Look for solutions to complaints

To the editor:

I hear a lot of complaining about police chiefs who are doing their jobs, high gasoline prices, street repairs, taxes and even about the newspaper. I marvel at the people who are doing the complaining. I guess they live in a fantasy world or have never been out of their own backyards.

Take a look around the world. In places like Mexico, you can pay the police and get away with just about anything. You think gas is high here? Try going to Saudi Arabia. That's where most of our gas comes from. Gas costs $6.41 a gallon there. And I guess we could use the same type of roads that are in Africa, where most of them are dirt.

Those of you who read the paper should also read newspapers in other so-called free countries like Germany, Russia and France. Try complaining about things there.

The next time you want to complain about things, try coming up with a solution to the situation instead. When you complain, you should have an answer to overcome the complaint.

SAM LADWIG, Cape Girardeau