OpinionJuly 14, 2007
Speak Out 7/14/07
Relationship with dad; Binding elements; What a plan; Draft solution; What a punchline; Keep them laughing; Need parking solution; Hillary is electable; Education costs; Wrong incentive; They did it too; Trading favors; Ethanol politics; Winners and losers
Relationship with dad
I AGREE with the reader who is against women who use children as weapons against their fathers. I am a single mother, and even though I don't get along with my son's father, I could never and would never keep my son away from him. He loves him too much, and a father's role is too important in a child's life to take it away. I couldn't imagine the heartache a child must feel when he begs his or her mom to see his dad and she says no. The money isn't nearly so important as the mind of your child, and without a father there would always be something missing.
Binding elements
WHERE HUMAN societies exist, value systems exist. In their deeper workings, values are among the binding elements that hold a society together. In other words, we are not just the passive receivers of our culture but the active renewers of it.
What a plan
I SAW that we are spending $12 billion a month in Iraq. The cost to give every citizen in the U.S. health care is from $40 billion to $70 billion a year. Letting the Iraqis handle their own civil war and instituting health care for all our citizens would save us from $74 billion a year to $104 billion a year. What a plan that would be.
Draft solution
THE ARMY missed its recruiting goal for the second month in a row. Moms and dads everywhere are telling their young men and women to not enlist even for the college money. Bring back the draft and this civil war in Iraq will end before the first congressional or prominent citizen's son or daughter is deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.
What a punchline
I'M STARTING to agree with Will Rogers that the trouble with political jokes is that they often get elected.
Keep them laughing
A TEACHER was upset because someone said success in teaching depended in projecting an image that a teacher had known forever what was learned the night before. That's not all that critical. How about this one: Successful teaching results in entertaining the students and two-thirds of the time.
Need parking solution
ONCE AGAIN the Cape Girardeau City Council demonstrates an inability to lead in a proactive way. By enacting an ordinance with exorbitant parking fines that target university students is a clear case of shooting oneself in the foot. Southeast Missouri State University students contribute to the economy of Cape Girardeau by working in our retail and restaurant businesses and spending money earned in our fair city. How does the city plan to enforce this ordinance? Are we going to give them shock time in jail when they don't pay their fines? Cape Girardeau is a laughingstock because of the sign ordinance and the way it has been enforced. Why doesn't the council work toward finding a solution to the parking problem? Receiving a fine serves no purpose. Students who do not live on campus must park their vehicle in order to get to class. Walking from Bollinger County or Scott County is not feasible.
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Hillary is electable
I AM trying to figure out why people think Hillary Clinton is not electable. In her Senate election and re-election Clinton carried a handful of rural counties in upstate New York in 2000 and 2006 that no Democrat ever had. Bill Clinton carried Missouri in 1992 and 1996, and I can't see why Hillary couldn't. What candidate has more experience in the White House than Hillary? Hillary is respected worldwide. Do you really think Hillary is electable, or do you just not want to believe it?
Education costs
MORE COSTS for college students: Is it not enough that we are left to subsist on ramen noodles in our slumlike apartments? Should we punish students for taking part of the best and first step to a better life, education? I would argue that our education system has had its hands in our wallets for too long. Yes, we will have a new pool and a new River Campus, but who can enjoy them when students must tack on hours to their already full-time jobs to foot the bills for hasty spending? Raise parking fines? I don't care. I'm appeased that I have beautiful waterfall signs when I arrive at campus.
Wrong incentive
DOES THIS newspaper really believe that 600 people employed by NARS will have enough economic impact on this community to counterbalance the giveaway to Greater Missouri Builders of St. Louis? This is more of a reverse Robin Hood approach to economic growth: take from the poor and give to the rich. It doesn't matter to me if it is a common practice. It is wrong and needs to end.
They did it too
A LOT of Republicans are saying that the Libby sentence commutation is no big deal because President Clinton misused that same executive power. Is that what the GOP has come to? If Clinton did it, it's OK for us to do it?
Trading favors
THERE IS a big difference between President Bush's abuse of the pardoning power and President Clinton's abuse of that same power. Bush's corruption involved commuting the sentence of a high-level White House employee who was convicted of obstruction of justice and perjury in an investigation of the White House itself. Clinton's corruption was trading political favors for money.
Ethanol politics
CORN FARMERS love ethanol, but the polls in these parts are fast finding out that being strongly pro-ethanol is not a political winner.
Winners and losers
THERE IS no such thing as a win-win proposition as you proposed concerning the Town Plaza-NARS scheme. The winners are the Town Plaza and NARS. The losers are the taxpayers and the consumers. This rosy scenario that there is no such thing as a zero-sum game has been discredited. There are and always will be winners and losers. That's the way the world works.
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