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To the editor:
I can’t believe this. City of Kissimmee commissioners, is there really nothing else to worry about? Are things really going so well that you have your time and our money to waste on this stupidity? Is it your intent to polarize the citizens of this town?
Commissioner Art Otero made Kissimmee a laughing stock with his “patriotic” views last year. Wasn’t that enough? Let’s see if you can do better this time. Impose that all citizens convert, become Christians and go to church. That would be progress, don’t you think, commissioners? I say this sarcastically, but in my heart, I know that this is exactly what some of you believe.
Danny Hupert, Kissimmee

One side
To the editor:
After looking at the opinion section of Saturday, May 1, it seems someone has become one-sided and is using your paper to promote their views exclusively.
Maybe the poll run by your own paper clearly showing the majority of people voted for the airboats to continue operating without restrictions didn't mean anything. Your cartoonist is pretty good and sort of tells the whole story about the few older retired people who would like to keep the use of Kissimmee's lakefront all to themselves.
Each year, multiple events are sponsored at the lakefront that make much more noise than an airboat, which, by the way, have been re-muffled and rerouted to reduce noise to almost an unnoticeable level. Different law enforcement agents have checked the boats and found they are well within the legal DP (decimal point) range. These boats have been operating for over five years now with very few complaints.
What do you think sparked such an interest in airboats? Could it be competitors are upset now that the airboats are drawing people to the downtown area and creating income instead of out of your tax dollar? Could it be that people who don’t have to worry about an income may not care if others can support their families, some of which have young children? Maybe some would rather see the shops, restaurants, automotive shops, gas stations, engineers, lawyers, financial advisors, advertising agencies in the downtown Kissimmee area to start looking like the empty car lots, restaurants and businesses on U.S. Highway 192?
Could it be these people have never taken an airboat tour to see why thousands of people love airboats enough to bring relatives in from out of state to show them an adventure of a lifetime here in beautiful downtown Kissimmee?
Last but not least, could it be that these few people have no idea of how devastating the loss of Big Toho Airboat Rides would be to a person who has put everything he owns into creating a business that helps many people and our community grow and prosper?
Captain Jerry Sloan, Kissimmee

What good?
To the editor:
Who appointed those in the federal government my keeper – to decide what I should buy and when I should buy it?
Who asked them what I can afford and cannot afford?
By their own admission, I do not make enough to support my family of four, $9 an hour does not go very far anymore and I make too much to be able to get any help. Imagine that. But by God’s good grace, the $75 we keep can go toward unneeded health Insurance.
If I do not get sick – I mean so much as the common cold – should I then have to have unnecessary medical Insurance?
I spent 15 years caring for someone who had all the insurance in the world, but I still wound up broke and the loved one dead. It made no difference at all. I paid the last of our money to the renal dialysis facility and did not complain as I gave away my only hope of ever owning a home. Thank God we had health insurance, as it could have been worse. It did not keep us solvent nor save her life. What good did it serve?
If I do not get sick, then should I have to have unnecessary medical insurance? After all, it is my body, not the federal government’s.
On a closing note, after having spent all that time with someone under the knife 22 times or in the renal chair three times a week or giving heparin shots or handing out medicine to make sure it was the correct dosage at the right time: Do you honestly think I will ever go to any other doctor other than the undertaker on my own?
Robert R. Moulder, Kissimmee