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This is about the government taking one more of your individual rights away. All you people did was further weaken a nation. The state didn't want to take this on for good reason. They realized the law would be screwing over the little people, and the very likely possibility of an unnecessary lawsuit. Thanks to the editor of this paper and Sgt. Grellner, they have capitalized on the fact that this group of elected officials would be too afraid to just say no!
Saturday's editorial congratulated these same people for their courage. What courage? Being too afraid to say no? That's not what leaders do. It's what followers do. I have a suggestion for the people in Union who need a prescription. If it's 2 a.m. and your child needs medicine, medicine that you could've purchased before without a doctor's prescription, go to Urgi-Care or the emergency room.
Please, by all means, call the mayor or one of the aldermen and ask them for the $75 to $100 to cover the co-pay. Please keep these numbers posted by the phone and call each and every one of them until you reach someone who will wake up and answer the phone. Ask for the co-pay. They can always be reimbursed from the city coffers on the following day. There, problem solved.
I want every citizen in Union to remember this at election time. Every single representative without the courage to say "Hey, this is wrong" should be kicked out of office ASAP.
I don't think, in my life, I have ever agreed with the ACLU. But they're dead on, on this one and I hope you learn an expensive lesson.
There were already processes in place to trace the sale of pseudoephedrine. You sign your name for it. Now I don't know much about the sheriff's department, but it seems to me that an electronic program could be created to categorize data and to highlight anyone who seems to be purchasing large amounts.
But you had to have this grandiose campaign to make local communities the first in the nation to place this burdensome law on the books. Maybe those involved will get some national press coverage or maybe be offered a book deal! Who knows, maybe this could be made into a movie of the week. You could all be celebrities!
What you have done here is an example of the disease tearing this country apart now. More government intervention. Let's punish the masses for the crimes of a few. Remember Prohibition? Gun control? And what a coincidence that on the front page of the paper, lo and behold, two meth busts in town the week before the vote! That helped out a lot didn't it?
Everyone, and I mean everyone I have talked to said that something needs to be done about the meth problem. These same people have also said that requiring us to obtain a physician's script is not the answer. To the board of aldermen and the mayor: Come on now, really. Did you bother to talk to any single mothers or go to the senior citizens center to get any input? I'm at the center every other week and I have talked to the seniors and not one of them want to cough up a co-pay.
Obviously, the Union Board of Aldermen has trouble making decisions, so I suggest you take a much-needed long vacation and turn everything over to Sgt. Grellner and the FCSD. Apparently, he knows what's best for us.
