Speak Out 11/21/03

Supreme sacrifice

SOUTHEAST MISSOURI State University regents claim they refuse to balance the budget on the backs of students. So instead of asking all students to pay a little more, they demand that a few make the supreme sacrifice. How do these folks get to be in such positions that they can cause so many problems?

Above average

IT WAS interesting reading in your Lifestyles section last Sunday about your Average Joes. I must beg to differ. You have a picture of Jo Ledbetter in there, and she is not average. She is exceptional, as all her friends and family and her church would tell you. We just love her.

Government at work

I WOULD like to remind everybody that our court system is set up to review laws that our legislative bodies pass in an effort to ensure that said laws pass constitutional muster. This is Government 101. The concealed-carry law is no exception and wholly qualifies for judicial review. I would urge our citizens to educate themselves on the way government works before trying to argue that our judges make their own laws.

No unskilled labor

THERE IS no such thing as unskilled labor. Union organizer John L. Lewis saw that, and that's why he formed the CIO, whose members were hard-working men. Any man who stacks boxes or digs ditches or loads trucks is as much skilled as a big executive who wants to cut the working men's jobs lower and lower and their benefits more and more. Any person who works at minimum wage has more sense in their finger than the executive does in his whole body.