SPEAKOUT

Kind neighbors

It takes a mighty good neighbor from across the street to pick up the newspaper every day, especially in this bitter cold weather, and put it under the handle on the storm door so that it can be reached. That way, the neighbor knows that we are still alive. A grateful elderly lady in Scott City.

Breaking God's law

I'M COMMENTING on the episode that happened at Klaus Park. I'm not saying that homosexuality is right. Morally, I feel it's extremely wrong. But if the law enforcement agents would also check the marriage licenses of the couples in Klaus Park and other parks, they would find that God's law is being broken also, which in some cases makes us lose the most valuable items that we have, which is a family. I know, it started with a meeting before work then went to lunch and then I lost my family. The sad thing is it could have been prevented, but it wasn't. What those guys did was wrong and I feel even stronger that cheating is wrong. I can't relive this experience and forget the hurt and pain that I caused my spouse and my children.

Hillary on TV

I'M GETTING sick of that liberal CBS shoving Hillary's arrogant face at us every time we turn around and pushing her silly book which she didn't even write. Good grief, I think she's been on every trash talk show on CBS except that obscene toilet called the "Jenny Jones Show." Since Jenny's trash is the most liberal and immoral of all, Hillary's deceitful garbage is most appropriate on that show. And perhaps you would like to read Bill and Hillary's true conspiracy plan for raising and programming your children as good little, liberal puppets. If so, get and read a copy of "The Tree" by the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. This horror story is not a fictional novel. With Hillary's urging, Clinton has already ordered U.N. Ambassador Madilyn Allbright to sign it and it is now in our Senate pending ratification. When ratified it specifically destroys all God given parental rights under our Constitution. Call your senators about it and you'll see the true face of Bill and Hillary's sinister evils.

Vouncher money

A CALLER suggested that the schools would get all of the tax money even if there was a voucher system in place. If that's true, then where would the money for the vouchers come from? Obviously the public schools would be getting less money, and the voucher system would take money from our schools.

Tax the churches

EVEN THOUGH I believe that an educational voucher system would violate the separation of church and state when my tax dollars supported your church, I think that could be rectified by putting the churches on the tax rolls. If they were willing to pay property taxes on the property they own, I probably wouldn't complain if my tax dollars were used to support them.

Brrr!

WHAT EVER happened to global warming?

Paying welfare

I WOULD like to make a comment about the ignorance of some people who get on TV and radio and claim, such as these congressmen, that you people on welfare, especially women, don't have children to get a bigger check. That's a bunch of baloney. If that's the case, why doesn't Congress enact a law like they have in New Jersey: If you are welfare and you have another child, your check will not be increased. Just like the average worker, when a couple has a child, they're pay doesn't increase. So why should it for someone on welfare?

Jury duty

I THINK it's getting pretty rotten that the court will make you go on jury duty if you have children at home and you have to be at home with those children. They don't pay for babysitting, and they don't give you enough money to take time out to run back and forth. I think this is taking the freedom of choice away from an individual.

Drinking parties

I WISH the Cape Girardeau Police Department would do something about these underage drinking parties that they have at the local motels. I know of two that went on this last weekend. Apparently this is a common practice. All they have to do is look for the little teen-agers bopping in there to get their beer.

Where's the money?

I HAVE a question. If the federal government is so far in debt, why are they trying to build another federal building in Cape Girardeau or anywhere else? I thought they were broke and we were into so much trouble.

Courthouse location

I THINK the federal building should be put out on the interstate where it's safe from the city and the city is safe from because of what happened at Oklahoma. I don't think it's right that the government can say where the federal building is going to go and it doesn't matter what the people in Cape think or say. I don't think it's right. This is our hometown. I've lived here for 37 years, and I don't think it's right the government can come in and push us around. I don't want a federal building in the middle of town. They can do something else rather than put it in the middle of Cape Girardeau and have to have us worry every time a trial comes on or every time we hear something about another federal building damaged or something like that.

Another location

WHERE to put the new federal building? Why don't you put it down where the old shoe factory used to be because of the nice, empty, big lot there and that would be enough to build a really nice federal building right there.

Redundant repetition

I'VE HEARD the phrase 'deja vu all over again' on television numerous times. To say 'deja vu all over again' is like saying widow woman. Have you ever known a widow who was not a woman?

Serve the time

IF A man doesn't consider the consequences of his crime, I don't believe he should be released from jail because he's old. He was young enough to commit a crime, he should be young enough to serve out the sentence that he gets.

Churches and taxes

I FULLY support the support the participation of churches in the political process, and I think a good move on their part in that direction so that more people would appreciate their views if they would start paying property taxes on their property, capital gains tax on their investments and what tax is appropriate on the money that's donated to them.