Sound off! Eating high off the hog A local well-known barbecue restaurant is slowly pricing themselves out of business! Life vision I guess knocking on 80 years of living I see things with a warped mind. Bush’s mess People are saying Obama is cleaning up Bush’s mess. Bush was in office eight years and Obama has only been in office five months. Let’s look at his accomplishments during this five-month period. Obama has created more bank failures during his five months than Bush did in eight years. Obama has created more home foreclosures in five months than Bush did in eight years. Obama has created more bankruptcies in five months than Bush did in eight years. Obama has spent more of the taxpayers’ money in five months than Bush did in his eight years. Obama has created more job vacancies during his five months than Bush did in eight years. Obama has already spent more time on television coverage than Bush did during his tenure. Obama is sending more troops overseas and will have more troops deployed abroad than Bush ever did. How much more of “‘Bush’s mess”’ can we afford to let Obama clean up? Mirror reflection What we see going on in Iran is just a mirror reflection of what happened in this country a few years ago. Is it time we pronounce judgment upon ourselves? Welcome during operating hours On our way from Virginia to North Carolina Saturday, we stopped at the lovely N.C. Visitors Center just inside the North Carolina border. Imagine our surprise when we discovered the Welcome Center portion had closed at 5 p.m. — on a weekend in the summer! How will this encourage tourism? If travelers cannot be informed of the local attractions, how can they be expected to stop in? Shouldn’t the Welcome Centers be open from dawn to dusk in the summer? Drive-in movie I noticed the other day that the old drive in theater in Gaston looks fairly serviceable. Is there any chance that it will reopen? I’d love to be able to see a drive-in movie with my kids and I think it would be a great tourist attraction. |