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Why Spend Dollars Globally When There Is So Much Need Here?

To The Reader’s Forum: I read the article in The Post-Journal about “City Prepares For Opening Of Emergency Homeless Sheltering.” I was happy to see that someone was doing something to help our homeless population. Stop and think about the millions and billions of dollars we give other countries. Many of them hate the USA but we still give them money and aid every year. Homelessness in the United States of America, or people without a home, is currently over half a million. In fact, the 2020 figure according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development is 580,185. ...

Telling Gun Violence Stories Is Good, But Talk About Solutions, Too

To The Reader’s Forum: PBS aired a documentary on October 5 called “Ricochet”, which showed how gun violence affected people - the brother of a deceased suicide victim, parent and sister of a young man who died by suicide, parents of young woman who died at a mass shooting in a theater, a young woman who lost three family members to gun violence, a survivor of a mass shooting at a theater and an ER doctor who, most often, could only console survivors. The intent was to show just what it means to be a surviving “victim”. One statistic revealed is how virtually everyone in ...

Thanks To Those Working On Women’s Shelter In Jamestown

To The Reader’s Forum: I am so pleased to see a women’s shelter being established in Jamestown so women with mental health, drug, physical, financial issues will know there is a place with a warm, dry bed to sleep on - if only a cot, bathroom and laundry facilities available - and social workers to help them address their issues - and eventually obtain a job and a permanent place to call home. This assurance of a safe environment is the first and a huge step toward dealing with their problems. There have been articles in the P-J recently of how the area churches can become involved ...

We Make Lots Of Choices In Our Lives, But How Do We Choose When It Comes To Power?

To The Reader’s Forum: We have lots of choices in our lives and we hope that we make good ones. But when it comes to power, how do we choose? What is our North Star that helps us to choose service over power? What do we choose to believe about God, ethics, hypocrisy, or dare I say, about Democracy? My North Star has always been the Boy Scout Law, which I still can repeat from memory. I wonder if others value it today. Do we want our leaders in government to be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent? These ...

Government Has Far Too Much Control Over Our Money

To The Reader’s Forum: Nobody seems to know anything about economics and nobody thinks anything through. Your editorial on October 5 muses over the wisdom of the minimum wage and how it may or may not help the poor. If your work brings your employer more than he pays you, you keep your job. If the government tells him he has to pay you more than you are worth, he has two choices. The short term choice is you lose your job and someone else gets your pay. The long term choice is he goes broke and you and everyone who works for him loses their jobs. Either way, your labor, his ...

How Much Does Democracy Matter To Voters?

To The Reader’s Forum: Thanks to Forbes.com for publishing approximately 30 separate investigations AGAINST Donald Trump. Some came before he was elected president, others were initiated while president, but the most serious, those that carry the potential for jail time, occurred after his presidency. Why my concern over Trump? First, it’s hard to understand, much less accept, that there are voters who support Trump. True, he has yet to be indicted for criminal conduct, and any proven or alleged misconduct has “only” been of the civil variety, thus can be described as ...