I'm with Bear on this one, I 'm not much liked in any of the local Scraps going on, matter of fact the last one I entered I stood up for the Local retired folks in my area for the Forced accusition of monies for Proposed water lines and Tap in fees, Look these folks are on fixed incomes for crying out loud let's be Honest here...an they went on an on about Upgrading the community and bettering the water supply etc. Da, money doesn't grow on trees...
He's Right and He should lead as much as an example in his area too, I hope he does. I do. I read those articles in the news papers Chit, Doesn't do any good...Get down to your local Municiple Building and sit in...Good Job Bear...
Hmmm... odd this water thing.
The local "Town Supervisor" here has been trying to
ram a "water district" down our throats for about two years. He's tried almost every dirty trick in the books. He claims there's a "health emergency" that is the reason he absolutely has to do this... there is no health emergency. There are some water problems, but the Hamlet here has been around since Colonial times with the same water as now... not many more people either. No one has died yet.
But nearby, they rammed through a water district and there was a story in the paper that owners of
EMPTY LAND were being charged a
grand a year for water they are not using!! Nice, eh?
And, if you don't pay, what will they do? Take ur land.
They estimate it will take 3 Million dollars for this water thing, and they have done no serious studies of groundwater availability etc... it's fairly obvious that a few people will benefit from the water lines via undeveloped land holdings along a major roadway/corridor... the smell of stink rises.
So far they've been stopped by a series of lawsuiits...
BUT, it's like the local C'ment plant that wanted to burn toxic waste in the kiln. They were relentless. They were rebuffed countless times... but kept coming back. Finally they got it done, people just got tired of fighting them year after year. Like friggin ants they are. No, not ants, Borg.
BTW, the C'ment plant is about 1,000 yards from the Elementary School and the High School. Nice.
What bugs me is that they are managing to push through the SAME STUFF all over the country. Like the "junk car ordinances". You can't keep cars. Why? Do we really
need to ship all of our scrap to China? How come every town has the same law?
And the stupid "tower laws"!! How come every town seems to have the same damn
tower laws???
In the words of George Harrison: "...all through the day I. me, mine, I me mine..."
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