Going back just a bit, the "Our Opinion" column om the Daily Blat on the 19th, it again brought out the bloated and over reaching State Agencies versus the real "Return on Investment" so many talk about? But just how much will really be saved versus the continued protection as noted of valued programs will be interesting?
It has seemed to me that the Department of Education has been autonomous to the point that it reigned Supreme alongside the Legislature and the Court in this State? I have at no time seen that much independence in any other State or Country I have lived in? Was it to be a protection against Political interference no matter who was running the show? Well, with the Democons running everything for 80 years, that was not likely to happen. They and the Unions were separated only in the spelling of their entity names. But than came the Republicrats out of the wilderness and overthrew the status quo. At that time, it seems any implied protection was like a Will O' The Wisp in our minds- a distant light only that instead of drawing one away from safe paths, instead became a light that suddenly burst forth and lit up supposed reality?
So now will come either cost savings or chaos and disarray as Politics become King?
In a Publication named THE HILL dated 26 March 2018, it was noted that a question in the 2020 U.S. Census, would be a question on one's Citizenship. This appears to have Illegal Immigrant support groups (Democrats for those confused), concerned on a possibility that those here Illegally, would not even fill out the Questionnaire?
Allow me one bit of follow up, if ICE should continue its efforts for the next two years and if Mr. Trump enforces Deportation Laws in Sanctuary States/ Cities? That follow up being, will they still be here to be counted?
Sadly, the second I saw Mr. Scholl in local media on the Monday night and Tuesday morning news was, is this a PR stunt or legitimate story? As many of you know, I skewered the City Administration Monday over the past 20 years to include various Department Heads for what has gone on with the VFD Retirement/ Pension/ Annuity/ Retention/ Incentive payments.
And as we all sadly know, some VFD members in a Charleston area VFD met an unforeseen end when their Vehicle was said to run into a rock wall with two of them passing over the weekend. And then out of the blue on what must have been done sometime Monday, up popped Mr. Scholl talking about how dangerous it is and can be when responding.
This could be and I will say upfront I hope that it was a coincidence on my blog posting and on that media coverage to potentially counter my criticism on Monday A.M. and in the media that night? It would be sad and to me very, very unprofessional to have had the City Administration trot Mr. Scholl out at a time like this? When I saw the media coverage, I got a very, very nauseous feeling in my stomach on what had happened?
However, it is very, very common for the local media to roll out a story on whatever to embellish the performance of someone or something to counter some issue I have posted on. For the City to use the terrible accident to somehow show just how dangerous and how any VFD or FD in this State responds to help those in need as a possibly subliminal justification for those monies is very, very disconcerting to me?
I admit to giving the accident some thought, but as it did not have any connection to what I was writing about, I did not want to mix a terrible loss of life with the misuse of Tax Dollars. It was a no brainer to me not to mix them. But than came the media and its choice of people to interview.
It has come up before that the media seems unable to find far too often any like Organization locally to do an interview with outside of Vienna. Examples are our Schools, Police Departments versus those in service to other parts of the County Systems. We do and I mean really do have Schools and Police activities that are just as or more so qualified to be participants in stories that are general in nature. And I would be hard put to believe that Safety in not a general subject too for example, ANY Fire Department full time or Volunteer in our area.
My Monday posting was in Truth done the Friday before and put on the schedule Saturday morning. It is my habit to not go back to my postings except to correct spelling errors, fill in a missing word or even take one out if it will make the intent easier for folks to understand. In fact yesterday, I had to go in and correct a missing word which is there in red ink as I do to show those types of changes. The correction completely changed what I had written, but it was the Truth on the issue.
IF and I repeat IF I am right, shame, shame on the City/ Media. I would far rather be wrong than right in a situation like this. 'nuff said'.