It came from an article on Mr. Obama and his intentional/willful abuse of position, power and authority as he ignores the Constitution and Laws of the U.S.:
But however reasonable the justifications for an ultimately un-American, anti-constitutional style of governance may seem to the Obama administration, it would better serve its own legacy and the welfare of the American people if they would pay humble heed to prudent counsel offered in an 1854 fragment from President Abraham Lincoln to “take care.”
"The justifications you use to prove your authority and ability to revoke another’s rights and interests will one day be turned against you".
As Lincoln highlighted there, the justifications you use to prove your authority and ability to revoke another’s rights and interests will one day be turned against you to justify revoking your own.
This is something else the rich and powerful that feel they are the Lords and Masters of Vienna should give thought too. But so far except for the Grace of God would they go.
Noted where we have AGAIN, ended up on the top of list I think many of us would rather NOT be on? It had to do with the standing of States involved in Child Abuse/ Neglect. WV., was with Georgia, Michigan and Illinois in the top four.
70% of the Children are under age three; and 80% are abused/ neglected by parents.
This is so sad for the people of the State. I have no children here, and I think I am glad for that. It would break my heart even more to have mine come home on any day and tell me stories about their schoolmates.
Why are we again there; on the top of another nasty list; or at or near the bottom of any good ones?
Is it because as so many in this Country think we are stupid, lazy, drunks, unwilling to work? NO, it is because for years and decades, the necessary steps/ programs to teach people how to parent; to teach people what to do to improve/ enhance their lives. Then and so importantly provide the opportunities to have a decent living to provide a proper environment for their families.
I have noted before the resemblance of this State to the Philippines. It is predominantly the way it has been governed for an unknown number of years too me? Did it start in 1863 with Statehood and just continue down hill? Was it the 70s, 80, and 90s as the Mills/ Plants closed and moved away or just shut their doors? The loss of many of the so called middle class jobs that meant so much to communities?
Did the families go to Hell with the first woman to burn her bra; the first draftee to burn his draft card in the 1960s? For sure something went horribly wrong here and has been in the infamous death spiral of "what is in it for ME" versus how will it affect the family up to today?
I am fully aware of the terrible drug problem here as in most all other places. I watched one car doing it things for about three years from the morning I faced the pair in down as they were I believe now to be jacking a guy with a portable meth lab in a back pack. Did not quite understand it at the time; meth is an unknown drug to me. Not like the Pot, Coke, Speed and so forth that was in my younger days.
I saw that same car within the same area the next year dumping a guy out between my house and the next one over as he went through like it was a sidewalked way.
And yet again in a store parking lot with two other vehicle that when they left were very suspicious in the ways they behaved. But when I mentioned it to the powers that be, they had no time or interest. As I have noted the City was at least two (2) years late to the party and now playing catch up.
How does the above relate to the issues on Child Abuse/ Neglect? Well the people that were buying from those in that car had to get their money from somewhere to support their habits. In fact one of them with no family that I knew about ended up dead a few months after traipsing between the houses. Drug overdose/ suicide was the call by them that know, or claim too? I suspected then and now that it was a lot more serious as the decedent had drug making materials in his home when found? Nothing made the news though; Mayberry first, last and foremost.
And that same location has had ever more bad things happen according to what has been passed to me. The next couple in there, the man was alleged to have been arrested for trafficking in Heroin. An other couple has had the local police there just the other day for one reason or another? I am going to suspect Domestic Issues? Have watched them go up/ down the street just screaming and yelling up a storm at each other. There is a small child and it cannot be living well in that atmosphere?
Have also seen where Brazil has deployed 220,000 troops to combat the mosquitoes that carry the Zika virus. Brazil truly has a tiger by the tail and it is coming North. A person in Arkansas was just diagnosed with the disease. Still not sure if it is transferrable from person to person yet? Said as I noted in an earlier posting it was detected in semen. In about 90- 100 days will be starting mosquito season here.
And how about the big to do on First Energy spending $215 million to "improve" the power system here? As most of you are finding out, you have a nice increase in your Electric Bills this month. It is to be about $8.00 on average per home based on 1000 kilowatts of usage. So as usual, in the end it is NOT the electric company doing so much as passing on to the customers. Don't see the dividends being reduced or reductions in company overhead to absorb part of the cost. Years ago and I may have mentioned it before, the big Gas/ Electric Company in Washington State got involved over the same issues of ever increasing costs to the customers with NO reductions in any of the above areas. The PSC there went in and ordered the dividend be slashed by 25% and other steps to insure ALL shared the pain. Here, well we have nothing to protect us. The Utilities are like the Government; one raises rates, the other taxes.
Think Mr. Trump has made a mistake walking away from this last debate tonight on FOX. If he was so ticked at Ms. Kelly, than each time she asked a question he felt was a sucker punch; he should just say "I am going to pass on that question. Please ask me something else". OR as is normal just talk about whatever he wants too?
As an aside, I was going out to the mailbox Wednesday and it was time for the neighbor to come home. In any case, as I went out the door he pulled up in his vehicle and went into his house. I got my mail and started back to my house. He came out his door with his City Jacket over his arm and "kindly" told me "don't worry about it, I took it off before I left work". I had to chuckle at this with my wife as he had the Jacket on when he got out of his vehicle. This may seem small to many of you, but it is the ongoing sense of "entitlement" that some of the City employees seem to have?. Any ongoing abuse of Taxpayers dollars starts at the top and goes to the bottom. When those who are in charge fail to rein in this type of behavior it is a constant and never ending waste of money/ time and resources.
IF and I repeat IF Mr. Metz and Mr. Rapp want to be permissive and best friends with their children at home; that is their business and not a word from me on it. That would be a personal issue and I try to stay away from personal issues. When it appears to have flowed over into the work place, it is what leads to the very issues I have noted before? Use of Vehicles like they are Cabs; use of Tools (hand or power) and use of other City Equipment for other than proscribed purposes can create waste and loss? I can guarantee you folks it will be replaced/ repaired at the Tax Payers expense. And it is not cheap. There is no firm policy on misuse/ abuse of the equipment in any category in this City that I have ever found. Just go back and look at my FOIA on how it appeared Mr. Nohe ran his City vehicle into the ground during his last term?
Now I know beyond the shadow of a doubt that the City will circle the wagons to protect one of its own. I ran into this back in 2009 when one of their VFD folks was causing me than and still up too today the same basic problem. Then I asked the City to enforce its Ordnances not fully realizing I was in an issue with one of the "connected".
When I tried to get a resolution follow up with Mr. Nohe, he:
1. Refused to take or return my phone requests for status.
2. When I attempted to address the issue(s) at a City Council Meeting, Mr. Nohe advised me that all I had alleged were untrue, had been "investigated" and there were no problems.
I have the minutes of that meeting and the newspaper article where he was quoted in his attack against me and defense of the VFD guy. In a 30 minute conversation after the meeting I was threatened with numerous offenses; advised I would be standing in front of the City Atty., in his role as an ADA. It went on for some time and I was so mad I replied via a Certified Letter as I dismantled his B.S., item by item. In very, very simple terms I told him; IF and will repeat IF I have done something wrong than arrest me.
There is little doubt that the City will/ has circled the wagons again to protect their own. The only changes since 2009 are really very few. Mr. Thornton and Mr. Nohe are no longer on the Council; Mr. Stephens who as you know was Police Chief then is now on the Council. Mr. Azinger is the only new guy but he is a staunch defender of his party; his acquaintances/ friends. So I would suspect no change from what we had to what we have today. He has been in Vienna forever and his loyalty/ allegiance would not be a question to any prudent person? Everyone else was there then and is there now. I knew when I walked out of that 2009 Council meeting beyond any doubt how corrupt and self serving this bunch was then and as I have suspected still now? In the past three years, time after time I have to the best of my ability tried to defend the Residents/ Tax payers from the ongoing corruption/ waste that is so prevalent in our wonderful little corner of the World.
I will learn in the next day or so if my latest effort to serve you people will be noted properly and legally?
Still interesting how "no one" reads my blog, but still have some folks ticked at the Truth when it is aired in public.? 'nuff said.
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