Since I’m bored and have nothing better to do. I thought I would start a weekly column to rip apart comments in a section called “SPEAK OUT” in The Lombardian and Villa Park Review, my local paper. All comments are published by The Lombardian/Villa Park Review and are their property. I pick and choose comments I choose to rip apart.
Link to SPEAK OUT
Reference: Bold font is what is said in SPEAK OUT, below the bold is my comments
As a resident of Lombard I'm also dissatisfied with the post office as much as the previous SPEAK OUT caller is. I wasn't getting a weekly magazine on time, if at all, so I cancelled my subscription. Also a couple of bills came to my home after the due date so I went to the store to speak to the customer service to avoid the finance charges. I receive coupon offers after the expiration dates, and also a card from Chicago took four days to get to Lombard but only two days to get to Naperville from Chicago. And the postage rates are going to increase?
Yes they are because you see in the 1980’s President Ronald Reagan made the Post Office be self-sufficient without government funding, compared to the way it had been operated since even before The Pony Express with, you know, government money. In fact, its even mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. And as a result of President Reagan’s move, the post office has rarely seen the black on its balance sheets. Though my guess is maybe you should have just talked to the post office about your problem instead of completely ignoring them, canceling your subscriptions, complaining to customer service in a store about a bill, and calling into Speak Out, you know?
This is Lombard calling; a half-million dollars for the streetlights, and the construction project on Main Street is absolutely terrible. Being residents of the north side of town, it’s embarrassing to say I live in Lombard. Mr. President, come spend some time on the north side of town and stop spending all your time on the south side of town. What's wrong with us? Talk about getting treated like second-class citizens; the businesses on St. Charles Road are all leaving and the village does nothing except construction, so that nobody will go and visit those businesses. Lombard needs a change bad; real bad.
I’m sorry, but I’ve driven on that pothole filled street called North Main Street, and I one hundred percent support that road being ripped up and repaired. I’m sorry that you have been inconvenienced for a couple of months so you can use years of a good road in return and not have to pay extra in auto repairs due to potholes screwing up your alignment.
Congressman Roskam recently testified at a Medicare fraud hearing, exposing the waste that takes place in this program. The amount of fraudulent spending is 12 times that of the private credit card industry, although Medicare is 25 times smaller than the credit industry. Medicare fraud costs billions of dollars every year. The federal government is terribly inefficient at using our money and yet we pass a trillion-dollar health care bill. How much waste will take place then? Peter Roskam has introduced legislation to combat this type of fraud. Members like Roskam understand that the government needs to be held accountable when spending our money and offers meaningful solutions to reform them, including the technology before it happens.
:: Applauds to the Congressman:: So, besides getting rid of Medicare fraud and keeping government accountable, what has Mr. Roskam done to, you know, fix the healthcare system that is clearly broken in this country? As Mr. Roskam does not want us to have government health care, has Mr. Roskam opted out of his own socialistic government healthcare?
One of the biggest problems we have in this country that's causing a lot of our problems and financial costs is too many people being employed by our government. Too many getting too many jobs and pensions; bonuses; and this, that and the next thing. They’re not producing anything. All we do is lose money, lose our tax dollars. The other thing is, the people who are unemployed should be made to either go out and clean up the parks, clean up the streets, rather than sit there and collect the money and doing nothing. Let’s make it productive. If you want unemployment you must work and do something because you're taking our tax dollars.
Wait, wait, back up please. I must highlight something “Too many getting too many jobs and pensions” So that’s a bad thing? Why can’t government employees have that? Is it because your corporate overlords who you work for won’t give you any of their bonus money perhaps? Have they taken away your pension and given it to themselves? I do have to say cleaning up parks and cleaning up streets would be a nice thing for the unemployed to do, but I fail to see how that helps them get a job in the future unless they, you know, work for the government run park district that you know, has pensions…
This is in response to the person who called about President Obama not understanding government, that he has no experience. He was a senator, OK? He was a lawyer versed in constitutional law. You're right, though. He’s not skilled. The person went on to say that we need to vote for someone who has skills. So I’m wondering if that person who has skills is that lady from Alaska who quit her governor’s job half way through? Yeah, she's real skilled. I think I saw her at a debate once and she's so skilled she wrote the answers on her hand. Those are the skilled people you want us to vote for next time, huh?
Being this is my first time doing it and not reading speak out last week or the week before, I don’t know what comment this is in reference to, but let me just say…To the person you replied to, thinks you’re now nothing but a socialistic nazi muslim liberal.
I’m responding to the caller who was complaining he or she had to work on Columbus Day while government workers had the day off. Sounds like jealousy. Just ask for the day off if you wanted it. You also made a comment you had to work so you could pay the salaries of government workers. I’m tired of hearing people say government workers have it so easy. I haven’t had a raise in a couple of years. You want to work some overtime? I hope you had a nice day at work. I sure enjoyed my day off.
I wish I had the original comment. But, my solution would be if you really want Columbus Day off without using one of your vacation/sick/personal days, you should just become a government worker yourself and then you’ll have a paid holiday.
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