Give and Take

(In response to "Wildcatters Wanted" in the Jan.

27-Feb.2 issue of Urban Tulsa Weekly)

The lotto came to town, so the city cut back on

education. Oil comes to town, so the city can cut

back on streets. Horrible idea all the way around.

All the hippie,

tree-loving,

environmental

stuff aside, the

city would only

form a reliance

of the income

received from

these wells to

sustain annual

budgets. Just

like the lotto.

Why? Because

politicians are

idiots with fat

grubby hands.

-John1111

Carry the Load

(In response to "Chamber Pot" in the Jan. 27-

Feb.2 issue of Urban Tulsa Weekly)

The day our elected officials in Oklahoma get

rid of the state tax, therefore putting the states

revenues on the backs of the working class via

increased sales and property taxes, I pack up and

move out of Oklahoma.

Just because our federal government is all

screwed up living off the working class, does not

mean those brain-dead rednecks in OK City have to

do the same thing here in Oklahoma.

-Ex-Marine Viper

At a Loss

(In response to "Are You Pissed Off" on

urbantulsa.com)

I am the grandmother of a child that told me of

some emotional abuse that was happening in her

home. I went to my daughter and she knew of the

issues, I then told her she is a failure to protect. She

had the child when she was 15 so you know who was

the provider for both. She married another man that

apparently doesn't care too much for the child they

have their own son now.

I took my granddaughter into my home for

safety. My daughter tricked my granddaughter and

myself with a "trip" that my granddaughter was

going to visit some other relatives. We let her go.

Ten days later I get a text message that I don't have

to worry about my granddaughter anymore she is

moving in with a dad she had only seen five times

since she was born 9 years ago. I went and got an

emergency order to get her back, and we got her.

45 days later the family court judge gave her

back to her mother that was with the knowledge of

abuse. I have not seen my granddaughter in almost a

year now. Does anyone ever wonder how kids come

up missing and dead and why nobody does anything

to help? Because the school and the court knew and

did nothing. Isnt it a law that if you even suspect

abuse you turn it in. NO ONE DID ANYTHING. And

gave her back. Hmmmmmmmmm.

-Nana

Experience Speaks

(In response to "Prodding Questions" in the Jan.

13-19 issue of Urban Tulsa Weekly)

I commend you on your article "Prodding

Questions." Anyway you can make men over 40

aware of the danger of not keeping track of their

PSA.

Cancer of the prostate can spread to other parts

of the body, if not checked (one who knows). Thanks

to Mandie Rowden for the article.

-Wilfred Vargas

Alarm Clock Sounds

Wake up America! Corporate America has

not fulfilled their corporate responsibility since the

1970s. Indeed, emboldened by Reagan's destruction

of the air traffic controllers union circa 1983, the

corporate world has clearly jettisoned that corporate

responsibility in favor of take-backs from the American

working public.

In case you don't know, since time immemorial,

the laws in this country have been stacked for business

and against the average middle class working

man and woman. And, since the 1980's corporate

management has engaged in a "productivity"

mantra meaning that the workers do more for less

money. Guess who gets less money on the bad end

of the stick? Case in point: witness George Bush's

administration. Within 10 months of his swearing-in,

the health insurers of this country emboldened by

newly found friends in the administration doubled and

tripled payment of the employee portion of health

premiums.

Guess what that did to paychecks nationwide and

to spending power of the middle class. No money,

no demand for goods and services. No economy.

Right Mr. Samuelson? And, today, again emboldened

by the GOP-Tea Party victory in the House, Big Oil

bilks us with huge job killing increases at the pump.

And those same health insurance companies tack

on another seven percent to already exorbitant

premiums even in a period of no inflation and some

say deflation.

What is it about reality that the American

electorate cannot see? It has handed the power in this

country to the very people who are out to bilk every

one of us, especially the ones of us who can ill afford

it. Wake up, America.

-Lawrence Hill, Emeritus