SPEAKOUT

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Another bond speak

I'll admit I know nothing about new math. My calculator shows 21 cents plus 20 percent is 25.2. How they got the figures in speakout to show us it was 99 cents, I'd like to know. My calculator also shows 21 cents plus 350 percent shows .9975. It seems to be the powers that be don't think the ordinary person has enough sense to believe these figures. To me that is an insult. Maybe if they would use some common sense it would help. I, for one, am not going to believe those figures. Anyway you figures, 99 cents is more than four times 21 cents. Just one more reason I will vote against the proposal. I hope some more of us can see through the smoke screen and vote against the school bond proposal.

The current school tax is $3.8410 -- included in this total is a 21 cent debt service levy and a $3.6310 operating levy. To fund the proposed bond on the ballot in April will require raising the debt service portion of the total levy by 78 cents bringing the total levy to $4.6210. The increase of 78 cents is a 20.3% increase on total school taxes - $3.8410 x 20.3% = 0.7797 rounds to .78 cents.

What a pill

I'd like to know why the doctors' offices will give people narcotic drugs, and the people that are in pain will get nothing and really need medication. Other people can just walk in there and get narcotics and anything they want, any day of the month, anytime they want it.

Rain, snow, sleet and hail

I'd like to know why a small business here in Sikeston makes their workers go out on ice, sleet and snow, pouring down rain. Make all these big deliveries. They don't have rain suits, no insurance, nothing. They make them do all this work and pay them a small wage.

What a rip-off

There is a men's store in Sikeston that has women's clothing. They are way over-priced and way rude. The policy is ridiculous. I can't understand how they stay open. They rip the people off terribly and I hope you print this. It needs to be known in the Sikeston area.

Add 'em to the list

Just a thought. If there is such a thing in the United States as a deportation law, how about throwing these names in - Ed Schultz, Juan Williams, Bob Bechtel, Nancy Pelosi, Al Sharpton and Allen Combs. The country would probably be a whole lot better off.