Nuclear deal with India would be good for the U.S.

Nuclear deal with India would be good for the U.S.
EDITOR:
Congress should approve the landmark nuclear deal which President Bush made with India recently. It should review the pact carefully and strengthen it without trying to kill it.
Bush has agreed to supply nuclear fuel for the civilian nuclear power plants in India and India has agreed to allow the International Atomic Energy Commission to inspect these plants, which is more than five nuclear powers do. Nuclear powers only allow voluntary inspections.
India's nuclear program never broke any rules, such as North Korea and Pakistan have done. There is no comparison. The plutonium India would be allowed to import for nuclear power plants cannot be used as a precedent by others.
This deal is good for the United States.
India has over 300 million people in its large middle income class consumer market and its economy is growing at nearly 8 percent per year. It has a large foreign currency reserve. India is ready to increase imports in a big way.
The United States has a big trade deficit. It is important to promote trade with India to reduce the deficit. India has placed orders for billions of dollars worth of U.S. planes recently and is eyeing a whole fleet of fighter planes from the United States.
There is a good chance to export to India nuclear related items from the United States.
India has 22 nuclear power plants in existence or in the pipeline. It is planning eight more nuclear powered power plants before 2012. It has improved the speed of building the plants to five years instead of customary eight years. It is planning to build all these plants without help from the United States. We can reap benefits here.
The nuclear deal if ratified by Congress will change the world. Bush's recent trip will help create thousands of jobs in the United States in many areas of trade.
The nuclear deal alone will create thousands of jobs in the U.S. nuclear industry. Experts estimate that if the United States gets a contract only to build two of the eight plants planned, the nuclear business alone could be worth $100 billion.
Congress should ratify the deal.
SUMAN K. MISHR
Youngstown
Teacher got slap on the wrist
EDITOR:
Shame on the legal system for not protecting our greatest assets, our children. I feel the teacher from Austintown got a slap on the wrist for his sick, pedophile-type behavior. Is it because the victim was 18 that this teacher does not have to register as a sexual predator? Would the outcome have been different if this was a female student?
Big deal that he had to surrender his teaching certificate. Is he not court-ordered to receive some type of psychiatric treatment? Although once a sexual predator, always a sexual predator, there is no cure.
I thought the plan was to become tougher on people with this type of behavior, but I guess not around here, the man is still allowed into the Poland schools. I agree that parents have to take responsibility for what their children are doing on the computer, and thank God someone had called the schools help-hotline to report this, because it surely would have continued, maybe with your own child.
Please, we have got to work together to protect our children, we need stiffer laws with more appropriate consequences that can restrain these people from repeating this type of behavior.
LORI GUTHRIDGE
Boardman
Freedom is slipping away
EDITOR:
"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. & quot; We used to talk about the Russians spying on their citizens. How are we any better? The House and the Senate go along with this through their silence.
LEONARD GRBINICK
Youngstown