Tuesday begins with concerns over government spending cuts, a question over Fife Council’s priorities, a defence of healthcare in Kinloch Rannoch and a discussion of God and evolution.
Workers will suffer most from spending cuts Sir,-And so the slaughter of jobs starts and the misery begins.
The government is making the working man and woman pay for the massive errors and mismanagement of the financial institutions and previous governments.
The government bailed out the banks that caused the misery through gross incompetence and greed and we pay by losing our jobs. Where is the justice?
The people who made and are making the decisions remain in work with lucrative salaries and outrageous bonuses and pay-offs?
Whereas many working-class people will face financial ruin, loss of property, poverty and many will struggle to feed their families. Justice?
Surely the fundamental role of the UK Government and ministers who ask us to vote for them is to keep the UK in employment?
There are so many questions that I and millions of others want answers to.
For example, why aren’t the banks paying back the billions they are due to the UK which in turn will save jobs? Why are the people who got us into this mess not brought to justice?
Why does the working person have to suffer? Why are the government ministers, executives and top-paid civil servants still paid gross amounts of bonuses? I am sick of the injustices we suffer in this sick and greedy world.
Tom Cunningham.8 Mid Street,Kettlebridge.
Priorities wrong in Fife
Sir,-Recently I was lucky enough to be taken to Edinburgh to visit Gardening Scotland, which was a wonderful day out.
But on arriving in the display hall, I was somewhat astounded to be confronted by one of the largest displays being presented by Fife Council Celebrating Fife 2010.
In light of Fife Council saying it has to make cuts in services, charge people for their care, and not be able to provide aids and adaptations to many people, I cannot help wondering how they can justify being there at this particular moment.
While I appreciate that, for the trainees of Craigtoun Park, it was a wonderful opportunity, as was explained to me by the person at the stand, I still cannot help wondering at whose expense.
If the lives of the people of Fife, particularly the elderly and disabled, are going to be made increasingly more difficult, I think it only right that Fife Council consider more carefully their areas of spending.
Otherwise, the people of Fife could be forgiven for thinking that those responsible in Fife Council care far more for plants than the people.
Katie Spencer-Nairn.Rankeilour,Cupar.
Negativity in Rannoch
Sir,-Yet again, Kinloch Rannoch (June 3) is displayed in a negative light in the press.
I am sick and tired of all the negativity surrounding the village being that we, as a community, are entirely reliant on tourism. Mind you, the people petitioning the court over out-of-hours health services have no need for tourists.
If the gloom and doom merchants keep up their complaining to the media and blowing everything out of proportion, they will scare the tourists away.
Who are all these sick people needing OOH care? Have they arrived here from some far-flung planet? Country people are renowned for their general well-being and not wanting to bother doctors.
As far as I am aware, the gentlemen taking legal action came to live here a from abroad.
Who is the “we” that the activists keep referring to? Certainly not the Rannochites I know. Who are they to say, “we are not satisfied with the position in Kinloch Rannoch.”
I, for one, am perfectly satisfied, as are all the folk I speak to. Nobody has been forced to come and live here, so why settle in such a beautiful spot and constantly complain about things that might happen.
My 90-year-old mother was very ill in February and the local doctors attended daily, including weekends.
I doubt that would happen in a city practice. This is the norm for folk who are ill in Rannoch. My mother was not a special case.
Tina Wilson.The Gardens,Kinloch Rannoch.
May best team win
Sir,-In reply to Bob Ferguson’s request (June 5) for Scottish football supporters to “get behind our neighbours”, I can only say, may the best team win (the World Cup). I don’t think that will be England.
Steven Ritchie.Teangue,Isle of Skye.
Wonder of our universe
Sir,-I was greatly impressed by Alex Ramsay, a grand old man of 97 years, who could compose such an erudite letter (June 4) to his favourite newspaper, and pose such a profound question.
The answer is, of course, evolution and this beautiful concept, proposed by Darwin, is surely a step towards understanding the hand of God.
Einstein, who was far smarter than me, believed in God, so logically, I can do no less. However, his concept of a deity did not embrace one that is either anthropocentric or anthropomorphic.
Bipedalism set our ancestors on an evolutionary path distinct from the apes and was a consequence of a profound change in the environment, which favoured this facility over brachiation as a means of survival.
That this led to Man is a consequence of chance and evolutionary adaptation. God may have plans but Man is a mere sideline in a cosmos of incomprehensible scope, destined perhaps for greater things only Man’s ego places him within God’s ken or concern.
The universe we know exists as a transient flicker in a greater reality and God, too vast for sight, straddles it all.
Leslie Milligan.18b Myrtlehall Gardens,Dundee.