Speakout

Just don't understand

Thank you for obtaining our state representative's position on the tax cuts for some and tax increases for everyone pursuant to the article by your reporter in a previous paper. Her answer makes no sense, but it is an answer. How cutting millions of dollars worth of sales taxes of which our cities, counties and schools depend on to provide services certainly has the potential to hurt our local tax base. Perhaps she does not understand that. She mentions three bills she voted for which had no fiscal note. That needs further explanation since the rules of the legislature require a fiscal note on any bill which affects the fiscal position of the state or any of its parts. How could she vote for bills, as she said she did, when there was no understanding of their costs? That sounds like Washington's complete irresponsibility, not the state of Missouri. Her instinctive attack on the governor is an obvious attempt to divert attention since the revenue department has now come out and reported the income of the state is millions of dollars less than she and the members of the general assembly projected. When this happens, or if the governor believes this has happened, he is required by the Constitution to withhold revenue when our elected representatives are fiscally irresponsible, which he has done. The reading of her response is frightening. No wonder our government is in trouble.

Roads need paving

I was reading the paper about the individual wanting to know why they didn't restore the Morehouse courthouse. They won't even pave our streets over here, much less restore something. We pay big water bills over here and everybody pays taxes. Why can't we have our streets paved over here? We've got big potholes all in them.

Horse sense

I guess the Sikeston school board must think they are the federal government. I wish I could spend money that I don't have. I believe I would get in serious trouble if I tried to do that. Can you imagine how they would have handled the money if they had could have pushed the school bond issue down our throats? They don't maintain the buildings so they want to tear them down so they can build new ones. They closed the Morehouse School, transferred them to Lee Hunter and then hollered that it was overcrowded. Maybe we need some school board members with common, also known as horse sense.

Good firefighters

Hello Heartland that is heating up. I see in the paper where it says that volunteer firefighters are a dying industry. You ain't lying there. As I see, I live here in Miner, and our fire department, I would be glad to put them up against any other volunteer. We need assistance from our council and our town to back them up. We have always relied on our department and we need our mayor and council to do the same. Don't sell us off to the county. Don't sell us off to the state. Let's promote our people, our ability. If not, get out of the way and let's run this town like it should be since we've got some new council and a new mayor. Let's do it right, folks. We've been stale for a long time. It's time to pull our head out of our back pocket and look what makes this town what it is. Don't be going to work putting on Chapstick for certain people. Do it for all 900 or something in this town because we pay the bills.

Women should be helpmates

I Timothy, Chapter 2, Verse 12 clearly states: "I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; but to be in silence." Now why do we keep electing women as leaders in our politics? If her husbands can't run, what does that say for them? If they are not as smart as their wives, their wives should help them. It says in the Bible they are their husband's helpmate. When are we going to go back to the Bible and go by God's word? Think that is maybe where our nation has gone wrong? I do.