Rant & Rave for Wednesday, June 28

Published 10:12 pm Tuesday, June 27, 2006

To the Lanier County Board of Education Board Members, can you please explain how you can pay two superintendent’s salaries in one year but cannot give the 4 percent increase to parapros, clerical workers, custodians, etc. Our cost of living has gone up just like teachers, bus drivers and cafeteria workers. There is something really wrong here. You need to be fair.

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Kudos to Griner Pontiac in Quitman for the wonderful barbecue they served on Saturday. It was wonderful. Thank you very much.



Excuse me? I was a teen mom and I am very blessed. I am now married with a second child, live in a home that is probably nicer than yours, and I do have wonderful parents who did raise me right. I made a decision and I live with my choices. I am a very responsible adult who has put my daughter first since the day she was born and I find your comments stereotypical and ignorant. I also happen to be the rant who started the discussion on manners in today’s children.



Wow, they have to have a riot to make soccer exciting. However, if I gave up an entire Saturday afternoon to watch a 1-0 score, I’d be mad, too. Maybe that’s why there are so many soccer riots. Think about it. That’s why I agree soccer is boring: Mostly 1-0 scores after watching for 3 hours.



The real reason Oynx wants the landfill in Brooks County is because of Kinderlou. It could care less about woodlands, methane or the people of Brooks County. Regardless of Oynx’s true reason, Brooks County should go for the money it needs and allow the landfill to come in.



I sincerely hope that the organizers and sponsors of the Independence Day Gala will ensure that this year’s Gala will indeed be a family event. Last year it was full of foul language and suggestive lyrics. We (including my children) could even hear it all the way down Baytree Road. Unless I see a statement from the events organizers ensuring that they will clean up the act, my family will not be attending this year, nor any years to come.



Thanks for the voice of reason on the landfill in Sunday’s paper. They stopped being “dumps” many years ago. Irrational arguments will still be made against its location and construction. However, the facts will eventually win out and the landfill should and will be built.



I was upset about the $2.85/gal price of gas until I heard an oil company executive on TV say that gas is still cheaper than bottled water. After a few calculations, I realized I’m paying $1 for a 12-ounce bottle … yes, that is $10.60/gallon for water. Even though gas has to be discovered, drilled for, refined and transported, it is still one-fourth the price of bottled water. No wonder the oil executives make big salaries. I, like most Americans, are addicted to gas and water.



It would be such poetic justice to President Bush, Senators Kennedy, McCain and all of the other senators who voted for the Senate’s massive gift to illegal aliens, if their Social Security numbers were stolen and used by illegals, causing them the kind of problems that we average guys suffer. Yep, mighty sweet, poetic justice.



Raves for the economists who reject the idea that we “need” immigrant labor because Americans don’t want to work. It’s kitchen-table economics, not the sweat factor, that keeps them away from blue collar work that is being colonized by an illegal labor force that drives wages down.