Keep Palin in Alaska; the state needs her
Good reasons to vote the McCain-Palin ticket.
1. State income taxes will be abolished.
2. Exxon-Mobil and British Petroleum (BP) will fund the national budget.
3. All citizens will receive dividends from the oil companies. The higher price (cost) per barrel of oil, the more revenues for the national and state governments, and higher dividends to us citizens. Seashore states will benefit from the fees and taxes on offshore drilling.
4. McCain and Palin will have vacation retreats and get-aways in Alaska to think of new agendas.
Don’t laugh. This is the case there in Alaska, the most socialistic state in the United States.
For Alaska’s sake, let’s keep Gov. Sarah Palin in Alaska, where the electorate voted her two more years, and four more afterwards?
And furthermore, her hair will not turn white!
ó R.D. Earnhardt
Spencer
School food costly
Can someone please tell me why the schools no longer have salt in the school lunch rooms, or why only one small packet of dressing to put on a salad, or why you have to pay extra for bread?
I am hearing the schools charge for an extra pack of salad dressing. Apparently, if you want something sweet such as a cookie or brownies, you pay extra as well. Well, all these items go with the meal, and the schools are nickeling and diming us to death.
Please don’t start whining about how much things have increased in price, as the parents are having a tough time making ends meet now.
After all, we did pay taxes, and a share of this money went toward the school lunches.
So why charge extra for certain items and take away the salt? Don’t start whining about eating healthy. To start with, most of us can’t afford to teach healthy; it costs too much. But at least we do have bread and salt.
I guess my child will start taking salt, bread, salad dressing and something sweet. So what’s next? Will the schools start charging us for napkins, plates and forks?
I am one of the parents who is tired of being nickeled and dimed to death. I am tired of hearing how hard it is for the schools to get by. It’s not all about you.
ó Thomas Vanderburg
Salisbury