Speak Out 6/24/11

Wearing shirts

I think it bordered on being inappropriate for you to publish a Speak Out comment to the effect that, when it comes to the question of whether or not males should wear a shirt, a lot of men near Sprigg and William streets apparently like to think of themselves as budding Anthony Weiners.

Jobs and automation

THE reason there are no jobs is because they all went overseas. If you owned a shoe company and you could get workers at pennies an hour overseas, you would jump at it. However, when the product came back to the U.S. it was sold at $150. Quite a profit for you and your company. So why on earth would you pay someone $10 to $15 an hour to make the shoes here in the U. S.? You don't pass the savings on to the consumer, you keep the profits. This is why companies are doing so well. In fact, now they say their costs may go up, so they better sell those shoes in the U.S. for $200, just in case.

Wasting money

WHY do so many people look to the government for assistance? Could it be because the government over the years has been offering more assistance to specific groups of people? This is a recipe for disaster in the long term. My heart goes out to those in need, and I will help them personally. But the government is stifling personal responsibility and wasting tax dollars at the same time.

John Mehner

I want to commend John Mehner for his recent recognition for outstanding service. He has been an excellent advocate for this area and a good person for the business community to work with. I also admire his Christian values.

'Sanity-challenged'

LOTS of President Obama's critics argue that FDR's stimulus spending didn't really get us out of the Great Depression and that it took World War II to do that. I don't get it. Didn't World War II require government spending on a massive scale? If so, the loony logic of those who say less government spending will get the economy rolling again is extremely sanity-challenged.

Getting smoked

DRACONIAN cuts in education spending combined with Missouri's rank as dead last in the amount of state sales cigarette tax required leads on to the remorseful, but sensible, conclusion that the ordinary Missouri resident is really getting smoked.

Help others

THIS is in response to "Where's the family?" in Monday's Speak Out about the old man with Alzheimer's in the trailer park. Has it ever occurred to you to be a good Samaritan and offer to clean up some of the brush on his property? That's what being Americans and humans on this earth is, helping each other. That's what Jesus would do. How about offering to help the old man?

Blaming Bush

I am sick to death of hearing "It's Bush's fault, it's Bush's fault, Bush left us the debt." Well, Bush may have left us the debt but Obama has tripled the debt since he's come in office. That's just two years. Now whose fault is it?

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Downtown graffiti

IT is sad that people are putting things around the downtown mural that someone painstakingly painted. I wish people would put their graffiti elsewhere. They do say the most effective way to keep graffiti from happening is to immediately clean up the old graffiti and it's self defeating to those graffiti artists.

Beautiful yard

THANK the Lord, our good friend and neighbor, Ken Grigsby, is able to work in his yard this year and it is more beautiful than ever. He and his wife, Myrna, are in their yard working nearly every day. You will enjoy a drive by Cambridge and Valley Forge Lane to see their beautiful yard. It looks like a park. We're proud to have them as our friends and neighbors.

Teacher pay

NOT all Cape Girardeau teachers got a raise. Only those teachers who have taught the least number of years received a raise. If you have stuck it out with the Cape Girardeau School District for over 15 years, you received nothing.

Shirt complaint

THIS is for the person who keeps calling Speak Out about someone sitting on the front porch on West End Boulevard without a shirt on. Good grief, why don't they get a life? The man has the right to sit on his porch without a shirt if he wants to. They don't have to look. They can always turn their heads if it bothers them.

Missing Bill

THIS is also for the mail service call in Speak Out. I also had Bill as a mail carrier. He is a wonderful Christian man and was always on time, and if something didn't fit in the box, he brought it to the door and rang the bell. A very courteous man. Our new person is always late, leaves things at the door without telling you and leaves the mailbox door open and our mail is always ripped and torn and opened. It's just ridiculous. He needs to stop and take a little bit more time and do his job right.

Entitlements

MICHAEL Jensen had a column talking about the entitlement problem and the people who are receiving it and costing the government so much money. People have become so dependent on a government check for doing nothing that this has become a way of life regardless of their ability to earn their own living or not. And this is what has got to stop. This is why we're ruining our young people, because they grew up in families where the adults have lain around all their life and done nothing. The children feel like that's their way of life because it looks good to them and they've heard all the good things about it from their parents. So this has got to have an end put to it. We can't let it go on because it's getting to be a larger every year, every month, every day.

Graphic images

I would like to make a comment about the graphic images they're going to start putting on packs of cigarettes. What are they going to do next? Remember cigarette smokers, the taxes they pay for cigarettes go to pay for the health care of the children. These programs wouldn't be there if it wasn't for the taxpayers for it that smoke cigarettes. Now what about a bottle of beer? Are they going to show a car wreck on a bottle of beer, because you know there are people that die in car crashes? What about a cellphone? Are they going to show people that died in car wrecks from texting and all that?

Pony Express

DEAR Woodland Hills, I see that you are upset about your mail delivery. Well, don't feel like the Lone Ranger. Those of us on Ranchito Drive have been doing this for close to two years. Just wait until it's winter and it's cold and it's dark and it's raining and you step off the curb into the water. Maybe we should ask for the Pony Express.

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