This is Viewpoints for Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Give, can’t take

I see that the right wing is unhappy with how the news outlets are treating President Tweety Pie Trump. Too bad considering the last eight years of constant put downs on President Obama by the right wing This was a president who had to repair the damage done by the Bush Cheney gang. He was made fun of for using the teleprompter, a device President Bush could not speak to the American public without. We also have Sponge-Don-Red-Pants who just adores Putin. If President Tweet harms the U.S. in any way by his actions of admiration for Russia, a nation out to destroy us, we should take away his teleprompter and send him home.

School poor?

Some people clearly have an issue with the presence of private schools. Lois Robinson makes the case that 17 private schools in Macon somehow drain the local economy of $55 million per year. She believes that none of the tuition paid to those schools goes into the Macon economy for “merchandise, services, new cars, restaurants and the like.”

I would like to reassure anyone with that concern that private schools do not bury that money in a hole in the ground. It gets into the local economy quite quickly as they pay teacher and staff salaries, maintenance, etc. Also as she states, private school parents still pay property taxes so the only real effect on public schools is the relief on their student load. I don’t see how that makes us “school poor.”

Bickering

Did anybody watch Megyn Kelly on NBC interview with Russia’s Vladimir Putin? Well he laughed in her face on just about every question. When asked about hacking, Putin said Megyn’s young daughter could have been behind it.

When asked about Russia interfering with this last U.S. presidential election, Putin blamed such ridiculous allegation on U.S. internal political bickering. In my opinion, every country in the world is laughing at U.S. internal political bickering.

About the U.N.

I think that the United Nations is one of the greatest threats to American sovereignty and freedom in the world. Take a look at what it has been doing.

The United Nations has been working for decades to impose U.N. taxes on the American people (specifically on investment and retirement savings) to fund its socialist programs.

The United Nations is actively seeking to impose it’s own foreign laws on the United States even when those laws would override our Constitution.

The United Nations has repeatedly worked to place U.S. troops directly under its command, and threatened to bring U.S. troops up on charges before its International Criminal Court.

I want the U.N. to keep its filthy paws out of the U.S.

Cummings no atheist

This is in response to Will Daniels. I do not think Bill Cummings is an atheist. Bill believes Jesus was real. Bill believes in deed-based Christianity. Bill presents his views on the origins of the Old and New Testaments based on his knowledge of history and languages. I do not think he is tiring to convert anyone or degrading beliefs. He discusses the origin and development of Christianity.

He presents the differences between denominational dogma and Christ’s teachings. He contends there is a difference between Christianity and churchism. I realize some are offended by his views. They have to realize they are his opinions, not pronouncements or condemnations.

Tim McVeigh was a deranged individual. He killed because he hated. He was not motivated by religion. The only way to stop demented individuals is to be vigilant.

Salman Abedi killed because he believed he was on a divine mission. His belief was more ideology than religious. He used phrases out of a the Koran to justify his deeds. No belief system will survive that preaches the killing of others of the same faith, or other faiths. It is obvious there are radicals trying to promote their cause in the name of religion. Their cause is to gain domination of countries. It is political, not religious. People of faith have to ban together and destroy these monsters.

People of faiths believe in a caring God. There is a common core of principles in all religions; justice, forgiveness, compassion, mercy and redemption.

Who cares?

Obamacare will not be replaced anytime soon as our U.S. Senate cannot get a majority vote to repeal it. Several Republican senators don’t want it repealed for political reasons. Many of their constituents are on Medicaid. Those on Medicare don’t want it privatized or to lose their right not to be penalized for pre-existing conditions.

The repeal of Obamacare will save $1 trillion dollars and the GOP will give this away to our richest citizens. Abolition of the federal estate tax that kicks in on estates over $5.6 million will give away billions of dollars in tax revenues for our Department of Defense. Millions will be dropped from Medicaid if Obamacare is repealed. Republicans don’t care.

There are 70 million Americans on Medicaid and our state’s Republican congressional delegation all voted to repeal the ACA and want to privatize Medicare. They are all afraid to have town hall meetings in their districts.

Our own Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., doesn’t believe in government-run health care like Medicare, Medicaid, or federal school lunches in our public schools.

Our Republican-controlled state government doesn’t care about our uninsured or getting them enrolled in Medicaid. Our rural hospitals are closing or have already closed. But our local state representatives mostly care about guns on our college and university campuses and banning photos of ladies underwear, but not our uninsured.

Prayer in schools

It’s time we stand up, put prayer, God, Jesus and the Bible KJV, back in to schools where they belong and for them to quit telling us we can’t.

Prayer was never taken out of schools. Telling children what to pray, and who to pray to, was deemed unconstitutional.

This story was originally published June 12, 2017 at 9:00 PM with the headline "This is Viewpoints for Tuesday, June 13, 2017."