Speak Out 1/17/12

Cut waste

Dear Speak Out,

The Child Support System is very confusing; they have a different system seemingly for married people that have divorced, some fathers are drained and do not get to visit the children some do not pay support, expect someone else to pay rent and school supplies. Then people have children with different partners some times don't know who the father is and child support system or Family Service pays checks to these people, and they just go and have more children and a bigger check, maybe goes for the children in many cases it does not. Government mistakes again. Huh? Why don't they use some people to check things out and be more fair to people that do what's right. Cut out taxpayer waste.

Check DVD

owners manual

To all of these people who are really worrying they are going to have to get another box from City Cable and all that, you may have an old TV in your house, but pull out the Owner's Manual to your DVD player or even some of your VCR/DVD combo machines. You might find out that built into them is a Digital Television Tuner. You heard me right--a Digital TV Tuner, which means you could hook the City Cable up to your VCR and loop it into your old TV and still have digital tuning. Save yourself that extra $35. Look for your Owner's Manual and find out if you aren't being sold a small bill of goods by City Cable. Just some information for those who want to know.

Think about

the people

This is in response to "Fresh Faces" -- fresh ideas. She said that you can bulldoze Bluff Lanes all the way to City Hall and it would be a big improvement. Why would it be a big improvement? Is it because there are a lot of old houses over there? Or is that because that's where most of the black community is? Does she realize that people have worked their whole lives to own houses in that area? And, there's kids and whose feelings she might hurt when she put that there? I don't think she did, which leaves me to believe that Poplar Bluff does need to open their eyes because clearly she has not.

Trying to be

law abiding

This message is for Poplar Bluff School District. I moved from one district to another and abiding by the law, I took my child out of that school and put him in another school. The bus garage will not take my child one block out of the district to take him to day care. He's seven. So, I guess I suppose I should leave him at home until somebody gets home with him instead of going one extra block to drop him off at day care. However, they gave me the option to take him and put him back in the school district I just moved from even though I don't live in that school district. So, I can break the law that a way, but they can't take him an extra block. Does that make any sense to you?