Letters to the Editor 07-06-2006
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Barbee Sewer - Trimming Trees - One-Party System
Barbee Sewer
Editor, Times-Union:Who exactly is David Doctor? I never heard of him until a couple of weeks ago.
By what authority does he try to speak for the whole Barbee Area as far as sewers are concerned? As far as being a resident, he has one vote per property owned - no more, no less!
At least the last sewer board was formed by a vote of the residents and with the backing of the property owners association. By what right does David Doctor speak for me as a property owner (two, in fact)?
I think the $306,000 is a pretty small cost of the total sewer system for the Barbee area. It will be there when needed - no need for it now.
I do not think most people want to be railroaded into paying for a system that has not been broken down as to cost, time and exactly how it is going to work. A lot of questions are yet to be answered!
David Doctor does not speak for me!
James S. Shepherd
Warsaw
Trimming Trees
Editor, Times-Union:A few months ago a young man came to my front door and said he was from REMC. He said I had a tree interfering with the lines. He couldn't just trim it, the whole tree would have to come down. Being physically unable to get out and check it, I trusted him.
He then very condescendingly explained how they would put the branches through the chipper and stack up the logs - and a lot of people need wood to burn. He was so condescending, I expected him to pat me on the head. So I gave consent to cut down my beautifully shaped mulberry tree.
Shortly after that I found out that tree was no where close to the lines and he gets paid for every tree he cuts down.
So here is a young man throwing honesty and integrity out the window and letting greed with capitol letters take over. He not only lost his honesty and integrity and trustworthiness - he lied to me which breaks God's Ninth commandment.
I wonder if he has a family and teaches them all of this.
My husband always said I was too trusting and since his passing he's been right more times than I'd like to count.
Oddly enough, looking at this young man's face - he didn't look as stupid as he is acting.
It's the trees and plants that give us the oxygen we need and he is seeing how many he can cut down. I also lost an apple tree that only a few branches on the north side needed trimming.
Now I'm out two beautiful fruit trees. I wonder if REMC knows how they are being ripped off.
Do they care?
Helen B. Wise
Claypool
One-Party System
Editor, Times-Union:I'm a bit confused. Sometime back, November 2004 I believe, some wise person wrote to you and made the statement "anyone who votes Democrat is a communist!" I thought this was pretty far-fetched since the Communists had by then ceased to become the threat it was in the '60s and '70s. The Berlin Wall was taken down and the USSR was dismantled.
It seems to me that there is some kind of unsaid pact that Kosciusko County is, was, and will remain totally Republican. There is no two-party system in this county as can be attested to by the ballot in the last election. Not one office was contested by a Democrat! Now if what that person said back in 2004 was true, what does that make the Republican party look like in this county? If there is a one-party system, and it seems to be so in this county, just which party comes closest to being Communist?
When I was a kid, we were told not to hit someone unless he hits you first. We declared war on Iraq, not because they had done something against our country, but because they might! Well, so might China or some other country, but since we literally ran over them back in the Gulf War, Iraq should be a pushover. Now we are in a never-ending war with a foe that is invisible. So much for our being peaceful.
On the state level we were all tied up in a time issue about daylight-saving time. What a smoke screen! This was just to keep us in the dark about what Governor Daniels, a Republican I might add, was doing in leasing the toll road. Just as soon as the time thing was settled, all of a sudden we find that leasing the toll road was virtually a cut-and-dried deal. We were sold up the river and the results will probably not be seen for 20 years or so.
Am I pleased with what Republicans have done on the national, state and local levels? How can I be?
James Townsend, via e-mail
Warsaw
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Barbee Sewer
Editor, Times-Union:Who exactly is David Doctor? I never heard of him until a couple of weeks ago.
By what authority does he try to speak for the whole Barbee Area as far as sewers are concerned? As far as being a resident, he has one vote per property owned - no more, no less!
At least the last sewer board was formed by a vote of the residents and with the backing of the property owners association. By what right does David Doctor speak for me as a property owner (two, in fact)?
I think the $306,000 is a pretty small cost of the total sewer system for the Barbee area. It will be there when needed - no need for it now.
I do not think most people want to be railroaded into paying for a system that has not been broken down as to cost, time and exactly how it is going to work. A lot of questions are yet to be answered!
David Doctor does not speak for me!
James S. Shepherd
Warsaw
Trimming Trees
Editor, Times-Union:A few months ago a young man came to my front door and said he was from REMC. He said I had a tree interfering with the lines. He couldn't just trim it, the whole tree would have to come down. Being physically unable to get out and check it, I trusted him.
He then very condescendingly explained how they would put the branches through the chipper and stack up the logs - and a lot of people need wood to burn. He was so condescending, I expected him to pat me on the head. So I gave consent to cut down my beautifully shaped mulberry tree.
Shortly after that I found out that tree was no where close to the lines and he gets paid for every tree he cuts down.
So here is a young man throwing honesty and integrity out the window and letting greed with capitol letters take over. He not only lost his honesty and integrity and trustworthiness - he lied to me which breaks God's Ninth commandment.
I wonder if he has a family and teaches them all of this.
My husband always said I was too trusting and since his passing he's been right more times than I'd like to count.
Oddly enough, looking at this young man's face - he didn't look as stupid as he is acting.
It's the trees and plants that give us the oxygen we need and he is seeing how many he can cut down. I also lost an apple tree that only a few branches on the north side needed trimming.
Now I'm out two beautiful fruit trees. I wonder if REMC knows how they are being ripped off.
Do they care?
Helen B. Wise
Claypool
One-Party System
Editor, Times-Union:I'm a bit confused. Sometime back, November 2004 I believe, some wise person wrote to you and made the statement "anyone who votes Democrat is a communist!" I thought this was pretty far-fetched since the Communists had by then ceased to become the threat it was in the '60s and '70s. The Berlin Wall was taken down and the USSR was dismantled.
It seems to me that there is some kind of unsaid pact that Kosciusko County is, was, and will remain totally Republican. There is no two-party system in this county as can be attested to by the ballot in the last election. Not one office was contested by a Democrat! Now if what that person said back in 2004 was true, what does that make the Republican party look like in this county? If there is a one-party system, and it seems to be so in this county, just which party comes closest to being Communist?
When I was a kid, we were told not to hit someone unless he hits you first. We declared war on Iraq, not because they had done something against our country, but because they might! Well, so might China or some other country, but since we literally ran over them back in the Gulf War, Iraq should be a pushover. Now we are in a never-ending war with a foe that is invisible. So much for our being peaceful.
On the state level we were all tied up in a time issue about daylight-saving time. What a smoke screen! This was just to keep us in the dark about what Governor Daniels, a Republican I might add, was doing in leasing the toll road. Just as soon as the time thing was settled, all of a sudden we find that leasing the toll road was virtually a cut-and-dried deal. We were sold up the river and the results will probably not be seen for 20 years or so.
Am I pleased with what Republicans have done on the national, state and local levels? How can I be?
James Townsend, via e-mail
Warsaw
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