Comments by donnymhayes
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Posted on August 19 at 7:48 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I'm not a resident of Thorsby, so don't have much of a dog in this fight, other than to say that pretty soon the govt is going to control which doctor you see, which medicine you are allowed to take and when you die, so you might as well allow small city politicians to dictate where you can park your car, what building materials you use, and make decisions that directly affect the value of your own property, etc.
Seems to me, if Thorsby is really concerned about improving itself, the leaders might spend some time getting those ditches, oops, I mean railroad crossings fixed. Talk about getting shafted, the leaders back then convinced you all to allow them to close all your RR crossings so that the few remaining would be fixed...how's that working out? Not so good, the primary crossing in Thorsby is near impassible unless you can cross at an angle in the middle.
Again, I applaud the new found committment to a better Thorsby that has came about, but more govt control of your life is not the answer.
Posted on May 28 at 11:42 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I have to agree that I don't think we have much representation in Montgomery, not a fan of Erwin at all, but I will say that I was very happy to see this bill die. We don't need more taxes (and you can call this whatever you wish, it is a tax). I know several owners of small businesses located outside city limits and what they don't pay in license fees, they more than make up for in the costs associated with not being inside a city. Maybe if our County Commission had shown us the fee schedules up front and been a little more transparent (buzz word of the year!) it would have made it through, but I think everyone knows it would have turned into a cash machine. And as for budgets, we all have them. I can only spend what I get to take home after taxes. If I go over that, I get to go bankrupt or have things repossesed. The county can live within a budget just as easily as I do. There are many things I would love to buy, but I don't have the money. The commissioners may have to make some tough decisions, but that is why you ran for office, correct? So you can lead? Everyone is having financial issues right now and I for one am pretty tired of all the politicians whining they don't have enough money when I am just about taxed to death.
Donny Hayes
Jemison
Posted on February 11 at 8:55 p.m. (Suggest removal)
KW, by suggesting taxing political signs I was simply pointing out the fallacy of your own suggestion, that is relying on the govt and our politicians to fix this issue. I'd love to see you get this done and have a clean and neat county landscape but your entire proposal hinges on having the taxes earmarked for cleanup only, and I just do not see that happening. As I said, if this tax was enacted, you might, if lucky, see 1/10th of it put towards cleanup, the rest would go into some general slush fund with zero accountability tied to it. If you don't believe it, look at the bloated, pork barrel 'stimulus' package about to be approved by our Congress. Look at the mess in Jefferson county with the sewer system, the list goes on and on where govt is involved. We've removed any semblance of personal responsibility in our society, removed God from schools and expect the government to fix all of our problems. Knowing these things, I'm not surprised at all that some folks think throwing trash out the window is acceptable behavior. I wish you the best of luck with your endeavor. Run for commissioner or state rep...I'd vote for a new name and a new idea over what we've got any day!
Posted on February 3 at 12:20 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Taxes are never the answer. We're already heading toward a communist/socialist state at a high rate of speed...do we have to add to that with additonal local socialist programs. I for one find the thousands upon thousands of political signs littering our highways much worse than some litter in the grass. Lets charge politicians 10 cents per sign. That would never happen because they are self serving. But I bet they'll line up behind this idea, of course 9.9 cents of it will go to a general fund that they can use anyway they wish..and I promise you, your section of road doesn't matter a bit to our political leaders. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Posted on December 15 at 10:30 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Sure is funny how we keep hearing the bottom has fallen out of the housing market...and how many trillions of dollars home owners have lost in equity due to the economy...but my property tax is the same it was when the economy was going gangbusters. Funny how important it was to get property re-assessed a few years ago when the govt thought it was undervalued...nary a single politician is calling for a review now that it's overvalued.
Posted on October 7 at 9:20 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I being more conservative than our liberal college educated press, have to say, while I agree that a more logically developed list of 'moral turpitude' crimes could have been built by our state governor, I think there should be consequences for actions. I guess I'm a bit hard hearted, but if someone tries to set fire to my home, I'm not all that upset that he/she lose their right to vote.
Posted on August 23 at 10:16 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Just curious..what is the max score on a superintendents prof. dev.? Is 50 the max? or 75? or 100? If you're going to mention a score like that, at least tell us what it means. When I was in a school a 49 was a failing grade.
Would be nice if paper would clarify this score.
thanks
Posted on August 6 at 10 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Parents should have a choice about what gets injected into their children...the state has no right to force this on us.
Concerned parents should read this FDA report:
http://www.fda.gov/foi/warning_letters/s......
The vaccines your children are forced to take are produced under questionable quality control conditions. Note the multiple mentions of 'contaminants' in the vaccines. This is one report. Google and you'll find more. Remember the FDA approved VIOXX and KETEK. We all remember the heart attack deaths related to VIOXX. Ketek is still approved, even though the FDA admits that fraud occurred (an Alabama doctor was prosecuted for her role in faking drug trials) and even after many confirmed cases of liver damage, some leading to death.
Vaccines can be a very good thing, but only if we can trust that the vaccines are produced in a 100% sterile environment, are tested thoroughly and don't include harmful preservative agents.
You owe it to yourself to ask questions about drugs being forced on your children by the government.
Posted on July 25 at 11:32 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Parents should have a choice about what gets injected into their children...the state has no right to force this on us.
Concerned parents should read this FDA report:
http://www.fda.gov/foi/warning_letters/s...
The vaccines your children are forced to take are produced under questionable quality control conditions. Note the multiple mentions of 'contaminants' in the vaccines. This is one report. Google and you'll find more. Remember the FDA approved VIOXX and KETEK. We all remember the heart attack deaths related to VIOXX. Ketek is still approved, even though the FDA admits that fraud occurred (an Alabama doctor was prosecuted for her role in faking drug trials) and even after many confirmed cases of liver damage, some leading to death.
Vaccines can be a very good thing, but only if we can trust that the vaccines are produced in a 100% sterile environment, are tested thoroughly and don't include harmful preservative agents.
You owe it to yourself to ask questions about drugs being forced on your children by the government.
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Posted on October 1 at 11:28 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I agree completely with Principal Thompson. Why not put the school year back to what it looked like 15 years ago? School started after Labor Day, meaning the system did not have to run air conditioners during those 100 degree August days, did not have to run buses or provide lunches those extra days. Yes, you might have to cut out some of the 'breaks' that have been inserted into the fall semester and some of the other off days to keep your number of days close to the goal, but why not reassess this before you get into a jam? I'm always so surprised that our public officials think they should be above the budgeting and planning that we taxpayers do every day when we decide how to spend our money. The economy has been in a downward spiral for 18 months or so now and our schoolboard and state didn't see this coming? If so, that is a sad statement on the education system in our state.
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