Speak Out 4/18/13

Must work to

keep our jobs

This is about the editorial in today's paper. Yeah, Poplar Bluff, we'll survive. We are all survivors. Four years from now we'll say NORDYNE, who? Like the editor says. But, the thing about it is when Rowe Furniture shut down if they hadn't have shut down with their three or four hundred employees and NORDYNE hadn't have closed up and went to Mexico four years from now. And we get the other new business four years from now, think how great it would have been in Poplar Bluff rather just filling those 400 jobs that NORDYNE's leaving behind. If we're gonna grow we're gonna have to get people in here who stay. Not just stay until the tax relief runs out and they move on to Mexico. We gotta get people to stay here to keep the jobs here because it would be not 400 new jobs in four or five years, but we'd have 1,200 jobs or more with Rowe Furniture and NORDYNE and the rest of them still here. Think about it, editors. You're doing a good job, but it would look a lot better with 1,200 than 400.

Optimist goes

only so far

Dear Editors: So you think Poplar Bluff is thriving without NORDYNE? Please drive on Park Avenue from 9th Street to Ditch Road. Please count the people at the Bread Shed on the east side every Saturday morning for breakfast or a supply of food. Look at the unpaved streets in Poplar Bluff and many other needs. Optimism is good, but we don't need to ignore the need to reduce the neediness, shabbiness and seediness in this town. Thank you.

Pastors, check

on your sheep

I am not writing this to be vindicated but maybe it will cause others to start thinking a little.

When you have an employee that does a good job beyond the second mile - please show them some respect and caring, especially when they are going through a trial --when someone is down --that's the time to show concern--at least a phone call or a card. This applies to pastors of their church. The shepherd needs to check on his sheep.

Also when someone is a target of slander and gossip --there is only one judge--that is the Almighty God!

Keep opinion

to yourself

I'm calling about the person "Wasting Money." If you don't want the steps replaced, don't use them. But they need to be replaced. It's an eyesore. It's not your money, is it? So leave it alone. Keep your opinion to yourself. Thank you.

Trashy yards

are disgusting

I live in the Lone Hill area and as I'm driving home on CR 488 I'm amazed at the people that will throw trash in their yard. Two houses in particular on 488 their yard and all the sides of their house, pretty houses, real pretty houses, but they have thrown the trash out in the yard and all along CR 488 people throw trash in their yards. I can't understand it why people do those sort of things. On CR 482 which is near to 488 people throw trash out and it blows out into the county road. I wonder if there's not a law-- a county law-- that keeps people from doing that because if you throw it in your yard it's going to blow out into the county ditches and it just looks terrible and that it just one way of running down a neighborhood is to throw your trash in the yard and things like that. I was always taught to be proud of the place I lived and all that and I just wonder how these people learn to lower themselves to the point of throwing their trash out into the yard. I thank you very much. I'm very unhappy about this because it lowers the property values of everybody else that keeps their yards clean.

A solution

to losing jobs

My opinion on NORDYNE closing if we would charge them about four times what their stuff is worth to bring it back into this country from Mexico I think we would quit losing jobs to the plants in Mexico. So that's my idea! You want to take it to another country? That's fine, but you don't ship it back to this one. Sell it to the people in Mexico. See how they like it in their haciendas.