Speak Out 5/1/14

Thank you

Our thanks for the kind person who paid for our food at Steak 'n Shake on April 12. We appreciated it very much. God bless you.

No new tax

Here we go again, saying our house insurance is cheaper because we have fire departments nearby. I have lived in this money pit of a town for 23 years and never filed a claim on my house. And it has more than tripled. It is payback time for what the city did to us regarding the water bills and only thinking of remodeling the downtown area. My son and I will vote no on this tax. And, yes, most of us did know what a use tax was.

City spending

Other than blatantly wasting the taxpayers' money, can somebody please explain why the Highway Patrol and the city of Cape always have to have the biggest, most expensive SUVs and pickup trucks to do their daily bidding? What, a small economy car can't go 75 miles an hour? Really? Why are they just wanting to waste every single penny? The city of Cape has so many wasteful vehicles, it's absolutely ridiculous. I won't be voting on any tax increase until they reduce the ridiculous amount of spending that they're doing.

Wrong argument

Don't ever try to promote a tax increase on the grounds that it will help kids. Kids can't vote.

Gas prices

Gas prices on the rise. Beef prices on the rise. Pork prices on the rise. Maybe fruit and vegetable prices as well from the hard winter. Sure is going to put the hurts to the working middle class and poor. But you can bet you politicians can afford all these things. Higher prices don't bother them at all.

Fire tax

Are you kidding me? Five million dollars for a fire station? We do not need fire trucks to go to calls involving heart attacks and falls. Because when they do, the guys are usually standing around doing nothing anyway, except the paramedics. Why don't we make the fire department all volunteer? We don't have that many fires here in Cape. I have two garden hoses to put my fire out with anyway. Cape Girardeau does need a police station.

Fix Lexington

Someone called into Speak Out and seemed to disagree with recent criticism of the city making repairs to Lexington. The caller ended with the comment that they're glad the city is "repairing" that street. That's the problem. Repairing is present-tense, meaning it's being done. I have lived a few blocks off Lexington for more than eight years, and the city has been almost continuously repairing the same few sections of Lexington over and over and over. One section was repaired at lest three times in one year. That indicates to me that they aren't doing it right to begin with. It's the far outside lane, which probably gets less traffic, yet it doesn't hold up.