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How we are voting Dear Editor, We did not write this in its entirety, but we might as well have as it encapsulates my thinking very well, although I did edit and add a couple original points. We cannot credit the original author, but this was sent to us by a friend in Illinois. In less than three months, it will be over. The U.S. Presidential and Congressional Election, I mean, not the end of the world, but maybe the end of our nation as we have known it and I am worried. We will not be voting for Joe Biden or Donald Trump as the ideal leader of this country. We are not voting ...

God help us unite

Dear Editor, Having read a few hundred articles to the “Reader Speaks” over the last several years, it has come to my attention that our Grand Old Country is nearing a total collapse or about to enter into a civil war. We have seen our cities burning and nobody being held accountable. We have talk of removing police due to a few bad cops. We are allowing millions of illegal immigrants into our country and promising to give them free health care, part of our social security and free housing. We are fighting an epidemic in COVID-19 that came into our country from China, and we ...

Leading by fear

Dear Editor, With President John F. Kennedy, it was his being Catholic and the fear that the pope would be running our country. Funny, that’s not a concern with Joe Biden. With Barack Obama is was “death squads” that would decide who lives or dies in “The Affordable Care Act,” the confiscation of all our guns and we’d be ruled by Sharia law. The whole Republican platform seems to run on fear and paranoia. You must stay scared so you don’t think. Facts are now a hoax. Lies are now truths. Anti-fascists are now the bad guys and vigilante militias and “proud boys” ...

Nation shaped by 9/11

Dear Editor, This one’s personal about Sept. 11, 2001. My first memory is actually about one week before. Our after-dinner discussion was about how as Americans we live under this delusion that we are “safe.” Our freedoms, laws and privileges have made us complacent and smug. Smug is often followed by a reality kick to the head. The next recollection was the evening of 9/11. That evening’s discussion was about: Yes, terrorist acts are done to create fear, but we were Americans. ...

Social Security in trouble

Dear Editor, The coronavirus has exposed an economy that is deeply flawed, structurally unsound, and in need of serious reform. The majority of the wealth created in the last decade has been seized by the affluent who have used this power to make sure this system works for them. When the pandemic revealed that 43 to 45% of American families did not have a $400 cash reserve and another 30% of American families could not miss two paychecks without causing financial stress, it’s obvious something is seriously wrong and income inequality is indeed, a reality. The Trump ...

Breaking a Commandment

Dear Editor, What does the future hold for a nation when those in high office and powerful positions do not practice the Ninth Commandment? When I was a boy, I noticed that none of the Commandments demanded that I never lie—that no Commandment specifically demanded that I speak only truth in every circumstance. “Whew!” I thought, “some fibbing is OK.” What I found was family, friends, neighbors, and teachers professed a higher standard. They expected truth and fair play all the time. Yet, they did not always practice what they preached. I witnessed occasions when ...