OpinionOctober 20, 2000
SPEAK OUT
SURE THE rich create jobs -- strictly for their benefit. Most of the jobs they create are minimum wage, and most of the rich are against raising the minimum wage, so their employees can make them richer. If it weren't for the poor, the rich wouldn't be rich. ...
Why the rich are rich
SURE THE rich create jobs -- strictly for their benefit. Most of the jobs they create are minimum wage, and most of the rich are against raising the minimum wage, so their employees can make them richer. If it weren't for the poor, the rich wouldn't be rich. There are a lot more poor people. We buy their products and services. Most of the poor work for their lousy two-bit wages and have to work for them on the rich man's terms. We owe the rich nothing. Quite the contrary, they owe us. We made them rich.
Clinton deserves credit
LOOKS LIKE another plus for Clinton. He helped bring down another dictator, he and the NATO allies in Yugoslavia. People criticized him, but there's no question that he helped bring this man Milosevic down.
It's a new breed
THIS IS the second time in my 65 years I've seen the Democratic Party in danger of losing its bid for the White House while the economy is good and unemployment is low. I was 17 years old when Adlai Stevenson was defeated, probably because he was running against a war hero. If it were 40 years ago, Bush wouldn't have any worries. This must be a new breed these days. Just because the economy's good, that doesn't mean you're going to be re-elected. I'm at a loss. The voters seem to be more concerned about their guns and getting tax rebates than they are about health care and Social Security. I don't understand this new breed.
Use that radar
I'D LIKE to know where the Jackson police are again. They don't run radar on Greensferry Road, and between 7:30 and 8 p.m. the cars go through here like a bat out of hell. The people on Greensferry Road would like the police to use their radar to check this out, not sit and drink coffee down at the police station this time of night.
Lucrative oil deals
ACCORDING TO The Wall Street Journal, the great, wise and know-all Energy Department has let three companies bid on millions of dollars worth of oil reserves. And here's some of the companies they let bid. According to a newsletter that specializes in the oil business, there's a company that has one employee. No company, no trucks, no office, no anything. He's going to get a million barrels of oil and has to repay it by the year 2001, and has never done an oil deal before. There are two other companies like this one of them listing the great oil man, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, as a guiding light. Come on. These people have to be off-center. Where in the world do they find these kinds of deals? Surely they don't think the public is stupid enough to fall for this. These guys have $3 million or $4 million worth of oil. None of them are oil people. I could do it. You could do it. This is another example of the incompetence and the corruption in Washington when it comes to the Clinton administration. Al Gore is right in the thick of it. If the public doesn't wise up, we'll end up with four more years of the same.
It's all about money
THE REASON Cape's considering cameras on stoplights is the same reason Cape police patrol I-55: money. Plain and simple.
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Let parents do it
THIS IS a reply to the caller complaining about young drivers. Why do you blame the schools and university for the young drivers' incivility? The place to learn manners is at home, and the time to start is when the kids learn to walk and talk. So place the blame where it belongs: on irresponsible parents who are too lazy to raise their kids to be polite. Teachers have enough to do without having to do the parents' jobs.
One just got life
MR. BUSH made one mistake when he said the three men who killed the black man by dragging him behind the pickup truck were convicted of murder and would be put to death. Only two of these men got the death sentence. The other got a life sentence.
Here's what to expect
I CALLED about installing a water heater. The price included a permit fee of $25 required by the city of Cape which made the price of the heater cost 20 percent more. You people in the county can depend on the county government doing the same type of things if county zoning is voted in. Vote no on county zoning and save lots of money. Plus keep the freedom to do as you want on your own property.
Thanks to garbage men
IN REGARD to the trash collectors on Independence at 10 a.m. one morning. I was very, very impressed that they stopped and picked up a bunch of garbage that was in the middle of the street. They went above and beyond the call of duty.
Ashamed of street
I THINK Cape Girardeau should be totally ashamed of the way William Street looks. The taxpayers pay good money to keep the roads in good shape, and that's probably the most pitiful looking situation I've seen in Missouri. Arkansas does better work than this. That's terrible. I hope the City Council and all the city managers are real happy with the looks of one of our main streets.
Time for turnabout
I FOUND it interesting that area lawyers were able to rate area judges. I guess now the judges will have their opportunity to rate the lawyers in return, right?
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