What’s next?

Many of the executive CEOs have a buyout package. I wonder, will that company money now be replaced with all the U.S. citizens paying for their buyout or retirement? I don’t think it’s our responsibility to support them for their mistake.

Times like these

Not many people have experienced a recession in this generation. However, if the elections go as planned and our health insurance is taxed, then I’m sure not only the companies but individuals will be dropping their insurance. Because they will then have to have welfare medical attention. I think that everyone needs to pray because this cannot happen to our country and should not happen to our country.

Editor’s note: The National Bureau of Economic Research says the last U.S. recession began in March of 2001 and continued until roughly November of that year.

Fundamentals are sound

I appreciated Mr. Guehlstorff’s article in “Your letters” this morning on golden parachuting. I’ve been trying so many ways to express that, and he did it so well. I really think that we need to take a wait-and-see attitude and really give this some thought before we automatically assume that a change in administration is going to solve all of these problems that we have been facing.

Think of Yoda

To those of us who are older, age discrimination is just as hurtful as race discrimination. To say that all younger people are physically and mentally superior and older people are sickly and on the verge of Alzheimer’s is like saying that all whites are intelligent and all blacks are not or vice versa. Shame on you, Obama, for suggesting that McCain is too old.

Arrest the trains

It’s amazing that St. Joseph can devote so much law enforcement presence to taking and enforcing vehicles crossing at train crossings with red lights on but they refuse to enforce the 10-minute limit for a train blocking an intersection when it goes on sometimes in an excess of an hour.

Buyer beware

I just got a laugh on the front page of the newspaper. Tuscany Village says they can’t get tenants for it and it shows a big vacant lot with weeds in it. Do you think I’m going to go on a car lot and buy a car that’s cut in two? Why would anybody sign up for a building they haven’t seen yet? Why goodness, it might be a table for a flea market. It might not be a store.