I guess we all are self-righteous when we all ought to be a lot more forgiving and caring. It’s amazing how when one of us falls publicly, there are so many who want to use the situation for their own gain.

I think that Mark Sanford has been through enough humiliation without all of you jackals out there trying to tear his hide apart. He is the only governor that I can remember who wasn’t bought off by some special interest group such as insurance, education or gambling. Enough is enough. Our state is in financial turmoil and y’all want to talk about some plane fares, when as far as I am concerned our governor should be traveling first class anyway.

Sanford said it best when he said we should do ethics investigations on all members of the Legislature; let’s check their land deals, gifts and sweetheart contracts working for government agencies. This is like arguing that our governor took the watermelon when our Legislature stole the whole field. If Mark Sanford wasn’t our governor right now, I would hate to know how bad this state would really have it.

To me, the evidence is in: President Barack Obama is putting this country in financial ruin while if people would listen to Sanford, our state may survive financially instead of being bought by a foreign country. He tried to warn you of this and now that it has happened, let’s try to figure out a solution. Let’s don’t do like Nero and fiddle while Rome burned.

This state is almost last in everything, and has been for a while. How can anyone embarrass it any more? Sanford is the only one who is trying to change that while the rest of our state Legislature seems to believe the old ways of doing things are working fine; what a joke! Y’all need to call the governor’s office and plead for him to stay.

I had to go to the Department of Motor Vehicles some weeks ago concerning the sale of a vehicle. When I have to go to the DMV, I ride to St. Matthews to the Calhoun County DMV because there usually is no line there. If you have been to the Orangeburg County DMV you will know why. The lines there can be out of the door and hour waits not uncommom, and more often than not, you have to come back. Well I knew that our governor had tried to overhaul the DMV and I was near the Orangeburg County DMV so I decided to give it a try.

To no fault of the Orangeburg County DMV, I had to go in there four times in two weeks. On all of these trips, I did not have to look for a parking space and as soon as I stepped inside, I was given the paperwork to fill out and a number. I didn’t even turn around before my number was called, every time! If anyone can transition our DMV into the polite, easily accessible place that it is today, then he needs to keep running this state until all of our state agencies run this smoothly.

I don’t personally know any of you idiots shouting for Sanford’s job, but I would like to meet the ones of you that are perfect; the rest of you I don’t care to know. I have never met anyone who is close to perfect, so I would really like to meet you. I know this will not happen, though, until I meet Jesus in Heaven, or sooner the way this world is going. None of us is even close to being perfect. We all have a problem with the Bible verse Matthew 7:1: Judge not, that ye be not judged.

There is no shortage of sin in this state and country; one of our governor’s was just brought to light. Most of ours stay hidden. It is impossible for us not to sin; I think everyone has heard of Adam and Eve and the curse of sin. This is a curse that none can evade except Jesus himself. So work on your own sins before you worry about those of others. Jesus is the only one who can save our sorry butts.

I guess Andre Bauer is scared to throw the first stone but doesn’t mind throwing the second. He cannot follow even the simplest of laws; the speeding ones that kill more young people than any disease. The way I look at it, every one of our state and nationally elected officials is guilty of something: murder, stealing, fraud, gluttony, idolatry and covetousness to name a few. They are no different than our auto industry that has been in business for a hundred years and has squandered all of its money.

Our health care system would be fine and affordable if we could find a way to get the gluttonous, leeching, money-coveting attorneys out of the system. Accidents happen; your only protection is God, not a TV attorney. Money will not solve your problem, but it will theirs.

We pay enough Social Security that this should cover us in a medical emergency, but our government has already wasted all of this money. It needs to be a law that this is your money that could be used by you, when you need it, not when our government needs it. They shouldn’t be allowed to touch it. This money should all be returned to you in a time of need (like a medical emergency), little by little when you retire, or to your family at death; not to be used as a revolving pot of gold for our government.

I don’t have any health insurance and do not feel I need any right now. If all of the greedy little hands would get out of the medical profession, I could afford a doctor when I need one. We need to outlaw all lobbyists in this country. Like most people, I do not like being told I have to do something — like having to buy health insurance or being fined if I do not get any as is with this new law. Why should people who are healthy and take care of themselves, and I’m not talking about me, have to pay for the care of someone who doesn’t? This health care bill with mandatory health insurance will do to the American public’s health what auto insurance has done to our driving and the costs associated with it. Our federal government needs to guard our borders and deliver the mail. When they get that right, we may let them move to other concerns.

— Jon Hare, Orangeburg

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