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Letters to the Editor


Doesn't want to do business with 'unAmerican' company

From Dr. Jerry W. Kinder,

Mountain Home:

I have just finished my last purchase and digestion of a "Whopper" from Burger King. Media sources now confirm that Burger King will move its corporate headquarters to Canada to avoid high corporate taxes in the U.S. Burger King incorporates with Tim Hardin Coffee & Donuts in Canada. Hardin now has 70 percent of Canada's coffee business and sales.

But wait, there's more to this corporate move by Burger King. The move by Burger Kind was only possible by a $3 billion loan from Warren Buffett. Buffett will receive a 9 percent return from Burger King on his investment.

My opinion: How very unAmerican of both Burger King and Buffett. Walgreens recently considered such an unAmerican move, but wisely changed its mind.

I feel so sorry for Burger King's supposed inability to pay its corporate taxes from its some 7,000 franchises in the U.S. Perhaps those U.S. outlets would best be closed and moved to foreign countries.

From now on, my few retirement dollars, for which I pay taxes, too, will be spent a Wendy's — corporate headquarters in Ohio, U.S.A. My hope is that many others in Mountain Home will follow me.

Life is to be enjoyed, stop complaining

From Lisa Thomas,

Mountain Home:

Seriously, How petty can we get? What happened to the good ole Southern Days and Southern Ways?

One writer says you don't have to pull over for funerals going down the road. I guess that person is always in a hurry, or not originally from Arkansas where we were raised to respect funerals going down any road, and that person can't take a moment to stop and pray for the family that is on their way to bury their loved one. Obviously they have not yet experienced grief or mourning, and they don't know how blessed a family is to see motorist pull over for their loss, in support of them. One day they will experience this and I pray that people will pull over for their family. We don't have a 75-90 mph speed limit interstate running through our town. If people abide by the speed limit, pulling over for a funeral is not a hard thing to do.

Over the years people have written saying deer eat their gardens and this makes them mad. The Deer were here before we were. I enjoy seeing God's creation walk through my yard every day. People complain about our Nativity scene during Christmas and that things here are not like where they came from. I see no reason to change our ways to conform to their ways. They made the choice to move here.

What generation is the one complaining about reclining seats on airplanes to make airlines take that option away? Is this really important? Taking that away will only increase prices for us to make the modifications that will have to be made. The seats don't go back very far anyway, and they paid for their seat just like we paid for ours. If people don't like it they can buy first-class tickets where they will have more room. I have more of a problem that someone requests a window seat, preferred by me, but then I don't get that seat because of them, and the one in that seat closes the window for the entire flight. What is that about? If you don't want to look out, don't get a window seat.

Life is good and precious and should be enjoyed daily. I don't know who said this quote but it fits. "Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery. And Today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present."