For many, before 2020, that question was usually reserved for routine decisions such as where to get dinner on any given night, how to spend a weekend after a long work week or how to tackle the latest home improvement project.
The congressional spending spree that’s followed the coronavirus lockdown has obligated our children and grandchildren to trillions in debt that won’t be paid off easily.
Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden recently announced a $2 trillion plan to deal with climate change. He says the funds are needed to finance changes in our lives because of catastrophic climate change. He states these changes are needed because if we don’t our world will be uninhabitable in 12 short years.
If it seems like we just went through an early voting period, that’s because we did. But now that the July 11 presidential primary is over and the Aug. 15 referendum on a proposed school sales tax and parish fire district renewal is just a few weeks away, it’s time to early vote again.
I think most homo sapiens do a serviceable job of unbottling our emotions when a special person is terminally ill or going into a battle zone. But some well-intentioned buttinsky is always trying to guilt us into opening up around seemingly healthy acquaintances because — you never know — we may never see them alive again.
