LETTERS: CONSIDER THE FUTURE

To the editor:

Very shortly the American people will have the privilege to go to the polls and vote for the person whom they believe to be the best person to take us into the 21st century. Are we prepared to stand by our convictions, or will we vote the way we feel others are voting just to be on the winning side? Everybody loves a winner, but being a winner sometimes means being a good loser, a person who will stand up for what he believes in the face of adversity.

So. What do the polls offer the voting public?

On one hand we have one who promises to take us into the next century on a magic carpet, discarding all the broken promises, all the degradation that has come to our country including Christian and moral values, more open drug users, more illegal aliens who collect payments from this government even while in prison, more crime that is let go or punished with a slap on the wrist, more suspended sentences or short ones, partial-birth abortions at nine months sucking the brains out of children in the birth canal, children in the fifth and sixth grade in some part of the country taught to use condoms and in some cases being brought on stage before their peers -- this paid for by our tax dollars through the National Education Association which is prompted by the present administration -- to participate in exercises that are detrimental to human character, God kicked out of schools and out of public arenas and statues and crosses brought down over the nation.

Let's look at the alternative: One who has a past to be proud of so he can speak of it in the public world with pride, who offers in sincerity lower taxes and more equality of all human beings in this country, who is for the small businessperson, who will take care of the elderly, who will provide jobs for all people who are able to work, who will take care of those who cannot take care of themselves on a state level where their situation is better known, who will promote good morals and Christianity and freedom from Big Government, who will not be bought off by Big Business or special-interest groups, who will balance the budget and not destroy Social Security or Medicare, who will bring our troops back tot he states unless our freedom is in immediate danger -- which it is not, who will better protect our borders from drug-running, who will keep illegal aliens out of the country and who will not allow partial-birth abortions. His past has proven that his word is his bond.

We are living in a false economy. As the deficit goes up, more tax dollars are used -- not to pay off the deficit or repay Social Security, but to partly pay interest on the present indebtedness while subsidizing special-interest groups.

What legacy do we wish to leave our children? Can they look back to this generation and say we considered their future more than our present? What were is our conscience?

SELMA CRISLER

Cape Girardeau