What matters more, money or morals?

For weeks, I've been reading the tennis-game like opinions expressed here in the Fence Post section of the local paper I adore, the Daily Herald, as to the current state of national affairs. My conclusion as to the train wreck we now call our executive office and the tentacles of the professional gaslighters lobby, I'm convinced the only difference here and in most, if not all of what I've read, is money vs. morals.

Both sides have made very clear their opinions and are well spoken, For the money side, yes, my accounts too are improved but I ask, "Is that the only element, the only consideration to a second term or he's doing a good job?" Fine, I understand, but if you are doing well and your neighbor is not, how then can you measure overall financial success of a society or peoples? Seems to me that we have drifted to the All-About-Me, the heck with the rest on levels that makes my head spin. Again!

Sure, morality is important, very important for the so-called leader of the free world. We know of the hundreds, if not thousands of violations of the very principle and a lack of ethics our current occupier of the White House displays each and every day. Would you ask your children or grand ids to emulate this type of behavior? To then look to him as an inspiration of moral character? Or simply tell your loved ones, "Don't mind him, we are better off with our monies." Or, "That's just the way he is" garbage. How might that fly to impressionable youths? This is now. Yes, Bill Clinton was no saint and paid a price similar to a current debate in the House and what may move to the Senate in short order.

No, I do not and never have voted exclusively with my wallet and never will. I am proud of my ethics. How to work with my opponents, how to love the poor, how to move us all to a better society and not just the chosen. In closing, it seems clear to me most Republicans are not in step with this concept, especially the man at the top.

Mark Stastny

Rolling Meadows