Sound Off for Dec. 6, 2019

Love it here

My wife and I are snowbirds and we love the Mississippi Gulf Coast. We love the food. We love the parties. We love the casinos. We love the people. We love living here. The folks that leave their grocery carts in the parking lots, well, just bless their hearts.

Thank you

I would like to give a huge shout out to the pharmacy department at Walmart on U.S. 49 in Gulfport for their help with my daughter getting her much-needed medicine. My daughter works part-time at a job she just started when she woke up and was in a lot of pain. She could barely walk. Not having benefits and low on money, that pharmacy department helped us to find discounts to help cover the cost. My daughter and her husband had most but not all of the money needed. The pharmacy covered the difference so my daughter could get the much need medicine. Thank you to the pharmacy staff from this mother’s heart.

Who should pay?

Why should we taxpayers have to pay the $10,000 cost for police and fire protection during the recent visit by Vice President Mike Pence when the visit was made solely for the purpose of supporting Tate Reeves for governor? Why doesn’t Tate Reeves, whose campaign raised several million dollars, have to pay this cost? Perhaps Mike Leonard with the city of Biloxi can explain.

Fact checking

This is a response to the Sound Off called “the facts.” You want us to fact check things on internet websites that are left biased? Yeah, OK. Gossip is more reliable than them.

Socialist act?

There was a story in Wednesday’s Sun Herald headlined “Louisiana farmers get $180M in federal aid for tariff losses.” Folks, no matter how you frame it, no matter how much the farmers need it, no matter how the need came to be, farm subsidies are a form of socialism. And, that $180 million is just a drop in the bucket of the billions that farmers have lost and are being compensated for because of the tariff imposed the Trump administration.

Not fair

Regarding the Sound Off about the $30 entry ticket to the Mississippi Aquarium .. .contrasting the cost with the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta is not a fair comparison. The Georgia landmark was was fully funded by Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus. His only stipulation was that the city stay out of the way regarding design, construction, and operations.

Nixon comparison

Even President Richard Nixon — who obstructed Congress by refusing to turn over tapes — accepted the authority of Congress to have an impeachment inquiry. And he permitted his aides and advisors to produce documents and testify.

This story was originally published December 4, 2019 at 5:21 PM with the headline "Sound Off for Dec. 6, 2019."