Speak Out 7/15/19

Leak agreement

A leaked document recently disclosed statements by the British Ambassador to the US stating that Trump is inept, incompetent, unpredictable, dysfunctional, diplomatically clumsy, incoherent and chaotic. With much sadness, I have to agree.

Pelosi vs. AOC

I rarely agree with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but her comments concerning the four freshmen Democrat representatives were spot on. Just because you have a social media account, it doesn’t necessarily mean you have influence. AOC hasn’t done a thing to better her district or influence legislation.

2020 vote

Hey to all you conservatives all around me. I can’t wait until 2020, that fool will by out of my house in D.C., then the southern district of NY will put him in jail. They are waiting until he gets out of office. You now see why he wants to extend the residence.

Good point, Rennie

Thank you, Rennie Phillips for your excellent article in Sunday’s paper, especially about not walking your dog on hot pavement. That was something I never gave any thought to until today. Thank you for that helpful insight.

DeLine, Smith

So DeLine Farms got a $2.8 million dollar payout from the taxpayers of the United States. Not surprising that the top photos on their Facebook page are of Jason Smith looking all cozy with them. Swamp people!

Flag flap

If the Betsy Ross flag was good enough for the Obama inauguration, it should be good enough for a has been and never was ex-NFL quarterback.

Farm flap

It is a sad day for Southeast Missouri and the taxpayers of America when Sen. Chuck Grassley cares more about the pathetic government handouts to megafarms like DeLine of Charleston than our supposed representative Jason Smith does. Billions of dollars are being paid to the richest of farming operations and our children and grandchildren will be paying for it for decades to come.

Close call

Close center junction and fix the bridge and interchange. The same city leaders whining about this project were the same ones pushing for the East Main interchange and Veterans Drive. People can still get where we need to go while saving the state millions.

Out on a limb

Consider how quickly the Jackson city park would have been cleaned up after the damaging storms had those who played mud volleyball, ran in the race, or sat around at the car show also helped pick up limbs.

Not fashionable

Cutting the sleeves off sports coats or wearing Converse tennis shoes doesn’t make a 40- or 50-year-old fashionable. And I’m disappointed that we’d waste newspaper resources in such a manner.

Feral funds

There is no reason for taxpayers to foot the bill for feral cats anymore than we should be paying to control squirrel or rat populations.