SPEAK OUT

Can't get through

I'M CALLING for all the mothers who would like to talk to child-support enforcement. It's a Saturday. Most of us work Monday through Friday. All I've gotten is a busy signal for the last four hours, and I had the operator interrupt the line, and nobody's talking on it. I guess they take their phone off the hook on Saturdays so no one can reach them. I'd like to know what everyone else thinks of that.

Made in the U.S.A.

I'M AN ex-military man, and I read in the paper where the U.S. government is going to have the black berets that our G.I.s wear made in China. What are these people thinking? The least they could do is to make the military apparel in this country. I am ashamed to say that the American politicians are behind all this. If we cannot afford to make our own military gear in this country, something is terribly wrong. I think this should be overridden.

Bending the rules

LET'S SEE if I've got this straight, according to Alan Journet, if a person voted for both Gore and Buchanan on the same ballot, forget the law that disqualifies the ballot and count this as a Gore vote. If a person chose not to vote for any presidential candidate, then this is also a Gore vote. Yeah, makes sense to me. Too bad Journet wasn't baseball commissioner last fall. He could have disregarded the rules and counted all the Cardinals' foul balls as base hits, and Missouri would once again be the home of the World Series champions.

Part-time job

I WAS just reading the article about U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson. It says, "In her first years of office, the job as a congresswoman often took her away from her Virginia home on the weekends." Later in the article it says that she and her husband have a house in Cape Girardeau. It seems to me that that's exactly the situation. Her home is in Virginia, and representing Missouri is just kind of a part-time job. I think we should elect someone from this area.

Poor losers

DEMOCRATS ARE poor losers? That's a laugh. After Bill Clinton won the first time in 1992, George Bush did nothing but cry and cry. Then Ken Starr came along and tried to bring Clinton's personal life before a grand jury. He drug Clinton and his family through the mud. It was just politics. The Republicans have cried for the past eight years. It's a joke saying that the Democrats are the ones who are poor losers. The Democrats didn't lose the last election. They won the popular vote.

Reading minds

ALAN JOURNET has clearly discounted revotes that have shown George W. Bush the clear winner. In 1992 I went to the polling place and didn't vote for president. I didn't like either candidate. It was a hard decision, and I even put the stylus in the hole a couple of times. Maybe I made a dimple. I think it must be against my constitutional rights to have someone decide that I just made a mistake and award my vote to anyone. No one has that right in America. I'm sick and tired of hearing about this. No one can read another person's mind, and that's what the recounts are trying to do.

Suggested title

I NOTICE in today's paper that David Limbaugh wrote a book about Bill Clinton. Now he's thinking of writing another book. I'll tell you a good title for his next book: "How George W. and Jeb Bush and the Supreme Court Stole the Presidential Election for the Republicans." That would be a good book.