SpeakOut 7/11

Thursday, July 11, 2002

About God in the Pledge of Allegiance: it should stay. When the tragedy of Sept. 11 happened, everyone started calling on God and saying God bless America, God bless the nation, and in God we trust. All the time God was here but America left God. See, that is the problem - someone always tries to take God's name out of something. People fail to realize and understand that this is really God's World (Genesis 1:1). Don't let another tragedy on America happen again for you to realize who God really is. We all really need to get to know God for ourselves. May God bless the ones who understand and the ones who don't understand. Help us God!

I think the county should put oil or something on the roads. I live 535 Road. MRM and the farmers in large grain trucks go down this road lots and when they do you have to wait until the dust settles before you can proceed, otherwise you might have serious accident because you can't see nothing. I also have a breathing problem. I will sure know who to vote for in the coming election. It sure won't be the ones in there now. I sympathize with the guy who had the article in the East Prairie Eagle about his family, about living in the dust and about his boy having to have a lung removed. I'm very sorry and I wish they could do something about it.

I was calling about Speakout on "Shame on You" in the July paper. We most certainly do know what you are talking about.

This is about the Pledge of Allegiance. This country was founded on the belief that anyone, black or white, to believe or choose not to believe in God. There is room for everyone in this country to believe if they want to. But if they don't like it, they ought to think about this - every time you spend a dollar bill it says on there "In God We Trust." It seems to me they are being a little bit of a hypocrite there. They will take the money, spend it but they don't think anything about it. But it is the same principle.

I was wondering why the city is able to stay after certain people if their grass gets a little bit high and higher than they think it ought to be. But there are certain other people that their grass is up almost to your chest high and they aren't even making them mow it and there are snakes in that grass.

I would like to Speakout about the farmers in the Morehouse-Sikeston area. They are rice growing this year. I have noticed not many of you farmers put out rice and I can understand why with the kind of spring we had. But don't you farmers give up on rice here. It is a good money crop, the demand is going to keep growing for it, and it is a healthy food. Cuba right now is wanting us to open up relations more and send them more rice. So surely to goodness we can't have two springs in Southeast Missouri like we had here. Surely 2003 will be better and I hope to see more of you farmers return to rice in 2003. You can't go wrong. That and change your other crops around and you will make it. Don't mark rice off your list. It is a good crop. It is a good money crop.

I just read Speakout where a welfare recipient is whining about there is no jobs, no factories in Sikeston. Well, cry me a river. You and many others don't want to work. There are many factories where, shops and men's stores that are always hiring. Or move to a big city and whine where there are hundreds of jobs around you.