Speak Out 12/12/13

Snow!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Awesome.

Socialist government

All you people out there who don't want to live under a socialist government and socialized medicine, speak up. If we don't speak up, we're going to lose it.

Wasteful spending

In the Friday morning newspaper, somebody was bragging about the dog park and using the money from the casino. What about the streets in Cape Girardeau? They're lousy. They got holes in them and everything. Before we built a dog park or a roundabout, we should have fixed our streets and used the money for stuff that is good instead of wasting it on a dog park.

Trash cancellation

Today is Friday. We were supposed to put our trash out by the street. There was no cancellation about the trash pickup this morning. So myself and my neighbors, and I see a lot of people in Cape Girardeau put their trash cans out by the street, waded through knee-deep snow to put them out by the street so the city would be sure to pick them up today, only for the city to decide they weren't going to pick them up today. But they waited until noon to decide. Could you not have decided earlier this morning before everybody had to get up and wade in the snow to get the trash can out to the curb, only for nothing? Come on, get with your job.

Jackson streets

I live in the city of Jackson. We're very proud of our city, but this has been a fiasco with the snow. I went to Cape a few minutes ago and found that you go to the city limits of Jackson and Cape -- Jackson is snow-packed, ice-covered, horrible even on the highways. And you get to the Cape city limits and it looks like you're in a different country. It was the same way coming back from Cape. Whoever was taking care of the streets has dropped the ball.

Mail delivery

I just learned our postal workers cannot start delivery until later in the morning. This may be fine when it's warm weather, but it's very disturbing to me when I see these people delivering mail in the late hours, in the nighttime, much less in the snow and sleet and the temperatures in the 10s and 20s, and being nighttime. Can these times be changed to normal during the winter time? My heart goes out to these postal workers. To all our postal workers, a big thank you and God bless you.

Brazile comment

Who benefits from you all printing something in Speak Out about Donna Brazile with the alliterative "polluted petrification penned by propagandists of the political ..."? Who benefits from that? Why would you even put that in there? I don't care if it's left or right. No one benefits. It does not forward the conversation. I have never seen America more divided by this man in the White House, of the left and the right. And you guys continue to put this stuff in there.

Al Gore?

I believe it was about 10 years ago, Al Gore said we would soon have a generation of children who would not even know what snow is. As we entered the second week of December, 67 percent of the continental United States was covered with snow. Right on, Al.

Premium increase

To the person who said health care costs are dropping dramatically and "thank you, Mr. Obama," I don't think so. My insurance premiums have almost doubled. That is not dropping.

Illinois, Obama

Isn't it ironic that the president's home state, Illinois, is in the worst financial position of any state? Why didn't our brilliant president help them manage the state's finances more effectively during his brilliant career in the Illinois House and Senate? Could it be because he was too busy helping his union buddies loot the state treasury in the form of excessive pension benefits? Oh no, couldn't be that! Also, isn't it ironic that so many cities and states that are run by the liberal left (California, Illinois, Detroit, etc.) are all teetering on the brink of financial collapse?

Popularity contest

Stay calm. Compared to Congress, President Obama is still six times as popular.