OpinionOctober 15, 1996
SPEAKOUT
I WOULD like to make a comment regarding James McDougall, Clinton's best friend who is fixing to go to the pen. Why is that the judge down there is going to wait until after the election to sentence him? Something's going on. And I think Susan McDougall is getting kind of tired of sitting behind the bars, because it seems like she's wanting to talk now...
Something's going on
I WOULD like to make a comment regarding James McDougall, Clinton's best friend who is fixing to go to the pen. Why is that the judge down there is going to wait until after the election to sentence him? Something's going on. And I think Susan McDougall is getting kind of tired of sitting behind the bars, because it seems like she's wanting to talk now.
It beats a real job
I CAN see why so many people are voting Democratic this days. It's so much easier than working.
No real concern for children
IF I hear Clinton talk of re-electing him for the children's sake one more time, I think I'll puke. He could have saved thousands of kids by not vetoing the late-term abortion bill.
Socialism is old hat
I HAVE but a few comments to make to Al Gore. There's nothing new about socialism. There's nothing new about a federal government taking over people's freedoms, taking over their property, forcing them to do whatever the federal government wants them to do. That, Al Gore, is socialism, and it's a very, very old form of government that cannot last.
Leave our heroes alone
I NOTICED during the debate Jack Kemp kept referring to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Jack Kennedy. All I have to say is what Walter Mondale said back in 1984: Why don't they let our heroes alone? Why don't they start mentioning the things that the Republicans have done? Why don't they talk about Nixon or Herbert Hoover? The only thing they can do is stop dead with Abraham Lincoln. They have no heroes other than Abraham Lincoln, and why don't they just own up to it and leave our heroes alone?
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Taking too much credit
I WISH someone out there would tell me one thing that President Clinton or Gov. Carnahan has done to cause the economy to grow or to create jobs. Taking hundreds of millions of dollars out of the economy and putting it into the hands of the government only slows down the economy and discourages jobs. Now they passed the largest tax increase in the history of this country or this state. Then President Clinton turned around and took credit for all the Republican Congress has done in the last two years or caused to be done. Now, if this economy has grown, it is in spite of President Clinton and in spite of Gov. Carnahan.
Acting like kids
I AM so tired of these political ads bashing and name calling. They're supposed to be adults. I thought kids only did that -- pointing the finger at each other. Just stop it, President Clinton and Bob Dole. Just stop your tongue lashing and say what you've got to say and be done with it. Don't turn around and say, well he said this and he said that. That acts like a bunch of kids in my opinion.
Is this fair?
I'M CALLING in regards to the caller who said that small business owners should just hire their kids and relatives. Do you not think that the kids and relatives need money? They don't live for free. They need money to eat just like everyone else does. Also, the small business is supposed to be the backbone of America. How can this be that all these taxes and everything are effecting us? Now the minimum wage has gone up. How can this be fair? Give us a break. We are the ones that are forming America yet we are the ones that are paying for everything.
YMCA interest welcomed
I'M GLAD to read that there is some interest in a YMCA organization in Cape. Several years ago, I had this same suggestion printed in Speak Out. You also printed my idea for using the police and fire department sirens for tornado warning. No town interest shown there yet. Vote for the future.
Support for wage increase
I HAVE read comments on Proposition A, and I have read Proposition A as it is written by the state, as it will be voted on. I'm going to vote yes for Proposition A because at $6.75 an hour, working an eight hour day, will be $54 dollars a day, which equals around $14,040 a year. $14,000 a year is below the poverty level, and if the government or any other employer cannot pay a person at higher than poverty level in which he or she could not even afford a house out on Sprigg Street for $100,000 like they're trying to make them. I mean, it's speaks very poorly of this state and of the people who are running it.
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