Speak Out 3/18/11

Smoking position

OLD Town Cape is opposed to the citywide smoking ban? Could it be because most of the businesses in that area are bars?

Drunken driving

IF the police are really interested in catching drunken drivers, just go and sit in the parking lot of our fast-food restaurants. Over 75 percent who drive through on Friday and Saturday nights are drunk.

Taking rights away

YES, the Democrats in office do vote themselves a pay raise every year like the Republicans. However, they are not trying to take rights away from others like the Republicans.

Taking a stand

IF the Missouri Legislature has the courage to take on the pharmaceutical industry and require a doctor's prescription for pseudoephedrine, then I will take back one of the 999,999 negative comments I've made about the body.

Dems' votes

TO the person complaining about hypocrisy and Republicans, I don't see you complaining about the Democrats voting for the same thing.

Obama's record

IN Obama's two years in office, he has created more jobs and helped more people than both the Bush presidencies. I guess you have to attempt to do something before you can accomplish anything. I am proud of what he has been doing, and I think he should be re-elected.

Limbaugh column

DAVID Limbaugh disappointed me. In a recently published column, he sidestepped the issue of President Obama's intentions on some issue. The reason I was disappointed by Limbaugh is that I have come to believe that he is the only person who has the admittedly uncanny ability to always ascertain the president's motives.

Bush's fault

IN the March 6 column, "Hoping the Democrats change," the writer said that the federal government spent more than $62.5 billion on 18 domestic food and nutritional assistant programs in 2008. He also wrote that in 2003 there were eight federal departments running 62 programs that provide transportation. Apparently the writer didn't realize that in 2003 and 2008 George W. Bush and his Republicans were running the government that was spending so much money.

First Lady's staff

WHEN Nancy Reagan was in the White House she had three secretaries to help her with her job. Michelle Obama has 43 people working for her. You got to wonder, does the queen bee deserve all of this? Shouldn't people be thinking about this when we are trying to save money?

Carter years

HIGH unemployment, high gas prices and increasing inflation. Is Jimmy Carter back in the white house?

Group not representative

IT'S wrong to judge an entire religious group from the actions of a few of its extreme members. We're all Americans, no matter our religious affiliations. Therefore, anyone who takes a stand against all Christians based on the incendiary protest tactics of the Westboro Baptist Church is wrongly associating the majority with a small minority.