I was just listening to a morning cable “news” show and their debate about what a being a conservative means. Now I personally know, because I grew up with a conservative grandfather and on the other side of the family a liberal grandmother. Of course, that is not the whole thing. Personally, I have the ability to think for myself, to see right from wrong, to know what works and what does not work and I have a copy of the Constitution, which is our “book of rules” for the country.

I also listen to various points of view but then I compare them to reality. I do not want this to run too long so let us hop right in with a couple things and leave it at that for today.

Let me ask first, why do we have homeless people in America? I don’t mean I want all the answers, I mean why in the first place in the greatest nation do we have people who have nothing? That hardly agrees with the Constitution. And how does that have anything to do with partisan politics except that both parties are failing.

Why do we see “Now hiring” signs on just about every business and at the same time we have thousands (at least) of qualified people standing at our border waiting for a way to come in. Congress, both parties, last did something with this in 1986 I believe. They have cashed their checks since then also. In any case, what would happen if we gave these folks the legal right to be here and apply to citizenship while we allow them to pay into our Internal Revenue System and pay into Social Security and Medicare systems? Let me tell you, Social Security would not be in danger of running out of money, Medicare would be solvent for many years in the future and our Treasury would grow without taxing the super-rich, which you know in your heart is NOT going to ever happen. Bottom line, YOU would pay less. When you went shopping or out to eat or needed a service, someone would be providing it. You would be better served.

This has been a country of immigrants for hundreds of years. Does that suddenly no longer work? No, but right now it is providing some political fodder for people we are paying to work for us. People who are not doing their jobs and who I already mentioned are cashing their checks. Those checks come out of our pockets.

Final word. We have a newspaper in our community. You are reading it. Many towns no longer have a paper. Talk to your friends and family. Tell them to subscribe. Tell them to write in as I have just done. Tell them to advertise. Support this resource or lose it. If you lose it, you will be less. I guarantee that. By the way, I have NO financial or other connection to this paper. But I am a subscriber and reader and better for it.

Have a nice fall season.