Readers’ Column for the week of June 16, 2019

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We have got the Ithaca, Binghamton Express, which are tractor-trailers, six or seven times today, and it’s only 1:30. It’s terrible with the speed on this street, and then the tractor-trailers.

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When that train on Erie and Fox Street killed that young man; doesn’t anyone use the tunnel anymore? Or is it in disrepair and they can’t fix it?

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This is in response to the person that said they know the rules of the road; it is a law that you can turn right on red, if you know the laws. All you have to do is come to a quick stop and turn right, if no one is coming from the left. Also, if the speed limit is 55, put your foot to the pedal. So please, if you are going to talk about the rules of the road, know what you are talking about.

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This is in regards to people using their turn signals. Has anyone else noticed that people have stopped using them, which is very dangerous? I am encouraging people to remember to use them. How difficult can it be?

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This message is for people that come up Erie Street towards North Avenue. Will you please stop at your stop sign and watch people’s turn signals and watch for people going up East Mountain? I’m surprised there haven’t been more accidents there. People on Erie Street – you have a stop sign, not the people going up Mountain Road on the left. Please stop at the sign.

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To the guy with the sewer bill problem in Owego; it’s too bad, but if you haven’t figured it out, your village government doesn’t care what you think. In fact, they don’t care what any of us think. If they did, they would have abolished the village a long time ago.

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Why do people have to burn wood in the summertime? If you are going to have a campout, go somewhere to do it. There is smoke in my house all the time because people have fires going constantly. I can see it in the wintertime, but in the summertime? I can’t even open my windows or doors. I don’t know what to do? You can’t talk to them. They’re right, you’re wrong. 

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I have received the Community Opt Out, and I’ll give you a fair warning, if Owego runs their electric anything like they run their sewer, run away!

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I was watching an animal program last night, and a veterinarian was attending to a cat that was brought to him; a car had hit it. And in closing, the vet said, “Cats should be left indoors if you love your cats.” I have been saying this to The Owego Pennysaver readers for years! Keep your cats indoors!

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So I ask all the democrats; what was the purpose of the Mueller investigation? Now the democrats are going to investigate the investigators! They are starting all over again. Boy, do they know how to waste time and money. Why don’t they do the job they were elected to do? I say, vote them all out!

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Isn’t that ironic! Mexico is now doing more with the problem at the southern border than our own democrats! Kick them all out in 2020.

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I work with my financial advisor and he knows the facts. There was no growth or any mention under the Obama administration. And I really don’t care what Trump is spending. He has quite a mess to clean up from the Obama and Clinton years. All I know is that Trump is making me very wealthy, and I love it!

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I asked last week, and I’ll ask again; any democratic readers of The Pennysaver out there, would you please tell me what the democrats have done or accomplished since they took over the house? I don’t know what is taking everyone so long to respond. 

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That snake Hillary should slither back under her rock where she belongs. I think The Pennysaver should put all that anti-Trump stuff in a separate section. That way I won’t have to look at it.

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So I ask you – is Biden for China or against? Is he for abortion, or against? He changes like the wind! He struggles with his words. The democrats think everyone is anti-Trump. Well they are mistaken, as the 2020 election will prove it.

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Regarding the Town not doing yard waste any more. The town is primarily rural and people should be able to take care of their own yard waste and not burden the Town and taxpayers. The town has a very limited budget and highway employees are stretched as it is. The way I see it – this is part of MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

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The New York Farm Bureau has issued a memo this past week of their endorsement on a New York State bill on the floor to legalize, tax and regulate marijuana. Farming has never been the easiest career path to make a living, but it is one that has always used “best practices” to do their chosen work. It is hard to reconcile these facts that our Farmers now want to endorse Legal Pot. It also goes to point that New York State is heading in the same direction with the choices being made in Albany.

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New York State paid out $63,000 for erectile dysfunction meds for SEX OFFENDERS, audit finds; it should have been spent on a Spay Neuter program for sex offenders.

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I get so sick of people sending statements in to this paper without checking the facts. This goes out to the person who posted about Los Angeles Typhoid Fever cases. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT. There were five cases of the fever, ONE COP, not FIVE, one employee from City Hall East and three others. Typhoid Fever comes from contaminated food. The fever is different from TYPHUS, which is caused from infected fleas and their feces. There are not 4,000 vagrants in Skid Row. There are 2,000. Most of the trash in Skid Row is due to BUSINESSES throwing trash in the streets.

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Town of Owego taxpayers should see a reduction in taxes because the $500,000 budgeted for the bridge on Long Creek Road is being paid by FEMA.

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I gather from the opinion page of the June 9 Press, the Town of Union is yet another small municipality that has become a “River City,” falling for traveling con men selling small towns and villages a “bill of goods,” just like Owego. The letters question the legal authority of our local administrators to essentially make our choice of electric supply for us. Evidently, Constellation has paid some savvy attorneys to work around legal issues; otherwise, their attorneys would have advised our small town mayors and trustees of such. Additionally, the so-called information sessions in the Town of Union have been poorly publicized and inconveniently located and scheduled – sound familiar? As one letter writer opined, “By what legal authority did the Town of Union (or, in our case, Village of Owego) reject MY choice and replace it with theirs? The telephone companies learned a long time ago that ‘slamming’ is a very bad idea.” Hey, you all are making yourselves look like a bunch of rubes, not heroes. Good luck next election when folks have found they’ve been fed a load of baloney and they can’t afford the cancellation fees.

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I would like to thank the kind person who found my turquoise ring and turned it into the Lost and Found department at Tioga Downs on Thursday, June 6. I appreciate it very much and I hope good fortune is on its way to you. 

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On Saturday, June 8, I left my wallet in the Owego post office. I realized it about an hour later. My husband went to check and it was not there, he also checked with the Police Department and it hadn’t been turned in. So began the procedure of cancelling credit and debit cards and knowing I would have to go to the DMV on Monday. However, at 2 p.m. my husband called to inform me that a very honest young man just returned the wallet to the house. He refused a reward also. To say I was shocked is an understatement. To know that there are still honest young people in our town is so gratifying. I don’t know this young man’s name, but want to thank him from the bottom of my heart; so I hope he reads this column.

National Political Viewpoints

Trump wins again, and has done more in one week to solve the illegal alien invasion then Obama did in eight years! Trump had to threaten and impose tariffs on Mexico and it worked. Additionally, Mexico promised to increase various farmer exports, and that is a double win! Trump faced down the democrats and turned cold Republicans and won big time! We are definitely making America great once again!

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It’s been a long time ago, but all the countries in Europe aided in winning the fight against the Nazi’s. But the U.S. was the one that armed Russian. They armed England, and they armed other countries. We have enormous manufacturing capabilities, and that is what won the war – both in Asia and in Europe. 

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Mayor Pete Buttigieg would make a great president. He is a very intelligent person, he speaks well, and he speaks many languages. He was also in the military. That is just what we need now. Do you Republicans know that Trump doesn’t like to read? And can’t absorb information, and this is what we have? His behavior is despicable.

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This to the person that says the Democratic Party isn’t doing anything. They have sent one bill after another to the Senate, but Mitch McConnell will not bring them to the floor for a vote. 

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He was going to impose taxes just as he was going to shut down the southern borders. Mr. Trump is so insecure and not happy unless he’s in the spotlight and picking a fight with someone. Nothing but a big bad of wind. If one were to stomp their foot and say boo, he’d run!

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Ya gotta laugh. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez ran and was elected to the House, knowing what the salary was. She runs around blathering about assorted nut job ideas, one of which is income equality and paying a guaranteed wage to even those who choose not to work. Now she’s all in a twitch to get a $5,000 increase in her salary. Kinda shows what a hypocrite she is, doesn’t it.

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The fact that one reader suggested that Trump’s visit to Great Britain was triumph is such a joke, he brought his entire family, at your expense, he cost the American people 3.6 million for his golf game in Ireland. His sons went bar hopping, offered all the patrons a free round of drinks and then left without paying for them. He kept the D-Day celebration waiting for 15 minutes while he did an interview for FOX News. He is a total embarrassment, not only to the U.S. but the entire world. To top it off he claims he would have stayed at Buckingham Palace but the bedrooms were being renovated. He’s a liar, a thief and a traitor, and 35 percent of Republicans are supporting him; disgusting.

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Did you see how much U.S. taxpayer money was spent to rent four limos in Ireland for Trump and his family – one million! This is crazy; the U.S. is 22 trillion in debt, the Pentagon can’t balance the books, who is in charge of this disaster.

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Biden says, “Make America, America again.” What a joke! The Democrats are doing everything they can to make this country something it has never been! Socialism, open borders to get more votes for them (why do you think they don’t want voter ID?), baby “Birthday abortions,” ridiculous carbon emission restrictions, eliminate as many freedoms we have as possible. The Democrats don’t want to make your life better, they want to get more votes any way they can. Wake up Democrats, they don’t give a dang about liberty and you, you are already in their pocket. They want new votes, to keep their cushy government jobs, to gain power making us all mindless robots! ROAR!   

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Nothing illustrates better the moral bankruptcy of the Democratic Party than the weaponization of our legal system against targeted individuals. Presently this is Trump. In time it will be you, unless you’re in the ruling class of Hillary, Brennan, Obama, Smollett, etc. How did Pelosi make $300,000,000?

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