OpinionAugust 2, 1996
SPEAKOUT
LAURA Johnston's series on migrant workers is very revealing in more ways than one. While I can admire these hard-working migrants, I also have to question the work ethics of the local population. The Missouri Bootheel traditionally has the highest unemployment rate in the entire state. ...
Editorial
Example of welfare failure
LAURA Johnston's series on migrant workers is very revealing in more ways than one. While I can admire these hard-working migrants, I also have to question the work ethics of the local population. The Missouri Bootheel traditionally has the highest unemployment rate in the entire state. With all of these local people out of work, why do growers have to rely on migrants to fill jobs that pay up to $120 for a hard day's work? I think we all know the answer. This is just another example of our failed welfare system.
Seat-belt statistics
I SEE there have been a lot of people in Southeast Missouri just dying not to use their vehicle seat belts. Buckle up and live longer, or leave them off and become another statistic.
An educated intellectual
ALAN Journet's letters to the editor remind one of a description of a similar writer who considered most of the great unwashed around him to be uninformed and uneducated. That description was that he is an intellectual who has been educated beyond the limits of his intelligence. Mr. Journet must get his statistics from the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Support Jackson schools
I WOULD like to encourage all the residents of Jackson and the surrounding county to vote in support of the school bond issue that we have next week. I think that most of the residents of Jackson are proud of their schools, and I think it's a well-known fact that there are a lot of people who are moving to Jackson simply because of the school district. These people are living in Jackson instead of Cape, and I hope we can continue to have a good school system.
No pierced body parts
I WOULD like to make a comment about the man who won the long jump in the Olympics. I'm glad a person like him won. He looks like a standout person. He doesn't have a pierced ear or an earring, he doesn't have a pierced nose, and he doesn't have a pierced eyebrow. I think this man deserves everything he has won for the Olympics, and I support him. Most people don't have pierced earrings or noses or eyebrows, especially if they're male.
The president's hairdo
I'M A barber, and I wish those beauticians would leave Bill Clinton's hair alone. What are they trying to make him look like? One month he's got gray hair. One month it's salt-and-pepper. Now this month it's the youth look with light brown hair.
Salvation Army vouchers
IN SPEAK Out on Monday, a person said that the Salvation Army should just give away extra things. The Salvation Army does just "give it away" to people who cannot afford it. They have a voucher program, and people who cannot afford clothing and/or pots and pans and other items can get vouchers from the Salvation Army good at the store and get some of those items for free. They give away almost as much as they sell at their thrift store.
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Shopping-cart corral
I JUST saw the most beautiful site at one of Cape Girardeau's grocery stores. The parking lot was free of shopping carts and people were smiling and there were no dented cars. I just wish everybody would start patronizing stores that use some common sense with their shopping carts, and come up with a way to keep them all corralled.
No need to name jurors
I THINK it was totally unnecessary and very tacky to print the names of the jurors who will be hearing the case in Fulton. These people agreed to disrupt their day-to-day lives to perform their stated duty. They did not agree to have their privacy invaded by the Southeast Missourian by printing their names out on the front page.
Religion in our lives
FOR THE people who support the American Way Committee and the ACLU, the liberal media and the politicians who are all agnostic or atheist, I would like to share the following quotation from one of our founders who was around in the beginning of this country: "If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country and the people do not become religious, I do not know what is to become of us as a nation." That is from Daniel Webster.
Reagan was a spender
I'M TIRED of reading about how the Democratic Congress caused the deficit. If you did the research, you would find that Reagan called for billions of dollars more in spending than Congress did. He sent his budgets to the Congress every year, and averaged about $4 billion more a year than what Congress wanted to spend. Besides, in 1981, when deficit-building voodoo economics started, the Republicans controlled the Senate.
Support Ashcroft's tax plan
AMERICANS ARE paying more in federal, state and local taxes than they are for food, clothing and shelter combined. We are even taxing our taxes. That's right, working Americans pay income taxes on their Social Security payroll tax -- a big hit when you consider that a majority of small business owners pay more in payroll taxes than any other form of taxes. Congress has a chance to stop the double-talk and do away with the double tax. The Working American Wage Restoration Act, sponsored by Sen. John Ashcroft, would allow employees to deduct their share of Social Security taxes from their gross incomes. This way, Americans would no longer pay taxes on money the government takes out of their paychecks. People ought to get behind this effort, contact their senators and try to correct this problem.
May Green has big impact
I THINK it's interesting that the one school in this city that seems to have all of its efforts concentrated toward the children in the school is the first one that everybody's crying for to be torn down. I'm talking, of course, about May Green, which this very week is doing another positive reinforcement program to encourage their students.
Media assigns the blame
IF THAT security guard at the Olympics in Atlanta did not commit the crimes that all of the media has suggested and told us that he might have done, then the media has a whole lot of apologizing to do. If I were that man and I did not commit the crime, I would sue every media form I could think of.
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