— I just read the article in the newspaper about some hospitals forcing their employees to get a flu shot.

These employees should have a right to refuse the flu shots after they see for themselves how the shots can affect some people.

I received a flu shot six years ago and was paralyzed from my neck down with Guillain-Barré syndrome. It was confirmed by my own doctor that it was from the flu shot.

No worker should be forced into having the shot or losing his or her job because of it.

I paid a terrible price for getting the flu shot because I was not able to work for many months.

Pat McCleary

Johnstown



Obama not living up to label of ‘uniter’

President Obama will take the oath of office for his second term using two Bibles, one used by President Lincoln and the other by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr – two great men who tried to bring a troubled country together and to improve racial situations.

But Obama is doing just the opposite – he is doing nothing to stop the divisiveness and racial discord that has developed in this country. He is not living up to the label of being the great uniter.

My hope of him becoming a great president has passed.

He is not keeping the promises he made when he first ran for president.

I pray that he will honor that political rhetoric during his second term.

Remember, a house divided cannot stand. Please keep all of our politicians in your prayers that they do what is right for the people and not for their own personal gain.

Bob Nagyvathy

Johnstown



Vets should have impunity from arrest

In response to the editorial from the York Dispatch that was published in The Tribune-Democrat on Jan. 14 about raising the fine to $1,000 for a second offense of underage drinking:

I strongly believe that there should be a federal law that would trump all state laws. That law would allow all men and women in the U.S. armed forces, some in wheelchairs from war wounds, to go into a bar or restaurant to have a drink without being arrested.

Many of these brave young Americans are younger than 21, but they are old enough to fight and, some, die for our country.

Wilber Smith

Richland Township



What other freedoms are we about to lose?

As assault continues on our Second Amendment, “The right to own and bear arms,” we should remain steadfast concerning our right to defend ourselves and property.

Gun control is an essential craving of liberalism, and the left has never given up on it. Two quotations from the past are a reminder of how important our Second Amendment is to the survival of our people.

In 1995, then-U.S. attorney Eric Holder told the Women’s National Democratic Club that guns must be stigmatized the way smoking is. “We just have to be repetitive about this. It is just not enough to simply have a catchy ad. We need to do this every day of the week and really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.”

Reverting back to 1938, Adolf Hitler, one of history’s worst dictators, said: “The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjugated people to carry arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected people to carry arms have prepared their own downfall.”

President Obama has used the executive order to circumvent and seize power from Congress in order to control our freedoms. The No. 1 curtailment is Obamacare, which controls a sizable portion of the economy. Obama is beginning to assume dictatorial powers, and in his second term, nothing will stop him.

If we lose the freedom to protect ourselves, the loss of all other freedoms will follow. Are these the changes we can count on?

Jackie Clark

Westmont

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