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FreeSpeech for 12-10-08Tue, 12/09/2008 - 4:20pm
By: The Citizen
Please say it ain’t so: no Santa coming round Peachtree City neighborhoods on the fire truck?? Let me get this straight: due to budget cuts and vehicle “wear and tear,” this fun tradition has been canceled. Wow, what a disappointment. My kids are older, but we all still loved running outside to see the annual Santa visit to our neighborhood when the sirens announced his coming in the weeks before Christmas. It is something I am sure they will talk about at their family gatherings when they look back on their childhood Christmas memories. I would be outraged if my children were younger and I had to try and explain to a disappointed group why something so traditional wasn’t going to happen. I mean, really, is there that much wear and tear to the vehicles that it has to be abolished? Budget cuts: I know gas for them is costly, but it is cheaper now than it was last year. I don’t know, it just is very disappointing to me that this had to be axed, especially when so many of all ages enjoy it, and I am sure there are plenty of others young and old that feel the same way. Maybe it was due to lack of enthusiasm from neighborhoods, but if that’s the reason, then don’t hide behind something like wear and tear on the vehicles. That sounds too much like Scrooge. - - - - - - - - - - - Peachtree City is facing big budget cuts because of a revenue shortfall. Remember back when Harold Logsdon took office and insisted on paying close to a million dollars to a bank that Peachtree City was not legally obligated to pay? He said it “was the right thing.” How does that past reasoning square with all the wrong things that will be done to our city services for our citizens? He bailed out a bank, when the city did not have to, and we now suffer. Does that sound familiar? He kowtows to special interests who put him in office, and, well, we eat it in the long run. - - - - - - - - - - - To the 15-year-veteran detective of the Clayton County Police Department, I am grateful that you have decided to grace us with your wisdom and law enforcement expertise. After all, Clayton County has become a much better place to live in the last 15 years. We are looking forward to receiving your application, an officer like you who knows where and when the criminals will strike will surely be a great asset. A person of your dedication (as it must have been painstaking work checking all of those tickets to know that they were written for exactly 10 mph over) will truly be a pleasure to work with. I look forward to putting down my radar and learning from such an all-knowing-crime-fighter. By the way, the fact that you have noticed our presence means the criminals have, too. Thanks for the compliment. - - - - - - - - - - - Good to see the comments on the Fayetteville Police Department. Comments last week were so true. I-Team has promised to look into the possibility of an investigation. I wish The Citizen would do so. It is a crying shame that in this economic crisis we are in, this department is charging such outrageous fines. It would be interesting for the newspaper to post some of these. It appears that there must be a real push on to load up the treasury of our great(?) city. - - - - - - - - - - - What is the Blue Light Special in Fayetteville? Not Kmart. It is the Fayetteville Police Department. It would almost be a joke if this were not hurting our image and most of all putting a lot of people in financial straits this time of the year. The fines charged by Fayetteville are exorbitant compared to other jurisdictions. Thanks to the writer last week who posted his/her views. Yes, this department could spend time in the Fayette Pavilion where crime is rampant. I know many who will not go to Tinseltown anymore due to break-ins, etc. They go to Griffin and Newnan instead. Take a look at how fast traffic speeds through in the a.m. both on Ga. highways 85 and 54. No patrols to be seen, but look in the residential areas and see the officers ticket innocent citizens who have gone 5 or 10 mph over the speed limit. I would like for the citizens to speak up and demand an investigation of this department. - - - - - - - - - - - Pray tell what good is it going to do to shore up the real estate market and the auto industry with a lot of taxpayers’ hard-earned money? If people don’t have the money to pay their mortgage payments and car payments now, what good will it do to make it easier for them to buy new houses and cars later on? They still will not have the money to make monthly payments as long as most of their income goes to buy gasoline, food and health care. Why in the name of goodness doesn’t our government address the problem instead of the symptoms of the problem? This is what happened when affirmative action started putting incompetent people in charge of everything in our country because of their race or gender. Because I am not being politically correct (dishonest), this letter will probably never be read in the newspaper. - - - - - - - - - - - Suppose you have a car accident and your leg is severed. You are bleeding profusely when you reach the hospital. The doctor looks at your leg and says, “Oh, you can’t walk on that; we will give you a nice shiny new expensive wheelchair so you can keep going for a while.” In the meantime, you will bleed to death. That is what our government is doing with our tax money and these stupid bail-out programs. Will they ever address the real problem and not the symptoms? Bail-outs are simply feeding more of the working man’s money to the rich. When will people wake up? login to post comments
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