Letters

The nation's business

I am an 82-year-old man who has watched the politics of this state for 50 years, and watched the Democrats hold this state hostage for most of that time. Years and years of nearly every other state passing us by in nearly every category while our lawmakers adopted the "good ol' boy" attitude, saying we got it like we want it and don't want anybody coming in here making changes. Yet I read the Voices section every day and am astonished nobody remembers any of this.

It appears that people are desiring more of the same in this country as I see who they have sent to D.C. to legislate for the good of the country. It is sad to see that their main goal is to ditch Trump's agenda instead of doing the nation's business. Their apparent desire is the more illegal immigrants, the more Democratic voters. So sad.

DON JONES

Bryant

Straight to the moon

I hear Donald Trump had Vice President Pence write NASA and tell them that he (Trump) wanted to be the first president on the moon, and he would pay his own way. Then, I heard, NASA wrote back, "We'll have the goon on the moon in June."

BOB MASSERY

Little Rock

He's made mess of it

It seems to me our president, Donald J. Trump, has made many messes since the day he took office. This partial government shutdown has made many people do without money. He says that he sympathizes with the ones that are suffering from it. Another one of his blundering lies.

Yet Gary Lemon of Cabot thinks he's doing a great job. I would like to ask Lemon: What if you were suffering and having to do without? If Trump wants this wall, why can't he pay for it himself? He's got the money. Also, Lemon, Chuck Schumer isn't the idiot; I think it's Donald Trump.

We need a spiritual cleansing in the White House. I wish that God would form a rain cloud and when Trump comes out, holy water comes falling down on his head. He needs the Lord real bad.

DONALD PUTMAN

El Dorado

Represent all of state

For the record, Congressman French Hill does not "represent" all Arkansans despite his latest e-letter missive stating such. If he did, he wouldn't start off the new year blaming the Democrats for the president's problems. It's an insult to those of us who don't agree with what is going on, and a real good way to continue to increase the division between Arkansans.

Do your job, Congressman Hill, and speak for all sides in your statewide updates, not just invoke your opinion. Inclusion is imperative, and you of all people should already know that--and practice it!

RHONDA PATTON

Roland

Shoulda thought of it

In hindsight, it seems so obvious. If only the authors of the medical marijuana legislation had attached an official Arkansas cannabis gun to the bill, we the people would not be sitting here two-plus years later waiting on Arkansas dispensaries to open.

CHARLIE HUGHES

Fayetteville

I'm pushing for Daisy

Surely I am not alone in putting forth the Daisy BB gun, with worldwide headquarters in Rogers, to be the state gun.

That is, if Senator Garner cannot be dissuaded from his pre-filed bill to legislate designating an Arkansas state gun. If it has gotta be, the Daisy BB gun is the obvious--a choice that honors jobs and economic development and all that.

J.E. HARPER

Malvern

Karma will bite back

Election reports say that about 85 percent of evangelicals made possible that Jerry Springer Show now infesting the White House and Oval Office who put his family members on the payroll as advisers. It appears he has surrounded himself with crooks, boot licks, and charlatans who've gone in and out of office as though through a revolving door.

Meanwhile he has brought disrespect and distrust through his treatment of our oldest and most faithful allies. He hasn't a clue when it comes to formulating either foreign or domestic policy.

When Democrats twice elected a well-qualified black man as president, it apparently triggered an almost-instant backlash among lifelong Democrat white rednecks who were not about to leave enough white Democrats in the South to do that again. So a knee-jerk Tea Party, "fightin'-Obama," gun-carryin', Christian woman got herself elected attorney general. That enables her to sue a ham sandwich if she can manage to connect Obama to it in any manner. And on and on it goes.

The governor left his first college off his biography when he ran for his first term. Won't explain that. He has a cohort of a mutual admiration society Republicans who can't wait to jump when he says jump. We have a caudillo here with a compliant cohort who are bent on enacting their church covenant and religious dogma into law we'd be compelled to obey.

I am moved to warn the whole danged bunch that karma is very real. Also that when Jesus said, "doing it to the least of these is doing it to me," he was saying exactly what he meant. While you're busily catering to the wealthy and grinding the faces of the poor, you're forgetting karma will bring it back upon your heads.

You have several hundred kids that need adoptive parents. It's about time you concerned yourselves with food, beds, and care for them first. And Asa's tax cuts are not getting that done.

KARL HANSEN

Hensley

Editorial on 01/09/2019

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