Speak Out 8/12/12

Heartless?

This is to the person who the little yellow kitten on the RR overpass wall. Are you too cowardly to just put it out of this world? But you can put it out there on the overpass wall in excess of 100 degree weather to suffer terror of the heat, the cars flying by, unable to move for fear of falling under the cars. How could you be so heartless? Have your pets spayed or neutered so, you, are tempted to do such a criminal act or better still don't you have any pets!

Wasted money?

I read in the paper July 30, 2012, that we wasted $200 million on Iraqi police training.

Well, so what else can you expect from the bunch we have looking out for this country? But I for one wonder: how much of that $200 million went in some politician's pocket first?

Name withheld: because I want to live a bit longer.

Pro-life really?

Having only been a resident of Southeast Missouri for five years I often wonder why, especially during election times, that so many people in this area are pro-life but they don't want to spend the money necessary to lift up women and children in poverty.

According to the "By the Numbers: The Public Costs of Teen Childbearing" published by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy in 2006, the public costs associated with children born in Missouri to teen parents are: Lost Tax Revenue, $58 million; Health Care, $41 million; Child Welfare, $52 million; and Incarceration, $30 million (2004).

As I consider myself to be fiscally conservative, and a believer in separation of church and state, I have a difficult time understanding why so many conservative Christians vote for pro-life candidates yet do not want to pay the costs involved to financially support a baby that is born to a teen. These numbers do not include the monetary cost to society for women who are no longer teens and cannot afford to be pregnant nor the non-monetary costs associated with welfare babies/children/families to a community.

Please explain to me how you can justify being anti-abortion but do not want to pay taxes associated with "welfare babies" and their mothers who want to keep their child rather have it adopted by a family that is financially secure. Do organizations like Birthright provide free day care while a child's mother goes to school and/or works? Do they provide assistance to the mother with finding a place to live if she needs it along with help finding a job? Not all mothers who have unwanted pregnancies have a strong support system that they can rely on to help them financially and emotionally not only during the pregnancy and birth but also through the teen years of their child. Do Southeast Missouri citizens provide this support system for those in need?

A Concerned Citizen.

Burning food

in gas tank

Finally in the DAR in the opinion section of the newspaper a political cartoon that points out the very poignant fact of the agenda that is being pushed by any of the "Green" generation where we are eating up and burning up our food sources for fueling our vehicle. That's right, people. A very poignant cartoon showing a man pouring ethanol into a plate of a starving African child. Very poignant, people. And, yet, that point is going to hit home shortly here in America. Are you ready for $10 a pound hamburger? $8 a gallon milk? Oh, yes! It's very plausible. Our drought that has happened this summer can well drive the prices up on our food sources here even in America and no amount of government price control can stop it. And, not even Wal-Mart's great price control can stave off. That's right, stave off what's gonna happen. Do you think Wal-Mart's going to let the profits that will be wrought by this great disaster not line their pockets with the windfall that's going to fallen by this disaster? So ask yourself this, people: is it time to think otherwise on this boondoggle of burning up our food products to pour into our gas tanks? Let's give it a second thought, shall we? Maybe it's time to just stop! and really give it a good second look, don't you think?

Thank you for taking a stand

DAR, thank you for the excellent editorial in the Sunday, Aug. 5 edition. Thank you for taking the stand that you took on same-sex marriage, transvestism and freedom of speech. Most Bible believing churches and denominations have taken a public record against gay marriage and homosexuality. If Chick-fil-A is banned from communities for its CEO Dan Cathy's statement then I guess those same communities would have to ban nearly every church in this country. Thank you again for taking a very unpopular stand in regards to some folks. Thank you for what you are doing and God bless you and God save America.

Brave enough to stand up for what you believe

I want to thank the editor for the "Christians are about to lose their Freedom of Speech." I believe that totally and I applaud for being brave enough to stand up and say so. Bye.