With other real issues, why the seat-belt push?

With other real issues,why the seat-belt push?
EDITOR:
Let me see if I understand the correct meaning of the word priority.
After reading the article in yesterday's paper about the new law enforcement efforts to enforce seat-belt laws, I think I may be a little confused about the meaning of this word.
New crackhouses spring to life daily in this community, illegal drug purchases can easily be made on just about any street corner on three sides of town (24 hours a day), home burglaries, carjackings, muggings, rapes, murders and robberies of people and businesses occur just about every week, urban blight is everywhere, trees are growing out of most street sewer entrances, bridges connecting major urban areas are collapsing monthly, our main thoroughfares are gutted with potholes resembling bomb craters in Afghanistan, and our police force is being decimated because of "budget crunches."
But in light of all of this, what's really important here is that we all agree to a zero-tolerance threshold for people who are driving without first buckling up.
Priority in this area of the country means that you can't get behind the wheel of an automobile without first fastening your seat belt. Is this correct?
AL BLAZO
Youngstown
Voinovich's lack of supportfor Bush tax-plan is wrong
EDITOR:
U.S. Sen. George Voinovich attracted much attention in his steadfast refusal to give outright support to President Bush's proposed tax reductions.
"Outright" in the sense that he wants coincident spending reductions to minimize budget deficits. Late in the Clinton administration, after several years of "irrational exuberance," the economy generated sufficient tax revenues to produce a fleeting federal budget surplus. It was the first after many decades of deficits. Things are now returning to normal.
Opponents of tax reductions speak of creating a deficit, a great evil that we will bestow upon our children. Invoking the image of children is pass & eacute; but still an effective political ploy. Each generation works through the economics of its time, which typically spans years of pain as well as prosperity. Deficits do not certify future economic destruction if managed properly. Most Americans with a credit card understand this.
The natural tendency of governmental expansion should be more worrisome than current tax reductions to the deficit hawks. Sen. Voinovich is right to ask for additional spending cuts but errant in not supporting the full Bush tax package. It has yet to be demonstrated how a government can tax its citizens into prosperity.
LOREN KINDLER
Hubbard
Kudos to son for prom date
EDITOR:
The best story I read on Mother's Day was of the Wilson High senior taking his mother to the prom this month.
How refreshing to read of a mother-son relationship where "he appreciates her sense of humor, can talk to her about anything, and considers her to be like another friend."
She is to be commended on the fine job of raising him and his brothers. Best of luck to him in his future as an electrical engineer.
SUE NOVICKY
New Middletown