To the editor -- Pink Robbins' anti-immigrant, pro-work, pro-Bible July 13 letter means well but is perhaps more muddleheaded than most. Lazy people and lazy thinkers both contribute mightily to the disaster that is U.S. immigration policy.
You need look no further than an immigrant worker to find a person who gets up and goes to work every day, who knows that if they don't work, they don't eat and if they don't eat, they don't live, and neither do their families left behind. So, does God's word stop cold at the U.S. border? Bible and nature are bringing people into this country. High IQs and Ph.Ds are spending billions to build a fence to keep them out. So, it's Bible and nature that will break this country? So, Pink Robbins prefers the fence?
Hungry and willing immigrants, working hard for their families yet stripped of everything but the "privilege" of being cruelly treated like criminals, are going to find their road to salvation paved a whole lot smoother than many. Scapegoating never solved anything. Laws can and do change. More thought and more prayer, please, Pink. We need it.
MARTHA RICKEY
Yakima
Water park reality
To the editor -- I was in attendance at the Chamber Luncheon on July 14 where the City Council gave its "State of the City" comments.
In a business setting in front of business people, Councilman Rick Ensey stated that he was concerned the proposed new water park would have a shortfall each year even though they would close the rest of Yakima's pools.
It reminds me of spending millions of dollars on Kiwanis Park to have a first-class facility for softball. "Build it and they will come" is a misnomer. Drive by most weekends and you will say to yourself, "This is a beautiful facility, but where are all the teams?"
People need to be invited, and I'm afraid our city Parks and Recreation Department doesn't utilize the invitational resources available to them and charges the most expensive user and maintenance fees.
I don't know about you, but I want council people who want projects to be self-sufficient.
Thank you, Councilman Ensey, for being a realist.
RON KING
Yakima
Tap our resources
To the editor -- On July 14, President Bush rescinded executive restrictions on drilling offshore. We should thank him for taking action on this critical matter as our Democrat-controlled Congress isn't about to do more than complain about price fixing when it is obvious that the primary problem is short supply.
Americans want energy independence and expect Congress to be working toward that goal today! Our two Democratic senators, Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, vote in lockstep with a Democrat-controlled Congress that thinks oil should be found by drilling dry wells in currently permitted areas while the price of gasoline has increased over 75 percent. We must call on Congress to support the president and permit drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf as well as drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It is time for Congress to permit the development of oil shale, nuclear and other domestic sources of energy.
Our untapped domestic energy resources are more than enough to make us energy independent. Telling us it will take five to 10 years to bring these sources into production is unacceptable. We went to the moon quicker than that. Begin now!
This Democratic Congress needs to stop allowing America to be held hostage by the Middle East!
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