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Letter: Beers’ remarks show bravery

Monday, Feb. 10, 2003 | 9:03 a.m.

Hurray for state Assemblyman Bob Beers! I think it takes a brave man in this day and age to state the obvious. Where else but Nevada and Las Vegas, in particular, can someone with little or no education make a middle-income living.

I also think that the Legislature must take a very close look at what Gov. Kenny Guinn wants to do with our taxes. When Guinn says that he won't balance the budget on the backs of children, does that mean the money he takes from my children, to give to the children the state supports, won't make my children do without?

Every dollar from my pocket means a dollar not available for food for my table and clothes for my children, and forget about taking the family to the movies or a sporting event.

Bob Beers is right. Cut the fat from the government dole. Do away with the Millennium Scholarship and the Henderson College. Those projects are for better times.

Make children the parents' responsibility, not the state's. And stop thinking that my paycheck belongs to you, Gov. Guinn.

LARRY SELK

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