Opinion Line (Sept. 2)

It used to be only death and taxes. Now, of course, there’s shipping and handling, too.

Are America’s retirees willing to forgo their Social Security checks during a government shutdown to fund the wall?

If four feet of rain fell for three days, the runoff from neighborhoods would overwhelm the Big Ditch and would overflow the Arkansas, flood downtown, reach east to Hillside and west to Seneca and we’d understand how Houston feels.

If ignorance is bliss, why doesn’t Trump smile more often?

Maybe trying to control the climate is a futile endeavor. An overabundance of rain is preferable to drought. Perhaps the wisest course of action is to relocate away from problematic areas.

A guy was price gouging down in Texas, charging $99 for a case of water. Who does he think he is, an airport vendor?

President Trump is getting good marks on handling the hurricane and the Democrats can’t allow that, so Joe Biden jumps back in the hate narrative.

We’re supposed to believe news people when they stand in hurricane winds and flood waters themselves? Really?

CEOs fired people during the Great Recession. Then CEOs fattened their own paychecks. Now, CEOs don’t want to hire people, train them or give them raises. Sounds like greed.

Yes, please extend the school year and make shorter days for our students. They can’t be effective in school when they sleep because they have been up since 5:30 a.m. Plus less absences.

For-profit schools are designed for the profit of their shareholders. Public schools are created by the government for the children of their citizen taxpayers. Which system do you think has the students’ best interest in mind?

To the complainer that GoFundMe is panhandling, it may be the only way to pay our medical bills once Congress rolls back Obamacare.

The only bi-partisan thing in Congress is corruption.

This story was originally published September 2, 2017 at 4:33 AM with the headline "Opinion Line (Sept. 2)."