SPEAKOUT

Help with scared horse

I'D LIKE to thank some people who helped me this afternoon. I'd like to thank all who helped round up a frightened horse Monday between Scott City and Chaffee. Thank you, Mr. H., for allowing me to use your phone. Thank you to the lady in the white car, the gentleman in the white truck and the gentleman in the orange crew cab, to Sean for retrieving the horse by using a bucket of feed, and to my daughter. I wish I could thank each of you personally. I appreciate everything each of you did. You helped to prevent an accident. I speak from experience. People do care, people do help and I thank God I live in an area where these fine people reside. Yes, I climbed back in the saddle, bruises, scrapes and all, rode him back home six miles, and he did fine. I thank each and everyone of you all.

Welcome to new column

WELCOME TO the opinion page, Gary Rust.

Liberals have good record

BOB DOLE seems to be grasping at straws, using the word liberal over and over again. History shows us that liberals like Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy did a pretty good job for the people, not just the wealthy.

Server needs the tips

I WORK in a restaurant as a server. I average around 30 hours a week working there and also go to school full time. It really upsets me for people to come in, sit in my section, get great service and leave me no tip and appreciation. I'm not working there for $2.13 an hour. I'm working for my tips to send myself to school. If people did tip 15 percent, maybe I wouldn't have to work for so many hours.

No union pension

I WANT to make a comment on the union man who was enjoying his pension and all his benefits and everything. I paid Teamster union dues from 1964 to 1988, and am not receiving a pension and I received very little benefits during those years.

Not better off now

I WOULD like to respond to President Clinton's question "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" My answer is a definite no. I have paid more income tax. Prices of food, energy and so forth have all increased. I am a senior citizen who is under Medicare. Each time we have received a so-called cost-of-living increase, the cost of Medicare has gone up, our deductible has been increased, our supplemental health insurance has been increased and services have been reduced. After taking all of this into consideration, I have actually lost ground and am having a harder time of making ends meet. I'm sick and tired of Clinton and Gore scaring senior citizens on Medicare and Social Security. I can see through them, and I hope other seniors can too.

Lots of new voters

IN THE past two weeks, 6,000 people in Houston, 10,000 in Dallas and almost 15,000 in San Jose have taken the citizenship oath. In Chicago, 70,000 new citizens have been admitted in 1996. This all a part of a $77 million program that Bill Clinton initiated to drive up voter registration rolls. This program bypasses all the normal background checks on new citizens. This is an outrage.

Arms against government

I WAS calling in about the person who said the Second Amendment is about protecting your rights against an unfair government and has nothing to do with hunting. It's about taking up arms against your government. So that's why we need to repeal the Gun Control Act of 1994.

Republicans return nothing

IN REGARDS to the Republicans never making promises they can't keep, it's a good thing. They don't promise anything, and that's just what they return: nothing.

Dole has a plan

IN THE presidential debate, what did Clinton say he was going to do in the next four years? Nothing. Bob Dole said he was cutting taxes 15 percent across the board, get pork out of the government and make it a smaller government, leaving money in the hands of the people so they can spend their own money as they want.

Where's the respect?

THE BASEBALL player spits in the umpire's face and then apologizes. Sen. Dole calls the president a bulldog and apologizes. What do we expect from young people when they see adults acting like this? Isn't there any respect for anybody anymore?

Paper is slanted

I LOVE living in Cape, but I tell you this county needs an independent newspaper. I've seen anything as slanted as this one is. And now we have almost half a page from the owner -- not that I read it, but it's taking up space where it could have something else in it.

Cover the real issues

THE AMERICAN people have a right to know whether or not their president is a Bozo. Given the Associated Press' inability to cover the real issues of this campaign, I would imagine they will have an in-depth study on this. I am surprised that your paper would choose to run an interview with Bozo and not cover the real issues of the day, which are the immigration standards that have been lowered by the Clinton administration and the use of the White House big-brother computer to raise campaign funds. I hope you do plan to cover the real news sometime soon.