Nice place to live

I was in an accident Friday at Taco Bell. I would like to thank all the nice people who helped my mom. We were lucky there was a nurse and her husband there. I would like to thank all the young men who helped to hold umbrellas over my mom when she fell backward on the cement. The ambulance people, first responders and the police, they were all very helpful, and I am very sorry my car hit your truck. Thank you. There are a lot of nice people in St. Joseph. It’s a good place to live.

Leave us alone

I’m reading Saturday morning’s paper about the KCP&L request for a 13.6 percent rate increase. Monday morning I’m going to ask my boss at work if I can have a 13.6 percent rate increase on my paycheck so I can afford to pay this bill that they are wanting to take up on us again. Leave us alone, OK? You guys make all the money at the top of the board. Leave us alone. Us poor guys down here at the bottom who are struggling with our families that don’t have any food now because of all the tax rates and all the tax hikes and everything else. All you people have got your hands in our billfolds. Quit shaking our hands and reaching in our billfolds, and quit lying to us.

Helping

the helpers

I’m from out of town, but I notice in the newspaper here on Saturday morning on the front page of the Diem section about the ladies over in Savannah making enough money to go to Africa to build wells. I think everybody in this area should hot-foot it to Savannah and see that these women get plenty of money and do this job. This is the finest thing of humanity that I’ve seen in some time, and I will be in Savannah before the weekend is out donating some money to this project. Thank you.

Not-so-level pay

I’m almost scared to go out and get my newspaper every morning. Every day almost here lately, there’s been a request for a rate hike, like what KCP&L is asking for today. Just the other day, I got my gas bill. I’m on Social Security, and I’ve been paying it on an average and they’ve been taking $75 out every month.They just raised it to $96 a month, and now they’re wanting another rate hike. When is this thing ever going to end? I just got an $8 a month raise on my Social Security this year.