To the Editor:
Now that the election is so close we need to take a real common sense look at the issues:
1. Inflation: defined as increase in prices due to more demand for things than supply of things. Purchasers push up the price they are willing to pay for scarce items. Suppliers raise prices for two reasons — first the price they have to pay for materials, second, the universal urge to increase profits by raising prices. Leaving prices at a low level causes shortages. Government handouts only increase demand without encouraging investment in the production of more things.
2. Energy: We are completely dependent on the Arabs and OPEC and will be until other energy sources are developed. We need to return to energy independence.
3. Immigration: Our country needs more young people to counteract the drop the birth rate and the effect of abortion. But it must be controlled. Our economy can support a fixed number of immigrants. Too many result in low wages and unemployment and expansion of welfare roles.
4. American exceptionalism: Too many deny this and want to change the system. The United States is the most free and admired country in the world. Migrants try to get her by any means regardless of hardship. They do not try to get into China, Russia or Cuba. Patriotism must be considered a virtue and not a vice.
5. Abortion: Human life begins at conception, we can all trace our life back to that moment. Abortion is the taking of a human life much like when a assailant fires a gun at a pregnant woman, kills the baby, and the woman survives. Any rational person would call that murder. The discussion about abortion should be about the question “When is it lawful to take a human life.”
6. Transgender issues: Any adult is free to say he or she is anything they claim to be as long as their conduct or presence doesn’t offend the moral sensitivity of those around them in a locker room or bathroom or give it a physical advantage in sports. Other than that they are entitled to tolerance but they need to be tolerant of the rest of us, without pushy of aggressive behavior. They cannot insist that we accept certain behavior as normal, we are equally free to have our moral opinion. They should not be allowed to promote their lifestyle to children or promote sex change procedures on young people without parental approval.
August Hoernschemeyer, Owensville
