Opinion Line Extra (June 27)

When I hear the phrase about making America great again, I wonder: Like when Ike was president? We built the interstates and our national infrastructure. And the country prospered. But does that include going back to income tax rates of 90 percent for the wealthy?

The Obama administration has done a poor job on the economy. The labor participation rate is horrible and getting worse. The jobs created by the administration have been part time and do not pay well. Hillary will be more of the same, except she will have taxpayers pay for growing government jobs.

In Pennsylvania, lottery and casino profits are directed to education and senior care, not thrown to the wolves in a “general fund.” They actually refund my 85-year-old mother’s Medicare payments. Wake up, Kansas. Get this money out of the general fund and put it to work.

Orlando was not the largest mass shooting in the U.S. history. That took place on Dec. 29, 1890, when federal agents and the U.S. 7th Cavalry killed about 300 Lakota natives at Wounded Knee, 200 of whom were women and children.

The House and Senate do not get the problem. Our senators and congressmen need to allow guns inside their chambers, or maybe hand out AK-47s to guests attending political meetings, to “get” the problem of easy gun access.

America has to have lax, nonexistent gun laws just so that some 5-foot runt can continue daydreaming that someday he will be able to protect a pretty girl from the bad guys.

People could be on the “no fly” list for a whole host of reasons that have no bearing on their eligibility to reasonably possess or buy a firearm. The Constitution does not guarantee you a right to fly in a plane.

It is scary that someone thinks Wichita is bigger than St. Louis (June 22 Opinion Line). The St. Louis metro area has a population of 2.8 million. The Wichita metro has 650,000.

Most businesses today have no respect for their customers. When a customer calls, they usually get a robo-phone on which the customer is directed to leave a number so that the business can call the customer back at its convenience, never at the customer’s convenience.

If I want to fertilize my yard, I will go to the store and buy some fertilizer. Please keep your cats home. I do not appreciate the mess in my yard.

This story was originally published June 27, 2016 at 12:02 AM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (June 27)."