Peachtree City’s reserve funds are supposed to be earmarked or kept apart for providing cash flow and unforeseen emergencies not specified in the budget. It is foolish to use the reserve funds for items which should be funded through the budget. If the city council can’t control spending, they should raise taxes accordingly. Of course, many of us voted for the mayor because he claimed to be a staunch fiscal conservative. This type of governance is both thoughtless and irrational. We are suffering from severe incompetence.

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We are suffering from an epidemic of politicians who will say anything to get into office. I was surprised at the last election. The ones actually willing to take a stand against the development crowd got abused. Dunn, Wells and Brown held them down. Now we’re getting pushed into stuff like TDK. I do think Harold Logsdon is doing the bidding of a few wealthy builders. He says one thing and does the other. The situation we’ve got now is the pits. I don’t like government telling me I’m supposed to like TDK. I don’t like government telling me it’s OK to trash the city villages with big box stores.

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Did PTC sell part of our greenbelt? Cart path? In the Braelinn Shopping Center, next to KMart, used to be about 100 feet of cart path, plus a beautiful oak tree about 25 years old. Now, there’s a large hole in the ground, smack-dab in the middle of the missing cart path. Not enough room there for a big box. Maybe they will put up a Braelinn rental office and try to lease all the vacant stores already at Braelinn Shopping Center.

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Love the customer-NO-service from the one and only cable service around Peachtree City. Waited for a tech who was supposed to be here between 8 and 11 a.m. Never showed, never called. It took me at least four calls to get some answers, other than “the tech is running late.” No, really! This is terrible that one company can have this type of monopoly. Think twice before getting service from this company.

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I’d just like to say thank you to a good Samaritan who helped me out a few weeks ago. I was on my golf cart, headed for the Kroger near Glenloch and as I went to cross Peachtree Parkway, my cart inexplicably died. I managed to push it out of the middle of the road and back onto the path, but no further. After calling my mom to let her know what was up, I opened the seat to check the batteries and sure enough, I could see exactly what was wrong. Problem was, I didn’t have any way to fix it. After about 10 minutes, a gentleman pulled over into the subdivision entrance next to me and asked if I needed help. I told him I’d called my mom and that I knew what was wrong, but I couldn’t fix it. Well, he produced a tool box and proceeded to jimmy a solution to my problem with a wrench. He followed me home to get his wrench and then went on his way. I didn’t get his name, but whoever you are, thank you for helping out a young woman whose golf cart always tends to break down at the most inopportune moments. It makes me glad to know there are some good people still out there.

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About two or three months ago Ga. Highway 74 South in Peachtree City was repaved. I thought that strange since the road widening project was due to start at any time. Then I rationalized they wouldn’t repave those lanes only to have them torn up in the next several months. Those lanes just repaved will surely be part of the new road but they will build new lanes for the expansion and leave the others alone. Wrong! “They” are in the process of digging trenches across all of those newly repaved lanes to lay tile or whatever, moving north toward Ga. Highway 54. What the hay, it’s only taxpayers’ money.

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Tyrone has a new governmental philosophy. It can be called “government of the government, by the government and for the government.” Town Hall is so secret that a citizen must file an official request under the Freedom of Information Act to view public records. You can’t just go in and research like at Fayette County because Town Manager Barry Amos and Zoning Administrator Valerie Caldwell keep current records in their offices away from free access. What the public is allowed to see is an incomplete mess of papers, many without dates. The unsuspecting citizen can buy for $25 an incomplete zoning ordinance book printed 10 years ago. The bottom line is that no one knows what the real laws of Tyrone are except the administration. The council, mayor and Planning Commission unquestionably do not know their own laws. Several years ago a previous council voted to fund a code update. No funds have ever been appropriated. The town manager says its too expensive and the council says nothing. But it wasn’t too expensive to fund over $600,000 for a new library, raise the manager’s salary 20 percent above the national average for a town of Tyrone’s size to nearly $100,000, pay over $200,000 for liability protection for officials against lawsuits or to reduce revenues by recently running off at least 23 businesses from its downtown district by refusing new business licenses, renewals and by redevelopment plans. As a result, lawsuits against Tyrone have doubled in the past 10 years. This everything attitude for the benefit of government was recently reflected in a reported quote of the manager, “Let them sue, we have insurance.”

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Of course we all know gas has gone up as well as everything else. That’s not my particular problem. I just can’t figure why it has increased so much at [one particular] gas station. I have been here 13 years and have always lived on this side of town. I was under the school of thought that if I patronize this particular convenience store, I would be supporting the local guy and could benefit from the “convenience” of this place. However, it has become ridiculous since it was bought out. Gas consistently is 10 to 15 cents higher here than anywhere else in Fayette County. Not to mention the cost of an Icee will set you back considerably. I have stopped going there unless I am really in a bind. However, today I was coerced into going to get some candy for my little girl. It was a $2 piece of junk and a bottle of water for another $1.45. What got me was the “tip jar” that they put up on the counter. Are you serious? I may be getting older but it dawned on me that in the course of 13 years this gas station has gone from a local place that was friendly, convenient and reasonable, to a place that takes advantage of their location, smells like incense, and rarely thanks you for your patronage. I think most of you know what this boils down to but a nice “Thank you, come again,” would be nice.

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This is a response to the contributor who was bemoaning the fact that Starr’s Mill H.S. reportedly has a biology teacher who refuses to teach evolution. This teacher should be applauded, and I would bet that said teacher likely has a good understanding of our history. Hate it if you must, but this great nation’s birth certificate makes several prominent references to a Creator. Now while this fact likely makes some so-called Americans want to throw up, there’s no denying it: It’s in there. Of course to any objective, conscientious American, this fact presents a big problem. This un-American and anti-American so-called theory of evolution is absolutely incompatible with our founding document. Evolution unequivocally promotes atheism. All real Americans should therefore have a no-tolerance policy toward this great hoax as a result. Evidence of micro-evolution — yes. Evidence of macro-evolution — none; and this was what Darwin was espousing. Lincoln once said that “The philosophy in our classrooms today will be the philosophy in our government tomorrow.” The downfall of American public education can, I believe, in part be attributed to this great lie being perpetrated on our most vulnerable young minds. Evolution has certainly had its prominent adherents, among them Adolph Hitler. Bet this little fact doesn’t get mentioned during classroom discussion of this subject. It doesn’t say much for any educational system, when students are graduating with a much lower volume of knowledge about their nation’s founding documents versus some rogue doctrine. But there are those who have intended it that way. A complacent American majority ignores these truths at our own peril. Does our beloved Constitution, which says nothing of a democracy, make mention of God? Read the last sentence.

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I don’t get it. Scooter Libby lies under oath and gets 2 1/2 years in jail for perjury. Bill Clinton does the same thing and just loses his law license. I suppose Libby could say he’s having a mental breakdown and serve just three days. Politics and money sure make a big difference in our legal system.

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Lobbyists from the oil industry and the health care industry have descended on Washington, D.C., and are spending millions of dollars in a frantic attempt to block the anti-gouging law that would make gouging a felony crime. I wonder why they are so worried about this law?

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Since gasoline prices spiraled completely out of control, other industries seem to think it is okay to double and triple their prices also. Last month the cost of a gallon of milk suddenly increased by 50 cents per gallon. There was no outcry from the public and yesterday I noted that a gallon of milk has increased an additional 20 cents per gallon. My family normally consumes four gallons of milk per week. We are now drinking water and taking calcium supplement tablets. Milk is off my shopping list permanently.

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I wonder how “Mr. Green” (Al Gore) feels about the U.S. adding millions to our population? Even with the strictest conservation, our resource consumption will continue to grow.

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Mega kudos if your voice was combined with the mighty grassroots roar that stopped the reprehensible immigration deforming bill. But keep your roar revved up, because like Frankenstein’s Monster, it will be back.

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Badda-boom, badda-bing, just when we thought the Bush-Kennedy amnesty bill was sleeping with the fishes, they intend to fish it out and serve it up again. What a smell.

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How many of the estimated 11 million illegal aliens have regular TB? How many have drug-resistant TB? How many have blood-transmitted changas that infects millions in Latin America? Just wondering.

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When you’ve heard that “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” you did realize that it was the vigilance of ALL citizens, didn’t you?

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Should English be the official language of the USA? Let me answer your question in an ancient language, E pluribus unum. Tower of Babel does not make a powerful and independent nation.

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We can stop illegal immigration if we prosecute those who hire them. But 20 years after Congress mandated an adequate way for employers to check legal status, it is still not in place. Our glorious leader’s slothful due diligence created the crisis-in-trust that killed yet another ”comprehensive” scam.

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The media gives us more than we need to know about celebrities and less than we need to know about an omnibus immigration bill. For instance, did you know that the Senate’s bill provided for only one business day to perform the background check for a Z visa? Do you know what Paris H had for lunch today? See?

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Thumbs up to the Internet for bringing the dark, dysfunctional details of the Bush-Kennedy immigration bill into the light of public attention.

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Let each part of the “comprehensive immigration bill” face the light of day as a stand-alone bill and see how many senators will vote for it. Starting with giving gang members and felons a fast track to citizenship. Step up and tell us this is the best you can do and how awful we are for not wanting it.

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Saying that our immigration system is “broken” is like whining that your car broke down after you subjected it to deliberate abuse and neglect. “Waa-waa-waaaa, it’s broken, it’s broken.”

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