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Comment on Woodstock's Current Open Secret

Admin — 2011-01-18T20:08:21Z

Congrats on being probably one of the few that understood my meaning when choosing the tag line...I can dream can't I?

Comment on Woodstock's Current Open Secret

john smith — 2011-01-18T16:36:43Z

I believe your answer lies within the heading at the top of this page "woodstocktruth.com- Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government" always has...always will unless we fix it but the money that controls that arm of government is never ending and infinite. You can't compete with this type of power and even if you could in fact weed out the corruption that you stumbled upon you would have to be in power yourself. By the time you had the reigns to fix opposing forces would have you elected out of office due to the nature of the election cycle. It CAN'T be done, many many many others have tried and end up realizing the neverending cycle of manipulation and utter disregard for the general population and in the the end our own ego gets the better of you.

THIS IS the United States of America and the cancer is from within not unlike all governments in history. Ours is just one of the largest of all time since civilization itself started back in time. Controlling the masses is the goal and controlling the local media plays a part in that role of government.

Comment on Woodstock's Current Open Secret

Rob — 2011-01-05T21:09:04Z

Rick- Just figuring that out? Ha! The good 'ol boys are back! (You are right though).

Comment on Woodstock's Current Open Secret

Rick — 2011-01-05T16:16:54Z

14-224(b) is noted as evading responsibility (hit and run) following involvement in accident resulting in non-serious physical injury or property damage. This offense comes with a 90 day license suspension and penalties listed below.

Subsection (g) notes that any person who violates the provisions of subsection (b) or (c) of this section (14-224) shall be fined not less than seventy-five ($75) dollars nor more than six hundred dollars ($600) or be imprisoned not more than one (1)year or be both fined and imprisoned, and for any subsequent offense shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand ($1000) dollars or imprisoned not more than one (1) year or be both fined and imprisoned.

Wow- Doesn't Woodstock have an ethics pledge?

This is a serious offence for a public offical to be charged. He could face a year in prison. I guess evading responsibilty is OK if you are an elected offical.

Comment on Woodstock Public Schools Continue to Pay Lip Service to Education while Thompson ‘Soars’

Concerned — 2010-12-21T21:11:59Z

You like a growing amount of Woodstock voters are growing wiser as time passes. United we can do something about the BOE, BOF and Town Hall. The spending and where the money is going and to whom.
We all know what is going on it's time to unite and let Hartford and beyond know what is going on in the Quiet corner.
The protection of people in the clique and the laws that are broken and the lack of enforcement is running rampart.
We pay a Building Inspector and yet how many buildings have been built in Woodstock?
We pay a Town Planner/ ZEO, for what? They are trying to pull the wool over our eyes.
We need to organize and plan a strategy to defeat the powers who squander tax dollars.

Comment on Woodstock Public Schools Continue to Pay Lip Service to Education while Thompson ‘Soars’

Disgusted — 2010-12-20T18:12:34Z

Something else that shows the ineptitude of this cast of characters- in reading the 11/18/2010 BOE minutes I was astounded to notice that the bathroom partitions at WMS are still a topic of discussion. This has been going on for 5 YEARS or more. The time that has been spent on this ridiculous item is just embarrassing, especially considering the June cash dumps that have occurred over the last number of years.

Priorities people! (AKA actual education issues) Or is this too difficult to understand?

Comment on Progress in the War for Compensation Fairness?

Admin — 2010-12-20T16:39:23Z

Good stuff Rebecca. I'm hardly a right-winger; however, it's hard to deny there is a fair amount of bloat going on, with Connecticut being a prime example. Here's some more to chew on- http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PAY_FREEZE_CONGRESS?SITE=NEYOR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Comment on Progress in the War for Compensation Fairness?

Rebecca Hyde — 2010-12-20T15:47:35Z

I've been reading that when you compare public sector salaries to private and take education and job description into account, the disparities disappear, except for the jobs that pay less. In that case the downward pressure on wages and benefits has been stronger in the public sector than the private. So, firstly, do we want people with less education trying to regulate, say, the oil drilling industry? ie, do we want the better educated working for the lobbyists while the less-educated work for the government? And do we want the lower-middle class to make less money? That's called demand destruction. Remember Henry Ford, paying his workers more so they might be able to afford the cars they were building?

Anyway -- see articles here: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/10/federal_pay_myths.html and here:

http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/are-government-employees-overpaid-still-no/

I just don't like articles demonizing the public sector employees. I believe our economy will be slowly (hopefully) or suddenly shrinking over the years to come, and the fight to ensure Democratic control of resources is going to be fierce. Picking on the public sector employees will only weaken our ability to maintain a broad-based control over resources.

Comment on Progress in the War for Compensation Fairness?

Maggie — 2010-12-19T17:42:28Z

Christmas letter to the Town Hall.

Dear Santa,

Christmas is going to be hard for a lot of Woodstock citizens. The future looks worse for even more. Tax hikes will kill most of us.

Property values keep dropping yet we still pay tax on a value when the market flourished.

The town hall thinks we are all stupid, they keep us in the dark. Transparency is a word not used or practiced. We don’t hear about the buses that get destroyed nor the rolled over town truck. Hell, one of our selectmen is a disaster on the road wile driving under the influence. The first selectman refuses to talk to us or compromise on a worsening situation because our building office and zoning dept is a joke.

They have to know “We the people can only take so much abuse and neglect”. Time has come for the quiet town of Woodstock to make some noise. Take things to the next step, contact these politicians and even consult with a lawyer if necessary.

Santa, please bring us a voice and some worthwhile leadership into this area. Make the town stop the squandering of tax payers' money. Please make the BOE stop playing parlor games with our children's future. Make the BOE see the error of their ways and spend correctly what they have.

Thank you Santa. Merry Christmas…

Comment on Dave Reports on the Prop 46 Subcommittee

Dave — 2010-11-24T16:44:06Z

Alex,

What am “I” going to do about it? Not sure that’s exactly the right question.

For the last four years or so I have been attending meetings (probably have attended more BOF meetings than most BOF members), researched and documented spending and the antics of the BOF, BOE and town treasurer as related to Prop 46, written about those antics here and in letters to the editor, run for a seat on the BOF, and spoken at length at numerous town and various board meetings. Through most of this there have been a handful of supporters who show up some of the time at meetings – with the exception of Ernie St Jean who almost always shows, and about 400 voters who show up at the polls. At this point “what’s going to be done about it” depends on the voters of the town of Woodstock unless the BOF is foolish enough to blatantly overstep their bounds on Prop 46, which as I suggested in my article is unlikely anytime in the near future as reductions in federal funding and likely reductions in state funding, due to the horrendous deficits they are facing, will require double digit or near double digit increases in property taxes short term (this coming year) and 6% or more for several more years to come with little or no increase in spending at the town level. I suspect this will be well above the pain threshold for taxpayers and that will keep the BOF in line.

We’ll just have to see if the taxpayers/voters catch on or if they are willing to eat the result of their not doing so.

Dave