Sound Off for May 12

A reminder

In 2009 the U.S. Preventative Health Services issued new guidelines for screening mammograms. Women who were forty to forty nine did not need to have an annual mammogram and women 50 to 74 would only need to have a mammogram every other year. These guidelines were and are viewed as a preview of what health care would be under "Obamacare." I.E. rationed health care.

How many mothers, grandmothers, will be alive this Mothers Day because they followed the recommendations, not of the "Preventative" Health Services but of the American Medical Association, American Cancer Society, the Association of Radiologists, etc. and had their yearly mammogram? To President Obama and Connecticut's Chris Murphy a certain number of women dying unnecessarily under the prevailing guidelines would have been acceptable. But oh so unacceptable to the families left to mourn their passing.

Every voter needs to remember that Connecticut's Chris Murphy voted "yes" to Obamacare. Murphy can write about the postal service, tell me how much he "cares". His actions have spoken loud and clear with his Obamacare vote. He cannot make his vote go away nor can he rationalize that he voted in my best interests.

I will vote for his opponent and continue to laugh at his transparent sudden concern for my welfare.

Renters should pay taxes too

I think that all the people that rent and have children going to school should pay some kind of tax for their children to go to the schools. Why should we the homeowners pay all the burden of children going to school when we don't have any children going to school at this time. I am thinking of all the seniors that have being paying for years. Let them chip in a little bit maybe it will lower the tax budget and the BOE could really look into it very carefully. It happened many years ago, maybe they should bring it back again.

Location should be reconsidered

The planners of methadone treatment facility that is proposed to go in Torrington close to a sizable residential neighborhood should reconsider the location. Wouldn't the vacant jail in Litchfield be a great spot to house this treatment center? Use some existing building in a business area instead of a residential area. There sure is plenty of those vacant buildings around Litchfield County.

Our Flip Flopper-In-Chief

The Flip Flopper-In-Chief has changed his position about gay marriage at least three times until his latest evolution. Obama talks about supporting gay marriage but still refuses to push Federal legislation that will make it legal. Elections prove that the overwhelming majority of Americans oppose gay marriage including 32 states that define and protect traditional marriage between a man and women. Unless Obama evolves some more, his decision will cost him millions of votes and numerous swing states that he desperately needs in November.


Two tax increases in three years for the town of Torrington, now called Taxville!

Shame on the Mayor, the Superintendent of schools and the teachers union. We are in a major recession and the Town is about to raise already high property taxes for the second time in three years! This is fiscal irresponsibility. We all need to make do and demanding more taxes during a recession is shameful Please vote out the incumbents who have showed such poor judgment!

Torrington's budget

It's true that it's not Mayor Binghams's fault that a tax increase is being pushed through. As most know he got the job because his predecessor got voted out because he took on the public sector unions in Torrington and they put together an organized effort to oust him. The public sector unions are the last remaining unions with serious power. They think they can get away with just about anything, and indeed they have up until the economic down turn. Now everyone else is on hard times but the union heads still believe they have the muscle to get what they want. These people are so arrogant and adept at getting their way, that they don't see that times are changing.

They organize their membership, muster other local people such as parents with children in the school system, etc. and make a huge charade to justify what they want.

There's virtually no accountability for their performance, or the quality or even the quantity of their work. They make an art form of parsing job descriptions to justify layers and layers of bureaucracy and pay grades. That's all they are really good at. The fact is, they are pretty much socialists. If you think socialists is the way to go, just look at Europe and see how it's working in Greece and other European countries now going down the tubes along with their pensions. The professional heads of the big unions don't care, by now they are themselves wealthy and now can easily retire. So... the joke is the public and the union membership eventually.

The public is beginning to wake up to these facts of life, and it's possible that even the union membership will realize they are killing the golden goose.

Torrington High arrests

Yes, I'm reading the newspaper this morning about THS that the arrest numbers are up. Well, you gotta realize what we have in the city of Torrington. The kind of clientele we have, that's the problem. Plus the parents aren't around that much, so they have no clue what's going on. Years ago we did not have this in Torrington. The schools were safe. Now, I'd be afraid if I had to send a child to Torrington high school or middle school. So I hope that you have to pay somebody to get the count down. That's up to the parents I'm sorry.

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