Random thoughts
I sincerely hope the employees at the Nissan plant in Canton think long and hard before voting to unionize. It may look enticing at first, but look at the long view. Every auto plant “up North” were members of the UAW union, and where are they now? Does the term “Rust Belt” sound familiar? Those jobs have gone outside the USA. Why should Mississippians cut their noses off just to spite their faces and follow in the footsteps of Yankees? Unions are no longer needed in my humble opinion, like when they first were organized.
I consider myself mostly Conservative, politically and economically, but I do differ with many “Conservative” beliefs. The big Liberal push now is to allow transgender, homosexuals, whatever, to openly serve in the Armed Forces, and to allow women to serve in elite combat units. I believe everybody who wants to serve our country should be allowed to do so. Disclosure: I was denied the opportunity to serve (4-F) in 1971 due to poor hearing, so I have never served. No matter what a person is or wants to be, surely that person has a talent that the military can use.
You can order the rank and file to obey orders but you cannot order them to accept gays alongside straight soldiers/sailors/Marines/airmen. In fact, such an order may not be necessary for some service members, and totally ignored by others. So, I suggest an “experiment” to actually see if allowing this will negatively affect our combat readiness. Allow this to go forward and keep close tabs on the results. Perhaps have these “confused” service members put in different service groups, kind of segregated, to see if they can perform.
Why can’t this State have some kind of law punishing scammers who take advantage of vulnerable people? It wouldn’t matter what medium was used, the US Mail, internet, telephone in all its forms, face-to-face, if a scam is perpetrated, innocent people often lose money they can ill-afford to lose.
America needs to get out of the war business. Too many companies are getting rich, or more precisely the owners of such companies, by pushing and lobbying war to Congressmen and women. We have a dismal track record when interfering in the internal affairs of other lands. Just looking at the most recent messes we’ve gotten involved in, in the Middle East, proves that. The peoples of the Middle East have lived under different forms of kingdoms since before Christ, and that’s all they understand.
This world, and country and state, and local area, are all changing. Maybe for the better, maybe for the worse, but it’s changing and we need to change with it, Help it to change in the way we see as right, or watch it change and just complain. We have been electing idiots to serve us in Jackson and Washington, and those chickens are coming home to roost. Do not elect somebody you’d “like to have a beer with,” but instead somebody who you think is capable of working for positive change.
Cameron Triplett
Brooksville
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