Reverse the situation
Perhaps you have seen the Suddenlink commercial: Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo locks himself out of his hotel room, dressed only in his skivvies. A young, attractive maid happens upon him, and takes his picture without his knowledge before unlocking his door for him. She posts the pic to the Internet where it instantly goes viral and soon winds up on the evening news where Ronaldo sees it.
Everybody has a good laugh.
Now, imagine that same commercial, only this time Lindsey Vonn or Danica Patrick is in Ronaldo's role, and a handsome young man is in as maid. What do you think would happen then? Everybody just have a good laugh? I don't think so!
GREG STANFORD
White Hall
The water is just fine
The Dec. 10 letters contained a very interesting one from a Mr. Steve Holst, a resident of Fayetteville. It was the letter of a tolerant, thoughtful and courteous gentleman.
I immediately contacted Mr. Goldberg (of O'Brian, Ryan & Goldberg), who had been investigating the water at Fayetteville and several other towns. I told Mr. Goldberg to cease his Fayetteville studies. After reading the letter to him, he agreed the Fayetteville water is just fine.
And he promised that should he ever meet Mr. Holst, he would give him our best regards, and wish him a Merry Christmas.
WALTER SKELTON
Little Rock
About that tax reform
The pending tax changes are not Republican-driven but good-ol'-boy driven. Decreasing corporate taxes from 35 percent to 21 percent does nothing to generate more business in the U.S.
Currently unemployment is at the lowest in years to where businesses cannot hire the skills needed to meet business needs. Decreasing their tax rate at your proposed level only serves to enrich the stockholders and upper management of the companies and increase the national debt.
If our elected leaders were truly Republican, you would be working to decrease the debt, not enrich your contributors. Our children have no future if the debt situation is not seriously addressed quickly.
Suggestion: Try decreasing the corporate rate 5 percent to 7 percent versus 14 percent, see what new business is generated over five years as a result, and evaluate the need to do more then. If the economy is not growing and additional tax relief would be beneficial, you have some room to deal. If the debt continues to increase as a result of your current plan, the only alternative would be heavy tax increases across the board to prevent economic disaster.
Do we want to become another Greece? Who would bail us out?
TOM OLSON
Benton
On stretching dollars
I've seen several pleas by the Salvation Army to remember those in need through the holidays.
What I want to know is where does the Salvation Army shop? According to the pleas, it can feed a family for $20 a week. As a senior citizen living off the once-a-month paydays (I earned in my younger days), I would love to find a place to shop for $20 a week.
I've served my family many meals of water, gravy and biscuits. If you feel rich, throw in some cocoa and some sugar and call it chocolate gravy.
If there's a place to feed a family on $20 a week, please let me know at any time of the year.
CAROLYN BROWN
Benton
Those sad Democrats
The pathetic losers! Sometimes they make me wish I could just shake them real good to see if it would help get the cobwebs out of their brains, but then I know they are just doing what their nature compels them to; like the pussycat who went to London to see the queen but when it got there all it saw was the little mouse under her chair; or like Billy Graham's example of the pig who was all cleaned up and had a pink bow ribbon put around its neck; then when turned loose, ran straight to a mud hole and jumped in ... because it was a pig at heart.
Isn't that what all of them are, who want to bring America down to the cesspools of abortion, sodomy, fornication, adultery ... all without cost to their drive for pleasure in sin against God? Pigs at heart. Forget about marriage and raising children and having a family that lives together ... all with the same last name. Just do whatever the devil lust in your heart tells you to do and never give it a second thought.
But the second thought is what many of us want them to have to live with; that at the end of all of their so-great, alcohol-, drug- and sex-infused pleasure hunt, there awaits the recompense to be paid to the Great Judge in eternity. And in the meantime, stop messing with the greatness of an America that loves Jesus Christ.
JACK MAYBERRY
Sheridan
Taxation and morals
I have recently discovered Kenneth Galbraith's "horse and sparrow" theory of redistribution (if you feed a horse enough oats some will pass through to the road for the sparrows), also known as trickle-down economics.
I also would like to see Congress and the Department of Justice investigate accusations of sexual assault against the president, and hold him accountable as any other abuser.
Morality should trump a party vote.
WILLIAM KELLEY
Conway
Greatest gifts we get
We can receive no gift better than what has been given freely, God's gift of divine love, and from Jesus, the gift of salvation.
JEAN BROWN
Benton
Editorial on 12/16/2017