OpinionOctober 28, 2000
SPEAK OUT
JIM TALENT has been preaching character and leadership for the last few months. This past week we found out that he lacks both. Also he doesn't know the meaning of the words dignity and passion, but he is going to find out the meaning of backlash. IN 1993 Al Gore cast the deciding vote to raise taxes on Social Security income. If he really cared about seniors struggling to buy medicine and food and energy, he would never have cast that vote...
Character, leadership
JIM TALENT has been preaching character and leadership for the last few months. This past week we found out that he lacks both. Also he doesn't know the meaning of the words dignity and passion, but he is going to find out the meaning of backlash.
Supported tax increase
IN 1993 Al Gore cast the deciding vote to raise taxes on Social Security income. If he really cared about seniors struggling to buy medicine and food and energy, he would never have cast that vote.
Whining about the rich
THIS IS in response to the person who says that the rich owe you. With such convoluted logic, I can see why you remain poor. You say that the rich create jobs strictly for their benefit. Well, why else would they create jobs except for their own benefit and profit? If they wanted to start a charitable organization, they would do so. The rich employer has risked everything he has to start a business, working long hours. And he hired you, because in some way you can make him more money. There's nothing wrong with that. If you do work for minimum wage, that means your skills or talents or education on the open market are worth just that. If you want more, you should go for it and get more instead of whining. You also say if it weren't the poor, the rich wouldn't be rich. I'm sorry, but that's not true. Bill Gates' employees are rich. They're rich because he hired people who were talented, bright, enthusiastic workers, and he rewarded them because he needed them. You also say we owe the rich nothing. Yes, sir, you do owe the rich something. You owe your rich employer your job. I never got a job from a poor man, and I think you should investigate the possibility that you are nothing but a whiner. In today's economy, you should do better.
They could take lessons
THANK YOU for the wonderful column by Thomas Eagleton. Perhaps Kinder, Limbaugh and Rust could learn from him.
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Intoxicated writer
I CAN only conclude for certain that the Southeast Missourian operative who wrote the editorial encouraging Missourians to think about lowering the legal drinking age to 18 was intoxicated.
Board won't listen
I'M REALLY offended with the Speak Out callers who are blaming the defeat of the Jackson bond issue on older residents. I'm not an old-timer. I do have a mind of my own. The school board wants to decide what we should know, and that's not right. If that's not arrogance, I don't know what is. We have three brand-new schools in Jackson that are supposedly built to add on to for future growth. The only two members of our school board who even listen to the people are the new ones who were just elected. Until we get rid of the rest of them, our bond issues will not pass. The thing that bothers me about politicians is they're elected by the people to represent the people. Twice we have spoken and said we do not want this bond issue, but the school board will not listen.
Welcome to gag club
I SAW in a recent article that President Clinton said that he almost gagged over something that George Bush had said. My response to Mr. Clinton would be "Welcome to the gag club." Many of us have been gagging over him for the last five or six years.
Ashcroft has to fight
CONSIDERING ALL of the well-deserved tributes to the late Mel Carnahan and the fact that Governor Carnahan's name will remain on the ballot, John Ashcroft may have to give serious thought to the heretofore unthinkable -- namely, resuming his campaign.
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