LETTERS 05/08/08

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We hear so much about budget-tightening and cost-cutting. Let’s all hope that our cities and counties can find ways around having our firefighters make sacrifices when they deserve so much.

Sue Camarillo

Kansas City

Trying to educate people like Mary Sanchez is an exercise in futility because they refuse to acknowledge fact (4/29, Opinion, “Bush wasted an opportunity on immigration”). The facts are that America is a nation of laws, and illegal immigrants break its laws.

For her to invoke the Pope’s visit in concluding that this country is “cruel” and “sinful” contradicts her position and raises the issue of true culpability for the problem. The Roman Catholic Church dominates religion in Latin America, where it condemns effective family planning, resulting in unsupportable population growth, poverty and a flood of unlawful immigrants across our border. It is these realities that are cruel and sinful.

In true liberal fashion, Sanchez faults our country for its imperfect system of immigration enforcement instead of the people violating it. That is, the system is to blame for the lawbreaking, not the lawbreakers themselves.

Crosby P. Engel

Weatherby Lake

Cass County should consider taking stock in Aquila instead of the fine. A payment of 500,000 million shares would give citizens more power and return benefits to the people.

If you want your country back, you’ll have to take it where you can!

Neil Block

Huntsville, Mo.

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