Sayso

Saturday, February 10, 2001     Page: 10A

I NEED A helpful hint. My stove top is scratched up and I don’t remember
using any scratchy pads or any scratchy cleaner but I guess something happened
and it is scratched up. It is underneath the pan for the burners. I want to
know how I can get it cleaned up or look better or whatever?
   
Editor’s note: Heloise, are you out there? Or better yet, let’s create a
person to answer these kinds of calls. SAYSO Sally?
    THE FIRST ITEM in SAYSO on Wednesday, Feb. 7, the caller wants to see some
paperwork where Clinton saved trillions of dollars of the deficit. You can’t
save trillions of dollars or even one dollar from a deficit. What you do is
you wipe out a deficit and I would say that this (person) if he saw any papers
or any accounting it would be Greek to him, he simply wouldn’t understand it.
   
JUST BECAUSE MAKOWSKI is a Democrat and is taxing the (heck) out of us,
don’t blame that on the Democrats. Makowski is Makowski and there is a bad
apple in a lot of barrels and he is the worst one in ours, but somebody voted
for him.
   
I DON’T KNOW what kind of environmental scents his person is talking about,
but there are environmental smells that are good and some that are bad. If she
thinks that I’m going to give up my perfume because of her daughter, she has
another thing coming. Keep the kid at home.
   
EDITOR’S NOTE: How about a compromise and ask people to tone down the
perfume. Sometimes we are overwhelmed too, and we’re not allergic.
   

   
I AM CALLING from Plains in regards to Brigid O’Connor’s statement wanting
to raise our taxes which she said would mean only a modest increase from $9 to
$30. Modest for her maybe.
   
I AM READING about the “Plan to kill doctors’ CAT Fund” in the business
section of the paper on the 7th of February. It says “some high risk doctors
could be forced out of business because they have to pay an annual premium
into the malpractice fund.” High risk doctors? They’re not supposed to be
practicing medicine.
   
EDITOR’S NOTE: We think the point was that some specialties are higher risk
than others.
   
PAT GREENFIELD’S COLUMN on Feb. 7 gives a recipe for apple crisp. She has
including the topping 3 cups of sugar. She said she has been making this since
she was 12. It sounds like something a 12-year-old would make.
   
EDITOR’S NOTE: Any suggestions on how to reduce the amount of sugar?
   

   
I THINK THAT this country has two classes of people in it. The rich and the
poor.
   
I AM READING all the articles on how Exeter borough is a growing city and
town and all these new developments. With all this new development going on,
how could the Exeter Street Department take care of new streets when they
can’t even take care of the existing streets, meaning Packer Avenue, with all
the new houses back there? I drove down the road the last couple of snowfalls
and it is shame, somebody is going to get killed on that road.
   
WHAT A SHAME that Bill Clinton wasn’t put out of office after his
impeachment. However, I find some satisfaction now seeing that some of his
once supporters and the media are changing their tunes. Now we have to deal
with a lot of pardons that are so outrageous.
   
I LOVE THE commentary that Leonard Pitts had in the paper on Wednesday,
Feb. 7, “When God speaks does anybody hear?” It was a wonderful and true
down-to-earth story and it is sad that a lot of people don’t spend time
talking to God. I enjoyed it very much and congratulations to him.
   
I ALSO DRIVE the turnpike every day and I will tell you that the people
that work at the Wyoming Valley exit and the Wilkes-Barre exit are some of the
nicest people in the world. So either you are stopping at other exits or you
are miserable because I have been driving the turnpike now every single day
for about seven years and it is always “hi, how are you, how was your day?”
   
I WOULD LIKE to know what is going on … in Plymouth. The guy starts a
business in a residential area, now he is parking trucks all over the street.
The school bus could hardly get through. Are they waiting until a kid gets
hurt or killed before the police do something about the situation? I would
just like to know what is going on?
   
ALL THESE SO-CALLED councilmen and township supervisors should take a
course in human relations and respect for the taxpayers. After all they are
the people who are paying their salaries. The elected officials have no
respect. If there was ever a war for ignorance they would win it hands down.
Something has to be done to correct this ignorance. They are scaring the
public away from the meetings.
   
I AGREE WITH the SAYSO caller about Hollenback Park looking like a
junkyard. Look at the city garage on Conyngham Avenue, that looks like it
should be part of the junkyard that is across the street.
   
THE WILKES-BARRE policeman who failed to show up at the hearing doesn’t
have to worry about his job, he’s protected by the union. But who is going to
protect us against the armed robbers? The officer probably wanted overtime to
appear at the hearing and he didn’t get it, so he stayed home. Union rules.
   
EARTH CONSERVANCY HAS volunteered to give $1 million, a state grant from
the Department of Transportation that would revitalize the Huber Breaker. Now
once that is completed, who do you think will sit on the board? Who will have
all the jobs? Let me give you an example. I will guarantee it will be no one
or a relative that ever worked in the mines. It will be Howard Grossman, Jules
Greenberg, it will be Tom O’Connor, it will be Kevin O’Connor, it will be Tom
McGroarty. No person that ever worked in the mines will sit on the board and
all of their children will have all the good jobs.
   
I HEARD FOR every dollar spent on methadone it saves $10 for a community.
My question is, since the county is investing $100,000 for this methadone
program, then what are they going to do with the million dollars that they are
saving?
   
EDITOR’S NOTE: Not spend it perhaps?
   

   
JUST READING THE article about Hotel Sterling and the back taxes. My
question is, as Vice Chairman Tom Leighton said “the problem is that Camera
owes more money in taxes than the property is worth.” When did this man first
get delinquent in his taxes? How much was the property worth at that point?
Now if it accumulates, certainly it is worth more. If I didn’t pay my house
tax certainly I would owe more than the property is worth. Just something to
ponder.
   
ESPN, TNN, AND the outdoor channel regularly and increasingly air programs
that depict the sport hunting of black bears, deer, water fowl and other
wildlife. Some of these shows are even filmed at “canned hunts” so camera
crews can get close ups of hunters shooting captive animals. A person in
California recently took the initiative and called her local cable company and
complained about the channel that promote hour after hour of cruelty to
animals. She was successful in getting the cable company to block these
stations for her service only. If enough people follow her example and demand
that stations that promote hunting be blocked from their homes it will force
cable stations to choose programming that suits all their viewers, not just
the 5 percent who are hunters.
   
I ALSO RIDE the turnpike, and I totally agree with the person who called
about the miserable people who collect the tolls. I don’t know which direction
he was going, but the men I have encountered at the Clarks Summit toll booth
never have a smile, they are miserable men. Maybe we need a few women at these
toll booths and then maybe we would see a smile once in a while.
   
I JUST READ your opinion on Tuesday, Feb. 6, about Bill, Hillary and the
DNC. I see you guys finally got the point of what a bunch lowlifes they
actually are. You wouldn’t admit it in the last eight years, but you finally
did.
   
I WOULD LIKE to share this idea with you. Watch your thoughts and they
become words, choose your words and they become actions, understand your
actions or they become habits, study your habits for they will become your
character, develop your character or it becomes your destiny.
   
I WAS READING in the paper this morning that one of our state politicians
want to stop the bobcat hunting in Pennsylvania. Why should they do that? As
far as they can estimate there are 3,000 bobcats in Pennsylvania, 50 were
killed last year in leg traps most of them, which is a very painful death for
any animal. The animal’s leg is caught and if the so-called sportsman doesn’t
get there in time, the animal dies either from suffering, loss of blood or
starvation. The point I am making is there are only 3,000 left in the state of
Pennsylvania, 50 were killed last year that means 2,500 left. Are we going to
kill another 50 this year, another 50 next year? What if the animals don’t
produce every year in the same amount? Where is the common sense here?
   
EDITOR’S NOTE: You have a slight math problem, but your point is intact.
   

   
THE COMPLAINT ABOUT the Plymouth borough councilman cleaning windows was
not about him but about the person who was supposed to do the job. With a $200
pay raise it should be one of their responsibilities. But being a relative of
the council president, what do you expect?
   
GEORGE W. BUSH, the president. It seems everyone is taking a potshot at his
intelligence. Who wouldn’t want to be George Bush? He has a beautiful wife,
two beautiful daughters, wonderful parents, he’s a good-looking guy and has
all the money in the world and he seems happy. I think we are the idiots. We
all would love to be George W. Bush.