OpinionAugust 4, 2000
SPEAKOUT
I JUST went out to walk my dog and found that someone had planted a political poster in my front yard. Maybe that is how things are done here, but where I come from it is considered good manners to ask someone before you put your poster in a front yard. Had I been considering voting for this candidate, he would certainly not get my vote now. I think that is an appalling lack of manners...
Sign manners
I JUST went out to walk my dog and found that someone had planted a political poster in my front yard. Maybe that is how things are done here, but where I come from it is considered good manners to ask someone before you put your poster in a front yard. Had I been considering voting for this candidate, he would certainly not get my vote now. I think that is an appalling lack of manners.
Choice is fiasco
THE BUSH vice president charade is a an insult. To have a man who is supposed to be interviewing the candidates get the job is a real set up. To go to a man whose voting record when he was in Congress is a slap in the face to a majority of us voters. Dick Cheney's votes when he was in Congress really irritate me. He voted against banning the copkiller bullets and against banning plastic guns that could get by the X-ray unit at the airport. In addition to this, is the president of a big oil industry service company. We sure don't need oilmen for president and vice president. Even Dan Quayle wasn't as bad a choice as this. The comedians are really having a field day on this fiasco, and I will too.
Tax politics
THREE CHEERS for Congress. It has sent three tax cuts to the president just before the political convention, and the president thinks he is going to veto them. This last one was really the best one, sending a tax cut on Social Security earnings. You don't need to pay income taxes on it a second time. That is stupid, and Congress is trying to repeal that stupid tax. I am all for it if the president vetoes it. Pass all three of them again in October just before the election. It'll work every time.
Fund-raising idea
I'M READING the front page of the Southeast Missourian about Dr. Dale Nitzsche and his fund-raising abilities as chancellor, for which he gets $118,000 plus $20,000 in expenses. I think it's just a big cover job. Dr. Ken Dobbins should be doing this and saving the University $140,000.
A selfish era
THE POLITICIANS used to try to attain votes with character, honesty, moral values and truth. Now they simply promise more government plans, grants and handouts for the voters. They know the majority couldn't care less about pride, decency and honor or the future in this selfish era of irresponsibility.
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Quality education
I READ that Cincinnati resident Nitzsche is justifying his chancellorship with claims of millions in federal tax dollars and donor funds toward the River City campus, most of which would have been received anyway. I hope someday to read that our tax dollars are spent not on fountains, football fields and bloated salaries for professors absent from the classroom but on securing a quality affordable education for our kids who now have to drive to Shawnee Community College to get it.
Try tolerance
I THINK the Missouri Department of Public Safety would be going to far if they stripped these two highway patrol troopers of their licenses, and I am a woman. If they are stripped of their licenses, they may never get them back and be state troopers again. As a woman, I was very upset when I read what these men had done. And I certainly felt a nice little suspension was in order. And surely the public embarrassment would be enough for these young men. This would be my recommendation. I think these young men would have learned their lesson. I don't think there is a need for overdoing sentences in our society. Tolerance is a good thing for our fellow men and the mistakes that they make.
Put up a sign
I WISH that when they start a new building in Cape that they would put up a sign telling what it is so my wife would quit asking me what they are building there.
Do the arithmetic
RECENTLY SEVERAL socialist Democrats have called in stating repeal of the income-tax marriage penalty being passed by the Republicans would only benefit the wealthy. They failed their arithmetic on the federal tax forms or have never filed one or filled one out. Wealthy married couples itemize their deductions and would therefore receive no benefits under the plan. Low-income an middle-income earners almost always take the standard deduction and would be the only ones to gain. My spouse and I have a combined income of $15,000. Under the Republican plan we would save $218. A married couple with a combined income of $56,000 would also save the exact $218. IRS data compiled by Congressional districts have estimated 58,000 couples in Jo Ann Emerson's district would receive this relief. And 25 million nationally. These socialist Democrats callers are saying 58,000 couples in this area are wealthy. I wish I were.
Focus on Gore
I WOULD like to tell all you Republicans that Clinton is not running for president, Mr. Gore is. So why don't you leave Mr. Clinton alone and focus on our next president, Mr. Gore?
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