Mailbag

To The Editor:
 Waking up to the Big Lie by John Cerullo (mailbox 3/20) states that we can solve our fiscal woes by taxing the rich and big corporations.  He doesn’t define what constitutes the rich, apparently believing all the rich are Scrooge McDucks swimming in pools of gold.

He forgets that the rich got rich by risking their own capital and creating products or services that consumers want.  They cannot tax their neighbor.  He also forgets that corporations are owned by stockholders.  The working people’s pension plans and IRAs are invested in these stocks.

To The Editor:
When we consider ways to offer opportunities for young people, providing for their education is a priority.  With an education, a kid can make it to as far as his or her abilities and drive will go.
We owe it to Head Start children and to us all to make this chance a possibility.  Early is best.  Head Start has been proven to be a catalyst for future success.  It deserves our support. 

Jackie Purdy,
Fleischmanns.

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To The Editor:
One more family is forced to leave our area for a better opportunity. When one reads the U.S. Censes report, it says 35 of the 62 counties in upstate New York are losing population do to a lack of work. We have a state government whose only answer is more food stamp. We have a governor that is beholden to his voter base that denies many New Yorkers the right to develop their own natural recourses.

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To The Editor:
I find it commendable that Tea Party Patriots care enough about the constitution to be starting a petition drive to defend the 2nd amendment. 

While I’m not sure that restrictions on the kinds of weapons citizens can own violates the constitution, I agree that citizens can’t just be spectators and must speak out when necessary.  But over the course of Bush’s eight years and Obama’s four years and counting, those who would defend the constitution must bear a heavy burden. 

To The Editor:
If one was to read at face value the summarization of the letter I wrote to the mayor and village board, that you printed in last week’s paper, one would get the impression it was written about the appearance of the building next to my office.

Nothing could be further from the truth. So, to let your readers know the truth, this is an exact copy of the letter I penned:

“Dear Mayor and Village Board,

To The Editor:
Gosh where to start. Well while growing up in this country I have always been made to be afraid of other countries. Bomb scares and such, but I have never been so scared of anything as much as I am of our own country right now. It’s just pitiful that payoffs and lying trumps humanity and truth. While growing up, when I made bad choices was punished to put me back on track. I was raised on a farm and milked cows 365 days a year, twice a day, along with all the other chores from as far back as I can remember. Left the farm at age 17 with nothing but the cloths I was wearing.

To The Editor:
An unsettling trend in the New York political system seems to have surfaced recently. Promoting with huge funding certain ideological viewpoints and enforcing them with new laws as to what is right or wrong, what lifestyle is better, what food or drink you should consume, what habits or activities are not longer acceptable and what implements you should no longer have access to, all in the name of…let the government decide what is better for you and society in general.

To The Editor:
Home rule and its importance to citizens and towns of the Catskills runs very deep. Witness the strong reaction in “Loss of ‘home rule’’ feared in DEP’s watershed rules” - CMN 3/26/2013. Mr. Cox, who led the discussion of the meeting of the Catskill Watershed Corporation “was ready to throw out the proverbial red flag for any wording… that could be construed as forfeiture… of home rule.”