Letter: Reader questions value of voting

My Christian values don't include deception, fraud, theft or killing people. Freedom of religion doesn't give any business any right to refuse service to anyone for any reason; only the right to practice his religion or not. This freedom ensures our government can't choose one over another. Our secular government's God is money.

Hillary Clinton's actions impugn her integrity. Thank you, Bernie Sanders, for your courage and moral conviction to state the obvious: our 102-year-old economy is rigged.

I'm an independent voter who calls himself a Lincoln-conservative. Ronald Reagan borrowed money 18 times. Both Bushes bailed out the private banking sector. I rarely vote for a Democrat or Republican, because they support our fraudulent monetary system; which facilitates the corruption in our government. None of this is Lincoln-conservative.

Special interest groups craft legislation, not Congress. Checks and balances cease to exist. America is the biggest arms dealer the world has ever seen. Some elections are decided by a narrow margin, but sadly, folks are granting approval for more of the same.

These observations, not complacency, are why I choose sometimes not to vote.

Robert Sturm

Shellsburg