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Page 4A — The Allen American — Sunday, March 27, 1994
Opinion PAGE
The Allen American
A Harte-Hanks Community Newspaper
Lynn Dickerson
Publisher
Wayne Epperson Debbie Tackett
Editor General Manager
Gary Smith Beth Roddy Steve Jordan
Financial Director Advertising Director Circulation Director
Tim Watterson, Managing Editor/News
Dollie Turpin, Managing Editor/Production
Doug Layton, Managing Editor/Visuals
Karen Britton, News Editor
Ian Halperin, Photo Editor
Chuck Smock, Sports Editor
Liaqat Ali Khan, Production Director
Don Olson, Composition Director
Leslie Mascari, Marketing Services Director
Government regulation has put
an end to competitive business
Police officers’ daily stress is
a tough burden to cope with
By KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON regulation of America, tial.
American business each year pays The Space Station, and NASA
Some of my colleagues have been approximately $200 billion to pro- programs in general, spin off a wide
lamenting that American businesses cess regulatory paperwork. The range of technologies and innovation
have lost their competitive edge, cost of complying with environmen- that will be turned by American busi-
Where did it go? It may well be our tal regulations is estimated at about ness into the products and services
competitiveness has been lost in the $122 billion a year. The projected of tomorrow. All businesses get the
maze of government regulation that cost of compliance with economic benefit of this research.
has developed over the last 30 guidelines during the year 2000 — In general government should in-
years.only six years fromnow-has been tervene in private business dec
In spite of my “no” vote, the Sen- set at$256 billion. Economists have sions only when necessary to pre-
ate recently approved the National P xpe eo fe ra € gu serve public health, safety and wel-
Competitiveness Act which autho- tions on a par with the $1 trillion fare, and no more. When it comes to
rizes $1.9 billion over two years to annual federal tax burden. making business decisions
put the U.S. Commerce Depart- Imagine how strong our industries Washington should be out of busi'
ment in charge of the high tech sec- would be if we could free up some of ness _ particularly in predicting
a1 tor of our economy. money for investment in new winners and losers the market-
the elected official who pledged to jobs and expansion. It could speed waners and losers in the market
serve and get tough on crime but This legislation establishes a new development of new technologies place. .
brought his speeding ticket to Little bureacracy to pick winners and los- make P ng BiCS . In supporting small business, I be-ep
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heart gave out, or gave up to the the additional stress of management shoot-or-don't-shoot decision in a reducing the burden of regulation on has no role to play in research and on.
stress and distress of a job that re- and still had to work football games rougharea. If it was when, as captain business? We could enhance com- development. Government support Kay Balley Hutchison Is s Republican
quires so much and returns so little, to make ends meet. . u in charge of Internal Affairs, he had petitiveness without the $1.9 billion for research and “big science" pro- who represents the U.S.
My heart aches for die family of I remember my astonishment and to weed out the few bad apples. If it price tag by stopping the over- jects like the Space Station is essen- Sansts.
this Metroplex police officer who re- embarrassment when I called Dad to was the faroano •
cently died of a heart attack while tell of my first raise at my first job amt c or if those C , L * • • 7 •
S"^^" altracoike wadeprodd lobe domn S "- caught -"■*» Sore feet mean spring is in the air
words can explain the loss to his spend it all in one place and so on. I I wonder if reasonable schedules e
family. Doctors may point to a family then asked how my percentage com- matro a - cona 0 would For many of us the signs of spring
history of heart trouble or that 201 pared to what he had or would get, mayt - mat -day week, would are singing birds, beautiful blooming
cholesterol count when he last don- only to find that he hadn’t received a d 0 1 nos avet h 0 flowers and clear blue skies. For me
ated blood for another wounded raise in the last five years. athe most common sign of spring is
officer. Maybe even that fastfood I remember the fear in my tra day Planning Board perspectiv if seeing my kids playing outside in
burger that let him eat while he mother’s eyes when TV news would on TEL an Ter Soar A son emit their barefeet.
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due to blood, vomit, urine or other P » s me quota p go the shoes. I’ve learned this is break, we had already been into the infected” threat,
dirt. I remember Dad’s disgust when Pergi, it 1 will something I cannot fight. Running first aid supplies several times. After calming down my son
a trial was dismissed on a technical- at e to around barefoot is a privilege of The first injury is usually a stub- enough to wash out the wound, I
ity, and his anger when he had to aridiT spring, a nght of passage from win- bed toe, which always puts an end to reach for the peroxide. You can see
arrest the same person a week later, wordier % the crel aiorient ter to summer. My parents did it, I going barefoot. The irony is, nothing the fear in their little faces when they
I remember the black arm bands and did it, and now my kids do it. (Of hurts a stubbed toe worse than see that dark brown bottle coming at
taped badges. If I remember, I know 1sta to a course, according to my parents, the wearing a shoe. them. Little do they know how easy
my Dad could never forget. wen risen worpcrearaninorma real reason they ran around barefoot Right up there with the stubbed they have it, when I was young, my
I remember my Dad returning a Far T oi whv was because they didn’t have the toe, is the skinned knee, followed by wounds were always doused with
Christmas gift watch with an LED formation exchange. I wonder why fancy athletic shoes like I had.) the skinned elbow. iodine. e
display because it made a target at T rittder hear would hove 1 guess it’s natural to want to feel Taking care of skinned knees has Once the scrape is cleaned out,
night. I remember a friend whose thought " fur raisons To the soft grass under your feet, the become a lot easier as my son’s have then comes the Band-Aid. The
dad was a doctor complaining about nevesw - - only problem is, nowadays most of grown older, believe me it wasn’t Band-Aid is like a trophy, the bigger
patients calling at all hours, when all I what our kids play on is concrete and always an easy task. the Band-Aid, the better.
wanted was to know that my Dad Chris w. Lambert is a resident of The asphalt. This leads to another sign of They’d come running into the While visiting a friend the other
was alive at all hours. I remember Colony. spring, an empty medicine cabinet, house, hysterically screaming for a day, her son came running in with a
Our medicine cabinet is usually Band-Aid. Ask any parent with small cut on his foot. As she propped him
stocked with the usual supplies, children, and they’ll tell you the up on the counter to get a look at it, I
Band-Aids, hydrogen peroxide, greatest pain reliever for a child is a thought to myself, “Spring has ar-
gauze and that white first aid tape Band-Aid. rived.”
that you have to tear with your I’d lead my injured patient into the a
teeth. By the third day of spring bathroom, which is where we do all Sharon Leddick is a resident of Allen.
By CHRIS LAMBERT
It happened again: another police
officer lolled by thousands of gang
bangers, too many power hungry
politicians, overworked colleagues worked. I know different. Stress coach, my Dad, to fix it.
In My Opinion
SHARON
LEDDICK
Life Matters
our “doctoring,” and perch him onto
the bathroom counter. Before I
In My Opinion
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affords Allen American readers an
opportunity to express their views
on issues affecting this community
and its people.
Guest opinions should be con-
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American, P.O. Box 27, Allen,
Texas 75002.
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