Before asking for help, consider helping yourselves

Before asking for help,consider helping yourselves
EDITOR:
In the late '50s the Japanese began shipping cheap cars to the United States. The United Auto Workers cried foul and asked the government for help. U.S. steel saw a problem and responded by trying to ban foreign cars from employee parking lots. The United Steel Workers protested and won the right to help export autoworker jobs. The U.S. automakers needed to get production costs down so they responded by buying and using imported steel that cost less.
Now it was the U.S. workers' turn to call on the government to save them. In a few years many Americans saw the long-range problems of buying foreign products. A surge of patriotism rose and "Buy American" became a war cry of the American worker.
The foreign manufacturers saw a way to blur the lines between "Made In USA" and "Imported." They set up assembly plants and -- on paper -- U.S. companies to put their products together in the United States. Nearly all these plants are nonunion and pay less than their true U.S. company counterparts.
This has worked well, and huge profits from these schemes have been taken out of our country by the parent company in foreign lands.
Another problem is these same union workers who cry for help take their U.S. dollars to the super stores where the vast majority of products are imported. Also these same American workers flock to the flea markets to buy from the hucksters who sell socks, underwear, T-shirts, gloves, shoes and other shoddy products imported from Third World countries that use sweat shops and child labor. These greedy American vendors only care about profit, not the havoc they cause to the American economy. The buyers only look at the price tag!
So when our Congressmen and these union officials and workers ask for help, first take a look at the labels in their clothes and shoes, and see what brand of motor vehicle they drive. Remind them that "The Lord helps those who help themselves!" The government can't do it all!
ROBERT J. HUSTED
New Springfield
Those against it don't knowwhat evolution really is
EDITOR:
I think that most of the people against evolution do not really know what evolution really is.
First of all, it has nothing to do with ethics or morals, as William J. Finnigan would have us believe. Evolution is the investigation of God's laws. The more one knows about God's laws, the more beneficial it will be toward humanity.
Yes, some of the early Puritans used the Bible to teach their children and adults. So we had witch-burning and bloodletting and ignorance abound.
In a recent letter from the President of the New Mexico Academy of Science, I read that a spokeswoman from the New Mexico Council of Churches, representing more than 600,000 Christians, stated that the organization saw no reason to change the standards. Evolution was fine (Fundamentalists tried to get creationism into the standards.)
A more telling statement came from Stephen Palumbi, Harvard evolutionary biologist, when he said, "Somewhere in high school in this country is a student who is going to cure AIDS. That student is going to have to understand evolution."
I learned that the basis of economics were four: land, labor, capital and business enterprise. Most businesses adhere to the laws of economics, but there are still crooks using them.
One last comment on what the Bible says of man's creation: In the first account (Genesis 1), "Man is made in the image of God." Nothing was said about the old Near Eastern myth of man being made from the earth. In the second account, man is made from the dust of the earth. Take your choice.
ROBERT E. HOPKINS
Hubbard