Charge breeders for shelter

Every day in newspapers there are ads to sell adorable animals, cats, dogs etc. Who among us doesn’t love the puppies, kittens that are for sale?

These breeders are in business to make money. They are, for the most part, responsible business owners.

Our cities and counties, when faced with problems concerning animals, have had to provide for a means to protect both the animal and the citizen. These costs are passed along to the taxpayers in order to provide shelters. Most of the taxpaying citizens do not make money from the sale of these animals.

Shouldn’t these breeders be the ones to contribute to the costs of the animal shelters? After all, they are the ones producing these animals, and they do this to make money.

As a taxpayer faced with continual out-of-control taxation, I believe this practice of government providing facilities for a problem that is a result of the people in the breeding business has to stop.

They (the breeders) need to pay, not the taxpayer!

How can this be accomplished?

Robert Tarnowski

Spokane

Conservative women, speak up!

Thank goodness The Spokesman-Review had the foresight to print the Clay Bennett cartoon about the relationship between political science and female body parts above Trudy Rubin’s article “Afghan women need a voice.” Otherwise, I might have been totally confused.

American women are the most privileged women in the world. That doesn’t mean life is easy. More women are in higher education than men. They have careers in medicine, law, politics, theology, military, business, journalism and education, in addition to being homemakers – like me.

Unfortunately, many women betray their sisters. They demean conservative women whose primary goal is to raise healthy families – preferably with a husband.

Jerks come in both male and female bodies. They can be governors and judges – even Supreme Court justices. Watch out for female senators whose main issue is the right to commit infanticide – a practice devaluing baby girls in many countries, including Afghanistan.

Educate yourselves on public policy. Don’t depend on the nanny state. Speak up – don’t kowtow or subject yourself to those who use you for their advancement. Don’t be a victim. Be discerning. The hand that rocks the cradle still rules the world – except during political campaigns.

Donna Kuhn

Spokane

U.S. hits moral low point

It appears that our nation has hit another moral low point. I can’t believe that any president of this country would call a young woman to congratulate her for demanding $3,000 worth of contraceptives to cover her promiscuity through law school.

Kathryn Korkus

Spokane

Don’t renew rights battles

We reserve the right to refuse service – and contraceptives – to anyone. And now we have the Blunt Amendment. When I was growing up in the South, many ministers preached against integration from their pulpits. As I recall, they quoted Scripture connected to the Tower of Babel, or maybe it was the dispersal of the tribes.

Many, perhaps a majority, of Southern businessmen believed it was morally wrong to serve Negroes in the same part of their business as white people. It was a free country, they said, and they had the right to refuse to serve “those people” if they chose.

I thought that with the civil rights legislation, we put that argument to rest. As a business person offering goods or services to the public, you did not have the right to discriminate, no matter your religion or moral beliefs.

I ask my Republican friends – no, that does not mean all Republicans – do we want to open that issue up again? I know Rand Paul thinks that the civil rights legislation was wrong in denying that business “freedom,” but even Paul does not want to repeal it.

Nolan Davis

Spokane