DID YOU EVER SIT AND PONDER AS YOU WALK ALONG THE SAND......THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

DID YOU EVER SIT AND PONDER
AS YOU WALK ALONG THE SAND,
THAT LIFE'S A BITTER BATTLE AT THE BEST.
AND IF YOU ONLY KNEW,
AND LENT A HELPING HAND,
THEN EVERYONE COULD MEET THE FINAL TEST.
THE WORLD IS BUT A STAGE, MY FRIEND,
AND LIFE IS BUT A GAME,
AND HOW YOU PLAY IS ALL THAT MATTERS IN THE END.
FOR WHETHER A PERSON IS RIGHT OR WRONG,
THERE IS ALWAYS SOMEONE TO BLAME,
AND YOU ARE YOUR OWN BEST FRIEND.
********groucho marx
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DREAR READERS:

THERE ARE NOW JUST FOUR CANDIDATES LEFT IN THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY TO SEE WHO GETS TO CHALLENGE SUE KELLY. DARREN RIGGER OF PEEKSKILL, BEN SHULDINER OF CORTLANT, JOHN HALL OF DOVER PLAINS AND JUDY AYDELOTT OF KATONAH. BOTH JOHN HALL AND JUDY AYDELOTT , AFTER READING THEIR STANCES ON THE ISSUES SEEM TO THINK THEY ARE TRYING TO REPRESENT THE UPPER WEST SIDE OF MANHATTAN. AS THE UPPER WEST SIDE HAS THEIR OWN CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE, I DON'T THINK IT IS NECESSARY FOR US TO VOTE FOR ANOTHER ONE. THAT LEAVES DARREN RIGGER AND BEN SHULDINER. TOUGH CHOICE. BEN HAS THE NECESSARY CREDENTIALS TO ADRESS EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AS HE HAS BEEN BOTH A TEACHER AND A PRINCIPAL, YET DARREN HAS THE EXPIERIENCE TO UNDERSTAND THE HALLS OF CONGRESS. BEN HAS HIS HEADQUARTERS ON RT. 6 ACROSS FROM MOHEGAN BEER AND SODA BEFORE THE CORTLANT MALL. DARREN'S HEADQUARTERS IS ON NORTH DIVISION STREEET ACROSS FORM THE WORKMAN'S COMP. BUILDING IN PEEKSKILL. THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM IS THAT THIS IS A GERRYMANDERED RED DISTRICT(DO NOT DISCOUNT THE 19,000 ROCKLAND COUNTY RESIDENTS), THERFORE IT IS NECESSARY FOR A DEMOCRAT TO APPEAL TO REPBULICANS TO CARRY THIS DISTRICT. I SUBMIT THAT BOTH JUDY AYDELOTT AND JOHN HALL CANNOT DO THIS. THEREFORE THE ONLY DEMOCARTIC HOPE TO UNSEAT SUE KELLY ARE EITHER DARREN RIGGER OR BEN SHULDINER. AS BOTH ARE EASILY ACCESABLE IT WOULD BEHOOVE YOU TO VISIT THEM AND SPEAK TO THEM YOURSELVES. BOTH UNDERSTAND THE DISTRIC THEY ARE TRYING TO REPRESENT AND ARE UNDERSTANDING OF THE ISSUES THAT CONCERN YOU. TO BE A BETTER EDUCATED VOTER GO TALK TO THEM YOURSELF, DON'T RELY ON THE LOCAL MEDIA TO HELP YOU.
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THE VOTE ON STEM CELL RESEARCH IN THE SENATE THAT THE PRESIDENT VETOED ONLY MEANS THAT THE GOVERMENT WILL NOT FUND THE RESEARCH, NOT THAT THERE CANNOT BE PRIVATELY FUNDED RESEARCH.
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THE RECENT RULING REGARDING GAY MARRIGE IN N.Y. ONLY MEANS NOW THE LEGISLATORS WILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE ISSUE. THAT IS AS IT SHOULD BE. OUR SYSTEM OF GOVERMENT IS SET UP SO THAT YOU THE VOTER CAN HAVE A SAY ON THE IMPORTANT ISSUES OF THE DAY, THROUGH REDRESS AT THE BALLOT BOX. THE JUDICARY IS NOT A LEGISLATIVE BODY, NOR SHOULD IT BE. ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, NO MATTER HOW YOU FEEL IT IS UP TO YOU TO LET YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES KNOW HOW YOU FEEL, DO IT!!!!!
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I DON'T THINK THE TAXPAYERS OF CORTLANT SHOULD BE PAYING $91,000 OR $75,000 OR EVEN $50,000 FOR A DOG WALK BEHIND THE MOVIE THEATRE AT THE CORTLANT MALL. IF THE DOG OWNERS OF CORTLANT WANT A WALK BAD ENOUGH, AS THE MALL IS DONATING THE LAND, AND HOME DEPOT IS DONATING THE FENCING, LET THEM FUND IT THEMSELVES, OR BETTER YET DON'T TAKE YOUR DOG SHOPPING.
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DISCUSSION OF THE RIVERFRONT DEVELOPMENT OF THE PEEKSKILL WATER FRONT WILL BE ON THE AGENDA OF THE NEXT PEEKSKILL COUNCIL MEETING MONDAY AUGUST 21 7:30PM AT CITY HALL. IF YOU WANT TO BE HEARD BE THERE!
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THE COUNTY LEGISLATORS PASSED AN UNFUNDED MANDATE THAT REQUIRED THE COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENTS TO PAY FOR A TIE IN LINE TO THE COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SEVICES AND DISPACH HEAD QUARTERS IN VALHALLA. THIS COSTS THE MOHEGAN FIRE DEPARTMENT ABOUT $8,000.00 A YEAR(MONEY THEY COULD USE TO OFFSET THE INCREASE IN ENERGY COSTS). AS THE FIRST DUTY OF ANY GOVERMENT IS THE SAFETY OF ITS CITIZENS AND COUNTY LEGISLATOR GEORGE ORO'S UNDERSTANDS THAT, HE IS TRYING TO GET THE COUNTY TO PAY FOR THIS NOW UNFUNDED MANDATE. HE NEEDS YOUR HELP IN GETTING THE DEMOCRATS ON BOARD. LET HIM KNOW HE HAS YOUR SUPPORT, AND LET COUNTY LEGISLATOR DAVID KALPOWITZ KNOW YOU DON'T APPRECIATE HIM BEING A ROADBLOCK. ON THIS ISSUE, COUNTY LEGISLATOR GEORGE OROS IS RIGHT. LET HIM KNOW YOU KNOW THAT TOO. IF THIS COUNTY CAN WASTE TAXPAYER MONEY ON STATUES AND TRIPLICATING SERVICES ALREADY PROVIDED BY THE STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THEN FINDING THE MONEY TO FUND THIS MANDATE SHOULD NOT BE A PROBLEM.

BAZZO 07/25/06

THE DEATH OF PRINCIPALED POSTIONS IN THE QUEST OF POWER FOR POWER'S SAKE

DEAR READERS:

THERE IS A REASON WHY PROSTITUTION AND POLITICS ARE OFTEN CONFUSED AS ONE AND THE SAME. OUR REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE IN THE STATE SENATE VINCENT LIEBEL AND YONKERS REPUBLICAN STATE SENATOR NICK SPANO AND THE REST OF THE REPUBLICAN STATE SENATE IN THEIR QUEST FOR HOLDING THE REPUBLICAN MAGORITY IN THE STATE SENATE HAVE SOLD THEIR SOULS TO THE WORKING FAMILIES PARTY, A PARTY THAT IS THE ANTIHISIS OF REPUBLICAN PRINCIPALS BY VOTING TO GUT THE TAYLOR LAWS AND MAKING IT EASIER FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES TO STRIKE WITH LITTLE OR NO CONSEQUENCES. THIS MEASURE ALSO PASSED THE STATE ASSEMBLY WITH OUR REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRAT SANDRA GALEF VOTING IN FAVOR OF IT TOO. THIS MEASURE PAYS STRIKING WORKERS A 1% RAISE IN SALARY PLUS A HALF % INCREASE EVERY THREE MONTHS THEY HAVEN'T REACHED AN ACCORD, JUST BY SAYING THE GOVERNING EMPLOYER HAS NEGOTIATED IN BAD FAITH. THIS IS A GIFT TO THE UNIONS JUST TO RETAIN POWER FOR THE SAKE OF POWER AND THE PUBLIC TAXPAYER BE DAMNED. THAY HAVE ALSO PROPOSED MAKING PRIVATE SECTOR EMPLOYERS PAY WORKERS WHO UTILIZE THE FAMILY LEAVE ACT. THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A MINUTE, AN EMPLOYER HAS TO PAY SOMEONE NOT TO WORK WHILE THEY PAY SOMEONE TO WORK. ASK YOUR SELF THIS QUESTION, HOW MANY YOUNG PEOPLE OF CHILD BEARING OR REARING AGE WILL EMPLOYERS HIRE IF THEY FEEL SOMETIME IN THE NEAR FUTURE THEY WILL BE PAYING THEM NOT TO WORK?
THEY HAVE ALSO PROPOSED TO UNIONIZE 52,000 HOME-DAY-CARE WORKERS, PUTING THEM IN LINE FOR HIGH SALARIES AND BENEFITS PAID FOR BY THE TAXPAYERS. THEY HAVE ALSO PROPOSED THE PRIVATE BUSINESES WITH 100 OR MORE EMPLOYEES RAISE THE SALARIES OF WORKER BY $3.00 AN HOUR TO PAY FOR HEALTH CARE BENEFITS. WHO PAYS FOR THESE INCREASES ? YOU AND I PAY THROUGH HIGHER COSTS FOR GOOD AND SERVICES, THAT'S WHO! IN THEIR QUEST FOR THE RETENTION OF POWER OUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES HAVE PUT A GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SIGN ON THE N.Y.STATE LOGO AND CHANGED THE STATE MOTTO FROM "EXCELSIOR" TO "PUBLIC BE DAMNED". NOW, VINCENT LIEBEL HAS A CHALENGER IN DEMOCRATIC COUNTY LEGISLATOR DAVID KALPOWITZ, ONE ENTRENCHED ENCUMBENT CHALENGING ANOTHER, WE LOSE EITHER WAY, YET IT IS A CREDIBLE CHOICE. HOWEVER IT IS TO THE SHAME OF THE REPUBLICAN AND CONSERVATIVE LEADERS THAT THEY CAN FIND NO ONE TO CHALLENGE SANDRA GALEF. A PLAGUE ON BOTH THEIR HOUSES FOR DOING THIS TO US. THAT THEY HAVE RECRUITED NO ONE FROM THE BENCH TO MAKE A RACE OF THIS, THEY ALL DESERVE TO BE REPLACE FROM THEIR POSTIONS OF LEADERSHIP. ALSO DAMN US FOR OUR SILENCE AND CONTINUED RE-ELECTION OF THESE MEDIOCRITIES. BY RE-ELECTING THESE PEOPLE AND NOT VOICING OUR DISGUST WE ALLOW THESE POLITICIANS AND THEIR LEADERS TO CONTINUALLY SHOW CONTEMPT FOR US, THE VOTERS. IN THE WAKE OF THIS, WILL YOU CONTINUE TO BE UNENVOLVED? THE CHOICE IS UP TO YOU.

BAZZO 06/27/06

NOTE 06/28/06 "SLEEP WITH DOGS ...GET UP WITH FLEAS"

according to the journal news, after carring the water for the working family's party, getting the aboved mentioned proposals not only passed but overiding the govenor's vetos in the dead of night, both republicans vincent liebel and nick spano will not, i reapeat will not be getting the working family's party endorsement. i could almost feel sorry for the betrayal, except for the anger i still carry for their betrayal of of us and the republican principals the were supose to represent. don't you just love it, now if they both lose this novembers election then justice will be complete.

A.J.B.

SCARING PEOPLE INTO INACTION

DEAR READERS:

I HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT TO BE IN OPPOSITION TO PROGRESS HISTORY BEGINS EVERY MORNING. IT ISN'T ENOUGH THAT FOR MOST PEOPLE HISTORY BEGINS THE DAY THEY WERE BORN, (UNLESS YOU ARE A DEMOCRAT, THAN HISTORY BEGAN ON JANUARY 17, 2001). I APPARENTLY AM OF THE RARE BREED THAT BELIEVES THERE WAS A HISTORY EVEN BEFORE I WAS BORN (OVER A HUNDRED YEARS AGO). I BRING THIS UP AS A STARTING POINT AFTER SEEING AND READING OVER THE LAST THREE WEEKS THE UPROAR OVER THE PROPOSED PEEKSKILL DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT PROPOSITION (BROAD STREET TO BANK STREET.....MAIN STREET TO PARK STREET). SO FAR THERE HAVE BEEN TWO HIT PIECES IN THE PAPERS DESIGNED TO INFLAME THE POPULACE WITH SCARE TACTICS IN ORDER TO HALT THIS DEVELOPMENT. AND SCARE THE POPULACE THEY DID. THERE IS A NEFARIOUS PLOT TO SCARE PROPERTY OWNERS THAT THE EVIL REPUBLICANS ON THE PEEKSKILL CITY COUNCIL ARE GOING TO TAKE THERE BUSINEES AND HOMES THROUGH THE USE OF EMINENT DOMAIN. THEY WILL BE THROWN ON THE STREET WITH NO WAY TO FEED THEIR FAMILIES. ON TOP OF THAT, THEY ARE GOING TO INSURE THAT THEY WILL CONTINUE TO BE SICK BY TAKING AWAY THE PEEKSKILL HEALTH CENTER. I WATCHED THE PEOPLE OF PEEKSKILL BERATE THE COUNCIL OVER THESE UNFOUNDED FEARS.

LAST ELECTION CYCLE, THE DEMOCRATS RUNNING FOR OFFICE USED AS ONE OF THEIR MAIN PLANKS THE SAME DEVLOPMENT OF DOWNTOWN PEEKSKILL. THERE WERE AT LEAST TWO PROMINENT ARTICLES IN THE RUN UP TO THE ELECTION ON HOW THE EASTERN ENTRANCE TO PEEEKSKILL NEEDED TO BE UPGRADED. SO THE FIRST QUESTION ONE MUST ASK IS IF THAT DEVLOPMENT WAS SO GOOD BEFORE THE ELECTION, WHY IS IT SO TERRIBLE NOW? EASY ANSWER IS THAT THE REPUBLICANS ARE DOING IT. SO NOW THERE IS A STUDY BEING DONE ON THIS AREA TO SEE WHAT MUST BE DONE INCLUDING A BLIGHT STUDY. THIS IS WHAT HAS SCARED PEOPLE, THIS STUDY, SHOULD IT CONCLUDE THAT PARTS OF THE AREA ARE BLIGHTED, WOULD ALLOW THE CITY TO USE EMINENT DOMAIN. NOW LAST ELECTION CYCLE THIS SCARE TACTIC WAS USE BY THE OPPOSTION REGARDING THE RIVERFRONT DEVLOPMENT. YET, NO EMINENT DOMAIN HAS BEEN USED TO MOVE THIS PROJECT FOWARD.

NOW YOU WHO READ ME REGULARLY KNOW MY POSITION ON EMINENT DOMAIN AND THE SUPREME COURT DICISSION EXPANDING THE GROUNDS GOVERNMENT CAN USE. ANY MAYOR WOULD BE DERILIC IF HE OR SHE DID NOT KEEP ALL THEIR LEGAL OPTIONS OPEN. THIS DOES NOT MEAN THEY WOULD USE THIS OPTION. HAVING THE RIGHT TO DO SOMETHING DOES NOT MEAN IT IS RIGHT TO DO. SO FAR THE MAYOR HAS SAID HE HAS NO PLANS TO USE EMINENT DOMAIN, AND AS HISTORY HAS PROVEN, HE IS A MAN OF HIS WORD. UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE I WILL TAKE HIM AT IT. SHOULD THE LAST ELECTION HAVE COME OUT DIFFERENT, THE NEW MAYOR WOULD HAVE DONE THE SAME STUDIES, AS NOT TO DO SO, WOULD BE A DISSERVICE. SO RIGHT NOW WHAT YOU HAVE IS AN OPPOSTION THAT IS USING SCARE TACTICS TO PUT POLITICS OVER THE BEST INTERESTS OF PEEKSKILL.

RIGHT NOW I WILL RESERVE JUDGEMENT UNTIL THESE STUDIES ARE COMPLETE. IT WOULD BE BEST FOR THOSE IN OPPOSTION TO REFRAIN FROM THIS DEMONIZING UNTIL THEN. SCARING PEOPLE IS A NASTY WAY OF STOPPING PROGRESS. IT LOWERS THOSE WHO USE IT, AND BREEDS CONTEMPT FOR GOVERNMENT. IT DOES NOT MATTER WHO GETS CREDIT, AS LONG AS THE CITY BENIFITS.

BAZZO 05/23/06

democratic primary for congress update:
peekskill resident and democratic candidate DARREN RIGGER has won the putnam county convention. JOHN HALL came in second. town of cortlant resident BEN SHULDINER AND yorktown councilman JAMES MARTORANO tied for third...worth noting, money leader JUDY ADYELOTT came in last.

A.J.B. 05/24/06 democratic primary for congress update:
the orange county convention:
JOHN HALL was first, peekskill resdident DARREN RIGGER and yorktown councilman JAMES MARTORANO tied for second, cortlant resident BEN SHULDINER came in third, finally again
JUDY ADYELOTT came in last. show you in this election where you stand on the great isssues before us counts more than money
A.J.B 05/25/06

democrat primary for congress update:
the westchestercounty convention:
yorktown councilman JAMES MARTORANO first, peekskill resident DARREN RIGGER second, JUDY ADYELOTT third, JOHN HALL fourth and cortlant resident BEN SHULDINER fifth. peekskill resident DARREN RIGGER seem to have consistantly strong showings, keep an eye on him.
A.J.B.
05/26/06

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNESTLY ANDY

DEAR READERS:

I THINK WE ALL OWE A DEBT OF GRATITUDE TO FORMER PEEKSKILL COUNCILMAN BILL SCHMIDT WHO, EVEN THOUGH IS PRESNTLY OUT OF OFFICE, CONTINUES TO SERVE THE PUBLIC GOOD BY BRINGING TO LIGHT VIA THE JOURNAL NEWS THE DEPLORABLE CONDITION OF THE BEAR MOUNTAIN PARKWAY. BY HAVING THE JOURNAL NEWS SHINE THE SPOTLIGHT ON THE HAZARDOUS CONDITION OF THE PARKWAY, THE REPAVING OF IT HAS BEGUN. ALL DRIVERS AND THEIR CARS UNDERCARRIGE SHOULD APPLAUD THE EFFORTS OF BILL SCHMIDT. THAT AT THIS PRESENT TIME HE IS NOT IN PUBLIC SERVICE IS A LOSS THAT I HOPE WILL SOON BE RECTIFIED.
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I HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT IN THIS YEARS CONGRESSIONAL AND SENATORIAL ELECTIONS THE POLLS, TALKING HEADS AND POLITICIANS ARE TOTALLY MISREADING THE PUBLIC. THERE ARE THREE MAJOR ISSUES THAT WILL DETERMIN THESE ELECTIONS THAT THE VOTING POPULACE HAS ALREADY MADE UP THEIR MINDS ABOUT, ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, AND FOR THOSE RUNNING FOR ELECTION RISK THE WRATH OF THE ELCTORATE SHOULD THEY USE THESE ISSUES FOR POLITICAL POSTURING INSTEAD OF SHOWING LEADERSHIP.

ISSUE ONE) THE IRAQ WAR. I BELIEVE THAT THE LOSS OF CONFIDENCE IN THE PROGRESS OF THIS WAR IS THAT WE HAVE NOT TRULY USED OUR MILITARY MIGHT TO ERADICTE THE TERRORISTS WHO CONTINUE TO WRECK HAVOC. ARMIES ARE DESIGNED TO KILL PEOPLE AND BREAK THINGS, NOT TO BE POLITICALLY CORRECT IN HOW THIS IS ACCOMPLSHED. WARS ARE NOT NEAT NOR ARE THEY MEANT TO BE. THEY ARE MEANT TO BE DISTRUCIVE AND MESSY AS TO BE AN OPTION TO BE AVOIDED. HOWEVER ONCE ENGAGED THEY SHOULD BE FOUGHT TO FINALITY, WITH THEIR FULL DISTRUCTIVE FORCE BROUGHT TO BARE. ONCE THAT IS ACCOMPLISHED (LIKE GERMANY AND JAPAN) THE REBUILING CAN BEGIN IN EARNEST.

ISSUE TWO) PETROLIUM. MY PREVIOUS BLOG (PASSING GAS) EXPLIANED MY CASE.
I WOULD LIKE TO ADD ONE MORE POINT TO THE DISCUSSION. WHY WE MUST HAVE DOMESTIC DRILLING. THE TALK OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY IS WONDERFUL FOR THE FUTURE, BUT GETTING TO WORK, LIGHTING AND HEATING OUR HOUSE IS NOW. WE ARE NOW AND FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE AN OIL BASED ECONOMY AND MUST ACT ON THAT FACT. THERE ARE AT PRESENT ONLY FOUR STABLE DEMOCRACIES THAT PRODUCE OIL, THE REST ARE RUN BY NUTTY DICTATORS YELLING DEATH TO AMERICANS. THE FUTURES MARKET THAT AT THE MOMENT DICTATES THE COST OF A BAREEL OF OIL IS IN FLUX OUT OF FEAR OF DISRUPTION OF THIS COMMODITY. IT IS IN OUR NATIONAL AND ECONOMIC INTEREST TO DRILL DOMESTICALLY TO INSURE THAT IF THERE IS A DISRUPTION IN OUTSIDE SOURCES THAT WE HAVE THE NECESSARY CAPABILITY TO INSURE THE CONTINUES FLOW OF OIL FOR THIS COUNTRY. IT IS A DAMNABLE LIE THAT IT WOULD TAKE TEN YEARS TO PRODUCE DOMESTIC CAPABILITIES, ASK ANY ONE INVOLVED IN THE INDUSRTY, IT IS THREE YEARS MAX. I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE GAS LINES OF 1973 AND 1979, BUT I DO, AND YOU COULD NOT GET GAS AT ANY PRICE. I FOR ONE WOULD NOT WISH TO RELIVE THOSE DAY AGAIN.

ISSUE THREE) ILEAGAL IMAGRATION. THE MEDIA AND POLITICIANS PANDERING FOR FUTURE VOTES WISH YOU TO CONFUSE ILEAGAL IMAGRATION WITH LEGAL IMAGRATION BY SAYING WE ARE A NATION OF IMAGRANTS. WE ARE A NATION OF LAWS INCLUDING IMAGRATION LAWS. OUR FOREFATHERS IMAGRATED HERE LEAGALLY FOR THE MOST PART AND ASSIMILATED INTO OUR CULTURE. THOSE HERE NOW DO NOT WISH TO ASSIMILATE, ONLY FIND WORK AND SEND THAT MONEY HOME. WE HAVE A CULTURE, WE ARE AMERICIANS. PROTECTING NATIONAL SOVERIENTY IS NOT RACIST. WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT IS BORDER SECURITY FIRST, THEN WE WILL HANDLE THE ISSUE OF WHAT TO DO WITH THOSE ALREADY HERE LATER. NOBODY EXPECTS US TO DEPORT 12 MILLION PEOPLE, HOWEVER IT IS THE DUTY OF THOSE WHO SWORE TO UPHOLD OUR CONSTITUTION TO PROTECT OUR BORDERS. UNENFORCED LAWS ONLY BEEDS CONTEMPT FOR ALL LAWS. RIGHT NOW AS OF THIS WRITING THE SENATE VOTED DOWN AN AMMENDMENT TO DO BORDER SECURITY FIRST, THEN GUEST WORKERS SECOND. OUR OWN SENATORS CLINTON AND SCHUMER VOTED DOWN THIS AMMENDMENT. THIS BRINGS US TO 1986 AGAIN WITH AMNESTY AND NO CONVITION TO PROTECT OUR BORDERS. THIS IS IIN DIRECT CONTRIDICTION OF THERE SWORN DUTY. THERE IS A DIRECT CORALATION BETWEEN THE BULGING EXPENCES OF OUR SCHOOL SYSTEMS AND SCOCIAL SERVICES WITH THE INFLUX OF ILEAGALS. THERE IS A NET LOSS OF OVER 30 BILLION OF OUR STATE TAX DOLLARS ALONE IN THIS STATES DON'T ASK DON'T TELL POLICY REGARDING THESE ILEAGAL IMAGRANTS. THINK OF THE NET LOSS NATION WIDE OF OUR TAX DOLLARS. OUR COMPASSION DOES NOT REQUIRE US TO BE TAXED OUT OF OUR COMMUNITIES TO SUPPORT THOSE NOT HERE LEAGALLY.
YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT THE SENATE VOTED FOR AN AMMENDMENT TO BAR FELONS AND THOSE CONVICTED OF THREE MISTERMEANORS FROM BEING ELEGIBLE
FOR CITIZENSHIP, MEANING THAT TO ORIGINAL BILL ALLOWED THEM TO BE. YOU SHOULD ALSO KNOW THAT IN 1996 THE CONGRESS AND SENATE PASSED A BILL SIGNED BY PRESIDENT CLINTON TO BAR THOSE HERE ILAEGALLY FROM GETTING INSTATE COLLEGE TUITION. OUR STATE LEGISLATORS PASSED A RESOLUTON TO IGNORE THIS FEDERAL LAW. THIS MEANS IN N.Y.S. THOSE HERE ILEAGALLY GET CHEAPER COLLEGE TUITION THEN AN AMERICAIN CITIZEN.

BOTH PARTIES BY MISSREADING THE PUBLIC RESOLVE ON THESE ISSUES RISK A RUDE AWAKENING ON ELECTION DAY. THIS POLITICAL PANDERING AND POSTURING WITH PUBLIC BE DAMNED ATTITUDE WILL NOT STAND. THE PEOPLE WILL NOT BE FOOLED BY EMPTY WORDS ON THESE ISSUES. THE PEOPLE INSIST ON ACTION NOT PABLUM. COME ELECTION DAY THERE WILL BE A RECKONING AND THE PEOPLES WILL BE DONE. THOSE WISHING ELECTED OFFICE RISK LOSS BY IGNORING THIS FACT.

BAZZO 05/18/06

THE RISING COST OF ENERGY......OR PASSING GAS

DEAR READERS:

AFTER THE PANDERING AND DEMONIZING BY BOTH PARTIES CONCERNING THE HIGH COST OF ENERGY, HERE ARE SOME THINGS TO THINK ABOUT:

1) WITHOUT A DOUBT, THE OIL COMPANIES ARE PRACTICING PREDETORY
CAPITALISM, INSTEAD OF RESPOSIBLE CAPITALISM. THIS IS EXTREEMLY
OBNOXIOUS SEEING THAT WE ARE A COUNTRY AT WAR. HOWEVER, BEING THAT
THESE ARE FOR PROFIT ENTITIES, IT IS UNDERSTANDABLE (NOT EXCUSABLE!) AS
A TIGER IS A TIGER AND A SNAKE IS A SNAKE, AND THEY WILL DO WHAT THEY
WILL DO. IN SPITE OF THE HIGH TOTAL MOUNT OF PROFIT (SHOWN IN THOSE
TERMS TO INFLAME THE POPULACE) THE PER GALLON PROFIT AVERAGES
TO ABOUT SEVENTEEN CENTS A GALLON (REMEMBER THIS FIGURE FOR LATE ON).

2) THE FEDERAL TAX ON A GALLON OF GAS IS EIGHTEEN CENTS.

3) THE NEW YORK STATE (HOME OF THE GREAT PANDERERS, SENATORS
SCHUMER AND CLINTON) TAX ON GAS IS SIXTY-TWO CENTS. THE HIGHEST
IN THE NATION. NEW YORK DOES NOT TAX BY THE GALLON LIKE THE
OTHER FORTY-NINE STATES, WE TAX BY THE DOLLAR. THIS INCLUDES LOCAL
COUNTY AND CITY TAXES. THE COST OF MAKING THE BOUTIQUE GAS
REQUIRED TO SELL IN N.Y.S. ADDS ANOTHER DOLLAR TO THE GALLON PRICE.
N.Y.S TAKES IN MORE MONEY ON GAS TAXES THAN BIG OIL (ANY INDIVIDUAL COMPANY, INCLUDING EXXON/MOBIL) MAKES IN PROFITS.

4) OUR REPRESENTATIVES (AND THOSE WISHING TO BECOME OUR
REPRESENTATIVES) WISH TO CLOSE INDIAN POINT AND CONVERT IT TO
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY. THESE SAME PEOPLE CHEERED WHEN A RECENT
RULING BY THE N.Y.S APPEALS COURT STOPPED THE PROPOSED NATURAL
GAS PIPELINE. THESE SAME PEOPLE DO AND HAVE DONE EVERYTHING
IN THEIR POWER TO STOP THE BUILDING OF ELECTRIC GENERATORS WHICH
WE HAVE NEEDED SINCE THE LAST POWER OUTAGE, AND EVERY ATTEMPT
TO PUT UP CELL TOWERS. DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE (AFTER READING HOW
MUCH THE HIGH COST OF ENERGY BRINGS TO THE STATE TREASURY), THEY
WILL ALLOW ANY BUILDING OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY AT INDIAN POINT?
IF YOU DO, LOOK UNDER YOUR PILLOW NEXT TIME YOU LOSE A TOOTH FOR
MONEY.

5) THE PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT AND THEIR HIGH POWERED HACKS WHO WISH
YOU TO DOWNSIZE YOUR CAR, DRIVE ARROUND IN HUGE SUV'S, LIMOS AND
FLY CHARTER. THEY ONLY WANT YOU TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE STYLE, THE
RULING CLASS FEELS THEY DON'T HAVE TO. THEY DON'T PAY FOR FUEL, WE
PAY IT FOR THEM WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS. THEY WOULD HAVE MORE
CREDIBILITY IF THEY PRACTICED WHAT THEY PREACHED. BY THE WAY, DID
YOU NOTICE WHAT KIND OF CARS THOSE POLITICALLY CORRECT BIG MOUTH CELEBRITIES ARE DRIVEN ARROUND IN ALSO, NO HYBRIDS THERE.

6) THE USE OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY (IF IT WOULD BE ALLOWED), THE NEED FOR
SMART CONSERVATION, THE PRACTICE OF RESPONSIBLE CAPITALISM, THE NEED
FOR MORE REFINERIES AND PIELINE TO DELIVER THE FINISHED PRODUCT,
THE RELAXING OF SOME GOVT. REGULATION IN THE MAKING OF BOUTIQUE
GAS (WE HAVE FIFTY STATES AND FORTY DIFFERENT BLENDS), AND THE NEED
FOR MORE EXPLORATION WITHIN THIS COUNTRY (ALASKA AND OFF-SHORE) ARE
NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE. NONE OF THE ABOVE OPPERATE IN A VACUME. THEY
MUST ALL BE INVOLED IN A RESONSIBLE ENERGY POLICY TO EASE
ESCALATING ENERGY PRICES, AND AVOID ECONOMIC SUICIDE THE
NO-GROWTH SPECIAL INTEREST WISH TO ENACT.

7) REPEAT AFTER ME: CORPORATIONS DO NOT PAY TAXES, CORPORATIONS DO
NOT PAY TAXES, WE THE CONSUMER PAYS THOSE TAXES IN THE COST OF THE
GOODS AND SERVICES WE PURCHASE. REMEMBER THIS WHEN YOU HEAR THOSE
PANDERING POLITICIANS TALK ABOUT WINDFALL PROFIT TAXES AND THE
REMOVAL OF TAX BREAKS GIVEN TO THOSE CORPORATIONS. WHAT WILL HAPPEN
IS THAT THE GOVERNMENT WILL RECIEVE MORE MONEY, THE CORPORATIONS
WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE THOSE HIGH PROFITS. THE COSTS OF THOSE
INCREASED TAXES WILL BE PASSED ON TO US, KEEPING THE COST OF ENERGY
AT INFLATED RATES. WHAT WILL NOT HAPPEN IS ONE EXTRA GALLON OF GAS,
OR BARREL OF OIL WILL BE PRODUCED.

8) MEXICO HAS ANNOUNCED A BIG OIL FIND OFF THIER COAST IN THE GULF AND WILL SOON BE DRILLING THERE. CUBA HAS ANNOUNCED THEY WILL BE DRILLING
FORTY-FIVE MILES OFF THE FLORIDA KEYS FOR OIL. HOWEVER OUR
REPRENTATIVES CONTINUE TO REFUSE US ANY RELIEF FROM BEING HOSTAGE
TO PURCHASING OIL FORM OUTSIDE SOURCES.

9) AS THIS ELECTION YEAR WE WILL BE VOTING FOR ALL THOSE IN GOVERNMENT
WHO ARE AND HAVE BEEN EXPLOTING, TAXING, REGULATING AND OBSTUCTING
US INTO THIS SENARIO WE NOW FACE, IT IS UP TO US TO FORCE THEM INTO
A TRUE AND MEANINGFUL ENERGY POLICY DEVIOD OF DEMONIZING AND
PANDERING. THE REALITY IS THAT WE HAVE THE POWER ENACT CHANGE.
BY SMARTER DRIVING HABITS WE CAN PURCHASE LESS GAS, THEREBYE DRIVING
PRICES DOWN. BY TELLING THOSE WHO REPRESENT OR WISH TO REPRESENT
US, THAT THEY WILL NOT CONTINUE TO DO SO AS LONG AS THEY ACT AS OF
THEY ARE NOT MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS PROBLEM. THINK ABOUT THIS
NEXT TIME YOU FILL UP YOUR TANK. THINK ABOUT WHO IS TRULY EXPLOITING
US.

NOTES OF INTEREST: IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE ACCESSING THE COOMENTS SECTION YOU CAN REPLY TO MY E-MAIL: atomtaxi@aol.com AND I WILL POST IT FOR YOU.
THE LETTER TO THE JOURNAL NEWS REPLING TO MY LETTER WAS WRITTEN BY MY HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEACHER. IT WAS NICE TO KNOW THAT THIRTY-TWO YEARS LATER I COULD STILL GET A RISE OUT OF HIM.

BAZZO 04/27/06

THE CODES I LIVE BY

DEAR READERS:

I HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED TO KEEP ONES SANITY IN THE SHIFTING WINDS OF LIFE, YOU NEED A STANDARD TO LIVE BY. A SET OF CODES TO KEEP YOUR BALANCE WHEN LIFE THROWS UP ROAD BLOCKS TO YOUR GOALS AND TO DEFINE WHO AND WHAT YOU ARE TO YOURSELF AND OTHERS. IN HIGH SCHOOL (A HUNDRED YEARS AGO) I FOUND THE WORDS TO DESCRIBE THOSE CODES AND I HAVE TRIED TO LIVE BY THEM SINCE. AS I AM ONLY HUMAN, I HAVE SOMETIMES FAILED TO LIVE UP TO THEM, HOWEVER EVEN NOW I STILL USE THESE WORDS AS MY MEASURING STICK THROUGH LIFE. TODAY I THOUGHT I WOULD SHARE THEM WITH YOU. I HOPE THESE WILL HELP YOU IN FINDING OUT WHY I BELIEVE IN WHAT I BELIEVE AND WHO AND WHAT I AM, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO DOUBT THE DEPTH OF MY CONVICTIONS.
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CODE ONE: IF
BY RUDYARD KIPPLING

IF YOU CAN KEEP YOUR HEAD WHEN ALL ABOUT YOU
ARE LOSING THEIRS AND BLAMING IT ON YOU.
IF YOU CAN TRUST YOURSELF WHEN ALL MEN DOUBT YOU
BUT MAKE ALLOWENCES FOR THEIR DOUBTING TOO.
IF YOU CAN WAIT AND NOT BE TIRED OF WAITING
OR BEING LIED ABOUT, BUT DON'T DEAL IN LIES.
IF YOU CAN BE HATED AND NOT GIVE WAY TO HATING
YET DON'T LOOK TO GOOD, NOR TALK TO WISE.

IF YOU CAN DREAM AND NOT MAKE DREAMS YOUR MASTER.
IF YOU CAN THINK AND NOT MAKE THOUGHTS YOUR AIM.
IF YOU CAN MEET TRIUMPH AND DISASTER,
YET TREAT THOSE TWO IMPOSTERS JUST THE SAME.
IF YOU CAN BARE TO HEAR THE TRUTH YOU HAVE SPOKEN,
TWISTED BY KNAVES TO MKAE A TRAP FOR FOOLS.
IF YOU CAN WATCH THE THINGS YOU GAVE YOUR LIFE TO BROKEN,
AND STOOP AND BUILD THEM UP WITH WORN OUT TOOLS.

IF YOU CAN MAKE ONE HEAP OF ALL YOUR WINNINGS,
AND RISK IT ALL ON ONE TURN OF A PITCH AND TOSS.
IF YOU CAN LOSE AND START AGAIN AT YOUR BEGININGS,
AND NOT BREATH A WORD ABOUT YOUR LOSS.
IF YOU CAN FORCE YOUR HEART AND NERVE AND SINEW,
TO SERVE YOUR TURN LONG AFTER THEY ARE GONE.
IF YOU CAN HOLD ON WHEN THERE IS NOTHING LEFT IN YOU,
EXCEPT THE WILL WHICH SAYS TO THEM "HOLD ON!"

IF YOU CAN WALK WITH CROWDS AND KEEP YOUR VIRTUE,
OR WALK WITH KINGS AND NOT LOSE THE COMMON TOUCH.
IF NEITHER FOES OR LOVING FRIENDS CAN HURT YOU,
IF ALL MEN COUNT WITH YOU, BUT NOT TOO MUCH.
IF YOU CAN FILL THAT UNFORGIVING MINUTE,
WITH SIXTY-SECONDS WORTH OF A DISTANCE RUN.
THAN YOUR IS THE EARTH AND EVERTHING THAT IS IN IT,
AND WHICH IS MORE YOU WILL BE A MAN, MY SON.
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CODE 2) TITLE AND AUTHOR UNKNOWN

GO PLACIDLY AMID THE NOISE AND HASTE, AND REMEMBER WHAT PEACE THERE IS IN SILENCE. AS FAR AS POSSIBLE, WITHOUT SURRENDER, BE ON GOOD TERMS WITH OTHERS. SPEAK YOUR TRUTH CLEARLY AND LISTEN TO OTHERS, EVEN THE DULL AND IGNORANT HAVE THEIR STORY TOO.

AVOID LOUD AND AGRESSIVE PERSONS, THEY ARE VEXATIONS TO THE SPIRIT. IF YOU COMPARE YOURSELF WITH OTHERS, YOU WILL BECOME VAIN AND BITTER, FOR AWAYS THERE WILL BE GREATER AND LESSER PERSONS THAN YOURSELF. ENJOY YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS AS WELL AS YOUR PLANS.

KEEP INTERESTED IN YOUR CAREER, HOWEVER HUMBLE, IT IS A REAL POSSESION IN THE CHANGING FORTUNES OF TIME. EXERCISE CAUTION IN YOUR BUSINESS AFFAIRS, FOR THE WORLD IS FULL OF TRICKERY. LET THIS NOT BLIND YOU TO THE VIRTURES OUT THERE. MANY PERSONS STRIVE FOR HIGH IDEALS, AND EVERYWHERE THE WORLD IS FULL OF HEROISM.

BE YOURSELF, ESPECIALLY, DO NOT FIEGN AFFECTION. NEITHER BE CYNICAL ABOUT LOVE,
FOR IN THE FACE OF ALL ADVERSITY AND DISENCHANTMENT IT IS AS PERENIAL AS THE GRASS.

TAKE KINDLY THE COUNSEL OF YEARS, GRACEFULLY SURRENDERING THE THINGS OF YOUTH. NUTURE STRENGHT OF SPIRIT TO SHIELD YOU IN SUDDEN MISFORTUNE.
DO NOT STRESS YOURSELF WITH IMAGININGS. MANY FEARS ARE BORN OF FATIGUE
AND LONLINESS. BEYOND A WHOLESOME DICIPLINE, BE GENTLE WITH YOURSELF.

YOU ARE A CHILD OF THE UNIVERSE, NO LESS THAN THE TREES AND THE STARS AND YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO BE HERE. WHETHER OR NOT IT IS CLEAR TO YOU, NO DOUBT THE UNIVERSE IS UNFOLDING AS IT SHOULD.

THERFORE BE AT PEACE WITH GOD, HOWEVER YOU CONCIEVE HIM TO BE. WHATEVER YOUR LABORS AND ASPERATIONS IN THE NOISY CONFUSION OF LIFE, KEEP PEACE WITHIN YOUR SOUL.

WITH ALL THE SHAM, DRUDGERY AND BROKEN DREAMS, IT IS STILL A BEAUTIFUL WORLD. BE CAREFUL. STRIVE TO BE HAPPY.

BAZZO 04/15/06

THE SUCCESS OF THE PREVAILING WISDOM

DEAR READERS:

THE RESULTS ARE IN: SILENCE AND APATHY WIN HANDS DOWN. TO ALL THE READERS WHO TOOK THE TIME TO RESPOND, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I WILL TREASURE YOUR KIND WORDS MORE THAN YOU KNOW. EVEN THOSE WHO DISSAGREED WITH ME, YOUR WORDS WERE ALSO WELCOME, AS IT HAS BEEN MY EXPIERENCE IN LIFE THAT NO ONE GROWS WHEN THEY SURROUND THEMSELVES WITH PEOPLE WHO THINK ALIKE. SO I SAY AGAIN, THANK YOU ONE AND ALL. SAD TO SAY THO, MY QUEST STOPS HERE FOR THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH RESPONSE TO MAKE MY CASE. THE CASE THAT WAS MADE WAS BY THOSE WHO FOR WHATEVER REASON CHOSE TO REMAIN SILENT. THEIR SILENCE CONFIMRED THE PREVAILING WISDOM THAT YOU DO NOT CARE ENOUGH TO CONCERN YOURSELF WITH THOSE WHO REPRESENT YOU. IT IS THAT REASON WHY YOUR REPRESENTATIVES CONCERN THEMSELVES WITH THEIR INTERESTS FIRST, SPECIAL INTREST SECOND, PARTY INTERESTS THIRD AND YOURS A DISTANT LAST. I HAD HOPED TO PROVE THEM WRONG, IN THE END I WAS WRONG. IF I HAD THE MONEY TO RUN AS AN INDEPENDENT, I WOULD HAVE GONE TO THE NEXT STEP, FOR I DID LEARN THAT MY MESSAGE FROM THOSE WHO DID RESPOND DID CROSS PARTY LINES. I THOUGHT IT WOULD. THERE HOWEVER WERE NOT ENOUGH RESPONSES TO CONVINCE AN ESTABLISHED PARTY THAT IN THIS YEARS ELECTION, THE DEFEAT OF A SITTING INCUMBENT WAS POSSIBLE. ONE THING THOUGH, MANY PEOPLE SEEKING OFFICE SPEND ALOT OF MONEY IN ADVERTISING AND SETTING UP EXPLORITORY COMMITTES ONLY TO FIND OUT THEY TOO WERE WRONG, THIS EXPEREIMENT WITH THE INTERNET SHOWS THAT YOU CAN FIND THAT OUT WITH OUT SPENDING YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY. I AM SORRY I LET YOU DOWN. SO FOR NOW.........

GOOD BYE

BAZZO 04/15/06

IN NEW YORK IT IS NOT REPUBLICAN VS. DEMOCRAT BUT BIG GOVERNMENT VS. LIMITED GOVERNMENT

DEAR READERS:

I AM GOING TO RESPOND IN THIS BLOG TO THE COMMENTS MADE BY "IMAGINARY COUSIN" IN THE COMMENTS SECTION OF MY LAST BLOG. AS WRONG AS THEY ARE, HIS AGRUMENTS ARE WELL WRITTEN AND REFLECT THE BIG GOVERNMENT MENTALITY THAT BOTH PARTIES IN ALBANY IN THIS ELECTION YEAR REFLECT. IT IS YOUR HUMBLE WRITERS JOB AND THE MISSION OF THIS MANIFESTO TO ARTICULATE THE LIMITED GOVERNMENT SIDE THAT THIS STATE AND THIS COUNTRIES CONSTITUTIONS ARE BASED.
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IF MY "HANDS OFF" GOVERNMENT IDEAS SCARE YOU THEN WHAT THE FOUNDERS OF THIS COUNTRY BELIEVED MUST MAKE YOU WANT TO SLIT YOUR WRISTS. I AM NOT A BELIEVER IN THE ROBIN HOOD MENTALITY THAT YOU TAKE FROM THE RICH AND GIVE TO THE POOR. YOU DECRY THE HIGH COST OF HOUSING, YET YOU WOULD DRIVE UP THAT COST BY REVISITING AD-NAUSIEUM, ITEMS THAT AFTER A YEAR AND A HALF HAVE BEEN DECIDED. AS WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT SAFETY ISSUES REGARDING THIS HOUSING, CALLING DO-OVERS DOES NOT MAKE SENCE UNLESS YOU WISH TO BLOCK THIS FROM HAPPENING AND WILL USE ANY MEANS AT YOUR DISPOSAL AND TRY TO DRESS IT UP AS PUBLIC GOOD. THERE WILL BE ENOUGH DELAYS AND DISCUSIONS AHEAD AS TRAFFIC AND ENVIORMENTAL AFFECTS ARE NOW TO BE DISCUSSED. THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT THE OPPOSITION IS OPPOSED TO THE PROFIT THAT A FOR PROFIT PRIVATE ENTITY IS GOING TO MAKE AND THEY WISH TO CREATE CLASS ENVY OVER IT. THE DEVELOPER IS NOT A ROBER BARRON AND MAKING A PROFIT IS NOT A CRIME. IT IS NOT UP TO GOVERNMENT TO DECIDE HOW MUCH PROFIT IS TOO MUCH. THE BUSINESS AND THE TOWN ARE WORKING TOGETHER, AND THE ISSUE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING HAS BEEN SETTLED. IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON.
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YOU TAKE ISSUE WITH MY "LOCAL APPROACH"....THE LATE FORMER HOUSE LEADER TIP O'NIEL WAS CORRECT IN SAYING "ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL". THE FACT IS THE GOINGS ON IN ALBANY THAT THIS MANIFESTO DISCUSSES DOES NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH WASHINGTON. TO TRY TOP EXPAND THE ISSUE AS YOU WOULD LIKE, ONLY REINFORCES THE "YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT" MENTALITY THAT CREATES THE APATHY THAT EFFECTS MANY VOTERS. WHAT I DISCUSS ARE THINGS THAT READERS AND VOTERS CAN AFFECT NOW, SHOULD THEY CHOOSE TO, AND I WILL NOT ADD TO THAT HELPLESS ATTITUDE. AS IT IS IN THE BIG GOVERNMENT INTEREST TO CREATE THE ILLUSION OF HELPLESSNESS, YOUR APPROACH ONLY PLAYS INTO THAT. THE FOLLOWING ARE FACTS:

GEAOGE BUSH AND THE REPUBLICANS IN WASHINGTON ARE NOT RESPOSIBLE FOR THE FOLLOWING OUTRAGEOUS TAXES, FEES AND SURCHARGES:

ON YOUR CELL PHONE BILL, YOUR TELEPHONE BILL, YOUR CABLE BILL, YOUR ELECTRIC BILL.

THE PRICE YOU PAY FOR A BOTTLE OF LIQUORE OR WINE. THE PRICE YOU PAY FOR A PACK OF CIGGARETTES. THE PRICE FOR YOU TIRES FOR YOUR CAR. THE PRICE YOU PAY TO REGISTER AND OWN YOUR CAR.

WHEN YOU BUY OR SELL YOUR HOUSE.

WHAT YOU PAY FOR MEDICAID (N.Y. PAYS TWICE AS MUCH AS THE NEXT TWO STATES COMBINED, THOSE STATES ARE CALIFORNIA AND TEXAS) AS AN ASIDE, THE N.Y.TIMES CATALOUGED 18 BILLION DOLLARS IN MEDICAID WASTE AND FRAUD THAT ALSO DRIVES UP THE COST OF THIS PROGRAM.

WHAT YOU PAY FOR GAS AND HEATING OIL AND NATURAL GAS.

WHAT YOU PAY FOR INSURANCE (CAR OR HEALTH OR HOME)

SCHOOL AND PROPERTY TAXES

ALL THE ABOVE ARE THE DIRECT ACTS OF OUR REPRESENTATIVES IN ALBANY TO KEEEP AN OVERLY BLOATED GOVERNMENT AFLOAT AND TO JUSTIFY THEIR EXISTANCE, AND REPAY THE SPECIAL INTERESTS THAT KEEP THEM IN OFFICE.

NONE OF THE ABOVE ARE GEORGE BUSHES' FAULT AS MUCH AS YOU WISH THEM TO BE. THESE ARE STRICTLY STATE AND LOCAL ISSUES PERPUTRATED BY OUR REPRENTATIVES IN ALBANY.

AND NOW THEY WANT YOU TO PAY MORE FOR GOODS AND SERVICES BY TRYING TO MAKE MANDITORY THAT COMAPNIES THAT EMPLOY MORE THAT 100 PEOPLE PAY HIGHER WAGES AND HEALTH INSURANCE. THEY USE BIG BOX STORES AS AN EXAMPLE, HOWEVER THEY EMPLOY THOUSANDS. WE ARE TALKING HUNDREDS NOW.
FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN I WAS INVOLVED IN THE RED PARROT CLUB IN THE EIGHTIES WE HAD 103 EMPLOYEES. WE WOULD HAVE FIRED FOUR OR FIVE PEOPLE THAN PAY THE EXTRA SURCHARGES. THIS IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF THIS LAW TAKES EFFECT. IT WILL HURT THOSE WHO THEY WISH IT TO HELP. IT WILL MEAN LESS JOBS FOR THOSE WHO NEED THEM AND HIGHER COSTS FOR THE CONSUMER. THE BASIC ECONOMICS OF THIS IS INESCAPABLE. I JUST LOVE WHEN THOSE WHO HAVE
SECURE JOBS ARE WILLING TO RISK THE EMPLOYMENT OF THOSE WHO DON'T JUST TO FEEL GOOD ABOUT THEMSELVES. PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER HAD THE RESPONSIBILTY OF RUNNING A BUSINESS, TRYING TO MAKE A LIVING AND GOD FORBID EVEN A PROFIT, TELLING THOSE WHO DO, HOW TO DO IT. YOU SIR ARE WRONG WHEN YOU SAY THERE IS NO RIGHT TO DO BUSINESS. ONE OF THE FOUNDING PRICIPALS OF THIS STATE AND COUNTRY IS THE RIGHT TO EXIST AND GO ABOUT AND DO OUR BUSINESS WITHOUT THE UNDO INTERFERENCE OF GOVERNMENT. THE PERSUIT OF HAPPINESS OUR FOUNDERS BELIEVED HAPPENED WHEN GOVERNMENT IS LIMITED. THE MENTALITY OF BIG GOVERNMENT IS TO PUNISH THAT SUCCESS AND REDISRIBUTE WEALTH. IT IS NOT THE RESONSIBILTY OF THE CONSUMER OR PRIVATE BUSINESS TO ADRESS THE ISSUE OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE CREATED THEIR OWN OBSTICALS TO THAT PERSIUT OF HAPPINESS. WE AS A SOCIETY HAVE ALREADY DECIDED TO TAKE OUT TAXES TO PROVIDE THOSE SAFETY NETS. UNTIL YOU SHOW HOW SHIFTING THE RESOPSIBILTIY TO BUSINESS OR THE CONSUMER WILL LOWER THOSE TAXES WE ALREADY PAY, I SAY TO HELL WITH IT. I DO NOT BELIEVE WE SHOULD PAY TWICE FOR THAT WHICH WE ALREADY PAY FOR. THE BOTTOM LINE ON THIS ISSUE IS THAT AS THE UNIONS ARE MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS TO OUR REPRENTATIVES IN ALBANY, THOSE SAID REPRENTATIVES ARE TRYING TO DO WHAT THE UNIONS CAN'T.
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YOU STATE THAT WAL-MART HAS CHANGED IN THE LAST TWENTY YEARS, WELL SO HAS THE MISSION OF UNIONS. FROM THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY, TO THE CARMAKERS TO THE DISTRUCTION OF THE STEEL INDUSTRY, TO MOST OTHER MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR. FROM THE TAXES KEEPING OPEN UNPRODUCTIVE HOSPITALS, TO THE RECENT CONTRACT WHERE THE N.Y.C. POLICE ATE THEIR OWN YOUNG, TO LAST DECEMBERS TRANSIT STRIKE ON THE PUBLIC SIDE.
UNIONS SIR, HAVE DONE MORE HARM THAN GOOD AND DRIVEN UP THE COST OF GOODS AND SERVICES AND OUR TAXES. THE UNIONS OF TODAY ARE NOT YOUR PARENTS UNIONS, AND YOUR FAILURE TO SEE THAT IS YOUR BLINDSPOT.

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FINALLY AS FOR SENATOR CLINTON, I WILL SAY SOMETHING GOOD ABOUT HER.
SENATOR CLINTON IS A GOOD DEMOCRAT.

SHE IS HOWEVER, A LOUSY SENATOR FOR N.Y. AS SHE HAS PUT HER AND/OR HER PARTY INTERESTS OVER OUR INTERESTS. FROM HER VOTES ON TAXES TO HOMELAND SECURITY SHE HAS TOWED THE PARTY LINE. TO HER RACIAL PROFILING OF THE PORTS DEAL(YOU SEE IT IS ALRIGHT TOPROFILE TO ADVANCE YOUR POLITICAL AGENDA BUT NOT ALRIGHT TO PROFILE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY),
TO CONJURING UP IMAGES OF A FACISIT STATES IN REGARDS TO ILEAGAL IMIGRATION. TO PLAYING THE GENDER CARD BY SAYING THAT REPUBLICANS ARE PICKING ON HER BECAUSE SHE IS A WOMAN. SHE HAS NEVER MISSED AN OPPORTUINTY TO PANDER. SHE IS TRULY A BIG GOVERNMENT ADVOCATE. I CANNOT AND WILL NOT SUPPORT HER AND ANYTIME I CAN POINT OUT HER HIPOCRICY I WILL.
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THIS BLOG IS MY SOAPBOX FROM WHICH I WILL SPEAK OUT. THE NICE THING ABOUT THIS SOAPBOX IS THAT THERE IS ROOM FOR OTHERS TO STAND ON IT AND SPEAK OUT, UNEDITED, IN THE COMMENTS SECTION, I RESERVE MY RIGHT TO RESPOND TO THOSE COMMENTS, HOWEVER I WILL NEVER EDIT THEM OR DELETE THEM. THE FREE AND OPEN EXCHANGE OF IDEAS IS THE FIRST GOAL OF THIS BLOG. I WELCOME THE COMMENTS OF "IMAGINARY COUSIN", OTHER READERS, AND ANY OF THE ELECTED OFFICAILS TO USE THE COMMENTS SECTION TO SPEAK OUT AT ANY LENGHT ON ANY TOPIC YOU MAY WISH TO OPINE, IN AN UNEDITED FASHION. THIS BLOG HAS 400 PLUS READERS AT YOU DISPOSAL, WISHING TO HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY. YOU MAY BE AYNONOMOUS OR NOT. BETTER THAN ANY LOCAL NEWS OUTLET, THIS BLOG ALLOWS YOU TO REACH VOTERS AGAIN WITH OUT EDITING OR DELETION. IT IS MY WISH THAT YOU TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT.

BAZZO 03/18/06

WHEN GOVERNMENT TELL YOU HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH

DEAR READERS:

ITEM: IT SEEMS THAT THE PEEKSKILL CITY COUNCIL IS IN DISSAGREEMENT OVER THE PROPOSED RIVERFRONT DEVELOPMENT THAT AS IT CONTINUES TO DELAY, DRIVES UP THE FINAL COST OF THAT PARTICULAR HOUSING WHICH BRINGS UP A CATCH-22 OF BEMOANONG THAT HIGH COST OF HOUSING, AS IF THESE DELAYS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. THE DISSAGREEMENT CENTERS ON HOW MANY UNITS WILL BE SET ASIDE FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR THE LOCAL WORKFORCE. ORIGINALY DISCUSSED AT 10% , IT SEEM THAT AFTER A YEAR AND A HALF, AND ALL THE PLANS WERE DRAWN UP, COUNCIL WOMEN CLAXTON AND FOSTER WANT TO UP THAT PERCENTAGE. YOU SEE THE BOTTOM LINE IS THEY ARE CONCERNED THAT THE DEVELOPER MAY MAKE TOO MUCH MONEY ON THE PROJECT. COUNCIL WOMAN PISANI SAYS THERE IS A RESOLUTION THAT WAS PASSED THAT AFFIRMS THE 10% FIGURE, SO IF TRUE, THEN OTHER THAN PUNISHING SUCCESS BY TRYING TO REDISTRIBUTE WEALTH, WHY THIS UNECESSARY DELAY THAT WILL DRIVE UP THE COST OF HOUSING?

fact update 03/12/06: i have in my possesion a copy of the above mentioned resolution in which the 10% figure was voted on by the peekskill city council. so i must ask again, why this unecessay delay over an issue that was decided? is politics being put over the best interests of the people?
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ITEM: THE STATE LEGISLATORS ARE DICUSSING A BILL THAT WOULD REQUIRE NON-MANUFACTURING (READ BIG BOX STORES) AND AGRICULTURAL COMPANIES WITH OVER 100 EMPLOYEES TO SPEND AT LEAST $3.00 AN HOUR MORE PER WORKER ON
HEALTH BENEFITS. THEY SAY THAT THESE COMPANIES ARE ENCOUGAGING THERE WORKERS TO USE GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE FOR THERE NEEDS. THESE LEGISLATORS SAY THAT THESE COMPANIES MAKE TOO MUCH MONEY AND WE MUST DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. LETS US TAKE A BREATH FOR A MINUTE AND SEE THE RAMIFICATIONS OF THIS. ONE) THERE IS NO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE EITHER STATE OR FEDERAL. TWO) THERE IS NO RIGHT FOR ENTRY LEVEL JOBS TO PAY NECESSARY WAGES TO RAISE A FAMILY OR PAY ONES HEALTH. THAT IS WHY THEY ARE ENTRY LEVEL JOBS. THAT THEY MAY BE USED BY SOME FOR THAT PORPOSE IS NOT SOCIETIES FAULT. THAT PEOPLE ARE HAVING FAMILIES THEY CANNOT AFFORD, THE RESPOSIBITLITY SHOULD NOT BE SHIFTED TO PRIVATE BUSINESS, OR THE CONSUMER TO DEAL WITH, CERTIANLY NOT BY GOVERNMENT DICTATE NOR JUDICAIL FIAT. WE ALREADY PAY STATE AND FEDERAL TAXES TO PROVIDE THAT SAFETY NET. THREE) MEDICAID IS AN ENTILEMENT PROGRAM WITH CERTIAN CONDITIONS TO BE MET BEFORE YOU GET IT. WHETHER ONE WORKS AT AN ENTRY LEVEL JOB OR NOT, SHOULD THEY MEET THE CONDITONS, THEY WILL GET MEDICAID. FOUR) MANY OF THESE COMPANIES OFFER HEALTH CARE BENIFITS, HOWEVER THE EMPLOYEE MUST PAY FOR THIS. RATHER THAN OPT FOR THAT, THEY ON THERE OWN CHOOSE THE FREE GOVERNMENT PROGRAM. FIVE) IF IT IS THE PEOPLES WISH (EVEN THOUGH I WOULD DISSAGREE) THERE IS A CONSTUTIONAL WAY TO DO THIS BY PROPOSING A STATE OR FEDERAL CONSTUTIONAL AMMENDMENT MAKING THIS A RIGHT. THOUGH THIS IS TIME CONSUMING ( WHICH IS WHY THE NANNIES WOULD RATHER DO AN END RUN AND USE GOVRNMENT DICTATE OR JUDICAIL FIAT) IT IS THE RIGHT AND PROPER WAY TO DO IT. BRING IT TO THE PEOPLE AND LET THEM DECIDE AND LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY. SIX) AS UNIONS ARE THE BIGGEST CONTRIBUTORS TO THE LEGISLATORS AND THAT THESE COMPANIES ARE NOT UNION JOBS, THE LEGISLATORS HAVE TAKEN UPON THEMSELVES TO TO THE UNIONS WORK FOR THEM. THE END EFFECT OF THIS LEGISLATION SHOULD IT BECOME LAW, IS HIGHER PRICES FOR THE CONSUMER, AND LESS EMPLOYMENT FOR THOSE WHO NEED THE JOBS. LET'S NOT FORGET THE TRAMPLING OF THE RIGHTS OF PRIVATE BUSINESS, AS IF THAT EVER MATTERED TO BEGIN WITH.
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ITEM: OUR SENATOR CLINTON HAS ALSO WIEGHED IN ON THIS ISSUE IN A RECENT SPEECH ASAILING WAL-MART FOR NOT PAYING UNION LAKE WAGES AND BENEFITS.
SHE FORGOT TO MENTION DURING THIS SPEECH THAT DURING THE LATE EIGHTIES SHE WAS A BOARD MEMBER OF WAL-MART AND DID NOTHIING TO ADRESS THIS ISSUE. WHEN POINTED OUT, HER SPOKESPERSON SAID IT WAS DIFFERENT THEN. IN THIS THERE WAS TRUTH, AS WHEN SHE WAS A BOARD MEMBER IT WAS HER RESPOSIBILTY TO KEEP COSTS DOWN AND PROFITS UP. NOW AS SENATOR (NEVER PASSING UP A CHANCE TO PANDER) SHE HAS HAD AN EPIPHANY AND HAS SEEN THE ERRORS OF HER WAYS. IN A RELATED MATTER IF YOU GO TO THE CLINTON MUSEUM
WEBSITE (HEPL WANTED), YOU WILL SEE THEY ARE ASKING FOR 25 INTERNS (AN ENTRY LEVEL POSITION). THE MEDICAL BENEFITS OFFERED: NONE. THE PAY OFFERED: NONE. AT LEAST THERE IS ONE AREA THAT WAL-MART PAYS BETTER AT ENTRY LEVEL POSTIONS.

BAZZO 03/11/06

SEWER DIVERSION.....THE ONLY TIME A FLUSH BEATS A FULL HOUSE

DEAR READERS:

IN MY ENTRY "POLITICS OVER PEOPLE...." I MENTION THAT THE DIVERSION OF YORKTOWNS SEWERAGE TO PEEKSKILL IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. I CREDITED MAYOR JOHN TESTA, THE PEEKSKILL CITY COUNCIL AND LEGISLATOR GEORGE OROS FOR THIS VICTORY FOR THE CITY OF PEEKSKILL. I HAD WRITTEN ABOUT THIS LAST MAY(2005) , AND AS THIS IS NOW OVER, I FIGURED I WOULD MOVE ON. YET WHEN EVER I WANT TO GET OUT, THE DEMOCRATS PULL ME BACK IN (A LITTLE GODFATHER LINGO THERE...LOL) . THERE IS AN ADDAGE THAT SUCCESS HAS MANY FATHERS BUT FAILURE IS AN ORPHAN. WELL, IN THIS WEEKS JOURNAL NEWS AND NORTH COUNTY NEWS THERE WERE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR BY THE DEMOCRATS THAT TOOK THIS ADDAGE FURTHER, THAT SUCCESS IS AN IMACULATE CONSEPTION, ACHIEVED BY DEMOCRATS ALONE. NOT TO DIMINISH ANY OF THE WORK THAT "CEEP" (CITIZEN FOR EQUAL ENVIORMENTAL PROTECTION) DID, THE TRUTH IS THAT THE FIGHT STARTED WHEN FRAN GIBBS WAS MAYOR OF PEEKSKILL, AND FOUND OUT ABOUT THE PLAN IN A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE IN 1997. SHE THEN SENT OFF A LETTER TO THE COUNTY (A LETTER THAT LEGISLATOR GEORGE OROS STILL HAS) STATING SHE WAS AGAINST THE IDEA AND THAT PEEKSKILL AT THAT POINT WAS NEVER IN CLUDED IN THE DISCUSSION. THE DEMOCRATIC LETTERS SHOW THE EVEN WHEN PEEKSKILL WINS, THEY(THE DEMOCRATS) ARE SORE WINNERS, YET WHEN YOU TALK TO LEGILATOR OROS OR MAYOR TESTA THEY ALWAYS TALK ABOUT THE COALITION (FROM YONKER TO YORKTOWN) NECESSARY TO MAKE THIS VICTORY FOR PEEKSKILL HAPPEN, GRACEFUL IN VICTORY, WILLING TO SHARE CREDIT. THEIR(THE DEMOCRATS) LETTER ALSO FAILS TO MENTION THAT THEIR DEMOCRATIC
COLLEAGUE ON THE COUNTY, LEGISLATOR MIKE KAPLOWITZ WAS IN FAVOR OF DIVERSION. THE REASON THAT I LEAD THE CONGATULATIONS WITH THE MAYOR AND COUNTY LEGISLATOR WAS THAT THEY WERE IN CHARGE WHEN VICTORY WAS ACCOMPLISHED, IT WAS ON THEIR WATCH, AND THEY DID FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT. IF THEY HAD FAILED, YOU WOULD NOT HAVE SEEN ANY LETTER BY THE DEMOCRATS TOUTING THEIR WORK. NO, THE LETTERS YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN (BY THE DEMOCRATS) WOULD BE LETTERS OF BLAME, CITING THE FAILURE OF MAYOR TESTA AND LEGISLATOR GEORGE OROS . LIKE ALL ELSE IN POLITICS...TO THE VICTOR GOES THE SPOILS, FOR AS I LIVE AND BREATH, THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN BLAMED FOR ANY FAILURE.

AS FOR THE TOWN OF YORKTOWN, THEY FOUGHT FOR SEVEN YEARS TO PROTECT THE PRACTICE OF N.I.M.B.Y. WITH THE HELP OF COUNTY LEGISLATOR MIKE KAPLOWITZ. ALL THE WHILE THE RESIDENTS OF HALLOCK HILLS PAID SEWER TAXES ALL THE WHILE HAVING NO SEWERS, AND FAILING SEPTICS. NOW YORKTOWN HAS TO START AGAIN, FIGHTING THE FIGHT THEY SHOULD HAVE FOUGHT SEVEN YEARS AGO(WHICH IF THEY HAD, THE PEOPLE OF HALLOCK HILLS WOULD NOT BE SUFFERING TODAY) (MORE GODFATHER LINGO), YET THIS TIME THE TOWN OF YORKTOWN HAS TO FIGHT WITH ONE HAND TIED BEHIND THERE BACK, HAVING SIGNED OVER LAND RIGHTS TO THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN 1997. NOW THE TOWN OF YORKTOWN HAS TO PURSUADE THE CITY OF NEW YORK TO GRANT THEM MORE LAND TO EXPAND THE HALLOCK HILLS SEWER TREATMENT PLANT TO ACCEPT THE ADDITIONAL SEWAGE. F.Y.I THE CITY OF PEEKSKILL AND LEGISLATOR GEORGE OROS ARE HELPING YORKTOWN IN THIS FIGHT. HOPEFULLY IN WON'T BE SEVEN MORE YEARS OF SUFFERING AND PAYING TAXES BEFORE THE RESIDENTS OF HALLOCK HILL WILL SUFFER NO LONGER.

BAZZO 02/25/06

THE PLAY BOOK OF THE FLAT EARTH PEOPLE....WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE FACTS....DEMONIZE

DEAR READERS;

I WANT TO RESPOND TO A COUPLE OF COMMENTS SENT TO MY LAST BLOG AND TO MY E-MAIL RESPONDING TO MY BLOG. FIRST, TO THOSE WHO WISH TO AMMEND MY BLOG PLEASE USE THE COMMENTS SECTION. YOU MAY USE AN ANONOMOUS SEUDONYNM. I HAVE DEBATED WHETHER TO PRINT COMMENTS TO MY E-MAIL, HOWEVER MY EDITOR( YES, I ACTUALLY HAVE AN EDITOR, MY PARTNER TOMMY, WHO UNLESS HE UNDERSTANDS WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN, NOTHING GETS POSTED) HAS BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THE FACT THAT THE WRITER THEN CAN CHARGE I TOOK THOSE COMMENTS OUT OF CONTEX, OR THEY DID NOT MAKE THOSE COMMENTS IN THE FIRST PLACE. RATHER THEN DEAL WITH UNNECESSARY GRIEF, I WILL REFRAIN FROM MAKING ANY COMMENTS TO MY E-MAIL PUBLIC UNLESS THEY ARE ALSO POSTED ON THE COMMENTS SECTION WHERE THE READERS CAN SEE FOR THEMSELVES WHAT WAS ACTUALLY SAID.
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TO THE COMMENTS POSTED ON MY LAST BLOG, LET ME SAY THAT MAKING THE BOOGEY MAN OUT OF EITHER BIG OIL OR BIG BOX STORES DOES NOT CUT IT WITH ME. IF YOU HAVE A POLICY DIISAGREEMENT WITH A CERTIAN BOX STORE, DON'T SHOP THERE, THAT IS YOUR RIGHT. HOWEVER YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO PREVENT OTHERS FROM BENEFITING FROM EITHER WILLING TO WORK OR SHOP AT THOSE STORES. IN A FREE MARKET ECONOMY YOU HAVE THE OPTION OF EITHER NOT SHOPPING OF STARTING YOUR OWN BUSINESS AND COMPETING IN THE FREE MARKET PLACE AND SETTING YOUR OWN STANDARDS. AS A PERSON WHO HAS OWNED NUMEROUS SMALL BUSINESES, I HAVE DONE THIS. IF YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO TAKE THE RISK YOUR SELF, THEN I SUGGEST YOU REFRIAN FROM TRYING TO SUPLANT YOUR WILL OVER THOSE WHO DID RISK THEIR CAPITAL AND TIME IN THESE CAPITILISTIC VENTURES.
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AS FOR DEMONIZING THE "EEEEEVIL" OIL COMPANIES, THE PROFITS THAT ARE PRINTED ARE DESIGNED TO INFLAME THE CASUAL OBSERVER. TO THE INFORMED,
THE NET PROFIT ON A GALLON OF GAS IS ABOUT 14 CENTS. HOWEVER THE STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TAXES ON THAT SAME GALLON IS 46 CENTS. THE EXPLOITER IS THE GOVERNMENT. THE ONLY ANSWER WE GET FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND THERE WILLING FLAT EARTH HACKS IS TO INCREASE THOSE TAXES, OR SIMPLY PUT, INCREASE THE SIZE OF GOVERNMENT. IT DOES NOT LOWER THE PRICE OF GAS TO THE CONSUMER, THOUGH IT DOES WHAT THE SCOCIALIST LIKE TO DO, WHICH IS SCOCIAL ENGINERING THROUGH TAXATION. THIS EMPOWERS THE GOVERNMENT AT THE EXPENSE OF OUR FREEDOMS. HOWEVER BAD YOU MAY THINK OF BIG OIL, BIG GOVERNMENT IS AN EVEN GREATER DANGER. AFTER WATCHING GOVERNMENT HANDLING OF THE DMV, SCOCAIL SERVICES AND EVEN FEMA, THE THOUGHT OF GOVERNMENT CONTROLING OIL IS NIGHTMARISH. SO UNTIL THERE IS A FREEMARKET SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM, I WOULD RATHER LEAVE IT ALONE THEN TO GROW GOVERNMENT EVEN MORE..
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HOWEVER THE DEMOCRATS WISH TO DEFEAT SUE KELLY FOR CONGRESS, LYING
TO ACHIEVE THOSE GOALS IS A PITIFUL WAY TO DO IT. IF YOU CAN NOT BEAT HER ON HER RECORD (WHICH SHE CAN BE BEAT ON) THEN YOU BRING DISGRACE TO YOU AND YOUR PARTY BY DEMONIZING AND LYING ABOUT THE FACTS. AS SHE HAS A 93 PERCENT RATING BY THE SIERRA CLUB, HARDLY MAKES HER A TOM DELAY PUPPET.
FYI, TOM DELAY IS NO LONGER THE MAGORITY LEADER, THAT IS OLD NEWS. THAT SHE ACTUALLY VOTES MOST OF THE TIME WITH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY MIGHT BE DUE TO THE FACT THAT SHE IS A REPUBLICAN. HOW MANY NEW YORK DEMOCRATS VOTE THE REPBULICAN LINE? THEY MORE THAN NOT VOTE THE DEMOCRATIC LINE AS THEY ARE DEMOCRATS. THERE IS NOTHING EVIL, OR DISHONSEST IN VOTING THE PARTY LINE IN WHICH YOU AGREE, IT DOES NOT MAKE YOU A PUPPET. HER INSISTANCE IN TAKING OUT DRILLING IN ANWAR (WHICH WAS AGAINST THE PARTY LINE) FROM THE BUDGET AMENDMENT, SHOWS THAT ON PRICIPAL SHE IS NO PUPPET. ALSO FOR THE RECORD THERE WERE NO CUTS IN GOVERNMENT SPENDING ON SCOCIAL PROGRAMS. THE CUTS WERE IN THE PROJECTED RATE OF GROWTH. ALL THOSE SCOCIAL PROGRAMS WILL BE RECIEVING MORE MONEY IN THIS BUDGET THAN IN THE LAST, AND MORE THAN THE RATE OF INFLATION. THIS SCARING OF THE IGNORANT, THAT THEY WILL STARVE, BE FORCED OUT INTO THE COLD AND THEIR CHILDREN WILL REMAIN FOREVER INGNORANT LIKE THOSE WHO KEEP YELLING CUTS TO PROGRAMS SPENDING, IS DAMNABLE AND ANYBODY RESORTING TO THOSE TACTICS SHOULD BE SOUNDLY DEAFEATED. IT DOES THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NO HONOR TO RESORT TO THIS KIND OF POLITICS.
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FOR THE RECORD THE MANIFESTO IS ROOTING FOR THE CANDIDACY OF BEN SHULDINER IN THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY FOR THE RIGHT TO CHALLENGE SUE KELLY FOR CONGRESS. I FIND HIM TO BE THAT RARE BREED OF DEMOCRAT THAT STICKS TO THE ISSUES OF RELEVENCE, AND AT ALL TIMES MAINTIANS HIS HONOR IN THE PROCESS. THAT HE HAS BEEN BOTH A TEACHER AND A PRINCIPAL MAKES HIM MORE THAN QUALIFIED TO ADRESS THE ISSUE OF EDUCATION, WHICH IS A PRIMARY ISSUE. HE HAS CONSENTED TO DO A QUESTION AND ANSWER FOR THE MANIFESTO SO THAT YOU MAY SEE AN UNEDITED VERSION OF HIS VIEWS.

BAZZO 02/18/06

POLITICS OVER PEOPLE INSTEAD OF THE OTHER WAY ARROUND

DEAR READERS:

"TARGET" WANTS TO COME TO PEEKSKILL. "TARGET" WILL EMPLOY ABOUT 300 PEOPLE. "TARGET" WILL PAY A TON OF MONEY IN PROPERTY TAXES, GENERATE A TON OF MONEY IN OTHER BUSINESS TAXES. "TARGET" WANTS TO LOCATE AT LOUISA STREET IN THE IDUSTRIAL SECTION OF PEEKSKILL RIGHT DOWN FROM THE TRAIN STATION. PEOPLE WILL COME TO PEEKSKILL AND STAY IN PEEKSILL INSTEAD OF TAXING A CAB OR BUS TO THE CORTLANT TOWN CENTER. YET THE FLAT EARTH-NO PROGRESS PEOPLE WISH TO STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING IN THE NAME OF TRAFFIC. THEY INTIMATE THAT "TARGET", AN EEEEEVIL BOX STORE WOULD NOT BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR, YET IN THAT SAME AREA IS INDIAN POINT. TRAINS THAT RUN 24/7 WHEN YOU INCLUDE CARGO TRAINS. A GARBAGE RECYCLYNG CENTER IS ALSO THERE. NONE OF THESE NEIGHBORS STOPPED PEOPLE FROM PAYING UP TO A HALF A MILLION DOLLARS FOR THOSE RIVERBEND TOWN HOUSES. STILL, A "TARGET" STORE IS NOT A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR THAT AREA BECAUSE OF TRAFFIC. THE MYOPIC SMALL MINDNESS OF THE OPPOSTION TO THIS PROPOSED ENTERPRISE IS BEYOND COMPRHENSION.THESE SAME ANTI-PROGESS PEOPLE DISPARAGE THE WAGES THAT TARGET PAYS ITS EMPLOYEES, IGNORING THAT FACT THAT THOSE 300 PEOPLE WOULD GLADLY TAKE THOSE JOBS RATHER THAN GOVT. HAND-OUTS. THESE SAME PEOPLE SEEM TO THINK THAT AN ENTRY LEVEL JOB SHOULD FURNISH SUFFICENT INCOME TO SUSTAIN A FAMILY, AND BY GOD IF IT DOESN'T THEN NOBODY SHOULD GET THAT JOB, THEY SHOULD STAY ON THE GOVT. DOLE INSTEAD. THESE SAME FLAT-EARTH, ANTI-PROGESS PEOPLE ALSO WISH TO STOP THE BUILDING UP OF THE REST OF THE RIVERFRONT WITH PROPOSED TOWNHOUSES, A MARINA, NUMEROUS SMALL BUSINESS, UPGRADED INFRASTRUTURE, UPGRADEDED PARKING FACILITIES, AND NEW PARKLAND. ALL IN ALL, NEW TAX PAYING AND FEE GENERATING ENTITIES WHERE FEW EXIST NOW. THESE SAME FLAT-EARTH, ANTI-PROGRESS PEOPLE WHO WISH FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO PAY AND PROVIDE ALL SORTS OF SERVICES, WISH TO STOP THESE POTENTIAL INCREASES IN THE TAX BASE, INSTEAD THEY WOULD INCREASE THE TAXES OF AN ALREADY OVERTAXED POPULACE. UNLESS MAYOR TESTA HAS A PRINTING PRESS IN HIS BASEMENT THAT PRINTS MONEY, A COMMUNITY NEEDS TO INCREASE EITHER ITS TAX BASE OR INCREASE TAXES ON ITS CITIZENS TO PAY FOR ALL THOSE GOVERNMENT SERVICES THE PEOPLE OF PEEKSKILL WISH TO HAVE. THIS IS BASIC ECONOMICS 101, A NO BRAINER.
I FOR ONE WOULD RATHER INCREASE THE TAX BASE THAN TAXES. THE FLAT-EARTH PEOPLE WANT TO HAVE IT THE OTHER WAY ARROUND. TO BE AGAINST PROGESS IS TO BE IN FAVOR OF TAX INCREASES. THIS SMELLS LIKE POLITICS AND THE PEOPLE BE DAMNED. THIS OPPOSITION DOES NOT EXIST IN A VACUME. YOU CANNOT SCARE PEOPLE AGAINST PROGRESS AND PROMISE THEM MORE GOVERNMENT SREVICES AT THE SAME TIME. SOMETHING HAS TO GIVE, AND IT WILL BE YOUR WALLET. IT IS IN THE INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF PEEKSKILL TO GET BEHIND BOTH OF THESE PROJECTS AND STOP THE FLAT-EARTH PEOPLE PEOPLE FROM SCARING PEOPLE FROM THIS NECESSARY GROWTH.
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FOR ALL THOSE WHO WERE AGAINST SEWER DIVERSION FROM YORKTOWN TO PEEKSKILL LIKE I WAS IN A LETTER TO THE NORTH COUNTY NEWS LAST MAY(2005)
(A LETTER THAT PROBABLY COST ME ANY CHANCE OF RUNNINGFOR LOCAL OFFICE
IN YORKTOWN...SEE " I WENT TO THROW MY HAT INTO THE RING" MAY ARCHIVE 2005). YOU WILL BE HAPPY TOP KNOW THAT THAT DIVERSION WILL NOT HAPPEN.
KUDOS TO MAYOR TESTA WHO LEAD THE PEEKSKILL COUNCIL IN THAT FIGHT, AND TO COUNTY LEGISLATOR OROS WHO RISKED POLITICAL DEFEAT BY SIDING AGAINST DIVERSION. GOOD JOB BY ONE AND ALL.

BAZZO 02/07/06

THINGS I CANNOT REMAIN SILENT ABOUT

DEAR READERS:

REGARDING MY RECENT LETTER TO THE JOURNAL NEWS ON ENERGY HIPOCRICY, MR. SMITH WRITES ( YES THAT'S HIS REAL NAME) " ONE OTHER ITEM TO MENTION REGARDING ALTERNATIVE POWERED AUTOMOBILES IS THAT IF THE HYBRID CARS GAIN WIDE USAGE IN THE U.S. AND ELSEWHERE, THERE IS LIKELY TO BE A SHORT TERM BENEFIT, BUT WITH A SIGNIFIGANT LONGER TERM ISSUE THAT WOULD STILL NEED TO BE RESOLVED. IF SUCH CARS WERE TO BECOME COMMON, THIS COULD END UP WITH HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS TO EVENTUALLY MILLIONS OF UNITS. THE PROBLEM RELATES TO HOW ANY NATION WOULD PROPOSE TO DISPOSE OF THE INEVITABILITY OF THE MASSIVE NUMBER OF STORAGE BATTERIES SUCH AUTOS RELY UPON. AS THEY ARE PRESENTLY MANUFACTURED, SUCH BATTERIES MUST BE REPLACED FROM TIME TO TIME(DEPENDING ON MANY VARIBLES OF COURSE). TOXIC MATERIALS ARE IN EVERY SINGLE MODEL OF THESE BATTERIES AND NOP NATION IS EQUIPPED TO HANDLE THIS AT THE MOMENT. SUCH A SHIFT IN AUTOMOBILES IS SIMPLY EXCHANGING ONE PROBLEM FOR ANOTHER AND IT IS YET UNCERTIAN WHICH IS THE LESSER OF THE TWO."

ON THE SAME TOPIC OF THIS HIPOCRICY, I WOULD HAVE A BETTER TIME LISTENING TO THE ADVOCATES IN POWER WOULD THEY PRACTICE WHAT THEY PREACH. THOSE SAME ADVOCATES WHO WISH US TO DRIVE SMALLER AND/OR HYBID CARS AND WOULD LIKE US TO GIVE UP OUR SUV'S (SHOULD YOU OWN ONE)
DRIVE SUV'S OR ARE DRIVEN BY LIMOS THEMSELVES (AN EXAMPLE OF THE RULING CLASS MENTALITY). THEY ALSO FLY CHARTER UNLIKE US WHO FLY COACH. IT REALLY DOES DISTRACT FROM THEIR MESSAGE, AND MAKES THEM LOOK FOOLISH.
(ON A PERSONAL NOTE: THE ABOVE WAS EDITED OUT OF MY RECENT LETTER TO THE JOURNAL NEWS, BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD)
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ON THE COMMITTEES OUR COUNTY LEGISLATORS HEAD TO EARN THOSE EXTRA STIPPENDS(THAT MONEY WE PAY THEM OVER THE MONEY THEY GET TO SHOW UP).
TALK ABOUT MAKE WORK PROJECTS, NO WONDER THEY THINK THIS IS A FULL TIME JOB(HOW STUPID OF ME TO THINK THAT THE ONLY FULL TIME PART OF THEIR JOB WAS TO RUN FOR RE-ELECTION). KEEP IN MIND THAT WE HAVE ONLY 17 LEGISLATORS, APPERENTLY OUR COUNTY BELEIVES WE NEED 23 COMMITTEES. OF THOSE 23 ONLY 11 MET AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH, YET ALL THOSE COMMITTEE HEADS GOT THEIR AND CONTINUE TO GET THEIR STIPPEND. WOW! THINK ABOUT THAT WHEN YOUR PROPERTY TAX BILL(WITH IT'S 4% INCREASE) COMES IN THE MAIL. I FIND THE OTHER AMAZING THING IS THAT THIS ONLY COMES OUT IN THE PAPER AFTER THE ELECTION. I GUESS THIS IS ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE ITEMS OUR LEGISLATORS AND THIER WILLING PARTNERS IN THE PRESS THOUGHT WE SHOULD NOT BE BURDENED WITH WHEN DECIDING WHO TO VOTE FOR. THIS ISSUE OF HOW OUR TAX MONEY IS SPENT WAS APPARENTLY CONSIDERED UNIMPORTANT. NEVER FEAR THOUGH, OUR COUNTY LEGISLATOR (AND MOINORITY LEADER) GEORGE OROS (REPUBLICAN) HAS THE ANSWER. ANOTHER COMMITTEE!!!! THIS TO TACKLE THE ISSUE OF FUTURE COUNTY PAY RAISES. ALL THE TIME I THOUGHT THAT EVEN IN NEW YORK, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY STOOD FOR SMALLER GOVERNMENT, AGAIN HOW STUPID OF ME. I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT COMMITTEE ALREADY EXISTED IN THE FORM OF US THE VOTERS. IN OTHER WORDS, I WOULD THINK THAT ANY FUTURE PAY RAISES SHOULD BE PUT TO THE BALLOT AND LET THOSE WHOSE POCKETS THAT MONEY COMES OUT OF DECIDE. I GUESS THAT IS TO FRIGHTENING FOR ANY ELECTED OFFICIAL TO CONTEMPLATE. JUST WHAT WE NEED, ANOTHER LAYER OF BEAUROCRACY TO BE PAID EXTRA TO DETERMIN HOW MUCH EXTRA WE SHOULD PAY THEM. I WOULD LAUGH IF THEY WEREN'T SERIOUS ON THIS MATTER.
JUST TO BE FAIR, I MUST ALSO REPORT THAT WILLIAM RYAN (DEMOCRAT) WHO IS THE MAJORITY LEADER HAS PROPOSED TO ELIMINATE SOME OF THOSE COMMITTEES. HOWEVER THIS IS THE SAME WILLIAM RYAN WHO SAYS HE LIKES TO LET MEMBERS OF THE MINORITY HEAD SOME COMMITTEES, JUST TO BE FAIR. OUT OF THE EXISTING 23 COMMITEES THE MINORITY PARTY HEADS 4. NONE OF THOSE FOUR MET AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH. SO IF THEY WERE TO ELIMINATE THOSE COMMITTTEES THAT DIDN'T MEET AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH, THERE GOES THE FOUR MINORITY MEMBERS ... JUST TO BE FAIR.

BAZZO 01/14/06
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WHILE YOU WERE OUT....WHAT YOU MISSED

DEAR READERS:

WELCOME BACK FROM THE HOLIDAYS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR. IN MY LAST POST BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS I TRIED TO WARN YOU TO TAKE TIME TO PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR ELECTED LEADERS, FOR DURING THE HOLIDAYS, THEY LIKE TO CAUSE THE MOST MISCHIEF KNOWING YOU ARE NOT LOOKING. WELL, THEY DID NOT LET ME DOWN. THEY DID. OUR COUNTY LEGISLATORS VOTED THEMSELVES A RAISE. THE ORIGINAL PROPOSAL INCLUDES A BASE PAY RAISE OF 32% PLUS A 100 PERCENT IN THE STIPPENDS THEY GIVE THEMSELVES TO CHAIR A COMMITEE. THEY ALSO TRIED TO SNEEK IN A MECHINISM TO GIVE THEMSELVES AN AUTOMATIC PAY REAISE OF 4% EVERY TWO YEARS WITHOUT COMMING TO YOU THE VOTER FOR APPROVAL. WHAT WAS SETTLED ON THE LAST DAY OF THE YEAR WAS A 14.3% RAISE IN THEIR BASE PAY, AND A RAISE FROM BETWEEN $3,000.00 TO $9,000.00 IN STIPPEND PAY. THEY KNOCKED OUT THE AUOTMATIC PAY INCREASE (FOR NOW). FOR THIS, WE ARE TO FEEL GRATEFUL.

THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW: NOT ONE LEGISLATOR SEEMED TO THINK THIS WAS WORTH MENTIONING DURING THE LAST RUN UP TO ELECTION LAST NOVEMBER. NOT ONE!!!!! HOW NICE OF THEM TO THINK THAT THIS WAS NOT IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO TROUBLE US WITH AT ELECTION TIME. ISN'T IT NICE TO KNOW THAT OUR LEGILATORS WILL NOW GET $49,000.00 JUST TO SHOW UP, YET IF YOU WANT THEM TO DO ANY WORK WE ALSO HAVE TO PAY THE AN EXTRA $3,000.00 TO $9,000.00 IN STIPPEND PAY TO DO ANY WORK. REMEMBER THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY EXTRA BENEFITS THAT THEY HAVE VOTED THMSELVES OVER THE YEARS. $49,000.00 TO SHOW UP IS NOT ENOUGH, NO, THEY PAY THEMSELVES A STIPPEND TO DO THE PEOPLES WORK. TO ME THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE. QUESTION IS WHY DO THEY NEED THE EXTRA MONEY TO DO THE WORK THE $49,000.00 IS SUPPOSE TO PAY THEM TO DO IN THE FIRST PLACE? FOR THE RECORD, MICHEAL KAPLOWITZ VOTED AGAIST THIS, GEORGE OROS (THE MINORITY LEADER) WHO SPOKE OUT AGAINST THIS, WAS NOT THERE TO VOTE AGAINST THIS. FOR THE RECORD DID ANY OF OUR COUNTY REPRESENTATIVES WRITE TO THE NORTH COUNTY NEWS (ONE OF OUR LOCAL PAPERS) TO EXPLAIN THIS TO US, THE ANSWER IS NO, THAT LETTER CAME FROM JIM MAISANO, WHO IS NOT OUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE. I THINK THAT THE LEAST ONE OF OUR ELECTED REPRENTATIVES COULD DO IS WRITE TO ONE OF OUR LOCAL PAPAERS TO LET US KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON. I REALLY THINK THAT IS NOT TO MUCH TO ASK FOR $49,000.00. ONE FINAL QUESTION, WILL THOSE WHO VOTED AGAINST THIS PAY RAISE (OR SPOKE OUT AGAINST IT) TAKE THE MONEY ANYWAY?

BAZZO 01/04/06

IS ANYBODY THERE...DOES ANYBODY CARE....DOES ANYBODY SEE WHAT I SEE???

DEAR READERS:

LET'S GET ONE THING STRAIGHT FIRST, I KNOW HOW BUSY THIS TIME OF YEAR IS FOR YOU. THE SHOPPING, THE PLANNING FOR WHO IS GOING OR COMMING FOR THE CHRISTMAS (YES I SAID CHRISTMAS) AND NEW YEAR HOLIDAY. THE MEALS AND WHERE THEY WILL BE, THE DECORATING, AND YES, FOR THOSE WITH YOUNG CHILDREN, THE VISITING OF SANTA LAND. THEN THERE ARE THOSE PEOPLE IN CERTIAN JOBS THAT HAVE THE END OF THE YEAR RECONCILIATIONS THAT HAVE TO BE DONE ON TIME. SO WHO CARES ABOUT POLITICS, AND ELECTION THAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT NOVEMBER AND THE NOVEMBER AFTER THAT? WHO HAS THE TIME TO PAY ATTENTION? THERE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO BE DONE, RIGHT?
WELL, THOSE PEOPLE IN ELECTIVE OFFFICE ARE COUNTING ON YOU TO BE DISTRACTED. THEY PRAY THAT YOU WILL FEEL AS I HAVE JUST DISCRIBED, AND THEY ARE RIGHT, FOR THE MOST PART YOU ARE. I HAVE PEOPLE TELLING ME TO QUIT, GIVE UP THE FIGHT. NO ONES GOING TO CARE. NO ONES GOING TO WRITE.
PROBLEM IS YOU SEE, BY DOING MY MONTHLY LETTERS TO THE EDITOR AND WRITING THIS BLOG, I HAVE ALREADY CROSSED THAT BRIDGE AND BURNED IT BEHIND ME. SO HOPEFULLY YOU WILL TAKE A FEW MINUTES AND SEE HOW YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE COUNTING ON YOU NOT TO CARE UNTIL IT'S TOO LATE.
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IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG FOR COUNTY EXECUTIVE SPANO TO ANNOUNCE HE WAS GOING TO RAISE TAXES. SEVEN DAYS TO BE EXACT. A POINT IN HISTORY, HE DID THAT THREE YEARS AGO ALSO. LUCKILY WE HAVE OUR COUNTY LEGISLATOR WHO IS THE MINORITY LEADER GEORGE OROS, WHO IS FIGHTING TO KEEP A ZERO TAX INCREASE. IT WOULD BE WISE FOR LEGISLATOR OROS TO WRITE A LETTER TO THE EDITOR EXPLAINING HIS STANCE ON THE PROPOSED BUDGET, SO WE THE VOTING PUBLIC CAN VOICE OUR SUPPORT FOR HIS POSTION TO OUR COUNTY EXECUTIVE. I KNOW IF HE DID WRITE SUCH A LETTER, I WOULD MAKE SURE THE READERS OF THIS BLOG GOT A COPY IN CASE YOU MISS THE ISSUE IT APPEARS IN. I KNOW FROM MY CONVERSATIONS WITH MANY OF YOU READERS THAT YOU WOULD BE GLAD TO FIGHT TO KEEP YOUR MONEY WERE THE ISSUES EXPLAINED TO YOU BY YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TO THE COUNTY LEGISLATOR. I AGREE WITH MANY OF YOU THAT THE SNIPPETS THAT THE LOCAL PAPERS HAVE ATTRIBUTED TO OUR LEGISATOR IS NOT ENOUGH INFORMATION. WE WOULD LIKE AN UNEDITED VERSION OF HIS POSTION.
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LIKE MANY OF YOU I AM TIRED OF BEING REPRESENTED BY MEDIOCRITY, YET THOSE ARE SOMETIMES THE ONLY CHOICES WE HAVE TO VOTE ON. I FIND THE EXPLINATION IN THE FACT THAT THE POWERS THAT BE, WHO NOMINATE THOSE FOR WHOM WE VOTE, MIGHT THEMSELVES BE MEDIOCRE. I SAY THIS WHEN I READ IN THE NORTH COUNTY NEWS THAT THE HEAD OF THE YORKTOWN REPUBLICAN COMMITEE SAYS ONE OF THE REASONS THAT LINDA COOPER HAD SUCH A CLOSE CALL WERE FACTORS OUT OF THE SUPERVISORS CONTROL. WEAK CANDIDATES ON OTHER LINES AND NEGATIVE BACKLASH AGAINST BUSH (NORTH COUNTY NEW 11/23/05). HEAVEN FORBID THE FACT THAT PEOPLE MIGHT ACTUALLY VOTE ON THE LOCAL ISSUES CONCERNING THEM. HEAVEN FORBID THE FACT THAT THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES FOR THE TOWN COUNCIL WON BY AN ALMOST TWO TO ONE MARGIN, WHICH MIGHT BE A CRITISISM OF THE CANDIDATES THE COMMITEE NOMINATED, NO, IT WAS BUSH'S FAULT. JUST MABY THE PEOPLE ACTUALLY BELIEVED IN THE MESSAGE THAT CANDIDATE PETERS WAS VOICING, AND THAT TOWN GOVERNMENT WAS GETTING TOO INTRUSIVE. MABY THE REPUBLICAN COMMITEE IS GETTING OUT OF TOUCH WITH THEIR CONSTITUANCY. MABY THE COMMITTEE SHOULD LOOK TO THEMSELVES, THEIR PLATFORM, AND THE PEOPLE THEY PUT ON THE BALLOT, RATHER THAN BUSH BASHING, THEN MABY INTHE NEXT YEARS ELECTION THEY MIGHT NOMINATE CADIDATES WHO CAN GET ELECTED. THEY MIGHT ACTUALLY LISTEN TO WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT. BOTH THE REPUBLICAN COMMITTE AND THE DEMOCRAT COMMITEE (WHICH ALMOST GOT IT RIGHT) MIGHT COME TO THE SAME REALIZATION THAT I CAME TO LONG AGO, THAT THE PRESENT OFFICIALS REPRESENTING US IN ALBANY AND WASHINGTON NO LONGER REPRESENT US, BUT ONLY REPRESENT THEMSELVES AND WHAT WILL KEEP THEM ON OFFICE AND IN THE GOOD GRACES OF THE PARTY LEADERSHIP. THAT WE THE PEOPLE WANT CANDIDATES THAT WILL NOT REMAIN SILENT ON ISSUES THAT CONCERN US IF IT WILL UPSET THEIR LEADERS (IE: THE SCHOOL TAXES BEING LEFT UP TO AN UNELECTED JUDGE, THE ON GOING COURT CASE REGARDING 100 MILLION OF OUR TAX DOLLARS, THE INSULT TO THE PUBLIC THAT WAS PROPOSITION ONE IN THE LAST ELECTION) WE WANT CANDIDATES THAT WILL PUT US, THE PEOPLE ABOVE PERKS. THOSE CANDIDATES ARE OUT THERE, THE BILL SCHMIDTS, THE DIANA BURRUSS', THE DOMINIC VOLPES, THE DON PETERS, THE DAVID FRITZ'S, THE RUTH WELLS, THE JAMES MARTORANOS, THE BEN SHULDINERS. THIS IS NOT AN ENDORSEMENTS OF THEIR POLICY STANCES, AND/OR PUBLIC STATEMENTS, BUT RATHER AN ENDORSEMENT OF THEIR CHARACTER, IN THE BELIEF THAT THEY HAVE SHOWN THAT IN THEIR ACTIONS EITHER IN OFFICE OR IN THEIR PUBLIC INTERACTIONS, THEY WOULD PUT US, THE PEOPLE, ABOVE PARTY AND PERKS. I HAVE PURPOSELY LEFT OUT THOSE ALREADY IN OFFICE IN THE BELIEF THEIR PLATE IS ALREADY FULL. WE THE VOTING PUBLIC WILL NO LONGER SETTLE FOR MEDICOCRITY. WE THE PEOPLE WANT BETTER, AND DESERVE BETTER THAN WHAT YOU IN THE LEADERSHIP HAVE HOISTED UPON US IN THE PAST. I HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT FIRST RATE PEOPLE HIRE FIRST RATE PEOPLE, SECOND RATE PEOPLE HIRE THIRD RATE PEOPLE.
WE THE VOTING PUBLIC ARE FIRST RATE PEOPLE AND DEMAND FIRST RATE CANDIDATES. THOSE ALREADY IN ALBANY AND WASHINGTON HAVE OVER STAYED THEIR WELCOME, WE THE PUBLIC ARE READY TO VOTE THEM INTO RETIREMENT. I KNOW THAT THE UNSEATING OF A SITTING INCUMBENT IS DIFFICULT, BUT WITH THEIR PRESENT VOTING RECORD AND THEIR DEAFENING SILENCE ON THE ISSUES THAT CONCERN US, IT IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE, IN FACT IT IS QUITE DOABLE. TO DO GREAT THINGS REQUIRES GREAT EFFORT. WE EXPECT THOSE IN PARTY LEADERSHIP TO EXPEND THAT EFFORT ON OUR BEHALF. IT IS NOW TIME TO SHOW THAT YOU IN THE LEADERSHIP ARE FIRST RATE PEOPLE.

BAZZO 12/03/05

REFLECTIONS ON THE ELECTIONS

DEAR READERS:

THE ELECTION RESULTS AT THE TIME OF THIS WRITING SHOWS THAT THE DEMOCRATS RUNNING FOR YORKTOWN TOWN COUNCIL RECIEVED ALMOST TWICE THE VOTE AS THEIR REPUBLICAN COUNTER PARTS. THIS IS OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO ME, FOR I PREDICTED THIS IN MY ENTRY " I WENT TO THROW MY HAT INTO THE RING"(MAY 2005 ARCHIVE). SO MUCH FOR TEAM PLAYERS. SO MUCH FOR "CHALLENGER LIGHT". SO MUCH FOR TOWING THE PARTY LINE. I SAID BACK THEN THAT THE PARTY NEEDED TO SPEAK TO THAT PART OF THE PARTY WHICH I ADVOCATE. THE MORE CONSERVATIVE LESS INTRUSIVE INTO PRIVATE PROPERTY AND PRIVATE BUSINESS RIGHTS. I SAID THAT THESE VOICES CROSS PARTY LINES AND YOU NEEDED THEM TO BEAT SITTING INCUMBENTS. REPUBLICAN TURNED DEMOCRAT DON PETERS SPOKE TO THOSE PEOPLE AND LOOK AT THE VOTES HE GOT. THOSE VOTES SHOULD HAVE GONE REPUBLICAN. I HOPE IN TWO YEARS WHEN IT'S TIME TO VOTE LOCAL AGAIN, AND I GO BEFORE THE POWERS THAT BE, SEEKING THEIR NOMINATION, THEY WILL REMEMBER THIS LESSON AND THAT I HAVE WRITTEN AND BEEN ON RECORD FOR THESE VALUES. THAT THESE VALUES, LESS GOVERNMENT INTRUSION AND MORE ACCESS TO ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE A WINNING FORMULA ON THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
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I BELIEVE ONE OF THE REASONS THAT DOMINIC VOLPE WON SO HANDILY IN PEEKSKILL AND HAD SUCH A STRONG SHOWING (EVEN THOUGH HE LOST) IS THAT AS A LOCAL BUSINESS MAN
HE HAD THE ABILITY TO MEET MORE PEOPLE IN A WEEK THAN GEORGE OROS COULD MEET IN A MONTH. THIS TOO, I WROTE ABOUT IN MY ENTRY " IWENT TO THROW MY HAT INTO THE RING"(MAY 2005 ARCHIVE), THAT THE PARTY NEEDED TO RECRUIT BUSINESS PEOPLE WHO HAVE DAILY CONTACT WITH PEOPLE EVERY DAY. ONE OF THE MANY FEED BACKS I GOT WAS THAT EVEN THOUGH THE CANDIDATES WENT DOOR TO DOOR SEEKING VOTES, THE PEOPLE WOULD HAVE CARED MORE ABOUT THE MESSAGE HAD THEY (THE CANDIDATES) COME TO THEM WHEN THEY DIDN'T NEED SOMETHING. IN OTHER WORDS NEXT YEAR WHEN THE CANDIDATES AREN'T SEEKING ELECTION, THEY SHOULD ONCE AND A WHILE GO TO THOSE SAME COMMUNITIES AND ASK WHAT IS ON THEIR MIND.
IF THE OFFICE THEY HOLD AND WISH TO CONTINUE TO HOLD IS SO IMPORTANT, AND THEY REALLLY HAVE THE NEED TO SERVE THE PEOPLE, NOT JUST THE RETENTION OF THIER OWN OFFICE, THEY SHOULD MAKE THE TIME TO GO OUT AMONG THE PEOPLE AND SHOW THEY ARE LISTENING. THEY SHOULD MAKE A POINT OF WRITNG TO THE LOCAL PAPERS (ONCE A MONTH) ABOUT ISSUES CONCERNING THE PEOPLE THEY REPRESENT, NOT JUST RELY ON THE PUBLIC TOWN, CITY, OR COUNTY MEETINGS. TO THOSE POWERS THAT BE, LOOK CLOSELY AT THE RESULTS, SEE HOW CLOSE THE CHALLENGERS (DON PETERS AND DOM VOLPE, BUSINESSMEN BOTH) GOT.
DO NOT TAKE LIGHTLY THE FACT THAT AS BUSINESS MEN THEY HAD THE CONTACT YOU DON'T, AND NEED TO HAVE. SHOULD YOUR OPPOSTION TAKE MY ADVICE, AND RECRIUT BUSINESS PEOPLE, YOU MAY NOT HAVE VICTORY NEXT TIME. REMEMBER THOSE BUSINESS PEOPLE HAVE TWO YEARS TO MAKE (AND SECURE) THOSE CONTACTS, WHILE YOU WAIT FOR THE NEXT ELECTION.
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IN PEEKSKILL THE SPLIT OF THE VOTE SHOWS THAT THE VOTERS ARE NOT INSTICTIVLY PARTY LINE VOTERS. THAT THERE ARE ISSUES THAT CROSS PARTY LINES AND THE PEOPLE KNOW THAT THERE IS NO REPUBLICAN OR DEMORATIC WAY TO DO WHAT IS BEST FOR THE CITY. OBVIOUSLY THE PEOLPLE LIKE THE DIRECTION AND THE VISION THE MAYOR HAS TAKEN THE CITY, AND THEY WISH TO CONTINUE THAT DIRECTION. BUT A MORE AGRESSIVE AND ACTIVE ENFORCEMENT OF THE CODES ARE NECESSARY. I LOOK AT THE POSITIVE MESSAGES THE PARTIES RAN ON (CONTINUED GROWTH ON THE REPULICAN SIDE, AND MORE ENFORCEMENT ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE) AS OPPOSED TO THE NEGATIVE ATTACKS BY SURRAGATES, THAT INFLUENCED THE VOTE. LIKE I SAID IN THE RUN UP TO THE ELECTION, BOTH SIDES HAD A VISION, THE PEOPLE BY SPLITTING THE VOTE CHOSE THE BEST (IN THEIR OPINION) OF THOSE VISIONS. I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE PREFER TO VOTE POSITIVE THAN NEGATIVE. THE PARTY THAT ENCOMPASSES BOTH THOSE MESSAGES IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS HAS IN MY OPINION THE BEST CHANCE OF GAINING ON THE OTHER. IT WOULD BEHOOVE THOSE WHO WISH TO RUN IN TWO YEARS NOT TO BE SEEN AS PARTY FIRST, BUT TO BE SEEN AS CITY FIRST. THE PEEKSKILL VOTER WANTS WHAT IS BEST FOR THE CITY, AND THEY SHOWED IT. IT IS NOT FOR ANYBODY TO AGRUE WHAT THEY SAID, BUT TO ACT ON WHAT THEY SAID. STAY POSITIVE, MOVE FOWARD AND STAND FOR THE CITY.

BAZZO 11/12/05

THE ELECTIONS ACCORDING TO ME.... LOCAL ELECTIONS CONTINUED

DEAR READERS:

I RECENTLY DID WHAT YOU AND I SHOULD BE DOING MORE OF, I WENT TO THE LOCAL BOARD MEETINGS IN THE TOWN OF YORKTOWN AND CITY OF PEEKSKILL. BOTH WHICH HAVE IN COMMON TWO TIMES IN WHICH THE PUBLIC CAN STAND BEFORE THEIR ELECTED OFFICIALS AND OPINE ON WHATEVER CONCERNS THE PUBLIC HAS. IN BOTH MEETINGS THE PUBLIC TURNOUT WAS NEGLIGABLE. THIS IS TO THE SHAME OF YOU AND ME. THESE ARE OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS, AT A
PUBLIC FORUM, WHICH OUR TAX DOLLARS PAY FOR, WHERE WE THE PUBLIC CAN SPEAK BEFORE THOSE WE ELECTED AND TELL THEM WHAT FORE. THESE MEETING WHICH HAVE MORE AFFECT ON OUR EVERYDAY LIVES THAN ANY OTHER ELECTED
BODY HAS. I KNOW THAT YOU ALL HAVE JOBS AND FAMILIES TO RAISE, YET SO DO THESE PEOPLE, FOR THESE POSITIONS ARE PARTIME JOBS (ONLY REQUIRING A HUNDRED HOURS A WEEK). YET INSTEAD OF WATCHING TV, ON THAT ONE NIGHT EVERY TWO WEEKS, YOU THE VOTER, YOU THE TAX PAYER SHOULD MAKE TIME TO ENGAGE IN THE PROCESS THAT AFFECTS THE VERY PROPERTY YOU SO DEARLY CARE ABOUT. INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING AFTER THE FACT, HERE IS YOUR BY-WEEKLY CHANCE TO COMPLAIN BEFORE THE DAMAGE IS DONE (AND MAYBE STOP THAT DAMAGE). IT IS AFTER ALL, THESE OFFICIALS WHO WORK FOR YOU, WHO REQUIRE YOUR IMPUT INTO HOW TO BEST DO YOUR BIDDING. IT IS UP TO YOU TO HAVE SOMEONE IN YOUR HOUSEHOLD AT THOSE MEETINGS TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS. BY YOUR INACTION, YOU HAVE NO ONE TO BLAME BUT YOURSELVES WHEN
THESE BOARDS IN FRINGE ON THOSE RIGHTS. THE POWER IS YOURS IF YOU WISH TO WEILD IT. STOP LEAVING IT UP TO SOMEONE ELSE.

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IF WHAT I READ IN THIS WEEKS NORTH COUNTY NEWS (10/20/05) IS CORRECT,
THAT THE REPUBLICANS IN YORKTOWN ARE COMPLAING ABOUT ELECTION SIGNS BECAUSE OF SOME HANDSHAKE AGREEMENT BETWEEN BOTH PARTIES(YEARS AGO) NOT TO USE THEM, THEN I SAY A PLAGUE ON BOTH YOUR HOUSES FOR EVEN CONSIDERING AND/OR AGREEING TO ANY MEASURE THAT WOULD STIFLE FREE POLITCAL SPEECH, ESPECIALLY ON THE GROUNDS THAT SOME PEOPLE FIND THEM UNSIGHTLY. ONE OF OUR MOST SACRED AND PROTECTED RIGHTS, ONE THAT SEPARATES US FROM MOST OF THE WORLD, IS THE FREE EXERCISE OF SPEECH (ESPECIALLY THAT OF A POLITICAL NATURE). IF SOMEONE RUNNING FOR OFFICE WISHES TO ADVERTISE THAT FACT WITH A LAWN SIGN, I SAY LET THEM AND HOORAY FOR THE HOME OWNER WHO WISHES TO PARTICIPATE. TO THE DEVIL WITH THOSE WHO WISH TO SILENCE THAT FORM OF SPEECH. CENCORSHIP IN ANY FORM IS BENEATH CONTEMPT.
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IF WHAT WAS WRITTEN IN TODAY'S JOURNAL NEWS (10/20/05) IS ALSO TRUE,
THAT DEVLOPER MARTIN GINSBURG IS TRYING TO FORCE A WATERFRONT PROPERTY OWNER IN PEEKSKILL INTO SELLING THAT PROPERTY AT AT SMALL PRICE ($120,00 FOR A HALF ACRE) WITH THE THREAT OF USING EMINENT DOMAIN WITH THE HELP OF THE LOCAL AND COUNTY GOVERMENT, I SAY TO YOU PEEKSKILL RESIDENTS WHO READ THIS,
LET YOUR ELECTED OFFICALS KNOW THIS WILL NOT STAND. I DON'T CARE HOW GLORIOUS THE PLANS FOR THE PEEKSKILL WATER FRONT ARE. I DON'T CARE WHAT THE SUPREME COURT SAID. JUST BECAUSE THE COURTS GAVE YOU(OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS) THE RIGHT TO DO THIS(THE USE OF EMINENT DOMAIN), DOES NOT MAKE IT RIGHT. NO AMMOUNT OF DEVELOPEMENT IS WORTH THE SACFIFICING OF SOMEONE'S PROPERTY RIGHTS. IT WOULD BEHOOVE THE ELECTED OFFICIALS OF PEEKSKILL AND THE COUNTY TO INSTEAD PREASURE GINSBURG INTO MAKING A MORE REASONABLE OFFER. ON THIS ISSUE THE ELECTED OFFICALS DUTY IS TO THE PROPERTY OWNER.
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IF YOU READ THE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR OR WATCH THE LOCAL BOARD MEETINGS ON TV, YOU WOULD THINK THAT THOSE RUNNING FOR OFFICE OR RE-ELECTION ARE RECKLESS REPROBATES BENT ON RUNNIG THEIR RESPECTIVE LOCALITIES BACK TO THE DARK AGES OF FISCAL RUIN. WERE THESE CHARGES MADE BY PARTY SURAGATES TRUE, WHAT PERSSON RUNNING FOR OFFICE WOULD NOT THEMSELVES USE THOSE CHARGES AS A STAKE TO DRIVE RIGHT THROUGH THEIR OPPENTS CHANCES. AS THE ACTUAL CANDIDATES HAVE NOT THEMSEVES UTTERED THESE INVECTIVES IT WOULD BE WISE FOR YOU THE VOTER TO DISCARD THEM. WHAT YOU HAVE ARE CANDIDATES WHO HAVE DIFFERENT VIEWS ON WHERE THEY WISH TO LEAD THEIR RESPECTIVE COMMUNITIES. IT IS UP TO YOU THE VOTER TO
DECIDE BY (IF THEY ARE ALREADY IN OFFICE) VOTES THEY HAVE MADE, IS THIS WHERE YOU WANT YOUR COMMUNITY TO GO. IF IT IS A CANDIDATE WHO IS RUNNING FOR THE FIRST TIME, YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO WHAT THEY ARE PROPOSING, AND DECIDE IF THAT IS WHAT YOU WANT. IF ALL THE CANDIADTE IS DOING IS COMPLIANING, BUT OFFERS NO ALTERNATIVE, THEN I SAY YOU CANNOT REPLACE SOMETHING WITH NOTHING. IT IS THESE CRITERIA THAT I USE IN DECIDING WHO I SIDE WITH. THE ONE THING A SITTING INCUMBENT CANNOT DO IS RUN AWAY FROM THEIR ACTUAL VOTE ON ANY GIVEN ISSUE. I WOULD BE WISE FOR YOU THE VOTER NOT TO REFLEXIVELY VOTE PARTY LABLE, YOU DO YOURSELF A DISERVICE THAT WAY. HOPEFULLY AS THIS ELECTION DRAWS NEAR, MY RECENT LETTERS, AND BLOG UPDATES HAVE POINTED OUT TO YOU THE STANCE THESE RESPECTIVE CANDIATES HAVE TAKEN. HOPEFULLY I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO HELP YOU SORT OUT SOME THE ISSUES. WHAT YOU DO WITH THE INFORMATION IS UP TO YOU. WHATEVER YOU DECIDE, DO NOT SIT OUT THIS ELECTION ON NOVEMBER 8,
DOING NOTHING IS THE WORSE THING YOU CAN DO.

BAZZO 10/21/05

INSULTING OUR INTELEGENCE.....WHEN OUR ELECTED LEADERS SHOW THEIR CONTEPMT OF THE VOTER......

DEA READERS;

THERE IS AN INSIDEOUS MOVE AFOOT BY OUR LEADERS IN ALBANY TO SEPARATE US FROM OUR MONEY UNDER THE GUISE OF REFORM. IT IS CALLED THE" BUDGET REFORM ACT", AND WE WILL BE VOTING ON THIS MEASURE THIS NOVEMBER. THIS INISITIVE IS 300 WORDS LONG AND YOU WILL ONLY HAVE MINUTES TO DESIPHER THIS MUMBO-JUMBO. YOU WILL HAVE NO HELP FROM THE LOCAL MEDIA, AND THERE WILL BE NO PANPHLET TO HELP YOU. FEAR NOT, I WILL. SIMPLY BROKEN DOWN THIS MEASURE EXTENDS THE BUDGET DEADLINE BY 30 DAYS, FROM APRIL FIRST TO MAY FIRST. THE ONLY THING THIS REFORM ACOPMPLISHES IS SHORTENING BY 30 DAYS HOW LATE OUR STATE BUDGET WILL BE. IT ALSO STATES THAT IF THE BUDGET IS LATE, THE STATE USES LAST YEARS BUDGET TILL A NEW ONE IS IN PLACE. THIS IS WHERE THE REAL REFORM TAKES PLACE. WHEN THE OLD BUDGET IS ACTIVATED THEN ONLY THE ASSEMBLY AND THE SENATE SIT DOWN AND HAMMER OUT A NEW BUDGET WITH OUT THE GOVENOR. NOW WHATEVER YOU MAY THINK OF THE GOVENOR, HE IS THE ONLY STATEWIDE ELECTED OFFICIAL WE HAVE TO WATCHOUT AND ACT IN OUR BEHALF WHEN IT COMES TRO THE BUDGET. TO LEAVE THE BUDGET UP TO THE ASSEMBLY AND THE SENATE, WHO ACT LIKE LITTLE FIFEDOMS, BEHOLDEN UPON SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS TO STAY IN POWER, TO LEAVE THIS PROCESS UP TO OUR LOCAL STATE AND ASSEMBLY REPRESENTATIVES WHO TAKE THEIR MARCHING ORDERS FROM THEIR LEADERS IN THE ASSEMBLY OR SENATE, OUT OF FEAR OF LOOSING THIER COMMITEE CHAIRMANSHIPS OR STIPENDS THEY USE TO BUY OUR VOTES, IS TO SANCTION A RAID ON OUR WALLLETS UNSEEN IN OUR TIME. THIS MEASURE MUST BE VOTED DOWN IN THE NAME OF FISCAL SANITY. ONLY YOU THIS NOVEMBER CAN STOP THE FOX FROM RUNNING THE HEN HOUSE.

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I HAVE TO LAUGH AT OUR ELECTED LEADERS AS THEY POINT TO BIG OIL AS THE BOOGEY MAN IN THE RECENT SPIKE IN OIL PRICES. SURE, I BELIEVE THEY ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF US, YET, TO HEAR OUR REPRESENTATIVES AND THOSE WHO WISH TO BECOME OUR REPESENTATIVES SPEAK, YOU WOULD THINK THEY WERE ONLY BYSTANDERS. WE HAVE NOT HAD A NEW REFINRERY BUITL SINCE 1976. WE HAVE NOT HAD A NEW PIPELINE BUILT ON OVER 25 YEARS. WE HAVE 50 STATES AND 40 DIFFERENT BLENDS OF GAS AND HEATING OIL. IT IS THEIR HINERING THE BUILDING OF THOSE REFINERIES AND PIPELINES THERE BYE STIFLING THE SUPLY OF GAS AND HEATING OIL THAT HAS A PROFOUND AFFECT ON PRICES. IT IS THEIR OVERREGULATION OF THE OIL INDUSTRY THAT DRIVES UP THE COST OF PRODUCING AND DELIVERING THAT OIL AND GAS THAT DRIVES UP PRICES. IT IS THEIR ENACTING ONOURUS TAXES, FEES AND SURCHARGES ON GAS AND OIL THAT DRIVES UP PRICES. FOR THEM TO ACT AS IF THEY ARE VIRGINS IN THE FLEECING OF OUR DISPOSABLE INCOME IS AN INSULT TO THE INTELEGENCE OF EVERY VOTER. NOT ONE OF THEIR PROPOSALS WILL PRODUCE ONE BARREL OF GAS OR OIL THAT WILL INCREASE SUPLY AND THERBYE LOWER THE PRICE OF GAS. UNTIL THEY START ACTUALLY ADRESSING THE REAL NEEDS TO REMEDY THE PROBLEM OF SUPLY AND DISTRIBUTION, THEY SHOULD SIT DOWN, SHUT UP AND STAY OUT OF THE WAY OF THE MARKET PLACE AND STOP PANDERING FOR VOTES.

BAZZO 10/06/05

TWO PLUS TWO EQUALS FIVE....PLUS OTHER NUMBERS THAT DON'T ADD UP

DEAR READERS:

I RECENTLY CAME ACROSS A STUDY BY THE LABOR MARKET STUDIES AT NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY. THEY REPORT THAT BETWEEN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2001 AND THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2005 THE N.Y.S GOVERNMENT HOUSEHOLDEMPLOYMENT SURVEY SHOWED AN INCREASE OF 148,000 JOBS. YET THE SAME NUMBER OF BUSINESS REPORTED HIRING AS PART OF THE PAYROLL FELL
BY 188,00. SO YOU HAVE A DIFFERENCE OF 336,000 PEOPLE WHO SAY THEY ARE
WORKING VERSUS BUSINESS THAT SAID THEY HIRED PEOPLE. OR IN SIMPLER TERMS, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF BUSINESES HIRING OFF THE BOOKS. AS ANYBODY IN BUSINESS CAN TELL YOU THERE HAS BEEN A SIGNIFICANT GROWTH IN THE UNDERGOUND ECONOMY AS A WAY OF BUSINESES TO SKIRT THE PUNITIVE TAXES
THAT N.Y.S. BURDENS THOSE BUSINESES WITH. TO LIVE IN N.Y.S IS TO BE PUNNISHED FOR SUCCESS, AND TO BE BURDENED WITH THE WHIMS OF POLITICIANS WHO WISH TO SOCIAL ENGINEER WITH WITH THE PROFITS OF BUSINESS. OF COURSE WE KNOW THAT THE REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH IS SOCIALISM, AND THAT IS THE PRICE FOR LIVING IN A "BLUE" STATE. THESE POLITICIANS WHO HAVE NEVER CREATED WEALTH BY HARD WORK AND INVESTING THEIR OWN MONEY, ARE ONLY TOO GLAD TO TAKE AWAY FROM THE WEALTH CREATING POPULICE THE FRIUTS OF THEIR LABORS, DREAMS, AND INVESTMENTS AND REDISTRIBUTE IT
TO THOSE WHO THINK LIFE IS UNFAIR AND THE WORLD OWES THEM SOMETHING.
SO YOU CREATE A CLIMATE IN WHICH BUSINESS FEELS THEY HAVE TO DO SOMETHING JUST TO STAY COMPETATIVE AND SURVIVE. THIS IS NOT A JUSTIFICATION JUST AN EXPLINATION. I SAY THIS BECAUSE THE OPTION THEY HAVE CHOSEN IS NOT ONLY ILLEAGAL, BUT PLACES AN UNFAIR BURDEN ON THOSE BUSINESES THAT STAY WITHIN THE LAW. THEY AND THEIR EMPLOYEES ARE FORCED TO PAY HIGHER TAXES AN BUSINESES HAVE LESS MONEY TO REINVEST
AND HIRE MORE PEOPLE. THIS ALSO GOES FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO HIRE DOMESTIC HELP AND PAY THEM OFF THE BOOKS IN ORDER TO AVOID PAYING PAYROLL TAXES.
IT IS TIME FOR OUR REPRESTATIVES TO START DEMANDING THE PROPER
ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO START LOOKING INTO THOSE BUSINESS THAT HAVE A
PROPENSITY TO HIRE OFF THE BOOKS. IT IS NOT REALLY DIFFICULT TO FIGURE OUT WHICH TYPE OF BUSINESES THEY ARE. HELL, I COULD TELL THEM WHICH TYPE TO LOOK OUT FOR WITH MY EYES CLOSED. IT IS TIME HONEST BUSINESES AND EMPLOYEES NO LONGER HAVE TO PAY HIGHER TAXES AND FEES TO MAKE UP THE SHORTAGES CAUSED BY THESE CHEATS. IT IS TIME FOR OUR LOCAL OFFICIAL TO STOP COMPLAING ABOUT THE LACK OF MONEY AND THE NEED TO INCREASE TAXES(WHICH I KNOW IS A LOT EASIER THEN DOING SOMETHING) AND TAKE THE LEAD IN
FINDING THESE CHEATS AND HOLDING THEM ACCOUNTABLE. ONLY THEY CAN GET THE NECESSARY GOVERNMENT AGENCIES INVOVLED. IT IS TIME THE HONEST
WERE NOLONGER PUNISHED FOR THE GUILTY.

BAZZO 07/24/05

THE SUPREME COURTS' TAKING AWAY THE FIFTH MAY WANT YOU REACHING FOR A PINT....

DEAR READERS:

I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE READ THAT THE PRESENT SECESSION OF THE SUPREME

COURT HAS MADE A FEW RULINGS THAT HAVE IN EFFECT PUT YOUR PROPERTY

IN JEOPARDY OF STATE SEIZURE NO LONGER FOR "PUBLIC USE" AS OUR FOUNDERS

LIMITED IT TO, BUT NOW FOR"PUBLIC GOOD" WHICH IS OPEN ENDED, AND CEEDES

MORE POWER TO THE STATE THEN OUR FOUNDERS BELIEVED THE STATE

SHOULD HAVE. IF YOU READ THE PREVAILING STORIES ON THEESE RULING,

YOU WOULD BE UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT ALL IS LOST, AND YOU HAVE

NO POWER TO SAVE YOUR PROPERTY FROM THE WHIMS OF THE STATE.

..........NOT TRUE.....NOT TRUE...NOT TRUE.......

AS ABHORENT AS THEESE RECENT RULINGS ARE TO A FREE PEOPLE, AND

AS MUCH AS THEESE RECENT RULING HAVE OUR FOUNDERS TURNING OVER

IN THEIR GRAVES, THESE RULINGS ALSO HAVE THE EFFECT OF GIVING THE

STATES BACK THEIR RIGHT OF SELF- DETERMINATION. THIS STATE RIGHT

PUTS BACK INTO YOUR HANDS THE THE POWER YOU HAD LOST TO THE

JUDICIARY. IN OTHER WORDS YOU, BY YOUR VOTE, CAN NOW FORCE

YOUR STATE AND LOCAL LEGISLATORS TO TIGHTEN THE RULES OF EMINENT DOMAIN

OF YOUR STATE AND LOCALITY. YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN BACK YOUR POWER OF REDRESS

AT THE VOTING BOOTH. IF YOU DO NOT LIKE THE WAY THE STATE OR LOCAL GOVT. IS

EXERCISING IT'S POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN, BY LIMITING THE POWER

OF THE FEDERAL GOVT. TO INTERFERE IN STATE BUSINESS, THE COURTS

HAVE NOW LIMITED HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE NECESSARY TO EFFECT CHANGE.

ON A STATE AND LOCAL LEVEL, YOU NEED FAR LESS PEOPLE TO GET GOVT.

ATTENTION ON A STATE OR LOCAL LEVEL THEN YOU WOULD NEED ON A FEDERAL LEVEL. ALSO BY GIVING

BACK TO THE LEGILATOR THE POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN, IT TAKES POWER

AWAY FROM JUDGES IN WHICH THEIR WOULD BE NO REDRESS SHOULD YOU

FEEL ABUSED BY EMINENT DOMAIN.

SO PEOPLE, LETS TKAE THIS LEMON OF RULINGS AND MAKE

LEMONADE. PREASURE YOU LOCAL AND STATE REPRENTATIVES AND

DEMAND THAT THEY TIGHTEN THE RULES OF EMINENT DOMAINE OR THEY

WILL RISK YOUR WRATH AT THE VOTING BOOTH IN NOVEMBER. IT IS

WELL TO REMEMBER IT IS YOUR PROPERTY THAT IS IN JEOPARDY IF ON THIS

ISSUE YOU REMAIN SILENT.

BAZZO 06/26/05

REFLECTIONS AT FIFTY

DEAR READERS:

ON SATURDAY JUNE 18 I TURNED 50. I THINK AS A LIFE LONG RESIDENT

OF YORKTOWN, A LITTLE PERPECTIVE IS IN ORDER. WHEN I GREW UP, YORKTOWN

AND CORTLANT WERE BUGALOW COMMUNITIES. YOU WANTED TO BANK, YOU WENT

TO PEEKSKILL. YOU WANTED TO SHOP FOR FOOD OR CLOTHING OR EVEN SHOES,

YOU WENT TO PEEKSKILL. PEEKSKILL WAS THE CITY. ROUGHLY 60 PERCENT OF

YORKTOWN AND CORTLANT DISSAPEARED FOR THE WINTER, AS MOST HOMES

WERE ONLY SUMMER HOMES. THE POLICE KNEW WHO YOU WERE AND THERE

WAS A PERSONAL RELATIOSHIP BETWEEN THE LAW AND THE PEOPLE. YOU

COULD FIND YOUR LOCAL GOVT. OFFICIAL WHENEVER YOU WANTED, AS THEY

WERE MOSTLY LOCAL BUSINESS PEOPLE. YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR

A MEETING. MOST IMPORTANT, YOUR LOCAL GOVT. PRETTY MUCH STAYED

OUT OF YOUR WAY WHEN IT CAME TO YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY OR PRIVATE

BUSINESS. THEY DID NOT PRETEND TO KNOW BETTER THEN YOU, HOW YOU

SHOULD LIVE YOUR LIFE, RAISE YOUR CHILDREN, RUN YOUR BUSINESS.

THEY DID NOT PUNISH SUCCESS, NOR DID THEY LIVE TO SEPERATE YOU

FROM YOUR MONEY. SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY, THIS HAS CHANGED.

AS PEOPLE FROM THE N.Y.C. MOVED UP TO THE AREA, THEY BROUGHT WITH

THEM THE CITY MENTALITY OF GOVT. KNOWS BEST. AS LONG TIME RESIDENTS

HAVE EITHER MOVED AWAY OR DIED, AND WITH THEM RESISTANCE TO THIS

NANNY MENTALITY, LOCAL GOVT. HAS BECOME MORE INTRUSIVE, AND

DISREPECTIVE OF THE RIGHTS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY AND PRIVATE BUSINESS.

NOW LOCAL GOVT. BELIEVES THAT BECAUSE THEY COLLECT TAXES ON SAID

PROPERTIES AND BUSINESS, THEY ARE ALSO PARTNERS. THAT THEY WITHOUT

PUTTING UP A DIME OR TIME OF INVESTMENT, HAVE THE RIGHT TO TELL

THE OWNERS OF THAT PROPERTY OR BUSINESS, WHAT TO DO FIRST. THAT

SAID OWNERS IF THEY WISH TO DO ANYTHNG, MUST COME BEFORE THEM,

THE GOVT. AND ASK EITHER PERMISSION OF GET A PERMIT, NO MATTER HOW

MENIAL THAT, WHICH THE OWNER MIGHT WNAT TO DO MIGHT BE. THE

OWNER MUST GENUFLECT BEFORE GOVT. OFFIALS OR WORSE, UNELECTED

BEAUROCRATS, BEG AND PLEAD FOR WHATEVER THEY WISH, THEN AFTER

THEY GOVT. HAS REQUIRED THEM TO GRAB THEIR ANKLES, THANK THEM

FOR ALOWWING THEM TO LIVE.

NOW IF THE GOVT. DOES NOT LIKE WHAT YOU MIGHT WANT TO DO WITH

YOUR LIFE OR PROPERTY OR BUSINESS, THEY WILL PASS A LAW, OR TAX YOU

INTO THAT WHICH THE GOVT. THINKS IS BEST. THE GOVT. DOES NOT LIKE

YOU TALKING ON THE PHONE WHEN YOU DRIVE...PASS A LAW. THE GOVT.

DOES NOT LIKE THE ADDS BEFORE A MOVIE...PASS A LAW(THIS IS NOW

BEFORE THE N.Y.C. COUNCIL AS WE SPEAK). THE GOVT. DOES NOT LIKE

SMOKING IN BARS...PASS A LAW.....THE GOVT. DOES NOT LIKE SMOKING

IN YOUR HOME...PASS A LAW(THIS IS BEFORE THE ASSEMBLY AS WE SPEAK....

RIGHT KNOW THEY ARE LIMITING IT TO COLLEGE DORMS AND PUBLIC

HOUSING, BUT IT WILL NOT STOP THERE). TO STOP DRINKING AND

DRIVING BY A FEW...PASS A LAW TO MAKE ALL CARS COME WITH A DEVICE

THAT ALL PEOPLE HAVE TO BREATH INTO BERFOE DRIVING( THIS IS ALSO

BEFORE THE ASSEMBLY). LAWS MANDATING CHILD SEAT FOR UP TO

SEVEN YEARS OLD, LAWS THAT YOU MUST WHERE HELMETS WHEN YOU

RIDE A BIKE, NO MATTER HOW OLD, SEATBELT LAWS FOR ADULTS IN

THE BACK SEAT OF CARS...ON AND ON AND ON. SCREW YOUR RIGHTS, SCREW

YOUR PRIVACY, THE GOVT. KNOWS BEST.

THIS ONLY CHANGES WHEN TOUGH DECISIONS HAVE TO BE MADE.

SEVEN YEARS OF A TRAFFIC STUDY, ALL TO AVIOD DOING SOMETHING,

BUT IT ALLOWS THE GOVT. TO CONTINUE TO TRAMPLE ON THE RIGHTS

OF PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS BY CONTINUING THIS TEMPORARY BUILDING

MORITORIUM(WHICH WILL BE CELEBRATING IT'S FOUTH YEAR OF TEMPOARY)

AFTER ALL, THERE IS AN ELECTION COMMING UP AND WE DON'T WANT TO MAKE

ANY DECISSIONS TILL AFTER NOVEMBER. YOU WANT SEWARS, YOU'VE WAITED

SEVEN YEARS, WELL YOU HAVE TO WAIT LONGER TILL WE CAN FIGURE OUT

A WAY TO DUMP IT ON PEEKSKILL, INSTEAD OF UPGRADING OUR OWN

TREATMENT PLANT.

YES, THERE WAS A TIME WHEN LOCAL GOVT. DID NOT THINK THEY WERE

YOUR MOMMY OR DADDY OR GOD. THEY PRETTY MUCH LEFT YOU ALONE,

THINKING YOU COULD WALK AND TALK AND BREATH WITHOUT OUT THEIR

INTERFEARENCE. THERE WAS A TIME WHEN LOCAL GOVT. DID NOT KICK

THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD AND MADE TOUGH DECISIONS WITHOUT HIDING

BEHIND ENDLESS TAX WASTING STUDIES. THESE TOWNS WOULD NOT HAVE

GROWN TO BE WHAT THEY ARE WITHOUT THE LEADERS WE HAD IN THE PAST

WHO BELIEVED IT WAS THE GOV'TS DUTY TO INVOLVE ITSELF ONLY WITH

THE IMPROVEMENT AND GROWTH OF THE TOWNS...AND STAY OUT OF THE

PRIVATE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE.

I AM NOW 50 YEARS OLD, AND I MISS THOSE LEADERS, AND TO TELL THE

TRUTH, I SURVIVED QUITE WELL WITHOUT THE NANNIES.

BAZZO 06/20/05

I WENT TO THROW MY HAT INTO THE RING....AND DIDN'T STAY LONG ENOUGH TO TAKE IT OFF....

DEAR READERS:

LAST MONDAY (05/02/05) I DECIDED TO PUT MY MONEY WHERE MY MOUTH IS.

I WENT TO MEET WITH THE YORKTOWN G.O.P. NOMINATING COMMITEE TO BE

INTERVIEWED FOR A POSSIBLE NOMINATION TO RUN FOR YORKTOWN TOWN

COUNCIL. I SUBMITTED AS MY RESUME ALL MY PRINTED WRITINGS (WHICH

INCLUDED ALL LETTERS TO THE EDITOR AND ALL ENTRIES INTO MY BLOG

UP TO 04/O8/05). I THOUGHT THAT THE COMMITEE SHOULD KNOW I WAS

SOMEONE WHO HAD TAKEN SOME STANDS THAT I BELIEVED THE PARTY

NEEDED TO ADRESS, AND I WAS THE ONE TO ADRESS THEM. I HAD THE

PRECONCIEVED NOTION THAT CHARACTER AND CONVITION IN A CADIDATE

MATTERED. IT DOES, IF YOU WISH NOT TO RECIEVE A NOMINATION. PARTY

LINE AND TEAM PLAYER ARE MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN INDEPENDENT

THOUGHT. I WAS TOLD THIS IN ADVANCE BY SOMEONE IN ELECTED OFFICE

WHOSE ADVISE I SOUGHT. I WENT ANYWAY. YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT I WAS

LAST TO BE INTERVIEWED, THE OTHER CANDIATES HAD AT LEAST 25 MIN.

I HAD 10 MIN. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE OTHER CANDIDATES TOLD THE

COMMITEE, BUT IN MY CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM, I FOUND THEM TO BE

THE SAME OLD, SAME OLD THAT ARE ALREADY REPRESENTING YOU, ALL

READY TO TOE THE PARTY LINE. IN OTHER WORDS, I DON'T THINK THEY

CAN BEAT A SITTING INCUMBENT. I WENT INTO THIS MEETING BELIEVING

THAT THERE ARE A BLOCK OF VOTERS ACROSS PARTY LINES WHO'S VOICES

AND CONCERNS ARE NOT BEING HEARD, AND THAT SOMEONE OF THAT

GROUP NEEDED TO BE REPRESENTED ON THE BALLOT. ON TO THE MEETING....


THE FIRST QUESTION ASKED OF ME WAS WHY DID I WANT TO RUN?

I ANSWERED THAT I WANTED TO RUN TO STOP THE PARTY I GREW UP WITH

FROM THEIR CONTINUED SLIDE INTO THE INTRUSION IN THE THE LIVES

OF PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS AND PRIVATE BUSINESS OWNERS. I USED THE

OLD STONE CHURCH AS AN EXAMPLE. THEY THEN ASKED MY WHY I THOUGHT I

COULD BE ELECTED. I TOLD THEM THAT AS SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED

I BUSINESS IN THIS TOWN THAT DEALT WITH PEOPLE EVERYDAY SINCE I WAS

14, I COULD REACH PEOPLE THEY COULD ONLY DREAM OF. THAT I HAD A FEEL

FOR WHAT WAS ON THIER MIND, THAT THEY AND THE OTHER CANDIATES

ALREADY ELECTED AND SEEKING ELECTION DON'T REALLY HAVE AS THEY ONLY

MEET WITH THE PEOPLE AT MEETINGS AND PUBLIC EVENTS. I WAS THEN

MENTIONED THAT I DON'T REALLY TRUST POLITICS AND I POINTED OUT

THAT I WAS NEVER GIVEN A REASON TOO, WHICH IS ANOTHER REASON WHY

I WANTED TO RUN. I WAS THEN ASKED IF I WAS WILLING TO GO DOOR TO DOOR?

I SAID I WOULD DO THAT AS I THOUGHT WAS NECESSARY. I WAS THEN CUT OFF

BEFORE I COULD POINT OUT THAT BECAUSE OF MY TAXI BUSINESS I HAVE

THE VOTERS IN MY CAR BEFORE THEY GET TO THEIR DOOR. AGAIN MY

EVERYDAY ACESS TO PEOPLE THEY DON'T HAVE. THEY THEN POINTED OUT THAT

I WOULD HAVE TO RUN AS A TEAM PLAYER AND WOULD I DO THAT? THIS IS

WHERE I LOST THEM. I TOLD THE THAT IF IT MEANT GOING AGAINST WHAT

I ALREADY SAID IN PRINT, THAT IF IT MEANT THAT I HAD TO STAND FOR THAT

WHICH I BELIEVED THE TEAM WAS WRONG, I COULD NOT DO THIS. I COULD NOT

GO BACK AND DISAVOW WHAT I ALREADY HAD SAID. IT WAS AT THIS POINT,

EXACTLY 10 MIN. INTO THE MEETING I WAS ASKED TO LEAVE. I WAS NOT EVEN

INVITED TO STAY FOR COFFEE. I WAS SHOWN THE DOOR. THIS IS WHY I

BELIEVE THE POWERS THAT BE WOULD PREFER A CANDIATE WHO PLACED

MORE EMPHISIS ON PARTY LINE AND BEING A TEAM PLAYER, THEN ON

A CANDIDATE WHO COULD REACH OUT TO THE PART OF THE PARTY WHO

STILL BELIEVES IN A LESS INTRUSIVE GOVT. THE PART OF THE PARTY

WHO STILL BELIEVES IT IS THE ELECTED OFFICALS JOB TO HELP BUSINESS

GET STARTED, TO HELP CREATE PRIVATE SECTOR, TAX PAYING JOBS.

THAT IN DOING THIS, A BUSINESS DOES IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE

FOR THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH IT SITS. THAT IT IS NOT THE GOVT.

JOB TO MAKE PROSPECTIVE BUSINESS JUMP THROUGH HOOPS TO GET

STARTED. I BELIEVE THERE ARE ENOUGH OF YOU VOTERS WHO BELIEVE THAT,

TO BE ELECTED, AND DEFEAT A SITTING INCUMBENT. I BELIEVE THERE ARE ENOUGH

OF YOU WHO BELIEVE A CANDIATE SHOULD STAND FOR PEOPLE ABOVE AND

BEFORE PARTY AND POLITICS. THAT SAD PART IS THE POWERS THAT BE WOULD

RATHER PLAY IT SAFE, THEN TRUST IN YOU AS I DO. I TRIED, I FAILED, AND

FOR THIS I AM TRULY SORRY I LET YOU DOWN.

BAZZO 05/09/05

bazzo at work writing manifesto 

HOW LONG WILL YOU REMAIN SILENT????????

DEAR READERS:

LAST YEAR ON JULY 6 I WROTE IN MY LETTER TO THE JOURNAL NEWS,

AND ON THE SAME WEEK IN THE NORTH COUNTY NEWS, MY BELIEF THAT

EVEN THOUGH OUR PARTICULAR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT

REPRESTATIVES WERE NOT THEMSELEVES CORRUPT, THEY WERE IN FACT

GUITLY OF BEING ENABLERS, AND IN THE PROCESS DOING US THE VOTERS,

AND CITZENS OF THIS STATE A DISERVICE BY BEING SILENT ABOUT THE

CORUPTION ARROUND THEM. DURING THE GUY VELLLA SAGA, WE HEARD NOT

ONE PEEP FROM OUR REPS. AT ANY LEVEL. DURING THE SEXUAL HARRASMENT

SAGA OF ASEMBLY LEADER SHELDON SILVER'S AIDE, AND OF THE ASSEMBLY

LEADERS OWN TROUBLE ABOUT HIS STAY IN LAS VEGAS(WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO

THAT INVESTIGATION?) AGAIN OUR REPS. AT ALL LEVELS SILENCE IS AND HAS

BEEN DEAFENING. WE ALSO HAVE AN ONGOING INVESTIGATIO INTO REP.

CLARENCE NORMAND OF BROOKLYN FOR SELLING JUDGESHIPS(AGAIN THE PRESS

HAS KEPT US IN THE DARK ABOUT THAT) AND OUR REPS. ARE SILENT. IN THE

N.Y.C. COUNCIL , COUNCILMAN JENNINGS IS CENSURED AND FINE $5000.00

FOR HIS BEHAVIOR TWARDS WOMEN ON HIS STAFF. BACK TO THE GUY VELLLA

SAGA, EVEN AFTER HE WAS CONVICTED, THE STATE SENATE BOOSTED HIS PAY,

THERE BYE ALLOWING HIM TO COLLECT AN EVEN HIGHER PENSION. YES, I DID

SAY HE WAS ALLOWED TO COLLECT HIS PENSION, EVEN THO HE WAS CONVICTED

OF TAKING BRIBES. CITY CONCILMAN JENNINGS WAS STILL ALLOWED TO KEEP

HIS COUNCIL SEAT. IF YOU REMEMBER, STATE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SOL

WATCHLER, EVEN THO HE WAS CONVICTED AND SENTENCED TO JAIL, WAS ALLOWED

TO KEEP HIS PENSION, AND IS NOW A PAID STATE LOBBIEST. ALL THIS, AND OUR

REPS. AT ALL LEVELS ARE SILENT. SURE THEY TALK ABOUT REFORM, BUT NOBODY

REFORMS THE FACT THAT STATE OFFICIALS WHO VIOLATE THE LAW CAN ESCAPE

ALL PUNISHMENT BY RESIGNING. THEY CAN BE CONVICTED OF CRIMES AND STILL

BE ALLOWED TO KEEEP THEIR STATE PENSIONS THAT WE THE TAXPAYERS PAY!!!

TRY THAT IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR! NOBOBY AT ANYLEVEL OF GOVT. SPEAKS UP,

OR CHANGES THIS!!!! I BELIEVE THEY REMAIN SILENT FOR THREE REASONS.

1) NOBODY ON THE STATE SIDE WILL SPEAK UP OUT OF FEAR OF LOOSING THEIR

COMMITEE ASSIGNMENTS AND THE STIPPEND THAT COMES WITH IT.

2) ON THE LOCAL LEVEL THEY ARE AFRAID OF LOOSING STATE GRANT MONEY

BY EMBARASSING THEIR COLLEAGES BY TALKING ABOUT THIS TO THE PUBLIC.

3) YOUR SILENCE EMBOLDENS THEM TO REMAIN SILENT, FOR BY NOT SPEAKING

OUT BY E-MAIL OF LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, THEY BELIEVE (AND RIGHTLY SO IT

SEEMS) YOU DON'T CARE. AFTER ALL YOU KEEP RE-ELECTING THEM.


THIS IS ALL ON THE ELCECTED REPRESENTATIVE SIDE, IN A FUTURE BLOG I WILL

SHOW HOW THIS HAPPENS ON THE JUDICIAL SIDE FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN

JUDICIAL FIAT. I BELIEVE IT IS BOTH A DISERVICE AND ETHICALLY WRONG

FOR ELECTED REPS. CHARGED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUST, TO REMAIN SILENT

IN THE WAKE OF THE CURUPTION ARROUND THEM OUT OF POSSIBLE FEAR

OF RETAILIATION, LOSS OF MONEY, OR EVEN LOSS OF ELECTED OFFICE. I

BELIEVE WHEN EXPLAINED TO THE VOTING PUBLIC , THEY WILL ALWAYS SIDE

WITH THE OFFICIAL WHO KEEPS THE PUBLIC TRUST. ANOTHER "BAZZOISM"

"WHEN YOU DO WHAT'S RIGHT THE POLITICS WILL TAKE CARE OF ITSELF."

I BELIEVE THAT AN ELECTED OFFICIAL DOES NOT LOOSE HIS FIRST

AMMENDMENT RIGHT TO SPEACH BY VOICE, LETTER OF E-MAIL THEIR

OUTRAGE WHENEVER ABUSE OF THE PUBLIC TRUST TAKES PLACE. I BELIEVE WITH

THEIR VOICE ALONG WITH THE VOTERS AND THE PRESS , CHANGE CAN TAKE

PLACE. THAT AS ELECTED OFFICIALS IT IS THEIR DUTY TO VOICE THE

OUTRAGE OF THE VOTERS THAT PUT THEM IN OFFICE.

I KNOW THIS SOUNDS "PIE IN THE SKY", BUT I ALSO BELIEVE PUBLIC OFFCIALS

SHOULD APPEAL TO OUR AND THEIR BETTER ANGELS, THEN SIDE WITH

CYINISISM. POLITICS AND PUBLIC SREVICE SHOULD BE A NOBLE ATTAINMENT,

AND COULD BE WHEN ELECTED OFFICIALS PUT THEIR TRUST IN THE PEOPLE.

THE SAD FACT IS THAT NONE OF THIS IS POSSIBLE WHLE YOU THE VOTER, YOU

THE TAXPAYER, YOU THE CITIZEN REMAIN SILENT. IN OUR REPRESENTATIVE

GOVERNMENT, POWER COMES FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED, AND

SO WHATEVER ACTIONS THE ELECTED REPS. CHOOSE, IT IS WITH YOUR CONSENT,

BY VOICE, BY VOTE OR BY SILENCE. IT IS UP TO YOU TO CHOOSE THE POWER

YOU WISH TO YEILD.

BAZZO 04/24/05

THE BAZZO MANIFESTO

RECENTNLY I HAD SOME VERY GOOD FRIENDS OF MINE WHOSE OPINION

I GREATLY RESPECT ASK WHY I DO THIS? THEY TELL ME I AM WASTING

MY TIME NOTHING WILL CHANGE. I DO THIS BECAUSE I BELIEVE THEM TO

BE WRONG. THAT KIND OF THINKING IS WHAT THE POWERS THAT BE IN

GOVT. AND THE MEDIA ENCOURAGE. WHAT I BELIVE TO BE THE ROSSETTA

STONE OF POWER, IS THAT THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO HAVE IS FREE ACCESS

TO INFORMATION AND OPINION WHICH THEY DON'T CONTROL.

EVEN THE MEDIA WANT TO CONTROL WHAT YOU KNOW, HOW MUCH YOU

KNOW AND WHEN YOU SHOULD KNOW IT. WHAT THEY WANT YOU IS TO BE SO

FUSTRATED AND HELPLESS THAT YOU WON'T DO ANYTHING, EVEN VOTE,

UNLESS THEY TELL YOU WHO TO VOTE FOR, SO THOSE IN POWER CAN RETIAN IT.

AFTER ALL, THAT'S WHAT POWER IS ALL ABOUT, THE GROWTH AND RETENTION

OF IT. THE MEDIA, WHICH OPERATES ON A FOR PROFIT BASIS CAN BE

PREASURED TO COVER WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW BY YOUR ABILTY TO CONTACT

THEM VIA LETTERS AND E-MAIL AND LET THEM KNOW WHERE TO DIRCT THEIR

RESOURCES FOR YOUR BENEFIT OR ELSE YOU WON'T BUY THEIR PRODUCT.

THERE- BYE THEY CAN'T SELL ADVERTISING. BOYCOTTING ADVERTISERS WON'T

WORK AS WELL AS BOYCOTTING THE PAPER. ALSO REMEMBER THERE ARE MORE

VOTERS THAN SPECIAL INTERESTS. MORE VOTERS THAN CONTRIBUTORS.

IT IS YOUR VOTE THEY NEED MORE THEN MONEY, WITHOUT YOUR VOTE

THE CANNOT STAY IN OFFICE. THIS IS WHY I AND OTHER BLOGGERS EXIST.

TO GIVE YOU INFORMATION WHEN YOU WANT IT, NOT WHEN THEY DEEM

YOU SHOULD HAVE IT. DON'T LET THEM FOOL YOU WITH THE CANARD THAT

YOU WILL ONLY LOOK FOR WHAT YOU WANT TO RE-ENFORCE YOUR PREDJUSES.

WHEN THEY DO IT, IT IS TO EXPAND THEIR KNOWLEDGE, WHEN YOU DO IT,

IT FOR YOUR PREDJUCE. BULL....YOU ARE ALSO EXPANDING YOUR KNOWLEDGE.

A BAZZOISM: AN EDUCATED AND ACTIVE CONSTITUANT IS THE BEST VOTER.

BELIEVE IT...DON'T FORGET IT...IT IS WHAT PEOPLE IN POWER FEAR MOST.


BAZZO 04/01/05