More to life
I just got done “scanning” over Mr. McKay’s letter in the October 1, 2015 Record-Bee. I never read the whole letter after seeing that he has written it because they always say the same thing over and over.
I must say that I always sense a lot of anger and hate coming from his letters towards the Democrats. I find it saddening that during this time, ‘especially,’ he has nothing more positive to write about. Perhaps if he wrote about something more enlightening, myself, and I am sure many others, would read and even enjoy what he has to say.
So lighten up, Mr. McKay — there Is more to life!
Jeanene Parnell, Kelseyville
Value of life
With all the current noise about such things as ransoms, self termination, abortion, and suit settlements and such it, seems to me that it is long past time to reevaluate the value of a human life. We need such a reevaluation for input for the setting of spending priorities; allocation of limited/finite resources as organs for transplant; tremendously expensive medical procedures and pharmaceuticals; and such. I know there are reasons for using extreme (and extremely expensive) technology to maintain life, but mostly these are the result of religious beliefs and/or family emotion and indecision. Sadly it is considered of no concern for the taxpayers who have to foot the bill. It should be a concern.
In terms of value to our country or the world, I do not think that all humans are equal and that efforts to try to make them so are misled at best. The moment the sperm joins the egg, the resulting creature is unique. Yes, there are some spiritual and emotional aspects that affect a subjective evaluation, but from an objective, economic, cost/benefit basis, equal they are not. When a creature (at any age or condition) reaches the point where it costs (family, country, whatever) more to maintain him/her than he contributes, the person is a liability. If a family wishes to foot the bill, fine, but the taxpayers should not have to.
Part of many people’s life philosophy is that if you receive benefits, it is your responsibility to repay them. To me it is discouraging that, apparently we have an increasing number of people who think otherwise. Most statistics I see note that the number of homeless, indigent, and other “career welfare recipients” keeps growing with very little effort on the part of government to get something in return to a great degree because too many taxpayers consider this socialism. And the taxpayers pay the bill!
Obviously age plays a huge roll, but it goes both ways. Some (very) young people cost their parents (and country) huge amounts for “special needs” and they will never contribute enough to pay their way. Again, let’s face it, all people are not equal, no matter how hard they try. I suspect the same is true with the current efforts to force all student into the same mold. We Americans have much to consider. Lower life valuations might even lower medical costs—including tort settlements!
Guff Worth, Lakeport
Learn from history
When Thomas Jefferson took the U.S. to war against the Barbary pirates there was no “Arab Spring, no “red line,” no Iranian “deal” — just win!
Brent Pomeroy, Lakeport
