Two disturbing conversations

Two disturbing conversations

After having overheard two conversations recently, I am more appalled than ever as to what society has become. Let me explain.

In the first conversation, the individual stated he was forced to go to the food bank because he had to save the money he had to pay for cell phones for his kids. Talk about priorities. It deeply troubles me that food needed by the elderly and poor is being taken by people who are using their own money to pay for frivolous things. Should we not be teaching our kids priorities and that they cannot have every gadget made?

In the second conversation, on the day the Covelli Center was hosting many employers who had jobs to offer, I heard a man say he preferred staying at home with the kids because he could make more on unemployment than he could working. At first, I didn’t understand why some in Congress were opposed to extension of unemployment benefits because it took away their incentive to find work, but having heard this conversation, now I completely agree.

All this having been said, I still would like to believe that these two are exceptions to the rule.

Georgie Arkwright, Youngstown

So what started the Big Bang?

In a recent Parade magazine, there was an article about Stephen Hawking, who is supposed to be the person with the “most brilliant mind of our time.” He stated his belief in The Big Bang Theory — a theory that has never been proven. Well let’s show how the Big Bang is nothing more than a joke put out by the unbelievers in God.

If the Big Bang was the start of all things, what started the Big Bang? If there was something that started the Big Bang, then the Big Bang was not the start of all things. If nothing started the Big Bang, then we have something created from nothing.

God was, is, and will always be, to Hawking and his followers, the dilemma of their life time. But it will be answered to them in due time — if you know what I mean.

Rea Buttermore, Boardman

Pet license plates are worth cost

No matter where I ride in the Youngstown area, I look at people’s license plates and I don’t see one of Ohio’s special “Pet” license plates that are available and help the animals.

Every year, I make sure I get the pet plates. It doesn’t cost much, and some of that money goes to help the animals. People will buy time for all these cell phones, but they won’t help the animals.

Louise Forressca, Brookfield