SPEAKOUT

No news is good news

I would like to know why and how the news of the royal baby becomes breaking news, interrupting all of the TV programs? This is totally ridiculous and totally nonsense. That kid that was born is no more of a prince or a king than any kid born in the Sikeston hospital or Cape hospital or anywhere else. I wish they would stop putting all this nonsense on. Everything is breaking news that's on TV when it comes to money or something like that. I mean, a baby is a baby. A baby has been born. It's a blessing from God, but it shouldn't be breaking news. If that's the case, it should be breaking news 24-7, cause there's a baby born every minute.

Babies are blessings

Little babies are wonderful, sweet, gorgeous, lovable. But I think that is just putting a little too much on the little prince. I wonder how many people that are out there welcoming his birth will be in church this Sunday? I'd be afraid something might happen. I've got children and I love them all. I love one just as good the others. They are all precious. I have a little grandson that has to go to St. Jude's and it just breaks my heart.

Against tax

I'm calling about the sales tax renewal vote coming up in August. I wonder how the money is going to be used and if Public Safety is gonna build another $6 million building with the proceeds of this sales tax. I don't think I'm for this sales tax. People better wake up and see what's going on.

The funding for the new Public Safety headquarters did not come from the sales tax approved by the voters. When approved, this continuation of the one-cent sales tax approved 10 years ago, will help fund the removal of condemned properties in Sikeston, will provide salary assistance and equipment funding for Public Safety, as well as complete our financial commitment to the SEMO Sikeston campus. I hope you will reconsider voting in favor of this much-needed funding.

Man up

I'm replying to "You play, we pay." I agree 100 percent with that 85-year-old woman. The deal is, my parents had to pay for my mother's hospital stay when she had her children. I think these people today ought to have to pay for their's too instead of going to Medicaid and having the taxpayers pay. Hey, if these men are man enough to father a baby, then they are man enough to be a dad and take care of them. This should not be the taxpayers' responsibility. It should solely be the father. I think the state of Missouri needs to step in, and if these men don't pay child support, they need their license taken away from them and they need to go to jail.