$6.5M clock not helping Oakland U. students; Public transportation a waste of taxpayer money; Kwame's weakness led to downfall - SOUND OFF: March 18

This is for the response from the caller in Clarkston regarding my call about the $6.5 million stone clock on the Oakland University campus. I'm a staunch conservative. If this structure's going to enhance the education of the students there, by all means build it. I do not see any classes being held in this structure. It just shows the time in a grandiose way. I don't see the point of building it. Why not use that money to help students who have to pay high tuitions? The $6.5 million would go a long way, and I don't mean it should boost the high salaries of the professors. Help the students out, for goodness sake, not the structure that just looks nice.


According to an article in The Oakland Press, there's a small group of young people who are going to demonstrate to increase awareness and hopefully persuade everybody to fund mass transit in this area. What they're really advocating a tax on people in the tri-county area that will raise hundreds of millions of dollars to fund their transportation. These are the same people who were involved in the Occupy Wall Street and other "occupy" movements. They are a group of people who refuse to finance their own needs and who walk around with their hands out, hoping the rest of the taxpayers and workers will give them money so they can live according to the way they want. Basically, they don't own cars because they don't feel like getting an education and or self-supporting job to afford one. That's their choice, but I resent, as a worker and a taxpayer, having to fund their transportation. That money comes straight out of my pocket and into theirs. I will never support a tax on mass transit. It's up to the individual to provide their own transportation.

Royal Oak

Ex-mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his cohorts were rightfully convicted of what they did while in office. I find it ironic that the federal government can pursue this with all the vigor that it did, spending taxpayer dollars and not investigate that fiasco that George W. Bush caused on Wall Street. I see that nobody is investigating Wall Street. The executives are still receiving bonuses while other people have probably committed suicide, lost their homes, their life savings and have untold agony and chaos in their lives. The FBI puts their resources into convicting local crooks, but they cannot convict Wall Street executives who break the law. It should be done post-haste. Hardly anybody on Wall Street is going to jail. How sad it is in this country that the big crooks are still collecting bonuses.


Although I'm a month away from being 80 years old, after hearing the news that someone sprayed 700,000 honey bees with a pesticide, I would like to tie that person up and spray pesticide in his face and clothes until he understands what he has done. What in this world are we coming to?

Rochester Hills

It wasn't Kwame Kilpatrick's strength that got him into trouble; it was his weakness. His weakness was fine women, fine clothes, automobiles and parties. He probably believes, "All I've got to do is stay strong until I get through this prison sentence, and then I can get back to my weaknesses." What he's really got to ask himself is, "what happens if I die in here?"



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