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At the Sept. 21, 2011 Supervisor Meeting I used the example of how Falls Township Water and Sewer Authority responded to a problem the residents had with Orange Water. Here’s the link: http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/courier_times_news/authority-directors-promise-to-resolve-discolored-water-issues/article_b48370a2-e885-5b44-9aab-d41e6cbd0f68.html
Falls said we’re going to find out whats going wrong and we will fix it.
When residents complained about harmful chemicals in their well water Northampton said: It’s not our problem. Years later the DEP had to tell the three supervisors who control Northampton that the problem water is so bad that the township must install public water. Falls and the DEP went after the problem. Not the Northampton Supervisors. Northampton tried to run away from the problem. They try to cover up the existence of problems and hide data that shows there is a problem. They did that with sewers in the West End because and the VOC’s in the private wells. They try to deny problems because the existence of problems means they failed to supervise the township.
That’s because they don’t know enough about how to solve problems.
Oct 192010
NJ Turnpike workers have been operating a cesspool of corruption, defrauding the Turnpike of toll money and padding their salaries, medical and retirement benefits according to Matt Boxer the state Comptroller. They collected more than tolls. An Inspector walked away with almost $400,000.00 when he retired and a cool $73,000.00 a year pension. Who was cheated? Every NJ chump taxpayer and everyone who paid higher tolls because the government simply raised them in 2008 and will raise them again in 2013. Does it do you any good to know about this? That’s up to you. If you can figure out something to do to let it be known how wrong behaviors like this are, maybe write a letter to Governor Christie or call the State Attorney General and complain, maybe the Turnpike will be penalized and the tolls will be lowered.
Don’t say that what you do doesn’t make a difference. Nothing happens until you do something. Just do something. It can and will make a difference.
Bill O’Neill
Oct 192010
I’ve been writing Guest Opinions, Letters to the Editor and Vents that have been published in the Bucks County Courier Times since 1991.
Maybe we don’t agree with everything I’ve written about. Also, I change my mind as new info becomes available. If you agree with say, eight out of ten of my ideas, I suggest that’s reson enough to vote for me.
A list by date or title will be added to this page as soon as I figure out how to do it.
Kindly check back from time to time to see the status of the updating.
Thanks for your visit,
Bill
Oct 192010
What Are “Rights”, anyway?
Rights are intangibles: can’t be seen; have no substance in reality but they exist.
How can people talk about something that is not only invisible but without substance? Rights exist as ideas, as concepts. There are many concepts that have no physical form, like “good”, “evil” and ”good will”. Some intangibles can be “concretized”. They can be constructed into something real. Rights are “concretized” in the Bill of Rights, the first ten amenments to the Constitution.
Rights are intellectual inventions. They place Government and Cultures under moral law by being used to control power. Power is Force. It’s Rights against Power. Rights to offset Power and Rights as the moral authority needed to control Power. Government does not need Rights because Government has the exclusive use of legal force, legal power. Power trumps rights as a practical matter since power is real and temporal. Power exists in the form of orce. Bigger people can force smaller people act as they command and Rights are the way to control a bigger person. Governments use armies; police; judges; and government in general to force people to do as the government decides shold be done. People need something to control power and that’s the basis for Rights.
Rights are used most often to control government. That’s the most important use of rights.
Rights exist just as other intangibles exist, and we can know them because they have a definition and a description. They are “concepts”.
Concepts:
Concepts are “mental integrations of two or more units which are isolated according to a specific characteristic(s) and united by a specific definition”. Thanks, Ayn Rand “Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology”
Most of the political problems of the world are because of the lack of respect for as well as the purposeful deconstruction and destruction of Rights.
Rights do not have responsibilities attached to them. In the words of the Declaration of Independence, Rights are “inalienable”, – intrinsic with the person. Some say Rights are “Unalienable, not able to be seperated.
Duty Free and Without Responsibility
Both descriptions show there is nothing needed to have Rights. Rights exist when there is an individual because the descriptions include Rights as part of the nature of an individual. There is nothing that must be done to have Rights. No duties need to be performed; no money needs to be paid, no test has to be passed and no resposibility is attached to be able to claim the protection of Rights. Rights exist because you exist.
But those who desire to destroy the protections of Rights have sucessfully watered down the idea of Rights. Everything it seems has rights. From bears to beans, and most importantly government is said to have Rights
How were “Rights Lost?:
The Night is Black. There is no Moon. Everything’s Gone Wrong.
What Should We Do? Elect Bill O’Neill
Oct 192010
This page is constantly being updated. Check back often to see it’s progress
“The Limits for tyrants is the endurance of those they oppress.”
What are your limits?
This page is about Corruption in Government; – at all levels; -in every place in America and the broken political system that caused the corruption; the corrupt nature of the two political parties; the people who run them and the loyal followers who blindly support them and the solutions that take the form of resisting their empty words; ignoring their false ideas; finding the truth in the new types of media like the internet; the telephone messages; Twitter; Facebook; and using technology like the e-books and the I-phones to find what the political crowd is doing to us and against freedom. It’s about the New Voices of Liberty. Born in the last century and as JFK said; – “unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed.
Government Corruption is a worldwide problem. It is especially virulant in less competitive countries but corruption runs rampant in the developed countries too.
Government is the problem. The founders of America knew that and tried to control the government but it didn’t work. Once the babies went thru the mandatory government education program that glorified government and condemned individual effort went to government controlled law school and became Judges they changed the laws to make government bigger and more oppressive. That’s what government does. Since the Phoenicians, the Pharaohs, the Caesars, the Emperors, Popes and even the tribal chiefs who were the leaders of lesser civilizations, government is opposed to freedom.
There coming to take things away. They broke down the barriers. Why are they doing this?
What Should We Do? Elect Bill O’Neill
Oct 192010
This page is about some of the tactics government uses to restrict freedoms and about some of the corruption caused by the Progressive / Social Justice / Socialist / Left Wing / Marxist and Marxist Derivitives such as Communism, Fascism, Liberation Theology and other collectivist and individual-sacrificing moral codes. All those “ism’s” destroy private jobs and force the private job holders to pay for the Social Programs which is why Margret Thatcher said: ” Socialism works – until you run out of other peoples money”.
Ganster Government is the consequence of violating the Constitution. Chicago style “GANGSTA GOVERNMENT” is the destruction of enemies by the misuse of government power, for example, using the Car Czar to close Republican owned Chrysler Dealerships while keeping Democrat owned Chrysler Dealers open.
The use of the idea of Socialism is used to trick people into accepting Constitutional violations as necesary to improve the lives of the mediocre people who supposedly cannot exist without a welfare state.
The Cost of Socialism is never mentioned by Socialists or Marxists. The question to ask about every progressive big-government idea is: “Who Pays”? In the case of closing the Republican Chrysler dealers, the dealers that were closed had to be paid for their losses. They were paid with tax money. The remaining Democrat Chrysler dealers benefitted from fewer Chrysler dealerships nearby. Their benefits were more sales and higher profits. Their costs were a few bucks contributed to the Democrats. The closing of Republican Dealerships by political loyalty is a case study in corrupt, “Gangsta Government”.
GOVERNMENT IS TOO BIG. Washington takes too much from us. The Private Market serves us better than government delivered goodies.
“Congress Shall Make No Law…” See the 29 June, 2010 Supreme Court Decision in McDonald v. Chicago for a slightly good decision regarding sensible ideas about guns.
Locally, Bucks County has become a national battleground for the 8th Congressional seat. The hot national issue is Universal Health care, followed by Immigration, the Federal lawsuit against Arizona and the new Banking law.
The CORNHUSKER KICKBACK or the NEBRASKA COMPROMISE is the December 2009 bribe by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nebraska Democratic Senator Ben Nelson allegedly to secure his vote as the last Democratic hold-out for the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (H.R. 3590) allowing states to restrict abortion funding and giving Nebraska 100 percent federal funding of the Medicaid expansion indefinitely into the future.
Democrat Senator Kent Conrad, North Dakota, said the deal was not unusual, and states often receive individual deals. Three months prior Reid secured in the health care bill 100 percent funding for Medicaid in Nevada. A later version gave all states 100 percent funding for the first three years of the Medicaid expansion, with the exception of the above provision made for Nebraska. For all other states the costs would be about 15 cents on every $1 they receive from the federal government.
Then there’s the NEW LOUISIANA PURCHASE that continued the patterns of bribery and coercion.
The Federal suit against Arizona’s common sense attempt to control some of the Illegal Immigrants is toxic for the Democrats because Arizona’s laws mirrors the the Federal Govnerment’s own laws. The issue will help Republican Mike Fitzpatrick and hurt Murphy as the trickle down effect of Washington Politics stays on voters minds come November.
The new Job-Eating Financial Regulations for banks is a 2,300 page Legislative Monster. It will send financial jobs overseas. At 330,000 words it’s half the size of the King James bible. Regulation of Banks means “bail out banks and charge the taxpayers”. Regulations cause periodic depressions like 1929 and 2009. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac force banks to obey social program directors, called regulators who are dictators in $5,000 taxpayer paid suits like Barney Frank and Nabcy Pelossi to force banks to lose money. Government bails out banks and the social programs are covered up as the government blames the lack of bank regulation for the depressions. The way out is very simple. Close failed banks. No social programs for banks to impliment means far less bank failures. Stronger banks mean financial jobs stay in America.
Patrick Murphy (D) was elected in 2006 by 1,500 votes over Congressman Michael Fitzpatrick and re-elected in 2008. Obama signed a Murphy supported bill to boost Murphy’s chances against Fitzpatrick and to help offset Murphys Happy to Oblige Barack position on just about everything. Murphy must be in more trouble than is commonly perceived if he’s happy to appear with Obama.
Michael Fitzpatrick (R), “Mike”, is running against Murphy again. Voter disatisfaction with Obama whose approval rating is in the tank, hovering around 27% because people judge him to be almost incompetant: Stimulus that failed; Bailouts that failed: Take over two car companies to pay-off union contributors; Universal Health Care that means longer waiting lines, worse care, more suffering and earlier deaths; Failure to coordinate the Gulf Clean_Up; Still no capture of BinLadin; Gitmo still open; Terrorists trials in New York cancelled after people rose up against it; Cap and Trade; Card Check. The list of Federal problems grows almost everyday which helps Fitzpatrick immensely.
Congressman Murphy was elected in 2006 partly due to gerrymandering the district by running the line down York road, past Republicans to Hatboro where it widens and looks like a lollypop. Murphy picked up 1,500 voted from Hatboro and beat Fitzpatrick by 1,500.
Plus, in 2007 Murphy was seen as a counterweight to President Bush. Now Fitzpatrick is seen as a counterweight to Obama.
Obama was elected in 2008. The Senior Citizens who paid their dues into Social Security but did not get a cost of living adjustment this year and next year from Obama and who are feeling the pinch of inflated prices as well as realizing Obama will not give them a cost of living/inflation adjustment until 2012 will be supporting Fitzpatrick.
People who want Government run Health Care, like Canada, along with rationing and with “death panels” deciding when people will be put into “hospice” to help them die can show Obama they support him by voting for Murphy.
There are other issues.
Bucks County has it’s share of Dirty Presidential Politics.
Oct 192010
Where Do the Taxes Go Once The Bonds Are Paid Off?
Everywhere devious. They pay for the so called jobs in the state or the townships. Those jobs are awarded to capture votes for the politico’s. Their families are expected to register Republican and vote republican, fund-faise for Republicans and help republicans with political activity. The money goes into the General Fund which has no effective accounting. Politicians spend all the General Funds then borrow more money with no intention of paying it back to the victimized taxpayers.
Oct 192010
Understand How politicians Use the Two-step Tax Increase
Politicians do not increase salaries by increasing taxes. Because they are devious they increase salaries after they pay off a bond issue. They pass bond issues then increase taxes to pay off the bonds but the tax increase goes on after the bonds are repaid and they get more money without increasing taxes.
Pennsylvania borrowed money to construct the Turnpike in 1935. Taxes were increased to pay off the bonds. The bonds were paid off but the taxes remained including the tolls. Politicians never remove a tax or a toll.
Oct 192010