OpinionFebruary 10, 2001
SPEAK OUT
I REALLY want to thank conservatives and Ronald Reagan for deregulation. Businesses merge and buy each other up, and they're going to take the American people to the bank. Where is all this competition that deregulation was supposed to create? I believe in a free-enterprise system, but I'm beginning to feel like we've gotten to where businesses can just rip the consumer off and screw up the economy. Deregulation didn't do anything to increase competition...
Deregulation's effect
I REALLY want to thank conservatives and Ronald Reagan for deregulation. Businesses merge and buy each other up, and they're going to take the American people to the bank. Where is all this competition that deregulation was supposed to create? I believe in a free-enterprise system, but I'm beginning to feel like we've gotten to where businesses can just rip the consumer off and screw up the economy. Deregulation didn't do anything to increase competition.
Replace the flags
WHOEVER IS responsible for replacing the American flag at the Jackson veterans memorial should replace it. It is torn in shreds, and it is a disgrace to the American veteran. The POW/MIA flag also needs to be replaced.
Poor conservatives
CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST and class act Cape native David Limbaugh recently wrote that George Bush is "confounding the Democratic Party." No kidding. Democrats are confounded but pleased with Bush's multiple meetings with Senator Kennedy, trip to the Democratic retreat and other efforts designed to signal his intention to work with the likes of Barney Frank, Barbara Boxer and Maxine Waters. But what about true-blue, one-time believing-in-Bush conservatives? They've been Bushwhacked. Why is Limbaugh so ecstatic about this revolting development?
JHS has its pride
STUDENTS AT Jackson High School feel we are deprived of our right to display school spirit. At the Jackson-Cape basketball game, a fellow student showed up dressed up in school colors, face paint and a stuffed tiger. He was told he had to wash the paint off if he wished to stay for the game. After the decoration had been cleaned from his face, an army of Cape students marched into the gymnasium decked out in orange and black, holding signs and banners and sporting orange face paint and tiger-striped arms. The Jackson crowed sank into their seats. The Jackson student who had been forced to hide his school pride grabbed his stuffed tiger and held it up, catapulting the Jackson crowd into a brouhaha of cheers and ovations. Our administrators immediately retrieved the tiger and hid it in a vacant locker room. Incidents such as these occur all the time at our sporting events. We are not asking the administrators to neglect or downplay the importance of good sportsmanship. We are, however, pleading for the right to support our teams in the most effective way possible.
And proud of it
A SPEAK Out caller convinced me beyond any shadow of a doubt. That caller told us several times he wasn't embarrassed that his ancestor was a slaveholder. It's painfully obvious he's downright proud of it.
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Checkbook returned
YOU MADE my day. You found my checkbook at Food Giant and turned it in to the office just as you found it. My sincere thanks for your honesty and the relief you gave me.
Untimely response
A CAR accident happened near my house as I was leaving to go to the store. I was gone 10 or 15 minutes. The cops already had been called before I left my house. When I returned, the police still didn't arrive on the scene for another five or 10 minutes. The accident was really bad, but luckily no one was seriously hurt. If someone had been seriously injured, it would have been too late.
She's no puppet
WHY IS it when a Republican votes the party line, he's a great politician, but when a Democrat votes his or her party line, it means the Democrat is a puppet? Jean Carnahan voted the way she did because it was the right thing to do.
What a blessing
IN AMERICA, you can go on the air and kid the politicians. And the politicians can go on the air and kid the people like Clinton did for eight years and like Gore tried. We've finally got a president in George W. Bush who will tell Americans the truth and will always honor the oval office and the White House. What a blessing President Bush and his lovely Laura are to our country.
Liberal reasoning
I'M READING the Speak Out comment about "They are thinkers," talking about the college people shifting to the Democrat Party. Your college academics have been Democratic because they're so liberal. I don't think that has changed that much. I think they have the wrong reasoning in their thinking.
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