LETTERS: What is the real quality of life?
To the Editor:
This issue of the state protecting the environment is a distraction from the failure of government.
What is quality of life? Clean air? Isn't it having a free and independent way of life, where a man can live and work and feel like a man? Where a man can be a man and a woman can be a woman? The foundation of every society is the family structure. What good is a so-called clean environment if at the same time we promote corruption of our moral environment?
The governor talks about moral responsibility and caring about the "health and well-being" of Kansans, while at the same time she supports expansion of state gambling casinos, lotteries, and other such corruptible means of revenue that destroy people's lives.
What is the role of the governor of our state as stated in our constitution? Isn't the government's responsibility to protect my right to provide for myself, not to take it away from me? Does the governor ever acknowledge how the state budget has grown and how social programs have been expanded at the expense of our individual responsibility?
The politicians make all these bold statements: "We will do this" and "We will do that." Look at what government has brought us. Moral breakdown and financial stress. How long are we going to be fooled! What the governor really wants is government control, which it can't have except at our expense! For example, when she says that the children of Kansas are her children, that means they no longer belong to us as parents. They belong to the state.
Does anyone wonder why our private sector economy is dying? To government, nothing done through the private sector without government oversight is good. Yet, the modern conveniences we enjoy come from the private sector despite government.
Does anyone really think that we as humans, who didn't create ourselves or the earth, have the power to destroy the planet? We might be foolish enough to destroy ourselves, though. What good is there in saving the environment when we are losing our soul?
Jerry Plett
Lincolnville
