SPEAKOUT

Derogatory cartoons

I'M GETTING tired of these derogatory cartoons about the president on the Opinion page. Like it or not, Bill Clinton will be the president for the next four years, and after that Al Gore will, and there's not a thing you or Rush Limbaugh can do about it. None of you.

Move on with life

I HAVE an aunt in the Los Angeles area who lost three homes to freeway expansion. Never once did she cry in her beer. She got on with her life and moved on. The lake whiners from Bollinger County don't know how to define progress. I will guarantee if a lake of this magnitude was feasible in Cape County, they would be over here fishing, boating, swimming and enjoying it to the maximum.

Potshots at the president

THANK YOU for the cartoon about the president and the soft money scandals in campaigning. You haven't read, obviously, the statistics that show the Republican Party outspends the Democratic Party in soft money. Secondly, keep talking, keep stretching everything out of proportion, don't try to work with the president like the Democrats did with Bush and Reagan and get something accomplished. Keep it up. It really looks good. Every time there's a new poll, Clinton's added about five more points to his popularity, and Gingrich, our friend, has gone about 10.

Let them smoke

ON SMOKING, if someone smokes around me, I don't notice one way or the other. To those who go completely ape when someone smokes, I say go ahead and go ape. As for myself, I don't smoke, but I don't give a tinker's damn if someone else does.

Bush shows guts

NO MATTER what you think of George Bush from a political prospective, you'd be hard pressed not to admire the guts and confidence in the old boy. As a warrior and ex-president, George still believes enough in his physical and mental abilities and integrity to jump out of a perfectly good airplane and know how to survive. Perhaps our current warrior wannabe president could still learn a thing or two, like honesty, conservative patriotic American values and how to retain simple coordination while partying. In fact, I'd like to see Bill and Hillary try jumping out of an airplane. And since they fancy themselves as messiah's of socialism, they wouldn't need a parachute.

Keep liquor ads off the air

I AGREE with President Clinton 100 percent when he talks against advertisement of liquor on the air, something no home needs where children are living and growing up. The home is no place for any alcohol. Teach your children at an early age that alcohol will never make them happy but could ruin their lives. He's trying to tell people what is right in so many ways. I've been around a long time, and I have seen so many homes destroyed and broken up. So I say, keep up the good work, President Clinton, and I hope the people will listen.

City responds to a need

I WOULD like to comment on the city's responding to the public needs. Had a situation on Abbey Road where there was storm water draining off a construction site. The city met with the people, and they did an excellent job meeting and getting the problem resolved to help the people of the area. Most of the time you hear about the negatives that the city does. I felt like it's time that somebody praised the city for doing a good service.

Bring back the Chief

QUIT PUSSY-footing. Call the Indians Indians and get the Chief up to guard the stadium but put deeper colors on him so we can admire him again.

Costs keep going up

NOW I know why all the people are moving out of Cape. The city keeps raising things and people keep passing bond issues. How's the normal working person supposed to pay for all these raises when they don't get a raise themselves? How are they supposed to make ends meet? You know, there's going to have to be a halt called somewhere.

Rest in peace

HALLELUJAH, THE lake bill is dead. Let it rest in peace.

Ban smoking near school

AS A Jackson parent, I would like to agree with the Speak Out writer who commented that they would like to see smoking banned near JHS. If parents would just drive by the school at lunch or before school or after school, people would be astounded to see the number of kids who are using nicotine. Nicotine is a drug -- and maybe this is going to step on some toes of parents -- but it seems like if we really want to help the kids in the community, we need to not make it so easy. Also, it provides a bad role model to the younger kids in junior high and elementary school.

It's a smoke-free campus

TO THE caller about Jackson High School should ban smoking. Well, I have gone to several football games at the high school, and every time there is an announcement saying that Jackson High School campus is a smoke-free campus. This does not mean that the students listen to this ban. I remember when I was in school 20 years ago, the students were always smoking outside or in the washrooms. They weren't allowed to smoke either, but they did it anyway. I think it is a case of something that is not allowed but is a challenge to do and not get caught. Also, I have seen students smoking on property that is adjacent to the campus, so there is no jurisdiction for the school administration to stop them.

Do your job

I AGREE with the caller about the smoking over in the Jackson Schools. I can't believe the county nurse on the board stands for it. I understand she spends a lot of time while school is in session, in and around the building so she must be aware of it. Let's do our job.

Taxing the over-taxed

PEOPLE HERE amaze me. They say the federal government's too powerful and big tax spenders. They cannot afford the high taxes, so they vote for a big school bond issue. If they cannot afford the big federal taxes, how can they afford a big raise in their county property tax? That I don't understand.

Character in sports

I WOULD like to address this statement to Marty Mishow, your sportswriter. He criticized the Jackson fans at the sectional basketball game for not cheering for Cape Central. At a recent girls Jackson-Central varsity soccer game, one referee was a graduate of Central. and the other referee had a daughter starting on the Central soccer team. Now, do you understand the character of Central's sport program?

Not happy with bond issue

I, FOR one, am not happy the bond issue passed. I think if some of the wasting of our tax money was cut out, that would have more than paid for a new school. In Pennsylvania, there is no sales tax on clothes, food or gasoline, but they somehow manage to get by with the schools they have. Makes you think, doesn't it?

Homeless in the winter

I WOULD like to make a comment on how the liberals lie such as with the homeless issue. How come the only time you hear about the homeless issue is in the winter time around Christmas time? Is that because you try to get everyone else to send you money you try and get us to feel sorry for these homeless people? Well, here's a conservative Republican who doesn't buy it. Tell the American people why you don't run ads in the summertime about homeless people.