Get priorities straight

I am so glad that Messrs. Ballinger and Rapert are so concerned with less constraints on killing people that they took up so much legislative time on this important issue when they could have concerned themselves with unimportant issues such as better education, better access to and bringing down the costs of health care, critical infrastructure, job retraining for workers whose jobs are being replaced by new technologies, new energy sources, more equitable taxing, and to quit giving tax breaks to companies that receive billions in subsidies. We certainly wouldn’t want to hurt companies’ feelings on fair pay when they use the taxpayers to subsidize food stamps for their employees and Medicaid for their health programs. I mean, it is very important to have guns in schools, bars and churches for easy access. Those Old West sheriffs were overstepping their bounds when they required that guns be checked in at the sheriff’s office when entering town.

We certainly wouldn’t want to reduce unwanted pregnancies with better sex education, more access to birth control, better and safer foster parent programs, better juvenile lockups with better educational programs, better programs and care for single mothers, and better day-care opportunities for families in general to help them pull themselves out of poverty. Just because states that have done this dramatically reduce abortion rates doesn’t mean we shouldn’t punish unmarried women for getting pregnant. It is much more important to have the child instead of caring for it after it is born.

It is so much more important that we don’t put any progressive programs and ideas into law. We must gerrymander the voting districts to ensure the right people stay in power and no new pesky ideas get introduced. We certainly don’t want to change the status quo and have the wrong people voting. We must make voting as difficult as possible to ensure the right people are in power. After all, people don’t really know what they need. I mean, we have to keep their priorities straight. KEVIN FLEMING Kingston