so much left of the left, that our parents would no longer recognize the party anymore. They are taking our entire nation marching right into becoming a Socialist Nation. Our nation is on fire, and I am hoping and praying — praying real hard — that it will be stopped before we are taken over from within.

This, my friends, is what our junior high and high school teachers warned us about, 50 and 60 years ago. You know, back when the Dinosaurs roamed Western Kansas.

We all have friends and family that are still in the party that has left us — “us as a nation” — and are following along behind, not realizing how radically left our nation has turned. If watching peaceful marches turn into radical looting, burning, killing, taking over a six-block square of a city, destroying our nation’s history, our nation’s future, and our governors and mayors will not do anything to stop them, we can’t have much hope for those states, or for our nation.

I personally believe that God is our only answer.

Sharon Haverkamp

Ellsworth

Bushton building still usable

To the patrons of USD 112 Central Plains

This is information from the last several school board meetings that most people probably haven’t even hear about.

At the July 13 school board meeting, the superintendent was asked to get multiple bids from local heating and air contractors for mini split heating/air conditioning units for the Central Plains Elementary School (CPES) in Holyrood.

At the Aug. 10 school board meeting, only one bid package was presented and this was by DCS, an outof-the-area business. No local bids were presented. Was this because no local firms had been contacted? The proposals that were presented were:

1) $180,000 to move the HVAC and all related equipment from the former Central Plains Middle School (CPMS) in Bushton to CPES; 2) $40,000 to move the non-working HVAC from

2) $40,000 to move the non-working HVAC from CPES to CPMS. This would make the CPMS building marketable to a future buyer.

Although on Dec. 9, 2019, at the school board meeting in Wilson, an engineer from LST engineering told the school board that it would not be worth spending any money to move that HVAC, but to haul it to the junkyard;

3) $400,000 for a new HVAC at CPES;

4) $700,000 to equip CPES with mini split units.

This seems like an outrageously overpriced bid. Of course, there were no other bids for mini split units to compare “apples to apples.” These bids were probably priced this way to make the $180,000 bid to move the unit from CMS the cheapest and most attractive option. To make sure the CPMS property would never be used as a school again, the school board voted 4-3 to remove the HVAC from that building.

With social distancing being a top priority this coming school year and CPES running out of space, the superintendent had suggested several meetings ago to use local churches to spread students out.

Why would that even be considered as an option?

USD 112 still does own a perfectly good building in Bushton.

Why do four board members have a problem with using the CPMS property?

In closing I urge patrons of Central Plains to get involved and keep up with what is going on in the school district.

Talk to your representative whether you agree to disagree with their decisions and keep informed how they are voting on important issues and spending your tax dollars.

Jerry Folk

Bushton