Amazing things here

It is amazing what one can learn by reading just one page of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, say page 5H (the Voices page) on March 5, 2023.

One reader informs us that our new governor is wrong to blame our president and our government for inflation. The writer says the government has nothing to do with causing inflation. Gee, how I have been misinformed for so many years? Another writer tells us the last Ice Age ended 15,000 years ago. During this time the ice was two miles thick in St. Louis. He warns us not to listen to the dingbats about the benefits of solar panels and windmills. Actually, he might be raising a common-sense approach on these two sources of energy; perhaps he is simply ahead of his time. Still another writer has a solution to the quickly rising crisis on Social Security. Since these funds have been borrowed by Congress in a unified budget approach, just have Congress pay the money back. Simple, you see!

On that same page our local liberal who has the answer to all the world’s problems tries his best to make a hero out of Sen. Clarke Tucker and make a clown out of Sen. John Payton. Naturally, he fails to do so and John Payton, who I have known and worked with for years, can run circles around the likes of John Brummett. John Payton should feel gratified and in good company that Brummett is trying to conjure up bad things on him just as he tries to do with our new governor and our junior United States senator.

All this and more in just one page of our daily newspaper.

JERRY JACKSON

Heber Springs