OpinionSeptember 12, 2000
SPEAKOUT
I CAN'T believe a union would go on strike when the people they work for are in such a bad way at the tire company. They need to wait a long while until this is solved. IF PEOPLE want planning and zoning for their property, they should live in a city not out in the country. People move to the country because they want to live the way they want to live...
Bad time to strike
I CAN'T believe a union would go on strike when the people they work for are in such a bad way at the tire company. They need to wait a long while until this is solved.
Zoning in the city
IF PEOPLE want planning and zoning for their property, they should live in a city not out in the country. People move to the country because they want to live the way they want to live.
Tradition of prayer
EVERYONE SEEMS to decry the situation when the Supreme Court took prayer out of the public schools. But when prayer was eliminated from the Jackson High School football games, no one said hardly a peep. I wish all those who complained about the Supreme Court's taking pray out would at least stand up for a tradition that we can challenge and we can uphold right now before it is too late.
Socialist's dream
THE AMERICAN dream used to be wanting a chance to succeed on your own no matter what your race or origin and the opportunity to make a better life for yourself and your family. Now the American dream is how to get the government to pay for child care, day care, your insurance, medicine and anything a politician can offer you to get your vote so other people can support you. Now we can call it the socialist's dream.
Watch commercials
YOU WONDER what is wrong with the children today? Just watch the commercials on television. I think it is a disgrace the way our politicians are doing each other. I can't understand what good they think they are going to get out of that. It is hatred, hatred and hatred. I think it is terrible. And then they wonder what is wrong with the children today. Just watch television. You'll understand.
Need explanation
I SEE that Bill Ferrell is on a television ad supporting Mel Carnahan for senator. That makes sense, doesn't it? Missouri is ranked No. 2 in the U.S. in the manufacturing and use of meth, and Scott County is No. 1 in the state. Maybe Mel and Bill have an explanation for this. I have never heard it. Have you?
National nightmare
YOU CAN'T watch television any more. It is a disgrace to family values and to decent, law-abiding citizens. It is like watching a national nightmare which we all hope to wake up from in November 2000. We have had enough of scandals, lies and deceit these past eight years.
State park idea
I AM so disappointed that Old Appleton city fathers are no longer allowing people near were the old mill stood or opposite it. I know there are people who abused the privilege and who broke bottles. And also you have to wonder if the children were in any danger who jumped from the dam to the water below. It would be nice if the state made a state park out of it. Most people utilize the side that you come in from Fruitland area to Old Appleton. It is such a disappointment to see it closed. It is something the public could just enjoy.
A vote for P&Z
I WILL be voting for the planning and zoning commission in Cape Girardeau County. Someone has started a car dump near my house. Any one can start a car dump or do any thing beside your home if there's not a zoning and planning commission.
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School support
HAVING BEEN a resident of Jackson for a lifetime and an avid supporter of the school system, which is the finest to be found anywhere. I must say I am appalled by some individuals who have moved to the community in recent years and have all of the answers to the growth problems being experienced by our schools. I have willingly paid school taxes all of these years because I feel that what is good for school is good for the community and to shortchange our young people just to hold on to a few dollars each year is an abomination. Our schools and our children need grassroots support from the voting population rather than unwarranted criticism from the Johnny-come-latelies who have not been around for the long haul.
No trash barrels
I HOPE the people around Cape Girardeau's Arena Park will enjoy the trash that they will have for the next couple of weeks. Someone has taken up over a dozen of the trash barrels. They have taken all those that you could to drive up to and drop stuff from your car. I guess that is what we are going to see: lots of trash.
Lousy Congress
TO THE Republican name caller, this liar bit has got me sick to my stomach. You said Clinton and Gore had eight years. They really had two years, because they had a lousy Republican Congress since 1994. They couldn't do very much with that rich man's Congress in power. All they can do is recommend and try to get things up for the national health care.
Too many freeloaders
THIS IS to the retired person complaining that his grandson is living with him. Assuming this young man is over the age of 18, he should be kicked out of the house and made to make it on is own. Freeloaders can be both young people and old people, and the freeloaders in our society are ruining us.
Smart-mouth brat
IT IS funny how now that the Bush campaign is slipping in the polls that the Bush campaign is trying to reinvent itself. And they still have audacity and the nerve to accuse Al Gore of doing what they are in the process of doing. George W. Bush is now coming across as a smart-mouth frat brat. He is still maiming the English language a la Dan Quayle. The reason George is slipping in the polls is the choice of Dick Cheney. He is coming across as a combative, defensive, snarly person who got rich quick by using his political connections who was given special treatment by the major oil service company to assure that the oil companies would get very favorable treatment if there was ever a Bush administration.
Obeying the law
I TOO missed the prayer preceding the Jackson football game. However, I highly commend the Jackson School Board and superintendent Ron Anderson for upholding the law as mandated by the U.S. Supreme Court. I would not want their example to our community and especially to our children to be that it is OK to break the law until you get caught. God hears our prayers no matter if they are spoken or silent.
Whole people
IN TODAY'S society, too many people are guilty of automatically hollering at Conservative Christians, saying don't let your faith get over here in the political arena. They don't have much to say about liberals like vice presidential candidates who have their religion out in politics too. But in the light of this I would like to share something I read recently. A nuclear physicst/theologian has devoted his career reconciling science and faith. He said it is easy to think science, politics and technology have all the answers, because they are very powerful tools. But he insisted that science and politics and technology alone cannot answer human spiritual and ethical questions. He said that when he started in his field there were two main ways of looking at science and religion. They were either in conflict are two separate domains. At the time, he favored the latter, separate domains. He said it is a very attractive solution in a way to the simple, but ultimately we are whole people. We can't live in two worlds, so we intermingle or faith and our lives and our politics, technology and science.
Congress spends
I WAS really amused after reading several comments in Speak Out. I didn't really know that Clinton had the checkbook fro the U.S. government and could just write out any kind of check that he wanted to write out. Everyone is complaining about Clinton's spending of taxpayers' money. As I understand it, a majority of the seats in the Senate are Republican. Congress has to vote on how to spend the money. Maybe the callers better look at the Republican Congress before they start blaming the president for everything.
Need investigation
I AM calling about you article on Cristy Baker-Neel's request for a special prosecutor. This really upsets me terribly. There is no need for our county to be paying extra money for a prosecutor. The people have elected someone to take care of this position. What needs to be done, I think, is that her office should be investigated by a special prosecutor appointed by the governor. I am a Democrat. I have no grudges or axes to grind to get this lady. It is just a pure fact from a county citizen that she is not doing her job as prosecutor of the county. Let's have a special prosecutor to come in and investigate her and find out what is going on.
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