On Oct. 25, I read an article in the Bradenton Herald about a Palmetto convenience store clerk being assaulted and robbed about 3 a.m. The two robbers demanded money and when the female clerk couldn’t open the cash register, one of these brave robbers pointed a gun at her and pulled the trigger multiple times. Luckily, the gun had more brains than the robbers as it refused to fire. However, not to be outsmarted by either the clerk or the gun, the second robber took the gun and proceeded to pistol whip the clerk with it, thus showing both the gun and the clerk that these brave and smart robbers were nobody to be fooled with.
The description of these two robbers was one stood about 6-foot-3 and the other about 5-foot-2. Just a guess that the law enforcement community may have named them the “Mutt and Jeff” team. They escaped with a carton of cigarettes, leaving this poor clerk bruised and bloody with memories that will last beyond forever, I am sure.
My sympathy goes out to this employee. She was merely trying to do her job. Bad enough she had to work all night but to have these low-life creeps do this really sickens me.
I sincerely hope this company does everything possible to help this clerk while she tries to get over this nightmare that was forced upon her. I also hope her friends and family offer a hand to hold and an arm to cling to as she attempts to put this behind her. I further hope these two “wannabe thugs” run into someone that happens to have a working revolver one night. They deserve no better.
Frank B. Holcomb
Bradenton
Cash for clunkers and six years of payments
What has the government talked us into now? Trade in your paid-off car that used a little too much gas for something that will cost you $400-$500 per month for the next six years. The repo man is going to be busy for the next couple of years.
In these times, when there is no work and people are living off their unemployment pay and food stamps, Obama is saying “buy and spend, we have to keep those plants open.” Those people up north are only making $40-$50 per hour. Heaven forbid they would have to work for $20-something per hour!
Well, they should all come down here. This is a “right to work” state. You either work for $7.50 per hour, or stay home.
James Cassidy
Palmetto
How can Americans keep their standard of living?
A press release on the Social Security Web site quotes Michael Astrue, commissioner of Social Security; “Social Security is doing its job helping Americans maintain their standard of living.” Mr. Astrue, which Americans are those?
This year my cable TV went up 10 percent, drug insurance premiums 31 percent, home insurance premiums 14 percent, condo association dues 19 percent — and I could go on. I’m afraid to see what’s going to happen to medical insurance premiums. Oh, but one thing has decreased. The interest rate on my CD fell 50 percent!
With no cost-of-living increase, I can hardly believe that my standard of living is being maintained.
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