Letters on sales tax referendum, splitting GOP vote, life chain, worldview war, caring people

Pay for street work without raising taxes

The city of Wichita should not ask to raise the sales tax. It had enough money in the budget to fix the city streets but didn’t do that, so now the streets are in worse shape than ever. What happened to the money in the budget the city didn’t spend on our streets?

Not everybody can afford more taxes. Enough is enough. Make the city use its existing budget money, and leave the people who live here alone.

‘Yes’ for Wichita

We are a retired couple in our 70s. Our votes will be “yes” on the Nov. 4 sales tax referendum. We came to this conclusion after studying the city’s plan. (Yes, there is a detailed plan that can be found on the city website.)

The four top priorities – water, streets, transit and jobs – are all interrelated, so for the best results they should move forward together. Also, there is a time-certain end date for the sales tax written into the ballot proposition.

For a truly better Wichita, join us and vote “yes.”

Don’t split vote

Are the Democrats the only ones who understand how they got Bill Clinton elected president? Ross Perot split the Republican ticket, thereby preventing President George H.W. Bush from getting the majority vote for president.

The smarter Democratic politicians have had their weaker candidate, Chad Taylor, drop out of the U.S. Senate race, and they aren’t replacing him. It is considered to be a close race.

The Republicans and the “tea party politicians” insist on splitting their majority votes. I thought they wanted to overcome the Obama regime. I thought and hoped they would be smarter and better politicians than that.

Take a stand for life

Tens of thousands of Kansans will take to the sidewalks from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday for the annual “life chain” of citizens who take a stand for life. They oppose the greatest threat to innocent human life today – abortion. They will bring their children in order to teach them that human life is valuable and that the child in the womb is precious and worthy of protection.

Many of these pro-lifers volunteer in the more than 50 crisis centers in Kansas that help women dealing with untimely pregnancy. We love both the child and the mother.

There are more than 65 life chains across Kansas listed on lifechain.net.

We pray for those suffering from an abortion experience, and we pray for an end to abortion.

Worldview war

America is engulfed in a war that is destroying its foundation. It’s a religious and spiritual worldview war. This worldview war was demonstrated in a letter that warned students to keep their religious ideas out of the science classroom and claimed those who teach the biblical account of young-Earth creationism hinder scientific progress (“Learn, don’t preach,” Aug. 23 Letters to the Editor).

Interestingly, evolutionists often label creationists as being scientifically illiterate, while never grasping the distinction between observational science (knowledge that builds our technology) and historical science (knowledge concerning the origin of life). The evolutionists’ belief that life evolved from nonlife is inconsistent with the law (God’s law) of biogenesis – simply, that life comes from life. Indeed, observational science confirms that life cannot come from nonlife.

Secular humanists would have you think they are for neutrality, and that our government and public schools should be “religion-free” zones. But when atheistic groups succeeded over the past few decades in getting Bible reading, prayer, creationism and other Christian thinking eliminated from our schools, religion was not thrown out; Christianity was. It was replaced by another religion: secular humanism.

Good, caring people

Several weeks ago my elderly mother, Joan Daniel, had begun her daily walk. She uses a walker with wheels, brakes and a seat. She became dizzy after a short time and fell to the street at the bottom of her driveway. Mother had broken her hip from the fall.

The U.S. Postal Service woman who delivers my mother’s mail saw her fall and rushed to her aid. A man who was driving by (we don’t know his name) also stopped to help. They called for an ambulance.

Our entire family, including our mother, would like to thank the postal worker and the gentleman who stopped and helped.

In a time when there isn’t much publicity about random acts of kindness, we feel that people need to know there are good, caring people in this world who don’t hesitate to stop and offer their help in a crisis. We are so grateful to these two people who stopped to help our mother.

This story was originally published October 3, 2014 at 7:05 PM with the headline "Letters on sales tax referendum, splitting GOP vote, life chain, worldview war, caring people."