OpinionMarch 23, 1996
SPEAKOUT
GOODIE, GOODIE, Jay Eastlick is going to St. Joseph. Could we persuade him to take Pete Kinder with him? IT'S STRANGE. Less than a week ago, our government didn't have enough money to sufficiently take care of our veterans in VA Hospitals. But two days later our president gives Israel an extra $100 million above its annual welfare payments. ...And Kinder too?
GOODIE, GOODIE, Jay Eastlick is going to St. Joseph. Could we persuade him to take Pete Kinder with him?
Found money
IT'S STRANGE. Less than a week ago, our government didn't have enough money to sufficiently take care of our veterans in VA Hospitals. But two days later our president gives Israel an extra $100 million above its annual welfare payments. He also said the terrorists who landed the bombs that killed the innocent people in Israel would be caught and be punished. Yet those who killed about the same amount of people in Waco, Texas, have never been held accountable for killing innocent women and children.
Settle the budget
I AM A 75-year-old male, and I've voted a Democratic ticket every election that I have voted in except for one time when I voted for Gen. Eisenhower for president. My point is, that I hope that President Clinton will accept what the Republicans have on the table, get it settled and done with and we might be able to save our Medicare for our children and our grandchildren and for all those people who are working now and paying in. If he doesn't do that, I'll find it very difficult to vote for him in November.
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Silent agreement
IF SILENCE is agreement, the Cape Girardeau School Board agreed that the demonstration school-choice project would be a benefit for Cape Girardeau. I think it's a wonderful day when the school board can agree with private schools in this legislation.
What respect?
I'M CALLING and responding to the person who says we ought to have respect for our country's flag and the national anthem. I've just come to the conclusion that I don't think our country is worth respecting anymore. And in the words of Pastor Joe Wright of Wichita Central Christian Church, "We have distorted the truth of God's word and called it moral pluralism. We have worshipped other gods and called it multiculturalism. We have endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn children and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called building self-esteem. We have abused our power and called it political savvy. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted our air with profanity and pornography and called it personal freedom. We have ridiculed the time honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment." Now I would doubt that our forefathers would even respect our country or our flag at this point in our history. Just a thought.
Poor air service
I'M CALLING about the article you ran in the paper about TWE boardings are down at the Cape airport. I know this is the second time I've read this article. You had one about six-eight months ago. You guys keep missing the point. For the last two years, 1994-95, I flew in and out of the Cape airport probably three times a month. I don't fly out of the Cape airport anymore at all. There are two reasons for it. One, your flight will arrive into St. Louis from somewhere when you're coming back in. You'll sit there for two hours waiting for the scheduled departure time to come back to Cape, and they'll cancel the flight. They did that on numerous occasions out of St. Louis into Cape. And they said weather or equipment was the reason, and one time there was only three of us flying so they canceled it. So my wife had to drive from Cape to St. Louis, pick me up and come back. That happened about three times. The most frustrating time was leaving from the Cape airport going through Marion into St. Louis. You'd fly out of Cape, get over into Marion and you'd sit there on the runway anywhere from 30 minutes to 1 1/2 hours and be delayed going into St. Louis and maybe miss your connecting flight out of St. Louis. That happened 10-15 times. I quit flying Trans World Express. Randy Holdman says we need to do a better job of promoting the airport. It's not the airport. It's the airline.
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