Voter Guide, Pump Pain & More
Micah Clark of American Family Association of Indiana shares his update:
Be an Informed Voter
Your Online Voter Guide is Here!
The Indiana Primary Election is less than one month away. Do you know where the candidates stand? Our free online voter guide is now available. We do not have the ability to cover local candidates, but I-Voter Guide is a good and easy place to start to learn who shares your values.
Pain at the Pump
A poll last month from Gallup found, not surprisingly, that rising costs are Americans’ greatest concern. Fuel prices are a part of that irritation with gasoline running $2 higher than when Joe Biden took office 14 months ago.
It is interesting to note that while high gas prices are hurting everyone, it is much worse in some states than others. For example, because of tax policies, Indiana has the 7th highest gas tax in the nation. Every time you put gas in your car in Indiana the government is getting nearly 48 cents for every gallon. Whereas in neighboring Kentucky it is only 26 cents. In Tennessee, it is only 27 cents and in Missouri, the government takes only 17 cents per gallon. That difference in comparing Kentucky to Indiana is like comparing Indiana to California’s 67 cents.
To see a map of every state and its gas taxes click on this link.
The answer to this from the Biden Administration is to get used to it; use public transportation, or go buy an electric vehicle. An electric vehicle costs an average of $10,000 more than other vehicles according to Kelly Blue Book. Many elitists on the left enjoy this pain at the pump in hope that we peons will change our behaviors and live as they want.
President Biden’s new $5.8 Trillion budget proposal, if passed, won’t help ease the pain at the pump either. It contains 11 separate tax hikes on oil and gas companies. Corporate spokesmen say those tax hikes will discourage investment in and expansion of domestic production.
Worried About Heart Heath?
There is an interesting national poll finding that most parents are worried about their children’s spiritual condition. The Christian polling firm led by George Barna surveyed parents with children under the age of 18 and measured their level of concern regarding their peers.
The survey asked parents “how concerned are you about your child/children’s spiritual development?” Most respondents (73%) indicated that they were either “somewhat” or “very” concerned with their children’s spiritual development.
The survey broke the respondents down into three categories: practicing Christian parents, Christian parents, and non-Christian parents. It classified “Christians who have attended a worship service within the past month and strongly agree their faith is important to their life” as practicing Christians.
A majority of practicing Christian parents (51%) reported feeling “very” concerned about their children’s spiritual development, followed by 33% who were “somewhat” concerned. Similarly, 80% of Christian parents were either “very” or “somewhat” concerned about their children’s spiritual development.
Non-Christian parents had the lowest level of concern about their children’s spiritual health among the three groups, with 27% telling pollsters that they were “very” concerned about their children’s spiritual development and an additional 31% identifying themselves as “somewhat” concerned.
Practicing Christians also had the highest level of concern about their children staying true to their faith among the three groups surveyed. A solid majority of practicing Christians (58%) asserted that they were “very” concerned about whether their children would “stay true to their spiritual faith,” while an additional 28% were “somewhat” concerned.
The survey also asked parents about their level of concern surrounding their children’s ability to make meaningful relationships with other children. A plurality of U.S. parents (48%) said that they were “very” concerned about their children’s ability to form meaningful relationships with their peers and an additional 35% identified themselves as “somewhat” concerned.
Would You Want this Judge?
If you have paid attention to the Senate confirmation hearings on Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, you know that there are some serious concerns about her lenient rulings on child pornography and pedophilia. If your child or grandchild were the victims of such a heinous crime, is this the judge you would want for your case? If not, why make her one of the nine most powerful people in America, for the rest of her life?
Jackson will likely be confirmed because of liberal Republicans like Susan Collins, Mitt Romney, and Lisa Murkowski. Yet, we are only responsible for Indiana’s Senate delegation.
Senators Braun & Young will vote on the confirmation of Judge Jackson to the Supreme Court possibly yet this week. You can contact them with your view of how they should vote here:
Senator Mike Braun – 202-224-4814
Senator Todd Young – 202-224-5623
By the way, as the media makes a big deal over Judge Jackson being the first black woman on the Supreme court, even if she doesn’t know what a woman is, it is worth noting that President George W. Bush had wanted a black woman (Janice Rogers Brown) to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Back then, Senator Joe Biden threatened to filibuster her again, as he had for her nomination to the US Court of Appeals essentially blocking Pres. Bush’s plan. You can read about this forgotten history at this link since Facebook has tried to bury this story and Biden’s quotes with their “fact check” blockers.
In Their Own Words:
“Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has if you count the tail as a leg. When they answered ‘five,’ Lincoln told them that the answer was four. The fact that you called the tail a leg did not make it a leg.” – Economist Thomas Sowell
Voter Guide & Pump Pain – American Family Association of Indiana
