Where’s the common sense leadership with public officials?

I believed that when I turned 80 I would be wiser and not so perplexed by the world around me. I was wrong, especially in how we care for our children, or future.

I don’t understand how our government is pushing electric cars when it knows the material needed for them is mined by children in Third World countries.

I don’t understand spending so much money on nonessential “pork” in government budgets when so many families with children lack adequate housing.

Why did President Biden open our borders, letting in hordes of new people we must feed, clothe and house when, according to the USDA, more than 13 million children knew hunger in the U.S.A. in 2022.

I don’t understand how a congressman can lament that our child birth rate is lagging and we are not replenishing our population and then, in the next breath, advocate for abortion, even to the point of birth.

I don’t understand telling teenagers and even younger children that a change in gender will solve all their problems and then mutilating their bodies and changing their growth pattern through drugs.

Children are our future and, without them, we are nothing.

Oh, well, perhaps when I get to be 90, we will have elected public officials with common sense who love and protect children from conception to death instead of those who rule only for power, money and following the dictates of their political party.

MARY LOMBARDO Albuquerque