Two Cents

Thursday, November 15, 2007 11:34 AM EST

I suggest you take advice from Charles Foster Kane. He thought it was fun to run a newspaper.
For whoever did the banner for the holiday parade. It's a beautiful banner, but Saturday has an R in it.

Is it necessary for cars, especially the bigs ones, to have six lights on in the daytime?

Here we go again ... the civil service wants the fire chief test for county residents only. Tests should be for city residents only.

Congress doesn't believe in socialist medicine but they have the best health insurance for themselves.

Tom McNabb and Chuck Mason think teaching cannibals to use napkins is too much progress. So it's no surprise they so vehemently oppose consolidation of the civil service departments, which would have saved taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Communication in City Hall continues to remain a large stumbling block to effective government in Auburn, as evidenced by the last council meeting when Councilman McNabb got no answers to his question about the election mailing.

We got more cops here than they have in the big city. We don't need more cops, we need cops that can see.

It's amazing how local people involved in illegal and criminal activities aren't arrested and prosecuted. Because if they were, they would be naming names.

Too bad some people can't read and understand but all I was saying is enough complaining about tellers, etc. as I have “walked in their shoes” and some customers can be really nasty in their attitude and appearance also. Now is that plain enough for you, because if not the comment about the supermodels should be!

Please join me in programming individual channels out of your TV whenever you see any programs depicting, or even suggesting animal cruelty. Then go to that channel's Web site and let them know why you tuned them out for good.

Yes, honest, courteous and professional cashiers know how to handle a “punk” with tact, so Donna B. to you I say, “You go girl!” There are lots of good cashiers and nice customers out here who recognize and appreciate the hard work you do every day.

I can't believe the Cato Town Board. The Cato-Meridian residents on Election Day voted two to one for change and in support of the 104-year-old Meridian Fire Department, but two days later the board voted to put the final nail in the coffin of the fire company.

It is a shame that people do not care about their appearance to others and how others perceive them whether they are the customer or not. If you go back and read the dribble that started all this nonsense about the bank tellers to begin with, the original contributor felt that the appearance of the teller was an issue along with their attitude.

I just learned on Friday that Hillary's socialist health care plan will allow the government to refuse insurance to anyone who has any guns in the house. After the police have determined you no longer have guns, you will be placed on the waiting list for treatment.

It's pretty ridiculous that a working woman posted a simple comment that people in customer service should not show up to work looking sloppy, and somehow this common sense remark was twisted into “Oh my God, you male chauvinist pigs are telling females behind the counter that they need to look like supermodels!”

The quality of care at Auburn Memorial Hospital is not the issue, cost is. The hospital is extremely expensive.

It's time for the public to act against the energy monopolies like NYSEG who are out of control raising our energy costs. Why vote for politicians who merely turn their heads to such practices when they are breaking their constituents, and while they collect their exorbitant salaries and perks?

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curmudgeon wrote on Nov 16, 2007 2:19 PM:

" ...and then you get politicians who start out really trying to make a difference, but get stymied or ignored by the political system that prevents substantive change - like in Albany. It's nuts, and until enough voters figure it out and demand a change, that's the way it's going to be. "

curmudgeon wrote on Nov 16, 2007 10:39 AM:

" ...and then you get politicians who start out really trying to make a difference, but get stymied or ignored by the political system that prevents substantive change - like in Albany. It's nuts, and until enough voters figure it out and demand a change, that's the way it's going to be. "

curmudgeon wrote on Nov 16, 2007 10:36 AM:

" Picking a politician to vote for is always tricky - remember they are supposed to be YOUR representative in government. It's sometimes impossible to tell the difference between when they actually think the way you do and when they are just saying what you want to hear. "

karl L wrote on Nov 16, 2007 10:02 AM:

" brew, "commonwealthcare.com" is a website for surgical/medical scrubs. HUH?! "

Farmer's Gal wrote on Nov 16, 2007 8:06 AM:

" Prices for hospital services and health care in general is totally out of hand. My kid had to have a CAT scan a few weeks ago. He was in and out in under 5 minutes (literally). The charges was $1,050 -- of which my insurance covered 90% still leaving me with an unexpected $105 bill going into the holiday season. (And the scan came back clean). The reason ordinary people can't afford proper health care is that the fees are outrageously inflated, thanks to the insurance companies, the lawyers and the general litigous nature of the American public (who are egged on to sue anyone and everyone for every little thing by the legal establishment). It's a sick world (pun intended). "

Farmer's Gal wrote on Nov 16, 2007 7:54 AM:

" Not too long ago, The Citizen had one of their mini-polls on whether or not one had watched any of the Presidential debates. Not having television, I had not. But last night I was at a friend's house, and I saw part of the Democratic Presidential "debates." I had not seen a Presidential debate since I was in junior high (late 70s) and was really shocked. I had debate in high school too -- there is a set format, times for speaking, rebuttals, etc. Recriminations would break out during Presidential debates, but the moderator would try to keep the candidates focussed on the issues instead of taking shots at each other. This nonsense I saw last night was like watching Montel Williams (I saw that once when I was stuck for hours in the waiting room at Auburn Memorial Hospital). Wolk Blitzer was focussed on getting each candidate to say nasty things about the other guy's position, and to get them to comment on the nasty things they'd previously said about each other, he'd loosely mention the issue in passing but the focus was on the mud-slinging, and the comments went all around in no special order. The whole thing was like when on one of those daytime tv shows, the host goads the guests into saying inflammatory things to each other in hopes a big fight will break out and their ratings will go up. Every time I see TV it makes me glad I don't have it in my home, but at the same time, I find I am more disgusted with the political situation in this country than ever before. Sheesh is too mild to express my disust. "

brew1234 wrote on Nov 16, 2007 12:52 AM:

" Don't be picking on Mitt's health care plan. It has been up and running for almost a year now and affordable health care is there for every citizen. I pay $35 a month and get free doctors office visits and drug co- pays of $5. Check out the web site for CommonwealthCare.com. The one requirement is every citizen must have health insurance. He asked the insurance companies to set an affordable price if he got everyone to get insured. If you don't sign up you get a tax penalty that takes away from your state tax refund. It kills me to endorse a republican's plan but it is good. "

Yikes wrote on Nov 15, 2007 9:14 PM:

" Billary and the rest of the liberals can come and take the gun out of my cold, clampy hands when I die from a heart attack in a cornfield during deer-season doing what I enjoy - NOT before. "

A voter wrote on Nov 15, 2007 4:49 PM:

" The majority of Auburnians chose Mike Quill. There is hope for us yet! "

Candi wrote on Nov 15, 2007 4:39 PM:

" I agree with the hospital costs. I was there for 45 minutes a few weeks ago, had to do a urine test and was charged $425.00. I'd rather pay $425.00 once, then get the United Health Care health insurance that was quoted to me at $380 a month with 0 office visits. "

Jim wrote on Nov 15, 2007 3:59 PM:

" Nobody's proposing to socialize health care. California is now considering a plan similar to Mrs. Clinton's (a combination of private and government providers). The private insurance companies have endorsed that plan. I agree with Karl...you have to be a moron to think gun ownership will have any place in health care reform. "

karl L wrote on Nov 15, 2007 3:49 PM:

" Double-Dumb, it doesn't matter if I have never read Hillary's HC bill; you Conservatives post on here all the time without understanding a LICK abut what you're talking about! Besides, what's really important is "What kind of Health Care would Jesus' plan have?" I'm calling Murray Lynch right now... "

karl L wrote on Nov 15, 2007 3:46 PM:

" In Mitt Romney's Health Care plan you can get free Health Care for as many wives as you can possibly marry.In Rudy Giuliani's, you must prove that you don't have "mob ties" and you must check a box on the bottom of the form which states "I believe and affirm that Rudy Giuliani is the hero of 9/11". True fact! LOL! "

DD wrote on Nov 15, 2007 2:33 PM:

" Karl: Have you read the health care plan? If you haven't, then how can you have an opinion? I mean, did you read the funding bill for Iraq that Hillary signed off on? She refused to sign any bill funding the efforts in Iraq until the new verbiage changed to include pork for her pet projects. I for one haven't read the health care plan, but I have serious concerns about the conditions big Hil would place on my healthcare. What other conditions hve been placed? You must be a lumpy legged, lying, carpetbagging, wench, to get any healthcare when Hil takes over. "

Leon Kapowski wrote on Nov 15, 2007 1:03 PM:

" Hillary and Mrs. Clinton have been anti-gun as long as I can remember, so that right there wouldn't suprise me... and in 1998, the AMA published a guide which advised physicians to counsel their patients against gun ownership, so I don't think it's too far out of the realm of possibility that a measure like that could show up in a socialized medecine bill. I'd like to have all the facts though before making a call on that one. "

karl L wrote on Nov 15, 2007 12:16 PM:

" That's ok, cuz I just heard today that in John McCain's Health Care plan, you have to prove that you currently own, and have played with n the last 6 months, those little green Army men. If you don't have them, or haven't marched 'em across the carpet in the last 6 months, you will be refused any care at all. "

karl L wrote on Nov 15, 2007 12:13 PM:

" That quip about Hillary's Health Care plan and guns is probably the STOOOOPIDEST thing I've read on this site in like, 3 days. Or more? It has the smell of "FOX" all over it. You'd have to be a serious Coulter-ite to believe that, much less post it! SHEESH! "

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