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Page 4 — Wednesday, August 26, 2009, The Millen News
Opinions, yours and ours
The Chatter Box
By Deborah Bennett
In recent weeks I have received a flood of telephone calls
from people who want to “verify our free listing” in some
type of directory. I never knew there were so many free
directories in circulation or that the newspaper was listed
in any of them.
What really annoys me, however, is that out of the dozen
or so “representatives” that have called the office, all had
such heavy foreign accents that I could only understand
about half of what was said. And on top of that, I had to
“spell” everything for them - street address, city, my name,
etc.
Communication is essential to all business dealings, and
it is especially important when attempting to do business
over the telephone. So, please, put someone on the phone
that speaks and understands English. This is the United
States, and we speak English here.
Happy birthday this week to: Martha Robbins, Connie
Fields, Jean Rountree, Charlene Jones, Rodney Collins,
Brayan Brown, Dorothy Smith, Bert Pierce, Melissa
Brannen, Ali Richards, John Troisi III, John Black, Chris
Chance, Summer McNeely, Skylar Herrington, Herbert
Shackelford, John Parrish, Ashley L. Brown and Adan
Crockett.
Celebrating wedding anniversaries are: Mr. and Mrs. Ja
son Bennett and Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Garvin.
Military Active Duty List: PV2 Jeremy Johnson, U.S.
Army, 59 lh Quartermaster Company, Ft. Carson, Colorado;
Ronnie Perryman, Charlie Troop, 108 th Calvary Division,
4 th Platoon, Afghanistan; Lance Cpl. Adam Lanier, U.S.
Marines, 8 th & I Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C.; E-4
Sr. Airman Roy Davis, U.S. Air Force, RAF Molesworth,
United Kingdom; Lance Cpl. Patrick Barnette, U.S. Ma
rines, Baharia, Iraq; Sgt. Adam Demshar, 44th Signal Bat
talion, Baghdad, Iraq; Cpl. Lee Ogden, U.S. Marines, Camp
Pendleton, CA; E5 Petty Officer 2 nd Class Eric B. Kelsey,
U.S. Navy, NSA Naples, Italy; Senior Airman Charles F.
Woods, Moody Air Force Base, Valdosta, GA; Stuart
Burrus, U.S. Air Force, Barksdale AFB, Bossier, LA; SPC
4 Travis D. Motes, 1st Calvary Division, T. Hood, Texas;
Capt. Donald Slade Burke, 735th Air Mobility Squadron
Detachment 1 Commander, Richmond Royal Australian
AFB, Richmond, Australia; Staff Sgt. Gilbert C. Sheppard
III, 48th Brigade, 118th Field Artillery, Iraq; Petty Officer
3rd Class Jamie A. Yager, U.S. Navy, Marine Corps Base
Hawaii; Petty Chief Officer Andy D. Crosby, U.S. Navy,
Elroy Destroyer, Norfolk, Va.; Stephanie Crosby, R.N.,
U.S. Navy, Lafayette Destroyer; Jimmy Cooper, U.S. Army
National Guard, 878th Engineering Battalion-Augusta, Per
sian Gulf; 1st Lt. J.R. Taylor, 2nd Brigade Combat Team,
25th Infantry Division, Iraq; SPC. Daniel Stuart, 18th
MEDCOM, 121 General Hospital, Seoul, Korea; Jeffrey
Sweat, U.S. Navy, USS Kauffman, MM3 59/E-Division,
A-Gang, Norfolk, Va.; Cpl. Larry Lamont Clark, U.S.
Marine Corp, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp
Lejeune, N.C. Bagdad, Iraq; Khan Young, U.S. Navy,
U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, Persian Gulf; Robert Milton Jr., E-3,
U.S. Army, Ft. Stewart, Hinesville, Ga., Mission Kuwait;
Arnold R. Mosley, 2nd Lt., U.S. Air Force, Randolph AFB,
Texas; and Debra A. Mosley, Tech. Sgt., U.S. Air Force,
Randolph AFB, Texas; and SPC Charles “C.J.” Amerson,
U.S. Army, Camp Adder, Iraq.
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Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor,
Here are 400 words (there’s
so much more).
Medicare is a government
run health plan. If you are
wondering what kind of treat
ment you will get with a gov
ernment run health plan—look
at Medicare.
The Veterans Administration
is a government run health
care system. They have their
own hospitals, pharmacies and
doctors. They provide depend
able care, free of charge. Vet
erans pay only for their pre
scriptions on a graded scale
depending on individual in
come.
The private health care plans
are the worse. They can can
cel your coverage entirely, or
raise your premium so high
you can’t pay it, or they will
refuse to cover all of your
health care treatment. Many
families have gone bankrupt
because of the medical bills
that private health care refused
to pay.
We pay the administrative
costs for insurance companies
while Wall Street rakes in the
profits; CEO’s getting paid
multi-million dollar salaries
per year; and desk jockey’s
getting $250,000 or more per
year. The brokers and sales
men get paid pretty well too.
The cost of those multibillion-
dollar office buildings with
posh furnishings and million
dollar monthly utility bills
comes out of our pockets.
When I was growing up, the
number of times a person saw
a doctor or hospital from birth
to grown (18) may have been
at most 25 times unless you
were a sickly child. Nowa
days kids see a doctor that
many times in their first few
years. Think about this. When
you go to the doctor, you will
be given an appointment to re
turn in two weeks, and the
doctor will ask how you are
doing and you will say, “Fine,”
and he will say, “Fine,” and
present you with a bill. Why
this added expense - malprac
tice law suit prevention.
Something has to be done
about the insurance companies
and Wall Street traders. They
are draining us dry. They are
a bunch of heartless, greedy
vipers. Nothing can be done to
force them to be fair because
we claim to live in a free mar
ket society. If price controls
were tried, they would be cry
ing socialism or communism.
So, if the government starts an
insurance plan and offers it at
an affordable price, then the
private insurance companies
will have to lower prices to
compete or go out of business.
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Graham Crackers or Salad Bar: Lettuce, Tomato, Celery Sticks, Boiled
Egg, Cheese, P/B Jelly Sandwich, Grapes.
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Carrot Sticks & Dip, Orange Halves or Salad Bar: Lettuce, Tomato,
Celery Sticks, Boiled Egg, Pimento Cheese, Grapes, Graham
Crackers, Saltines.
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Boiled Egg, Cheese, Cold Cut Sandwich, Grapes.
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Slaw, Peach Freeze, Peanut Butter Cookie or Salad Bar: Lettuce,
Tomato, Pickle Spears, Boiled Egg, Cheese, Turkey/Cheese Sub,
Grapes.
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