Ward 7 residents can rescue themselves
Re: “Who will rescue Ward 7?” March 8
Jonetta Rose Barras asks a rather poignant question to the residents of Ward 7. The answer, very succinctly, is: the residents themselves.
Unlike Barras, I am not in the endorsing business. However, I concur wholeheartedly with her assessment that the residents of Ward 7 could do a lot better by having someone other than Councilwoman Yvette Alexander as their representative.
That said, I suggest that every resident of the ward do their due diligence by engaging all of the candidates vying to become their next council member.
I would give considerably more attention to any who go on record supporting term limits as well as making the council position a full-time job. Residents of the city, especially those in Ward 7, deserve no less.
Marvin E. Adams
Washington
Humanist thinking has not prevented social decay
Re: “The God gap is widening,” Feb. 27
In his very good article, Cal Thomas deplores the fact that more and more children are being born to single mothers. I am distressed by this trend because my father was my hero. His care, encouragement, and his mere presence made me feel safe.
But women are not the only ones to blame for this sexual immorality. I know young men who abandoned their girlfriends upon learning that they were pregnant.
I disagree with Gordon Clay, who thinks that “this materially oriented, humanist world” will preserve us from social decay better than Judeo-Christian principles. This judgment is inconsistent with his further statement that “Americans consistently ignore what the Bible and other scriptures teach.”
And I am not aware how the enlightened, humanistic ideas proffered by 18th century French thinkers have benefited social behavior in the countries where they flourished at the expense of Judeo-Christian principles.
Madeleine Soudee
Washington
President Obama is already fixing the economy
Two headlines: “Three years after market bottom, signs of a real recovery,” and “Romney focuses on the economy, beating Obama,” show that Mitt Romney is a day late and a dollar short.
President Obama is well on his way to repairing the economy he inherited from the Republicans.
If Romney is elected president, he will bring a whole entourage of Republican has-beens with him. These are the same Republicans who screwed up the economy in the first place.
What can Republican voters be thinking?
Ron Lowe
Nevada City, Calif.
