" How lofty "

" No I will try to bring the ideas that I have seen work elsewhere to you. I am a student of humanity and have insights your brain cannot perceive. So if this frightens you then too bad. My only goal is to make life a little better for me and you. "

" And what truth would that be? Surprise surprise when u to move back here, u will be running back to your utopian world faster than u can say "arrogant" or perhaps "clueless". Does your arm get tired frequently from patting yourself on the back? Issues are issues and people are gonna have a say in them regardless of the notion that u think all these elected people and their inserted heads of depts are the greatest thing since sliced bread. If we all believed that all is as it s/b like u my wool would need to be shaved about now. LMAO!!! Dont misjudge others as your jaw may drop. "

" Out here in the boonies, we've been paying to go to the dump for decades.
When I first lived here, one only had to pay once for a dump sticker (if you got a new car, you had to buy a new sticker). The fee was really low -- a couple bucks or maybe it was less -- to pay for the sticker and staff time.

Some time in the early 90s, I think it was, we had to pay something like $50 a year for the sticker. That was a big deal, but people got used to it.

Then sometime more recently, it switched to the per-bag payment method -- $2 a bag, has to be clear plastic, and isn't supposed to weigh more than 30 pounds a bag.

I think this is pretty much in line with most of the communities out here, except the Town of Venice, which has no dump and people there have to fudge to find ways to get rid of their trash.

Whether it is officially legal or not, almost everyone out here burns their burnable trash, and except right in the towns, people compost or chuck their biodegradable trash.

Recyclables are accepted free at the dump, but you are supposed to clean them out first (a lot of people don't, but they should, because they make the recyclable dumpster really nasty).

What I don't understand is why the recyclables are not separated (except paper -- which has to be stacked and bound in twine). Do they actually ever recycle that stuff or what? If much of it isn't clean, and it hasn't been separated -- just what are they doing with it? "

" Yeah, you can say that again..... "

" The truth hurts doesn't it? "

" Wow, I'm glad they straightened me out on what is causing all these fears of recession. Turns out it's the housing market!! And all this time I thought it was because of the greed of Big Oil & OPEC creating false shortages, Big Utilities jumping on the bandwagon, Big China stealing all the jobs, and the incessantly rising taxes. "

" Well, it happened to me finally...I posted my opinion about the Thruway under the story of the proposed rate hikes, and it was there for a little while, and then they took it off. Must be some big shot didn't like reading the truth about it!! "

" Honestly brew1234, when you move back here, why dont you just run for office!! Your constant comments that are ALLways playing the devils advocate for the half rear ended way things are run around here would be just your style. I mean I think you really could help us poor uneducated morons out here explaining how its gonna be! "

" I'm confused about the comment regarding the dump.

I go to the dump all the time and I've never been charged a cent. Does anyone know when this went into effect? I was just there a couple of days ago to eat lunch and take in some of the scents and scenery and nobody ever said that I had to pay anything.

To be honest, I don't know what I would do if they began charging me to park there for a 1/2 hour while I listen to the oldies and eat lunch.
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" And then the budget of the dump will go up since it has to pay the expenses of the people who work there and their equipment and supplies. So that burden will be passed to the taxpayers and everyone gets to pay for the "free dump visits" "

" Yeah, only losers whin! "

" Quote: I think it's about time the city taxpayers get to go to the dump without paying anything. The dump belongs to the taxpayers, not five people who think they can do whatever they feel like doing."
Yes The Dump, pun included, does belong to us not the 5 people. We should have 12 coupons for once a month "Free" visits. What is so hard about doing that?
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" In my area homeowners are allowed 3 free trash dumps a year. We must bring our yearly TAX paper with us along with I.D. and they mark it of each trip. After the 3rd dump we are charged by the weight-which we have used a 15ft box truck totally full, it costed 24.00-not bad at all. During a room tear down it was alot cheaper than the 500.00 for a dumpter delivered which we did the year prior. Of course the dumpster being delivered -we loaded-and they took away was very time-saving.
Since we have the 3 allowed dumps free, we try to use them to the fullest! "

" I see in this mornings Post Standard 1-27-08 that Joyce H S Moore what ever, is whining about the prison system again. First, 99.9% of the people locked up deserve to be there, they didn't or wouldn't live with in the laws of todays society. It's easier to steal, sell drugs, kill, rape etc. than it is to stay in school and get an honest job. As for her husband (the second longest-serving inmate continuously in the NYS Prison system) I hope he lives to be the longest. James Moore, Hackett Smiths husband, RAPED AND KILLED at 15 year old girl in Rochester, He should have been exacuted. The State says Moore is still a danger to socitey and will not release him,(good for the State). Joyce, quit whining for the prisoners, if who have to whin, whin for the victims and their familys. Your husband and the rest of the crimials made their choice, the victims didn't. "