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Page 4A-THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Thursday, January 28, 1993 Opinions At wn vt A A A A ent ag TD -—r aT { Your Right To Say It A busy session The 1993 session of the General Assembly will be * one of activism, new faces, and old battles waged : anew. With Jim Hunt back in the Governor's Mansion, the legislature will have a strong leader of the majority * party to contend with, as well as a significant number 2 of new members. Re-elected Speaker of the House * Dan Blue of Raleigh says that 1993 will be a year in which legislators can afford to pursue new initiatives . in education and environmental protection. Other lead- : ers say the General Assembly will likely pass some . form of health care reform. I doubt it. Legislators will be (and should be) gun . shy about new spending programs. The fiscal turmoil «of the past couple of years has been instructive. The state is still over-extended, dangerously so if the econ- . Students in Ms. Bridges' first grade class at North Elementary School wrote the following letters of ad- vice to President Clinton: Dear President Clinton: I hope you will be a good President. Good luck. Will you help the environment? Love, Harrison Bumgardner Dear President Clinton: I'm glad that you've been chosen. I hope that Chelsea likes her new school too. I hope your mom is proud of you too. I know that you will take dare of the world too. I'm glad for Chelsea. I know that she loves you too. I like your family to. Dear Mr. Clinton: good President. Dear Mr. President: look good? I hope you take care of the U.S. and I hope you are a Love, Amber Tesner I like your speech. Will you help the environment I hope you will be a good President. I'hope you will try to help the poor get food. Love, Elizabeth Robbins [fC Dear Mr. President: again Dear President Clinton: ple in Africa food. Dear President Clinton: promise to us that you will be a good President? Dear Mr. Clinton: Help the environment. I hope you are the President Love, Chad Schott How is her new school?|Help the Army to get peo- Love, Dymeria Bigger I hope Chelsea will have fun. Did you really Love, Sara Boone “omy slows down again. Love, Jacky Hagner Leo v So where will the action be next year? I suspect that governmental reform ideas such as those proposed by “Democratic Sen. Howard Lee of Chapel Hill will be an important topic during the session. Lee would re-0rga- «nize the State government to operate in a more logical ‘and effective manner, including in a "balance of pow- I hope you'll be a good President for us and we hope you'll be a nice President for us too. And can you be nice to me? [sent Clinton, ir hope yeu have a Sood lp of Dear President Clinton I like what you said. It was good. I bet your daugh- ter is happy! Did you like saying that? Love, Mary Malaythong Love, Tranou Thommovorgsa wWihrH Dear President Clinton: | Thope you have a good time at the White House. ers” package such as veto for the governor, making | Dear President Clinton: : Ey : Love, Jaquayla Guyton Jmore state offices appointed rather than elected, and I think you should help the environment by picking hocks. ' lo Ve. / Jageiavh ichanging the length and maximum number of legisla- | up trash. 3 Dear Mr. President: ‘tive terms. How is Chelsea's school? On Lr NSO I liked your speech. You'll hear a lot about term limits in the coming Iam glad you are president. : Sh JC Y I think your daughter is pretty. ‘months. An unfamiliar assortment of conservatives, Love, Sam McGinnis J Love, Holly Courson Jpopulists, Republicans, Democrats, and independents fk favor limiting both Congressional and legislative ; 2 / Dear Mr. President: terms. Polls show huge majorities of voters in favor of i S vay : How is your Chelsea doing? Do you like your the idea. And the results or recent elections around the Deo NAc Clinton ) home? ‘country will convince many term-limit holdouts (like me) that even in a year of scandal, mismanagement, ‘and incompetent governance, most incumbents face no real risk of defeat. - Isn't that just the democratic process in action? Hardly. The perks of incumbency - free mailings, bur- geoning staff, easy access to campaign contributions, easy access to broadcast media, etc. - have stacked the electoral deck in favor of incumbents. "Congress has become a semi-permanent elite that is out of touch Love Jermiah D. Adams Dear President: I like your daughter Chelsea and you too. Love, Kristin Price al hope you toke care] YY the VS ond 1 hope. Nou are a yoorh Pres Dear President Clinton and Chelsea: I like you. I know you are having fun. Love, Josh Etters Dear President Clinton: I'hope Chelsea will have a good time. 7 Love, Josh Pruitt Dear Chelsea: I am glad that your dad is the President. I hope that you like your school too. i i = Love, Jacky Hagner with ordinary people," says Palmer Stacy, president of : PR Dear Mr. President: i) Noi ap So a Raleigh-based organization, We The People, lobby- 7 Break a leg! Deur [ resident eC lire on d ni ing for term limits around the country. I asked Stacy, a Good luck! former aide to Sen. John East, why it wouldn't be bet- ter just to take away incumbents’ perks, thus making the playing field more level. "That would be even harder to do than term limits," he says. Stacy would like to make North Carolina a test case for how to pass term limits in a state where it's hard to place initiatives on the ballot. As is, all of the action on term limits has so far occurred in easy-initiative states, beginning with Colorado in 1990 and spreading to 14 other states in 1992. The case for legislative term limits isn't quite as easy to see as the one for Congressional term limits, because legislators do not enjoy the same powers and we advantages as Congressional incumbents, {7 """ Nevertheless, there's an argument to be made. Voters i viously have an incentive to seek a thrifty, contem- plative, and restrained legislature which spends state Please help people get jobs. Gir [.; i Love, Lorie Li hel: E04, : a i i, like you. 5 | | J Know you. dre haviry 2 un, a | ove, Josh Bere Dear President Clinton: I love you, Mr. President. : Love, Dennis Moore Dear President Clinton: You are the nicest President, Break a leg, Chelsea. How is your new school? ; Love, Shontay Strickland nanufacturer. If you've ever seen those magnificent a animals, you might thifik Smith'was'guiity of overkill. Please, if you write me, use an Elvis stamp. Say. it ain't 'Zoe' I've been paying close attention to the news this JIM HEFFNER money prudently and resists the temptation to over- regulate the actions of citizens. At the same time, how- ever, voters have a parochial interest in electing legis- lators from their own districts who have seniority and the pull to "bring home the bacon." There is a conflict, in other words, between what voters say they want and the votes they cast. This is not necessarily hypocritical, merely a natural result of a process which creates at beat a rough approximation week, this being the first week of the Clinton presiden- cy, and several items caught my eye. President Clinton, of course, cannot be faulted with all the bad news, just as he isn't responsible for everything good that happened, assuming anything good did happen. Much has been made of all the promises the Clinton team made during the campaign. I've heard two radio stations talk about the breaking of promise number 18 or promise number 44, ad nauseum. @ Columnist Remember the Exxon Valdez? Two tankers have spilled more oil in the past couple of weeks in different I was disappointed with Senator Orrin Hatch, who, in a headlong dash to appease those who criticized him for his tough questioning of Anita Hill, described Baird's lawbreaking as "minor." The standard was set years ago. Attorneys General must be squeaky clean. : Now the new president has removed many abortion restrictions. This will ensure that more federal money parts of the world, and there has been a marked ab- sence of screaming by the doomsday people. I'am deprived. So far I haven't seen an Elvis stamp, Will they go the way of the Kennedy half-dollar? This country stopped using the half-dollar as legal tender when they started producing the Kennedy half. There are billions of them stowed away by misguided people who think they're gaining in value, and most of them are worth exactly fifty cents. I've heard three sports announcers refer to Clemson University as Clemzon this week I wonder why they don't call Charles Manson, Manzon? I guess most of thoze people are graduates of Zouthern Cal or Zyracuse. It's enough to drive a perzon crasy. There was one item for the Sensitivity Index. James Smith, of the Southern Baptist Convention complained because the Budweiser Clydesdales appeared in the in- augural parade. Smith described their appearance as will be spent on abortions. I thought he was going to control inflation. Abortion, to me, is still murder. There were lots of stories about teens and guns this week. Over in the world class city a student was re- lieved of his nine millimeter pistol. He says he brought it to school for protection. The police in a neighboring town stopped a car load of cruising teens and found a small arsenal in their auto, The most shocking story was the one out of Lorain, Ohio, where two junior high students admitted to con- cocting a plot to murder one of their teachers: Is it time for police to start arresting parents? They are responsible for their children after all. Certainly drastic steps are going to have to be taken at some point. Can anyone tell me why prices go up when a drug is approved for use in this country? Medicines that are I suppose the most publicized item concerning the new administration has been the demise of the Attorney General nomination. Zoe Baird withdrew before she was rejected for that high office. She exhibited good judgment by quitting, or being fired, before the vote got to the full senate, as- suming it would have ever made it out of committee. Baird hired illegal aliens as servants, knowing they were illegal and knowing she was breaking the law. To top that off she didn't pay their social security taxes, another violation of the law. She at first invoked moth- erhood as her excuse, then ended up blaming the whole thing on her husband. We are well rid of Zoe Baird. I wonder what this says about the other Clinton nominations? Did his team take enough time to screen candidates or did they just submit the names of the first wild-eyed radicals of public opinion. In an election in which voters enjoy perfect information about every candidate, plenty of time to decide, and detailed knowledge about the is- sues facing the state, the result will reflect the true sen- timents of the public. Until such an election is held, however, we can justifiably question whether the pub- * lic is well served by the current process and whether safeguards should be added to ensure the outcome vot- ers generally seek - which is, of course, the ultimate purpose of democracy. In any event, term limits and other procedural changes in North Carolina government will claim a big share of the spotlight next year. Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight of Manteo favors term limits, as do some other notable Democratic and Republican lawmakers. The gubernatorial veto continues to gain support, and Hunt's election creates a new opportunity to pass it. Business and education groups are also pushing the idea of an appointed school superintendent once again, and perhaps legislators will see the logic of applying the argument to other Council of State po- sitions as well. The best thing about procedural reforms is that they don't cost very much. John Hood, Columnist, John Locke Foundation, Raleigh Established 1889 Published Thursday at East King Street at Canterbury Road, Kings Mountain, North Carolina 28086, USPS 931-040, by Republic Newspapers, Inc.-2nd Class postage paid in Kings Mountain Darrell Austin .. Gary Stewart... 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Only time will tell, "overkill," because of their connection with a beer Worth Repeating..... By Gary Stewart, Editor A lot of Southerners, including many from Cleveland County, were in Washington, DC for the inauguration of President Clinton and Vice-President Gore. They're the first all-Southern President and Veep since anybody living today can remember, Before leaving Arkansas and Tennessee, they circu- lated these instructions to their citizens who were plan- ning to attend the inauguration: Before leaving for Washington clean red mud from windshields and remove hog and chicken feed from pickup bed. Any cardboard box can be made to look like a suit- ‘case if brown shoe polish is smoothly applied. Boxes must have tops, but no ropes. When a few miles out of Arkansas or Tennessee, remove overalls and brogans and put them in your box. Change to your Sunday suit, clean shirt and good shoes (wear socks!). Limit occupancy of your car or pickup to a reason- able number of riders. It looks country to overload a vehicle. Those going on their tractors should leave three weeks early. Remember to drive on the right side of the road at all times, except when passing an older tractor or buddy on a wagon. : Enroute always buy a full tank of gas. A dollar's worth at a time requires too many gas stops. On arrival in Washington immediately get settled in a tourist or boarding house. If they don't feed, try to lo- cate near an all-night cafe. Leave soda crackers, Viennas, R.C. Colas and Moon Pies in the car or pick- up. First class tourist homes do not take kindly to guests who prepare food in their sleeping rooms. DO NOT TAKE LIVE CHICKENS OR HOGS - for some reason people in Virginia think they have good hams. For the sake of national unity, we don't want to show them up. Besides, their dogs would chase our chickens and our hogs would eat their dogs, making a heck of a mess. You do not have to take the Sears catalog with you. Up there the out-houses are always inside and they fur- nish a rolled paper substitute, but remember to turn the knob on the white bowl as this is a house rule and cre- ates less air pollution problems. Brother Al Gore gets all heated about this pollution and we don't want to set him off. If invited by a county agent, fertilizer manufactur- er's representative or hog vaccine manufacturer's sales- man to have a drink in his hotel room, DO NOT SPIT tobacco juice on the carpeted floor. When asked what you drink, don't say "stump juice." Tell them all classy people from Arkansas drink B&B (Bourbon and branch water). AND ABOVE ALL ELSE - Don't let any Yankee show you up. Constant screaming of "He's a good ole boy" will make it difficult for them to engage in con- versation on their intelligence level. You can also keep up the chant started by Cousin Slick, "It's Time for Change!" As you know, we plan a change of under- wear on the first of every month. First cousins change with second cousins, but always keep it in the family. Willie has passed a decree, even when divorced you can still be cousins in Arkansas and Tennessee. prescribed for years in Europe, quadruple in price 1 _when they come to America. : BW And, while we're at it, let's get this one out of the way: A man in a brand new Cadillac was driving through the country one day .and saw an old farmer leading a mule. He stopped and started a conversation: "Where are you going with that mule?" "To town," said the farmer. "I'm heading to town. How would you like to ride in a brand new Cadillac?" "I'd like that fine," said the farmer. "What are you going to do with the mule?" “Don't worry about the mule,” said the farmer. "He knows the way to town." So, they started to town and were driving along about 35 miles per hour. The man looked in his rear view mirror and saw the mule galloping along, right on his bumper. He decided to leave the mule behind. He put the pedal down and got up to 40, then 50, then 60 and then 70 miles per hour. He looked in the mirror and the mule was still right on his bumper. "What should we do about your mule?" he asked the farmer. "I'm doing 70 miles per hour and he's right on my bumper. His eyeballs arc bulging out and his tongue is hanging out the side of his mouth." "What side's his tongue hanging out?" asked the farmer. "The left." "Well, just stay in this lane,” said the farmer. "He's fixin' to pass." ER ————— i TRENT
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