Quickly, Sept. 18

September 17, 2012 4:32PM

Updated: October 19, 2012 6:05AM

I wonder why, when adult women have conversations with others who are close friends, they refer to someone else as a best friend? That kind of makes me wonder, “What am I?”

Here we go again. The politicians are mustering their bandwagon to support a Lake County income tax of 1.5 percent. What next? Maybe they will try to outdo Jasper County, where they pay almost as much in county income taxes as they pay in state taxes.

What people need to think about in this election is not who wins the presidency. If the opposing party controls either the House or the Senate, then nothing will get done for the next four years. The big corporations and banks control what happens in America now, so the president is irrelevant.

I’m a nonsmoker, but I’m sick and tired of people complaining about that little bit of smoke from others’ cars. Tell them to complain about the air they breathe, the food they eat — so many other things. I’ve lived many years with smoke. God willing, I’ll live longer.

How about making the crossword puzzles a little easier for us elderly people? We are the only ones who do them most of the time.

I built my own business.
I also built my own life without the help of government assistance. Those people who actually need help and are deserving of it are being thrown under
the bus because of all these sloths who just want a free handout.

Will Congressman Mike Pence’s no-new-tax oath taken by all Republican House and Senate members to lobbyist Grover Norquist apply if Pence becomes governor of Indiana?

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