The Vindicator editorial board sure has changed over the years! You have a high paid executive of a non-profit organization who hires lots of relatives who like himself are ill qualified and keep no records, probably intentionally, and mis-appropriate taxpayer dollars (translation - OUR money) which is supposed to help the needy so they aren't "under served" and the Vindy ed's say we should give this group another chance???? OUR money isn't easy to replace!! Years ago the vindicator would have called for their heads on a platter and asked that the whole program be shut down!! Shows what happens when you become Socialists I guess! My call - Roller and Co should be investigated, charged, and prosecuted for theft in office. MYCAP should be shut down and private charity groups (churches, etc) should be entrusted with supporting those who need it. The Vindicator editorial board should fire themselves and hire someone with half a brain!
This Austintown resident will not ever support another local tax levy, whether new or replacement. We've been lied to just once too often, and this lie is the straw that broke the camels back! The trustees all came out opposed to SB5 telling us all that they didn't need SB5 provisions to effectively control their public sector costs regardless of state funding cuts! Not two months later here they are asking for more money again! we knew they were lying before, but they sure are hypocritical to ask for more money this quickly after all the things they said in defense of their union supporters. Maybe we need to recall these folks and find some good honest conservative citizens to cut Austintown's budget to the available tax level. Maybe close the park, cut the heat in the offices, meet once per month, cut all other unnecessary spending on anything and everything not needed (like parades, concerts, etc). Most of us have already pared back to bare bones....let them do so as well! It is called "shared sacrifice".
Doesn't matter! The trustees all spoke out against SB5, which would have begun to bring public sector wages, benefits, contributions, and bargaining back toward private sector tax payer levels. In fact, every local Socialist Democrat politician did the same. They all said "we don't need SB5 provisions to effectively bargain"!! Now all we hear a few months later is tax increases (which we cannot afford), and big new Mahoning county budgets which obviously precede coming requests for more and more taxes we cannot afford!! My solution .... go fish! I will never ever believe these two-faced local pol's again, and I will never, ever vote for any new or replacement tax levies again! Can we get a conservative to run against these three liberal spenders? April Fools comes early in Austintown this year..... everyone bought the lies of the unions and their political beneficiaries and now Austintown residents the joke is on you!!
A vote for Obama, or any other Socialist-Democrat is a vote against America and yourself!! Wake up! Unless you are a Socialist or a Communist (just review all the folks Obama has and is associating with if you don't believe me) please do not ever again vote for this crowd. Obama's promised "transformation" is well under way! Do your homework, find out for yourself and whatever you do vote for America, our Constitution and the future not for us but for our children and grandchildren!
Regardless of the other chatter about this situation, their is no doubt something must be done. SB5 addressed this issue and lots of others and, if folks had bothered to read it, was a good deal for everyone. Union mis-information campaigns (teachers unable to advocate for our children; police, fire and emergency folks unable to bargain for better staffing and equipment - all too laughably not their biggest concerns!!) killed this good and much needed reform legislation. Now we are hearing of bigger budgets needed for our county and our townships from administrators and trustees who stood with their union supporters against the people who must pay for it!! I'll not vote for one more tax increase or replacement levy until I see the real problems addressed.... and public sector unions work rules, pay and benefits brought in line with private sector. I encourage everyone to do the same!
This editorial is so lopsided as to be truly offensive to anyone with a brain! Does the Vindicator really think that compromise is something only Republicans and conservatives must do?? Harry Reid and his Senate socialists skate off to their "Holiday" break leaving a two month extension of payroll tax cuts on the table and the Vindicator thinks that is compromise?? Unbelievable! The House has sent over twenty-eight pieces of legislation addressing improving our destroyed economy to the totally corrupt and morally bankrupt Senate (who has failed to provide a budget for 3 years!!) and the Vindicator ignores this fact and beats up the Republicans and conservatives yet again!! Get your head out into the light of day and address the real problem please. Socialism (and Communism) doesn't work anywhere, and it sure won't work here!! Wake up editors.... your left leaning bias is all to clear to those of us who think and read!! Cheers to House conservatives..... vote no on the two month extension and bring the Senate back to do some real work for, not against, we the people!!!!
The current business model of our Postal Service, with its unsustainable union labor contracts and work rules (including the no layoff policy) must be replaced with a private sector mentality of cost effective service which is completely paid for by its revenues. We can no longer afford to subsidize the current bloated and inefficient system or pay for a bloated and unnecessary labor force. My choice would be to cut it loose completely and let it sink or swim without government intervention and without taxpayer money. I believe it will then find the will and the way to go on as a private, for-profit company. Why don't we find out??
Both institutions, the Post Office and our schools, have been destroyed by public sector unions. I too remember my education in Youngstown public schools (pre-union) fondly as I was well prepared for life by my teachers at Monroe, Princeton and South. They taught me that education never ends...a life lesson. The unions have both prevented the necessary improvements and increased the cost of both of these institutions until both are un-sustainable. We allowed this to happen, and now we must fix it by reining in the public sector unions (by passing most of SB5 again and becoming a right-to-work state) and by cutting postal service and cost (and perhaps really revising policy and contracts) to something that works.
The real question is "do we need more expensive government to tell us what to do and to add more and more regulation to our lives?" Richard Cordray might be a good and decent man, but why doesn't he find a good private sector job and contribute to society! The real answer is that for the past 80 years we have been allowing our Federal government to grow and grow and to steal more and more of our freedoms and our personal responsibility under the mistaken belief that we would somehow benefit. We don't need the Federal agency to protect us, we must protect ourselves. Every one of our current problems can be directly attributed to government intervention and regulation of our lives. Who better to regulate my credit than me! We need to reverse the massive growth of our Federal government by eliminating any and all functions not proscribed by our Constitution and return those functions, if needed, to our states and our people. Only then will we truly have control of our lives, and only then will we regain control of our future and our country.
Now let's see.... the Austintown Trustee's publicly criticized SB5 and the necessary reductions in public employee benefits and collective bargaining rights BUT not one month later they need more money to pay off one group of their public service supporters who have those overly generous pay, work rues and benefits BUT who are their loyal sources of funding and votes!! Since they didn't need SB5 to assist them in meeting their budget a month ago, they do not need more money now either. Common sense has to prevail. Most of us retirees have not seen one cent in cost of living adjustment over the past three years, regardless of the undisputed fact that cost of living has spiraled higher and higher! Our home values have deteriorated and there is no end in sight as we are still hovering on the brink of a second wave of recession, which, if history is to be believed, will be upon us shortly. Given the continued excesses of our current Socialist government there is no doubt that second recession will occur...it is just a matter of time. Perhaps we need to re-think our Austintown leadership and elect fiscal conservatives without links to the Socialist Democrats, the Communist labor unions, and who actually represent we taxpayers. What a novel idea for the Mahoning Valley!
White House cannot allow crucial city agency to close
The Vindicator editorial board sure has changed over the years! You have a high paid executive of a non-profit organization who hires lots of relatives who like himself are ill qualified and keep no records, probably intentionally, and mis-appropriate taxpayer dollars (translation - OUR money) which is supposed to help the needy so they aren't "under served" and the Vindy ed's say we should give this group another chance???? OUR money isn't easy to replace!! Years ago the vindicator would have called for their heads on a platter and asked that the whole program be shut down!! Shows what happens when you become Socialists I guess! My call - Roller and Co should be investigated, charged, and prosecuted for theft in office. MYCAP should be shut down and private charity groups (churches, etc) should be entrusted with supporting those who need it. The Vindicator editorial board should fire themselves and hire someone with half a brain!
December 29, 2011 at 3:07 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Austintown officials seek replacement levy
This Austintown resident will not ever support another local tax levy, whether new or replacement. We've been lied to just once too often, and this lie is the straw that broke the camels back! The trustees all came out opposed to SB5 telling us all that they didn't need SB5 provisions to effectively control their public sector costs regardless of state funding cuts! Not two months later here they are asking for more money again! we knew they were lying before, but they sure are hypocritical to ask for more money this quickly after all the things they said in defense of their union supporters. Maybe we need to recall these folks and find some good honest conservative citizens to cut Austintown's budget to the available tax level. Maybe close the park, cut the heat in the offices, meet once per month, cut all other unnecessary spending on anything and everything not needed (like parades, concerts, etc). Most of us have already pared back to bare bones....let them do so as well! It is called "shared sacrifice".
December 29, 2011 at 2:50 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Austintown seeks replacement of police levy
Doesn't matter! The trustees all spoke out against SB5, which would have begun to bring public sector wages, benefits, contributions, and bargaining back toward private sector tax payer levels. In fact, every local Socialist Democrat politician did the same. They all said "we don't need SB5 provisions to effectively bargain"!! Now all we hear a few months later is tax increases (which we cannot afford), and big new Mahoning county budgets which obviously precede coming requests for more and more taxes we cannot afford!! My solution .... go fish! I will never ever believe these two-faced local pol's again, and I will never, ever vote for any new or replacement tax levies again! Can we get a conservative to run against these three liberal spenders? April Fools comes early in Austintown this year..... everyone bought the lies of the unions and their political beneficiaries and now Austintown residents the joke is on you!!
December 29, 2011 at 2:37 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Obama should run scared
A vote for Obama, or any other Socialist-Democrat is a vote against America and yourself!! Wake up! Unless you are a Socialist or a Communist (just review all the folks Obama has and is associating with if you don't believe me) please do not ever again vote for this crowd. Obama's promised "transformation" is well under way! Do your homework, find out for yourself and whatever you do vote for America, our Constitution and the future not for us but for our children and grandchildren!
December 21, 2011 at 11:15 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Public pensions in free fall
Regardless of the other chatter about this situation, their is no doubt something must be done. SB5 addressed this issue and lots of others and, if folks had bothered to read it, was a good deal for everyone. Union mis-information campaigns (teachers unable to advocate for our children; police, fire and emergency folks unable to bargain for better staffing and equipment - all too laughably not their biggest concerns!!) killed this good and much needed reform legislation. Now we are hearing of bigger budgets needed for our county and our townships from administrators and trustees who stood with their union supporters against the people who must pay for it!! I'll not vote for one more tax increase or replacement levy until I see the real problems addressed.... and public sector unions work rules, pay and benefits brought in line with private sector. I encourage everyone to do the same!
December 20, 2011 at 10:52 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Compromise needed to extend tax cuts, unemployment pay
This editorial is so lopsided as to be truly offensive to anyone with a brain! Does the Vindicator really think that compromise is something only Republicans and conservatives must do?? Harry Reid and his Senate socialists skate off to their "Holiday" break leaving a two month extension of payroll tax cuts on the table and the Vindicator thinks that is compromise?? Unbelievable! The House has sent over twenty-eight pieces of legislation addressing improving our destroyed economy to the totally corrupt and morally bankrupt Senate (who has failed to provide a budget for 3 years!!) and the Vindicator ignores this fact and beats up the Republicans and conservatives yet again!! Get your head out into the light of day and address the real problem please. Socialism (and Communism) doesn't work anywhere, and it sure won't work here!! Wake up editors.... your left leaning bias is all to clear to those of us who think and read!! Cheers to House conservatives..... vote no on the two month extension and bring the Senate back to do some real work for, not against, we the people!!!!
December 20, 2011 at 10:32 a.m. permalink suggest removal
It may already be too late, but local arguments must be made to preserve postal services
The current business model of our Postal Service, with its unsustainable union labor contracts and work rules (including the no layoff policy) must be replaced with a private sector mentality of cost effective service which is completely paid for by its revenues. We can no longer afford to subsidize the current bloated and inefficient system or pay for a bloated and unnecessary labor force. My choice would be to cut it loose completely and let it sink or swim without government intervention and without taxpayer money. I believe it will then find the will and the way to go on as a private, for-profit company. Why don't we find out??
December 9, 2011 at 10:36 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Examples of things undergoing change: the post office and schools
Both institutions, the Post Office and our schools, have been destroyed by public sector unions. I too remember my education in Youngstown public schools (pre-union) fondly as I was well prepared for life by my teachers at Monroe, Princeton and South. They taught me that education never ends...a life lesson. The unions have both prevented the necessary improvements and increased the cost of both of these institutions until both are un-sustainable. We allowed this to happen, and now we must fix it by reining in the public sector unions (by passing most of SB5 again and becoming a right-to-work state) and by cutting postal service and cost (and perhaps really revising policy and contracts) to something that works.
December 9, 2011 at 10:29 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Blocking Cordray escalates the attack on majority rule
The real question is "do we need more expensive government to tell us what to do and to add more and more regulation to our lives?" Richard Cordray might be a good and decent man, but why doesn't he find a good private sector job and contribute to society! The real answer is that for the past 80 years we have been allowing our Federal government to grow and grow and to steal more and more of our freedoms and our personal responsibility under the mistaken belief that we would somehow benefit. We don't need the Federal agency to protect us, we must protect ourselves. Every one of our current problems can be directly attributed to government intervention and regulation of our lives. Who better to regulate my credit than me! We need to reverse the massive growth of our Federal government by eliminating any and all functions not proscribed by our Constitution and return those functions, if needed, to our states and our people. Only then will we truly have control of our lives, and only then will we regain control of our future and our country.
December 9, 2011 at 10:12 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Austintown seeks replacement of police levy
Now let's see.... the Austintown Trustee's publicly criticized SB5 and the necessary reductions in public employee benefits and collective bargaining rights BUT not one month later they need more money to pay off one group of their public service supporters who have those overly generous pay, work rues and benefits BUT who are their loyal sources of funding and votes!! Since they didn't need SB5 to assist them in meeting their budget a month ago, they do not need more money now either. Common sense has to prevail. Most of us retirees have not seen one cent in cost of living adjustment over the past three years, regardless of the undisputed fact that cost of living has spiraled higher and higher! Our home values have deteriorated and there is no end in sight as we are still hovering on the brink of a second wave of recession, which, if history is to be believed, will be upon us shortly. Given the continued excesses of our current Socialist government there is no doubt that second recession will occur...it is just a matter of time. Perhaps we need to re-think our Austintown leadership and elect fiscal conservatives without links to the Socialist Democrats, the Communist labor unions, and who actually represent we taxpayers. What a novel idea for the Mahoning Valley!
December 9, 2011 at 9:58 a.m. permalink suggest removal