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SENIORS’ TAXES

With the county assessor’s statements coming out now, one has to think back to the point where if you live in your home 10 years or more and (are) a senior, you can now obtain a discount rate — or should you be 100% disabled veteran. Well, these days by the time you’ve moved from your home after serving your 10 years, you’ve got to start over. Most people won’t live another 10 years. This is just not realistic. We need to change the law and adjust it to realistic times. It’s common sense. As long as you stay in Larimer County, you should be able to have that 10 year wait waived when you go to the new location.

TRAFFIC LIGHTS

When you need your stoplights to work the most is during bad weather. … We’re sitting at red light after red light, turn signal after turn signal, and there’s not a soul in sight. They’re causing a huge mass at the start of the day.

WHAT ABOUT WATER?

This is for the town of Berthoud (Town) Board. … I sure hope they realize and hope they know where they’re going to get the water permits for all these 4,000 homes that they’re talking about and where they’re going to get the water at for these 4,000 homes. They’d better start building their own water reserves or something or we’re going to be in terrible trouble. Even in Loveland, we’ve got to build our own water reserves. … All these people that are fighting for all these water reserves, they should quit it so we can have water for the future and also farmland.

SNOW DAY?

It is Tuesday morning, and I am driving to school. I cannot believe the Thompson School District had school today or didn’t issue a late start. The roads are horrible, and we should not risk our staff, students and families.

QUIT COMPLAINING

The Reporter-herald opinion page offers two ways to voice your opinion: Write a letter to the editor and sign your name, or call the RH Line with your comment and not have to include your name. This is the purest form of free speech in America today. So quit complaining.

PRO-CHOICE, PRO-LIFE

A caller asked for a reply from a Republican, which I am, about being vaccinated and pro-choice on the abortion issue. Yes, I believe in pro-choice on the vaccination; it should be a personal decision. On the pro-life issue, you have two people involved. The baby’s inside of the mother, and the baby has a right to live. Very few abortions are done because of rape or incest. (The vast majority) are birth control, so the person can make a choice before hand to get pregnant or not get pregnant. Once they’re pregnant, that baby has a right to be born, because there are two people involved. Ultrasound shows the life inside the mother, and that’s a fact of science. So there you go.

To answer the person’s question about why Republicans don’t like the phrase “my body, my choice” when it comes to abortion: Let me try to explain. There is something called the magical birth canal, and that’s the passageway between a woman’s uterus and the outside world. So when you have a clump of tissue inside her uterus that’s, say, 7 or 8 pounds, that’s all it is, it’s a clump of tissue, and she can do whatever she wants to with it along with the help of a doctor. But if that clump of tissue passes through the magical canal, goes out into the outside world, then it is a human baby with the rights of being a U.S. citizen. It’s like inside the uterus, it’s cells itself and nothing; outside, passing through the birth canal, voila, it’s a human baby, it’s amazing.