Speak Out 3/3/09

Dealing day and night

GREAT job, drug task force, for gathering up some of the drug dealers in town. It's too bad the main drug dealers on the corner of South Frederick Street are still working hard day and night. They are across from a church, and it's a wonder as to why they are able to continue there high-profit drug dealings.

Feel-good project

I took a few moments to do some research on the much lauded Green Dot program reported on in the Southeast Missourian and have decided it will at most give some work to a few bureaucrats and not much else. $500,000 of our tax money for a feel-good project? Come on. Sounds like some of President Obama's porkalicious stimuli to me.

Squeaking by

FAMILIES with an income over $250,000 a year who could see a slight tax increase would still be able to squeak by.

Progressive triumph

AS the more than justifiable redistribution of wealth appears on the horizon, undeserving bonus-taking CEOs and other excessively greedy billionaires and millionaires have accelerated the anger among and demand for justice by the long oppressed middle and lower classes. And lest there be any remaining doubt, the libertarian (masking as conservative) deregulation of the economy and resulting unconscionable excesses of the already wealthy paved the way for the coming triumph of progressivism. For that, we should be (paradoxically) forever indebted to President George W. Bush.

School issues

I am the parent of children who previously attended Scott City schools and pulled them out due to the excessive abuse they endured there. Physical, sexual and emotional abuse were ignored by teachers, the school board, the school attorney and the superintendent. I would love to talk to any parents who have had problems. Maybe we can get something done if we get together. E-mail me at issues_scottcityschool@yahoo.com.

Health care rubbish

THE most common refrain against our government taking over the health care system is that a bureaucrat in Washington will take the decision-making ability away from patients and doctors. This is rubbish for two reasons. One, for-profit firms already employ armies of bureaucrats who make decisions for the patients and doctors. Two, for the legions of uninsured Americans, health care with bureaucrats is better than no health care at all.

Just the opposite

WHY is it that when a person speaks of being opened minded he ends up showing how closed-minded and intolerant he is?

Economic collapse

EVERY country that's ever spent this type of money has collapsed. Germany, Russia, every country has collapsed. I guess that's going to be our problem, because there's no way we're going to be able to sustain $4 trillion of government spending. I guess when we collapse people will see the light and try to come up with a cure. It's going to be painful. The average person's going to get nothing except hyperinflation.

Getting help

REGARDING the woman who told us how she and her husband purchased a home within their means and ignored the banker and real estate agent who wanted them to buy up to their maximum: I know what she's talking about. My husband and I each worked over 40 years. My husband was in doctors' offices and hospitals the last five years of his life. We paid everything Medicare and the insurance company did not cover out of our savings. Now I am 76 years old and having serious health problems. I finally asked for a little help so I can survive without leaning on my children who work all the time. An example of the help I am receiving is $14 a month in food stamps. Other people were less responsible and seem to get all the help they want. Isn't that a slap in the face for those of us who have worked all our lives and paid taxes and tried to be responsible citizens?