OpinionFebruary 20, 1999
SPEAKOUT
THIS IS in response to the comment that mentioned the dogs being noisy. Dog owners supposedly get their dogs to alarm the owners of intruders. But when the dogs bark incessantly, how are the owners going to be aware of intruders? If there's a city ordinance regulating noise, then this ordinance should also be applied to pets. ...
Noise law for dogs too
THIS IS in response to the comment that mentioned the dogs being noisy. Dog owners supposedly get their dogs to alarm the owners of intruders. But when the dogs bark incessantly, how are the owners going to be aware of intruders? If there's a city ordinance regulating noise, then this ordinance should also be applied to pets. When I tell my dog to shut up, he always listens to me. If owners want to keep their pets, then they should be willing to give them the attention that is needed. I would rather hear the loud music from vehicles than to hear this zoo of dogs in my neighborhood.
Airlifting our tax money
IT MAKES me shudder every time I see Bill Clinton climbing aboard Air Force One, because the man's got his pockets bulging with the American taxpayers' money. He took $4 billion with him to Mexico. From what I can understand, this is to subsidize people in Mexico to buy American products. I'm just wondering where this man got this money. Is it out of the Social Security fund? Did Congress give him authority to take $4 billion to Mexico and give it to those people? By the time this man gets out of office, they're going to need all new airplanes, because he's going to have all them about worn out.
Blame the employer first
I FIRMLY believe when there's a strike and I'm inconvenienced, I'm first going to blame the employer, the one I feel 90 percent of the time instigates it. They're the ones that want to get more for less. The pilots have a responsibility that is enormous: people's safety. The airlines want to pay lower wages to their subsidiaries. That's a pattern to pay pilots less for such a responsibility. So these people who get mad at the working man, which I consider the pilots, work for a wage. Instead of getting angry at the lower men on the totem pole, why don't they go up the ladder and get mad at Mr. Employer? It takes two to tango. They seem to get angry at the labor union member. You people who are working for a wage know what it's like and how hard it is. Start blaming the employers and stop blaming the wage earners like yourselves.
Don't put people in categories
I'M RESPONDING to "Covering their tracks" in Speak Out. Democrats as well as Republicans have voted for Clinton not to be impeached and not to lose his office. Therefore, wouldn't it kind of show that Republicans are the same as Democrats, if you're wanting to look like the fools they are? Please be intelligent when you're going to inform the public of your opinion. Please be intelligent when you say things such as "Democrats will be made to look like the fools they are." Apparently, that's a very opinionated statement and a very foolish one at that. Just because you're a Democrat doesn't make you a fool. What makes you a fool is whether you place people into categories and then have a title for them.
Dogs are supposed to bark
I UNDERSTAND the caller's frustration on incessant dog barking. I immediately check out why my dogs bark, for I do care about my neighbors. However, I encourage my canines to bark to alert me to the goings on about my home. Many times, though, I find that they are barking at large animals such as cats or dogs running loose, which, in my opinion, is the most inhumane. But they have alerted me of human intruders, which that is my dog's job. May God be with the one who comes on my property without permission, for he is in a world of hurt.
We don't need that
I HOPE you're kidding me. I read in the Southeast Missourian where Jackson has a man running for mayor who works out of the same office with another man who is trying to get taxpayers' money by suing the city. Good night, that's all we need is a mayor who's working with another man trying to sue the taxpayers and get taxpayers' dollars. We don't need that.
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Conflict of interest
YOU KNOW, if you really stop and think about it, lawyers should be barred from running any office where they make laws. Examples: state legislature, Congress. It should be a conflict of interest. They make laws to force the citizens to come to them and pay money to abide the laws that they pass on us.
Trying to stay in power
CLINTON IS trying to get back in the White House in the future through the back door by running Hillary in the New York Senate and then as president after that. He would be calling the shots with her as a figurehead. Old Slick Willie is still conniving for power in the future years. It's dictatorship in the works.
And president too
SO PRESIDENT Clinton says Hillary would make a great senator. Well, he's got that right. She would have made a better president than he has.
Too young to be driving
I'M CALLING in reference to a woman who lost her 13-year-old son while he was trying to cross the highway on a dirt bike. It was in your paper. When he crossed the road, he was hit by a driver who was not licensed to drive and who left the scene. He was given four years in prison for this felony hit and run and one year for misdemeanor driving without a valid license. The mother of the victim said if the laws had been tougher, maybe it would have stopped the unlicensed driver from driving. Well, if her son, 13 years of age, was not trying to cross a highway on a dirt bike, maybe he would still be alive too. I feel sorry for the woman, but it looks like her boy was also in the wrong.
Crack down on red lights
I'D JUST like to say that I think the Cape Girardeau police officers ought to focus their time more efficiently on the people who are running stoplights. I've been at stoplights probably four to five times a day and have seen three to four people on a regular basis run red lights. I think this is a dangerous situation that ought to be remedied. The police aren't not using their time efficiently as they should be. They're out watching for other things which aren't as important as people running stoplights. I think they ought to try to focus their time on that and stop people from getting hurt.
Might get a refund
IF YOU are a senior citizen 65 years or older and made less $25,000 last year, take what Social Security has paid you, add bank interest that you made along with property-tax information to the taxpayers service office at Room 102, 3102 Blattner Drive in Cape Girardeau. You might be eligible for a refund. Just wanting to help.
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