While sitting on the front porch with my “tea” and pondering the situation with the government, wondering what to do. I think to myself we have a government that is running deficits year after year; mounting long term debt like a kid with a Platinum Am Ex card; no legislation to promote job growth or small businesses; and burdensome rules/ regulations infringing upon our rights and freedoms.
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Robert Principe, August 17th 2011 |
Tags: debt, deficit, Elections, Fishkill, lacolla, NY Candidates
Posted in Elections, Uncategorized
The Supervisor of the Town of Fishkill had a few choice words for Midhudsonnews.com:
Fishkill Town Supervisor Joan Pagones said her town’s financial recovery plan is working well.
“We feel confident the plan is going to continue to work; it has worked this year; we’re right on target for 2011, and all communities will have to dig a little deeper and make more spending cuts,” she said.
Yet in the report the Moody’s analyst, in the following excerpt, found it necessary to mention which Towns were of concern for further downgrades:
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Robert Principe, July 7th 2011 |
Tags: debt, deficit, Fishkill, Local Taxes
Posted in Area Budgets, Elections, Issues
Friends I’m compelled to share this article with you, it speaks to the power of the Tea Party movement and to our independence from an overbearing and overly intrusive government.
Here’s an excerpt:
“Independence in politics means that you can actually dictate some of the terms to our overlords,” Welch and Gillespie write, adding that we need independence not just in politics but from politics. Welch said, “When we look at the places where government either directly controls or heavily regulates things, like K-12 education, health care, retirement, things are going poorly.”
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20110630/COLUMNISTS03/106300313/Stossel-Government-control-tends-curb-free-expression?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Opinion
Robert Principe, June 30th 2011 |
Tags: debt, deficit, government, independence, tea party
Posted in Uncategorized