Police and teachers should be paid well

Dear Sir:

Both the teachers and the police in Miami have been demonstrating publicly for more pay. Well, I thought this only happened in Third World countries. However, it looks like in every country police and teachers are taken for granted. The pay is relatively small, but the responsibilities of these two groups of public servants are very great.

Why is Miami having problems paying teachers and police properly? This is a rich city and county. The county just built this expensive concert center, and you tell me they can’t find the money to increase the salaries of teachers and police. It was just found out that millions of dollars were given away to contractors who should be building houses for the poor. Couldn’t some of this money be diverted instead to raise the pay of teachers and police?

Miami managers, this is foolishness. Police must be paid well, so that they can focus on stopping crime. I don’t want the policeman protecting my street to be fretting about paying his rent and then miss the bad man. I don’t want the teacher guiding my son to graduation from high school hampered because she can’t pay her bills. Miami has money. Pay the people them, man.

Maurice Bellamy, Opa Locka

Foley or not, Republicans will win again

Dear Sir,

Look here; all the noise you guys, the other papers, radio and TV stations making about the congressman, Mr. Foley not going to change anything. A bet you the Republicans going to win again. The fact is that America is corrupt and is a country that translates to mean hypocrisy.

All the big politicians, the big churchmen, the big businessmen, all of them are hypocrites, and worst of all the American people are fools.

A lot of the people don’t even read and understand what is going on, and again, so many of them so busy trying to get as much of the almighty dollar as they can, they don’t care about Mr. Foley or who is molesting who, or who is thieving who. Look, if it did matter to them how come Bush was voted in as president the second time? You all can waste you time. This is a sorry country. No wonder the rest of the world takes us for a big joke.

Mable Letts, Pembroke Park