SPEAKOUT

Go jump in a ...

I'M CALLING about the recreational lake Whitewater Development Association. You're taking away homes and lands from people who are trying to maintain a way of life, not only for themselves but for generations to come. Sons and daughters will not have a choice in the life they want to live. They will be forced to live under and over others, all because of the greed of others. You're taking people's freedom away, but isn't that what money and government are about? You say a dam won't break just like the Titanic would not sink. You can't control everything. Along with this recreational lake, you're also bringing increased drinking and driving violence, crime, and trash that will surround our highways. My grandmother is 80 years old, and you're going to throw her off her property to live in an apartment to die looking at four walls rather than trees and green grass. The money you would pay now would not pay for colleges, weddings and doctor bills five years now. You cannot pay enough to the people for their security tomorrow. It is the hopes of your association to pass this so only you can make money. I have one suggestion for your association: take your lake and jump in it.

Low marks for NBC coverage

I WONDER if anyone else is as disgusted and unhappy with the coverage NBC is providing for the Olympics. Can you provide an address for NBC so I can express my disgust and dissatisfaction with the NBC coverage?

REPLY: The National Broadcasting Co.'s address is 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10112.

It the election, stupid

I SUPPOSE now that the people who are on welfare who voted for Bill Clinton because they thought they were going to get welfare and hand-outs from the government probably rue the day they ever voted for him. Bill Clinton wants to be re-elected. He does not care about you. He does not care about me. All he wants to do is get re-elected. His actions on the welfare reform bill, has cost him a lot of votes in some communities. However, it is a good bill, in my opinion. To me, it means that families are going to have to take care of their own instead of depending on the entire country to take care of their own. That is a good deal.

There must be lots of jobs

DEMOCRATS ARE arguing that some people won't be able to find jobs after five years of being on welfare. My question is this: What happened to all those jobs Bill Clinton said he created? Clinton creates jobs according to him, so there must be an abundance of jobs in this country so that people don't have to be on welfare for five years.

Learning to work again

IF WE ever want to get out from under this welfare system, we're going to have to be patient. Those children who have been raised in welfare families are going to have to learn to work, and that will take many years. I'd be surprised if anybody who's been on welfare for that many years can even hold a job for any length of time. So I guess we're just going to have to be patient with those people, and they're going to have to learn the hard way, just as we taxpayers learned the hard way.

They'll think of something

WITH COMMUNISM dead and the welfare program gone now, what will the Republicans have as an issue to gripe about? I'm sure they're selfish enough to think of something.

Vote for Jackson bonds

TO JACKSON parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and all voting citizens: Please go to the polls Tuesday and vote yes to our bond issue. I am a Jackson grandparent living on a fixed income, but most important to me is having my grandparent get a good education. I will vote yes on Tuesday, and I hope all other grandparents will do the same. They are worth it. Vote yes for Jackson on Tuesday for the bond issue.

To the paddle thief:

I JUST had a very unpleasant experience. I drove 3 1/2 hours only to find that someone had stolen my canoe paddles out of the back of my truck the night before. I'd just like to say that whoever did this, I hope someone steals something from you soon so that you can feel as violated as I do. I hope you think about this every time you use those paddles.

Firebaugh is vague

A FEW comments about Emily Firebaugh's interview on Cindy Jeeter's radio program "Talk of Cape". Firebaugh was as vague as any candidate I have ever heard. She also admitted knowing nothing about two pretty common bills that are before Congress. She made the remark that all big companies should be unionized because they do not care about their employees. This in an area where a major employer is Proctor and Gamble, a large company that I work for since it started production. A company who pays the best wage around this area and has the best benefits. This company, P&G, does not have a union. This company does indeed care about its employees. After mentioning that her family in this area was Catholic, she condoned partial-birth abortion, and when pressed about whether or not she believes Democratic accusations that claim Bob Dole, Newt Gingrich and the Republican Congress want to starve children and throw the elderly onto the street, she laughed and said that that was just a cliche. I guess all the commercials that are claiming this and showing elderly people being so frightened is all just a "cliche." I won't vote for Ms. Firebaugh.

Some do and some don't

IN REGARD to the couple who spent two weeks in Hot Springs, Ark., saying that the people in Arkansas do not want Bill Clinton back. In June 1995, my daughter and I spent two days in Hope, Ark., Clinton's birthplace, and they all had good things to say about him. It goes to show you, some do and some don't. For me and my family, we will vote for Clinton and keep him in the White House and out of Arkansas.

How to stretch tax dollars

WHAT DO the people of Cape need most? New schools or new water plants? They can't afford both. Too many taxes are being paid, and three or four new ones are in the making.