I want to say first that I am all for equal treatment for everyone. I am also proud to be an American, and I am not happy about a Sept. 28 Lincoln Journal Star article being repeated in a foreign language. I don’t care what language.

If you want to live in America and be an American, learn the language. The language of America is English.

We are leaning over so far backward to please other nationalities that we are forgetting who we are. There have been calls to have the national anthem sung in Spanish.

It is required in some states that some teachers be bilingual and teach in both English and Spanish. I do not believe that if you go to Mexico they will do the same for you. You would have to buy an English newspaper and send your children to an English-speaking private school. 

It is high time that we reclaim our country. We are Americans, and we speak English.

Marguerite H. Lehr, Lincoln

Not happy with Spanish

I don’t know if it was a mistake that could have possibly gotten through all the editors and page layout people, but on page 7B of the Sept. 28 Lincoln Journal Star, there was an entire article written in Spanish.

I do not appreciate paying for a paper that I can’t read … and if you wish to continue to publish articles in a language other than English, I will be discontinuing my subscription and wanting a refund for what I have already prepaid for the year.

I do not live in Mexico, Guatemala or any other Latino country; I live in the United States of America and did not sign up for a Spanish newspaper. I speak a foreign language (German), but I don’t want a newspaper written in German, either. … I paid for English, and I want an English-written paper.

Teresa A. Liesemeyer, Unadilla

Do math on beer sales

Nebraskans for Peace tell us, with the help of unlimited press coverage, that almost 4 million cans of beer a year are sold in the liquor stores near the Pine Ridge reservation. They say there are 16,500 residents who live on the reservation. They want the stores closed.

Let’s analyze these numbers. Let’s assume 30 percent of the reservation population doesn’t drink because of their young age  and that 10 percent of the rest abstain. That leaves 10,395 who drink. Let’s also assume that when they say “almost” 4 million  cans of beer are sold, that this figure is “actually” 3,850,000.

Let’s finally assume that people who do not live on the reservation buy 5 percent of the 3,850,000 cans of beer sold, which leaves 3,657,500 cans of beer being consumed by the 10,395. That calculates to 0.96 beers consumed by each person, per day. Such depravity!

Next press conference, maybe they could drop the 4 million beers sold figure, which is not put into context, and use the 0.96 figure, which is more informative. I’d wager that a few members of Nebraskans for Peace drink at least 0.96 beers a day.

I say, “Let’s help these unfortunate souls who live right in our city, by closing the evil liquor outlets near their homes.” Seems to me we should rename this group the “Nebraskans Without Calculators.”

Brian Kamler, Lincoln

Camp’s in it for himself

Jon Camp, I’m sure, again is laughing all the way to the bank. After taking the taxpayers’ money to enhance the Haymarket area where he owns several commercial properties, he has now voted to blight an area that will again, over the long run, increase his property values tenfold.

Talk about conflict of interest. Camp should never be able to vote on any project like this.

We owe this man nothing, and almost everything he has done has been for his own enhancement.

Camp shows little interest in the rest of the downtown area. I wonder why?

Let’s get rid of this master manipulator now. Oh, did I mention that the city rents his commercial spaces? I wonder how that happened?

Michael L. White, Lincoln