OpinionOctober 31, 1995
SPEAKOUT
I AM a patron of the Riverside Regional Library and hope it is kept in its present location, which I feel is much better than moving it to the city park. I have never found parking at the present library to be a problem. If we are to spend $1.5 million to $2 million for a new library we need to give thought as to what this will do to our tax assessment. ...
Keep the library
I AM a patron of the Riverside Regional Library and hope it is kept in its present location, which I feel is much better than moving it to the city park. I have never found parking at the present library to be a problem. If we are to spend $1.5 million to $2 million for a new library we need to give thought as to what this will do to our tax assessment. In the county our library taxes will increase by 125 percent. In the city of Jackson they will increase by 38 percent. It may be good to have a monumental new library, but the tax burden will be with us for years to come.
Cut welfare too
I WOULD like to make a comment on how the Democrats are complaining about these Medicare and Medicaid cuts. I say let's start cutting the welfare because it's not going to be long, probably in another two years, they'll be running out of money. The Republicans are not making sense. They are just simply saying we cannot support the system, and it's not going to be long till the welfare is going to be in there, and I say we need to start cutting it now.
Robbing Hood
THERE IS a new Robin Hood running around. He robs from the poor and gives to the rich. He's called the Republican Party.
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Stop the raises
I JUST want to speak out about the Medicare and Medicaid cuts. If the government in the high offices like the congressmen and senators would quit giving themselves raises there'd be money for other things.
It wasn't Hoover
TO THE Democrats who believe that Hoover was responsible for the county poor farm or old folks home. You apparently weren't living here at that time. I am 78 years old, and I remember the home was there when I was six years old. I don't know how long the home had been there, but it certainly was several years before Hoover's presidency.
Eating crow?
YOU GUYS need to regroup. You've been backsliding ever since you publicly aired Republican dirty-laundry infighting over the farm bill. I have a question about the Oct. 27 editorial claiming all was well in Republican-ville, that things had been smoothed over among Republicans on the farm subsidies controversy and that, on the whole, it is good for farmers to continue to get welfare in order to keep the playing field level. How did the crow taste? Really, Richard Gephardt couldn't have said it better. The Republican counter-revolution took the meat axe to middle and low income tax subsidies, but left corporate welfare intact. So much for the true believing wing of the Republican Party of which the editorial staff of the Southeast Missourian seemed at one time to be a part. Who's to say business as usual is dead?
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