No Perfect World
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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Just a few days after the season of peace on Earth, goodwill to men, I was troubled by the less-than-charitable tone of two letters in the Jan. 3 Times-Union.
Mr. Hite, for someone that espouses such a pro-birth agenda, you seem to have an alarming disregard for the lives of Iraqi civilians since they were omitted from your equation.
I refer to you as pro-birth because nowhere in any of your missives do you ever address such necessities of life as healthcare, day care, education or a living wage. What is your plan for women that have illegal abortions or women of means that travel to an accommodating country should abortions become illegal? Would you put them in prison? We have a broken foster care system in which many children are abused, molested and worse. Today more than 100,000 children are waiting for someone to adopt them. How many can you take? In a perfect world there would be no need for abortions, but this is far from a perfect world. Along with the right to life should come their right to be loved and nurtured. I can think of nothing sadder than an orphanage full of unloved, unwanted children.
I also take exception to your assertion that America was founded on Christian principles. While a nation may align itself with the Christian religion, I know of no principle that allows for the slaughter and displacement of native people. What principle calls for the importation and enslavement of the black race for hundreds of years? Many of the 55 founding fathers were slave owners and decreed a black person to be equal to three-fifths of a white person. Not much principle there either.
To Mr. Shepherd: I can understand your frustration at the system, but I feel your anger is mis-diverted. Undocumented workers are here due to bone-headed trade policies and at the behest of American business. Of course, businesses prefer to hire them, they provide cheap labor and they have no rights. The present system works for no one but business. In the meantime our crowded conditions exist in emergency rooms, education and jails at the expense of the working class. Suppose, just for a minute, that we welcomed our southern neighbors and worked together to dismantle this corporate-ocracy that allows for 1 percent of the people to control 90 percent of the wealth.
Janet Collins
Etna Green
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Just a few days after the season of peace on Earth, goodwill to men, I was troubled by the less-than-charitable tone of two letters in the Jan. 3 Times-Union.
Mr. Hite, for someone that espouses such a pro-birth agenda, you seem to have an alarming disregard for the lives of Iraqi civilians since they were omitted from your equation.
I refer to you as pro-birth because nowhere in any of your missives do you ever address such necessities of life as healthcare, day care, education or a living wage. What is your plan for women that have illegal abortions or women of means that travel to an accommodating country should abortions become illegal? Would you put them in prison? We have a broken foster care system in which many children are abused, molested and worse. Today more than 100,000 children are waiting for someone to adopt them. How many can you take? In a perfect world there would be no need for abortions, but this is far from a perfect world. Along with the right to life should come their right to be loved and nurtured. I can think of nothing sadder than an orphanage full of unloved, unwanted children.
I also take exception to your assertion that America was founded on Christian principles. While a nation may align itself with the Christian religion, I know of no principle that allows for the slaughter and displacement of native people. What principle calls for the importation and enslavement of the black race for hundreds of years? Many of the 55 founding fathers were slave owners and decreed a black person to be equal to three-fifths of a white person. Not much principle there either.
To Mr. Shepherd: I can understand your frustration at the system, but I feel your anger is mis-diverted. Undocumented workers are here due to bone-headed trade policies and at the behest of American business. Of course, businesses prefer to hire them, they provide cheap labor and they have no rights. The present system works for no one but business. In the meantime our crowded conditions exist in emergency rooms, education and jails at the expense of the working class. Suppose, just for a minute, that we welcomed our southern neighbors and worked together to dismantle this corporate-ocracy that allows for 1 percent of the people to control 90 percent of the wealth.
Janet Collins
Etna Green
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