Letters to the Editor - Aug. 15

Dear Edi­tor:

Con­cerned Cit­i­zens for Your Safety attended a packed Cardign­ton Town­ship hall on Mon­day, August 13th.

Our group seems to be gath­er­ing steam. Two points were made very clear (1) the per­mit was issued in vio­la­tion of zon­ing reg­u­la­tions (2) a num­ber of peo­ple spoke as to safety on an already dan­ger­ous curve.

Thank you to all who attended and expressed their support.

Bill Grif­fin, Cardington

Dear Sir or Madam,

Con­sid­er­ing the fact that every year at elec­tion time, there will inevitably be Levies on the Bal­lot, as sure as God made lit­tle green apples. The Man­i­fes­ta­tion of these levies is surely not the result of the Tax Pay­ers pay­ing too lit­tle in Taxes, it is my opin­ion that the pow­ers that be, whether it is the State or County Trea­sur­ers, or School Dis­tricts, are flat out being irre­spon­si­ble in doing the job that the folks pay­ing their salaries have hired, or elected them to do. They have their pri­or­i­ties all screwed up.

It seems strange to me that every year we pay more and more in taxes and more tax monies are gen­er­ated, but these monies don’t seem to be enough to cover the essen­tial ser­vices that we have become accus­tomed to, over the years, caus­ing our safety forces to shrink and our school sys­tems to have to cut out things that the chil­dren have always had, includ­ing sports pro­grams and music pro­grams, even to the point that par­ents are forced to fur­nish items for the schools that have, until recently, always been a given.

I know I am a dinosaur in my think­ing, how­ever as an exam­ple, one would think that since we as a coun­try, pay more per stu­dent than any other civ­i­lized coun­try on edu­ca­tion, we should have the best edu­cated peo­ple in the entire world, but we are at the very bot­tom of the list, regard­ing edu­ca­tion. Which leads me to believe that it is not the lack of money that is caus­ing the prob­lem with our Edu­ca­tion Sys­tem or the dete­ri­o­rat­ing Infra­struc­ture of our High­ways, Bridges and Cities in gen­eral and other essen­tial ser­vices of our States, Cities and com­mu­ni­ties, it is the inap­pro­pri­ate use of that money.

I know I am like Don Quixote, tilt­ing at Wind­mills and this is an exer­cise in futil­ity, but I feel I should at least try to bring this to someone’s atten­tion. I would hope that I am not alone in my Juras­sic think­ing and I really can’t believe I am.

Thank you, Darl Mills, Mt. Gilead

To the Editor,

Hail to the Chief! Wednes­day, August 1st, Pres­i­dent Obama arrived in the small, finan­cially strapped city of Mans­field, Ohio. Yes, the city of Mans­field is in a state of fis­cal emer­gency, but that was of no con­cern to the Pres­i­dent as he insisted on an out­door event, cost­ing the city a small for­tune. This out­door event bar­ri­caded off sev­eral blocks and park­ing lots, hin­der­ing small busi­nesses in the area.

Adding insult to injury, Pres­i­dent Obama flew into a mil­i­tary base that his admin­is­tra­tion is try­ing to close. Appar­ently, the White House was “unaware” of that small fact.

The President’s speech was the same old same old — Gov­er­nor Rom­ney favors the rich, Obama wants to help middle-income, work­ing fam­i­lies (I guess lower-income or upper income fam­i­lies are not con­sid­ered to be “work­ing” fam­i­lies). The White House also seems to have missed the fact that July marked the 42nd con­sec­u­tive month that the unem­ploy­ment rate remained above 8%, the high­est since the 1930’s. The unem­ploy­ment rate for His­pan­ics remains over 10%, while blacks strug­gle at a rate over 14%. Another small fact is that rev­enue for middle-income fam­i­lies has dropped by about $4,300 annu­ally dur­ing this admin­is­tra­tion; while wel­fare spend­ing has increased by about 41% with no decrease in the poverty rate, and a record num­ber of Amer­i­cans now receive food stamps.

The cur­rent admin­is­tra­tion believes that class war­fare, and mak­ing more peo­ple depen­dent on gov­ern­ment under the guise of “help­ing mid­dle income fam­i­lies” will secure more votes, and per­haps it will, but any­one will­ing to look at the facts knows that our coun­try can­not sur­vive four more years of these failed poli­cies. Our country’s suc­cess was based on free enter­prise, a strong work ethic and a sense of per­sonal responsibility.

After the event, the Pres­i­dent con­tin­ued on to Akron, Ohio, another depressed area. But rather than take the hour drive in his motor­cade, the Pres­i­dent returned to the mil­i­tary base he’s try­ing to close and flew to Akron.

How’s that for con­nect­ing to “middle-income” families.

Mar­i­anne Gasiecki, Mansfield

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