Sound Off for Dec. 7

Keep your hands on the wheel

I like GMC but their most recent truck commercial featuring hands free driving makes me ask: is this really important to most of you? Is it so difficult, tiring and inconvenient to place your hands on the wheel and drive your car or truck that you would rather the vehicle take care of that chore so you can clap your hands to music or perhaps do your makeup? As a fellow traveler, perhaps near you on the interstate, I’d prefer you have contact with the wheel even if you’re supported by lane assist and other useful technology.

COVID choice

Every American should be afforded their constitutional right to choose if they want to be vaccinated. No person should be coerced with a mandate to get the shot. Health care workers, I am sure, have seen many vaccine injuries and do not want to follow that path. This is America, land of the free.

Hospital health grades

It’s a shame that the two hospitals on that have been on the Coast forever get bad health grades. I switched to Ochsner years ago. Ochsner has a clinic in Long Beach now. I am more than pleased with my health care.

No income tax?

I love the idea of not paying personal income tax. There is only one problem: the tax revenue must be replaced. This will increase property, sales and other taxes. There will be no true savings. If you rent, your monthly payment will go up to cover the property tax increase. If Gov. Tate Reeves wants to help us, reduce the ridiculously high fee for tagging a car.

Homeless in the media

I am well aware we have a large homeless population and they need food and personal items, but please stop them from standing in the medians on U.S. 49 and other major streets. Highway 49 is dangerous to drive, anyway, but add to it people in the medians and at intersections is causing a safety issue. It’s just a matter of time before someone is seriously injured or worse.

Pearl Harbor Day

We should all take time to remember the 80th Anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor in which more than 2,000 Navy personnel lost their lives defending their country. December 7, 1941: a day that will live in infamy.

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