Sounding board, July 13, 2008

July 14, 2008 05:41 pm

— “Trash polycarts are a very smart and wise move for the city council people to make.”

“Polycarts. I don’t blame them for cutting trash pick-up down to once a week. I think it would save the city a lot. I remember when we had polycarts, the elderly people just could not push them around. Especially when they had to push a walker anyway. The hardest part where we were, there were people walking up the streets putting their half eaten lunches in them and that would get them dirty, and personally I just can’t take them anymore. I can’t push them at the fair and I’m just wondering if they couldn’t just leave the dumpsters in the apartment complexes where so many of us are. Put the polycarts in some other place. I’m concerned about this. I still think we have the best city council around. I just think that they need to rethink the polycarts. Thank you.”

“We in Oklahoma are familiar with wind. How it blows from different directions, changing its course often. Sometimes it comes to us in circles, such as tornados. The politicians with their campaign speeches remind me of the wind. They blow a lot and sometimes change directions. It is when they start going around in circles that we need to watch out.”

“The question, how much did you spend on fireworks this year? My family, we have fireworks year round and my family doesn’t pay a single dime for them.”

“With all the hype about a basketball team coming to Oklahoma it reminds me of some things that came to Oklahoma in the past. The rodeo had to leave because no new arena was built, two automobile industries were here and subsequently closed. More recently, a tire factory cannot sustain itself and closed. We had better live down here on earth instead of in the clouds.”