IT IS A SAD DAY FOR POOR WOMEN

Women with money will always have access to family planning alternatives like birth control. Now we have a new Supreme Court Justice who has ruled that religious people can prevent women from having birth control medication though insurance.

I know many people are focused on the 2018 elections. Getting out the vote will be particularly important.

Do not forget that we can make many changes at the local level. The good news today is that the notorious tent city jail in Phoenix is being closed. Courts failed to close this jail, it took the voters electing a new sheriff to close tent city.

However, it is time to assess the daily annoyance caused by some liberal policies.

Low flow toilets were a brilliant idea to save water. Then someone decided that it would be even better if the toilets took half an hour to refill. Plumbers were told they would lose their plumbing license if they changed the toilet to fill up faster.

If you are a person who does not share a toilet, the slow refill is not a usually a problem.

If you have two people sharing one toilet, then the second user may have to accept a not completely empty toilet bowl. If it is a household with children, a bucket may have to be filed from the bathtub in order to get the toilet to flush out solid wastes so that the children can get to school on time.

The low flow can cause plumbing to back up as there is not enough water to move the waste into the sewer.

It is these little insanities that give liberals a reputation for over regulating things.

I do not want our rivers on fire, and our lakes filled with acid instead of fish.

But it is important for us all to realize that people are part of the environment.

Generally, the long term solution to problems take the middle road. Even though I believe that a woman should be in total control of all her health care decisions, I am willing to accept the principles set out in Roe v Wade. I am not willing to allow Republicans to prevent access to family planning clinics.