Doesn't anybody care about rising costs?

To the editor:

The degree of anxiety was increasing daily.

My wife and I knew it would happen, absolutely, positively, but the unknown factor was when. Any unusual sounds would cause a rapid move to our front window to sneak a cautious look outside.

Then yesterday morning it happened. Nothing we could do to stop it.

No sense in arguing with the inevitable.

In just a matter of moments, the heating oil truck made their delevery then vanished down the road.

Who would retrieve their invoice left in our mailbox?

I was volunteered and out I went. Just took it, went back inside and slumped in my casual chair.

Finally the nerve to look took over. $541!

A leap out of my chair with a loud yell, "I'm mad as heck and I'm not going to take it any longer!"

My wife gave me "that" look speaking her usual words of wisdom: "There's nothing you can do about this because no one cares."

And deep down I know she is absolutely correct. Doesn't anyone in a position of power have concern about the cost of heating oil, gasoline, medicine costs, sewer taxes, and all those other dictated costs that cause so many Attleboro residents to make serious decisions on what they can afford?

So far the answer has been a resounding no... Adrian Geoffroy Attleboro

What if this shoe were on other foot?

To the editor:

Recently, a perhaps questionable decision by a Romney-appointed lifetime judge in Massachusetts, which resulted in the freed felon committing two murders, is now being bandied about by vying Republican presidential hopefuls as a heated political football late in the second quarter of a "Super (Tuesday) Bowl" scrimmage.

I wonder, however, what charges and counter-charges would have been flying around like loose buckshot, had a "law-and-order" lifetime political appointee failed to stay an execution for the purpose of considering new evidence proving a convicted felon's innocence, thus aiding in committing the ultimate, irrevocable act of legalized murder. Makes you wonder about your, my, and everyone else's safety, security, and well-being under current laws, administered by fallible, humans (far too often lifetime political appointees with their own, or their "liege lord's" personal axe to grind).

Think about it!

David Daugman
Attleboro