Letters to the editor give Saturday a jumpstart
To the editor:
When I was in my teens, my great interest was the automobile in general and the “muscle car” in particular. My interest ranged from the Dodge Ram Charger or Plymouth six pack to the Chevy Camaro four bolt main with a bored out 350 engine I was never a Ford enthusiast for many personal reasons then and now.
Although the appeal of these cars, for me, was the speed factor, my need for speed and my ardor for power truly came to fruition only when that most magical of all chemicals, nitrous oxide, was finally introduced into my high combustion performance machine.
Just as I thanked the guys who thought up the nitrous oxide angle, which was the catalyst that truly kick started my gear jamming experiences, I must sincerely now thank those who are instrumental in promoting the letters to the editor section of the Daily Breeze, because no matter how my day begins sanguine or morose, lethargic or energetic, once I open up the letters to the editor section and begin reading the offerings therein, it’s as if nitrous oxide was hypoed into my psyche, the blood rushes to my head, the fraternal inherited, small vein pops out in my forehead and sometimes I’ve got to reach for the aspirin bottle, which my wife silently slips onto the table in front of me, when she notices that I am about to open up the letters page.
Nitrous oxide was great for kick-starting the libido after torquing up from the start line but the letters to the editor offerings from some people, I must admit, only tend to be great in the contribution to kick-starting ones arterial thrombosis.
After opening up the Saturday Breeze of Nov. 21, and reading some of the offerings, my dear wife, bearing witness to my reactions and the vociferous expletives I was verbalizing, not to mention the small vein popping phenomena, proposed to me that perhaps, in the future, if I insisted on reading those pages, I should seriously consider a switch from using the aspirin to clear out the lines to my heart valves and instead start using the nitro I used to kick-start the aluminum valves in my memorable hot rod. I get such inspiration from her wisdom.
Well enough of the preamble and now to the substance.
First of all, in answer to one person’s offering, I don’t care what the alternates call their union, they can call it marriage or civil coupling or whatever, it’s a moot point, because, as far back as I can recall, most were always under the impression that conventional unions were “the bonds of holy matrimony” with the emphasis on “HOLY”, duh. So let’s enter the fray with sublime knowledge and lackadaisically observe the politically correct as they parse words concerning nonsense. My old pappy used to tell me that if it didn’t have the same last name as me, hurt me or my family physically or financially or endanger my eternal soul, then FIMO -forget it, move on. Good, bad or indifferent, one thing is for sure, time is the only sure determinate of our actions and it is a demonstrative fact that what goes around will always come around and also rest in the fact that if our side is wrong, we all have nothing to worry about, but if the other side is wrong, well, in the vernacular of the infamous Mr. T, pity the fool.
Second, in so far as the “health care debate” is concerned, what is it about “don’t fix it if it ain’t broke” that some “Americans” just don’t seem to be able to get a handle on?
Contrary to, thank God, only some, minority opinion, our health care is not broken it merely needs some fine tuning. Good Lord, if your automobile engine starts to miss you don’t get a new engine, unless you’re a jackass and have other peoples money to work with, you open the hood find the problem and get a tune up. The tune up that the health care in America needs is, interstate competition, tort reform and personal self control. For the socialists among us, that means kick the reprobate out of health care both in the private and public sector, quit sucking up the doughnuts, beer and cancer sticks, have some dignity and do a push up once in a while. Good grief, one would think that the last thing any American with a modicum of common sense would want is to relinquish his or her rights, to some bilious Bolshevik bureaucrat, especially for something of such paramount importance as their health care needs.
I would, sincerely, recommend that before using that word “broken” when it comes to American health care repair, some of those pseudo compassionate bleeding hearts, should move to eastern or western Europe or Canada or for that matter even Cuba, for a while, get sick on purpose while you are there so that you can truly experience a point of reference concerning socialist health care.
As an European immigrant myself, with relatives in Europe who would kill to get our “broken” health care, I can assure you that you will truly experience the validity of those old saws which maintain “no finance no romance baby”, “if you’re not in, you’re definitely out” and “patience is a virtue, unless you’re seriously ill in a socialist country, then it’s a female dog.”
Please, before you run blindly into the wall of rude awakening, again, open your eyes and know what you are doing. My father gave me a lasting piece of advise upon my first emotional experience with unrequited love and that was “never let a jackass run your life.” Today that is a definite truism which should be seriously contemplated by all thinking Americans, especially when it comes to government-run anything, health care particularly
Last and least of all, concerning choosing a city manager for Cape Coral. To my mind, the choice of a city manager who comes from the area of which he is to manage is obviously, necessarily a more advantageous and wise move to make, However, only if we can keep nepotism, favoritism, bar room buddyism and special interestism out of the process and most definitely find someone who has extended experience in financially managing more then one city and has a dependable track record and isn’t looking to aggrandize him or her self politically or financially.
We can do it – we’re new, we’re able and we finally got a good mayor and council all we need now is to remember the past goofs and avoid them like the plague.
N. Tomacelli
Cape Coral