TSA workers aren’t the ones who should be missing paychecks
Re: “Agents helping with airport security,” March 24 news story
The TSA officers who have remained on the job through the asinine shutdown of Homeland Security should be offered a substantial bonus once the shutdown is over. Maybe delay bombings in Iran for one day and use those funds to reward the TSA officers.
Alan Aldrich, Thornton
These government shutdowns continue to be problematic and affect all of us. They are now the standard for our elected officials. Our government employees, such as TSA, should not have to look for other jobs because our elected officials aren’t interested in compromise.
I have 3 suggestions for laws Congress should pass.
1. When a shutdown occurs, it’s only Congress members who don’t get paid.
2. When the government shutdown is over, Congress doesn’t get back pay.
3. Congress needs to have term limits: Two terms in the Senate and three or four terms in the House. This would be on par with many state legislative bodies.
Alan P. Aboaf, Centennial
Religion spawns division and wars
Something not mentioned about the current wars is that they are largely religious in nature. That should be a warning for us. Religions and their gods do not get along. Even within faiths, the interpretation of the sacred books can vary. Protestants in the United States have many denominations. Islam has two major sects that are often in conflict.
It was with good cause that the writers of our Constitution included the separation of church and state. Once a religion gains ascendance, it creates a horrible blood-rendering state. There are too many examples of religion trying to control all of us, and only for their ends, not ours.
You see the pictures of bowed heads, hands on the presidentap shoulders in the Oval Office and the other worldly atmosphere in the gaudy room. These are the people urging greater wars so as to cause the return of their god. They also intend to strangle us with their laws and beliefs: no abortions, the ten commandments in every classroom, and a Secretary of “War” who uses scripture to justify the killing of thousands.
When asked what was meant by the First Amendment regarding religion, President Thomas Jefferson referred to “a wall.” Total separation.
Religion should be banned from public and governmental places and ceremonies, and taxed as the businesses they are.
As an atheist, there is a verse in the New Testament that I think all religious people should follow. It is Matthew 6:6. In brief, it says those who wish to pray should go into their closets and close the doors.
Mack Hitch, Sterling
The Cuban leaders aren’t suffering with the people
We hear a lot of wailing and moaning these days about how much the Cuban people are suffering: food shortages, medicine shortages, energy shortages, blackouts. It seems to never end.
However, I’m sure the Cuban Communist ruling elite are not suffering. Like all communist dictatorships, and all dictatorships in general, I’m sure the ruling elite have all the food, medicine, energy and lighting they want.
It is too bad for the Cuban people that the communist rulers disarmed the populace after the revolution ended in January of 1959. Just imagine how things would be different for the Cuban people if they had the means of securing a government that was for the people and of the people, rather than a hereditary communist (ie, Castro-centric) dictatorship.
Richard D. VanOrsdale, Broomfield
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