Speakout 12/10

Friday, December 10, 2004

I understand that the Sikeston and New Madrid County clinics are growing facilities and great for the community. I have applied for several positions, several job openings and have met the job qualifications but each time have been denied employment. Why is it that Semo Health and its affiliates are able to hire family members, assisting them when they're being an assistant or another physician, I don't find that's fair. I thought this was a state and government run facility. I thought the Semo Health Network or Sikeston Family Clinic had a nepotism policy. So how can they keep hiring family members and not hire members of the community?

I am calling about the daughter who complained about the cleaning lady. She should have been there fixing her mother's breakfast and taking care of her mother, not wanting the taxpayers to pay someone to come in and do it. If the woman had done what she was supposed to be doing, that wasn't half what the daughter was doing. The daughter should have been taking care of her mother instead of expecting the government and taxpayers and the working people to do it. I'm not a cleaning lady either and I don't think it's right for children to sit on their butts and expect the government to take care of their parents. That's her job. Let her do it instead of reporting some woman who was out working for practically nothing to take care of her mother.


I read in the Dec. 6 SpeakOut "cushy job." If this daughter is so concerned about the care that someone is giving to her mother (I'm sure she's not paying for the caregiver), if she wants better care for her mother at less pay through the state or whatever, then she should be providing care for her mother and not complaining about the care that someone else is providing. Her mother is not complaining. Take the job yourself, daughter.

Who do we contact to express our anger about the possibility of the alley trash pickups being stopped because a few bad alleys? The city should close the bad ones or fix them. If the City Council votes to stop all alley pickups, I'll do my best to replace them and get it changed in the near future.

The Standard Democrat ran a front page article Dec. 7 explaining that alley trash pickups will continue. The City Council is working on a solution to continue alley trash pickup. For more information, call your city council member or City Manager Doug Friend at City Hall, 471-2512.