Speak Out 1/31/12

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Dirt filling up

Wappapello

Greenville, Mo., has a problem. I suppose you know about it. Wappapello Lake fills up with water. Some times a lot of water. It is also filling up with soil. You know dirt. Water in; water out. Dirt in but not so much out. And there is the new four-lane highway. While the old road bed often got covered with backwater at Greenville the new concrete slabs ride high and dry so far. Back in the 1940s Greenville was suppose to be situated so that backwater would be no problem to the town. Well, a year ago it became for the first time a real problem. It is a bit late now to realize one of these hills around here should have been pushed into that part of town but money then was tight yeah real tight and folks were reassured as I remember that this problem would really be no problem ever. Well famous last words as usual things like this happen when people not God do things. There should have been more foresight on both sides. The foresight Greenville missed was the solution Washington, D.C. uses to day. Greenville or may be Wayne County should have been planning ahead politically that is growing our own politicians for Congress. Have your read the book Throw Them All Out by Peter Switzer. He tells about our Congress folk who are insiders to deals and information and use the info to make a lot of money. So Greenville needed someone in Congresswoman or man who owns some turf on Front Street. This official could put a big ole earmark on some legislation which would do something to Front street and thus make said turf more valuable and thus make our rep in congress a fatter checking account and thus part the flood waters at the gateway to our fair city ahhh town....You did not go around then saying politics is too dirty do you.

Look to Jesus

for a friend

Jesus is looking down on you and he loves you whether you serve him or not . He loves you with the everlasting love. He is always be with you where ever you are. He would love it if you would take him as your savior and give your heart to him. He loves you anyway but he would love you and be a friend to you. He would help you through your troubles. He would be a friend and a savior both.

Marty's a

tax queen too

I would like to put my comment in on Marty Paskel's Letter to the Editor "a society on a nose down spiral." First of all I would like to say I agree with 80 percent of his response there in the paper. One thing I did notice he forgot to write down that is corporate welfare. He is talking about the welfare queens in Walmart and I guarantee you Walmart gets more enterprise taxes, tax abatements, tax credits, that is called corporate welfare. I guarantee you Walmart takes more of my tax money than those little welfare queens he is talking about. Also I notice in the paper he talked about his military service. First of all I would like to thank him for his service in the military, but I also understand if you stay in the military 20 years you get some sort of retirement from the military. So a person 18 years old to go in the military, stay in there 20 years and age 38 he would get a retirement from the military. Military money is tax money. So Marty you are a welfare queen, but hey have a good life.