Readers’ Column for the week of July 28, 2019

You may call the Owego Pennysaver Readers’ Column at (607) 687-2378 24-hours a day, or e-mail comments to readerscolumn@stny.rr.com. We reserve the right to revise or reject any message. 

When New York politicians stop driving their cars and stop flying in airplanes I will begin to take the global warming problem seriously.

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To the caller from Candor, yes the veteran school tax exemption is up to the school board. The school board in Vestal, Endicott and Owego also gave the exemption a thumbs down. They said it was not fair to everyone else that pays school taxes. How’s that for respect and thanks to us veterans? By the way, Governor Cuomo signed on the veterans’ school tax exemption bill in 2016. Isn’t that something? That long ago and yet no response from the school boards. Thanks guys. 

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For the people who are considering new windows that will save them energy, it’s a scam. As for sealing leaks, unless the leaks are enough for a squirrel to get in, not the leak stain, you need fresh air for your furnace and fireplace. If you seal all the leaks as some people propose, you are risking carbon monoxide poisoning. When you put on a new siding for your house I recommend adding before the siding goes on 1 inch polyurethane insulation on the whole house. That will save energy in the future and provide more comfort for your health. 

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Someone called in about someone that sews clothes. I have a number, Jean at 687-2069. She advertises fixing broken zippers and clothes that don’t fit, so I assume she does sew. 

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You guys need to realize how much we are getting ripped off in the Town of Owego. You need to come to the town meetings on the third Tuesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. A lot of you are not aware that we’ve just been forced into a new electric plan and nobody knows about it and the town of Owego forced us into it. Please come on the third Tuesday of the month, usually only about four or five people show up. 

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I would like to know where to buy reasonably priced family picture albums for 4×6 pictures and so on. Please leave your answer in this column and I’ll find it there. 

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Thank you to the person who dropped the little black cat across from the cemetery in Candor. You’ve made my cat miserable; you’ve made me miserable, and a little cat miserable. Thank you so much.

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Parents, when your kids have sleepovers do you know what they are doing? It’s 10:30 at night and they’re running around in the streets! Some people have to go to work in the morning. These kids are raising all kinds of Cain. 

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I live on Holmes Avenue in Apalachin and I’m responding to previous comments in the Pennysaver. I’ve had, in the past two plus years, I would say several dozen encounters with small children on motorcycles, little teeny kids about six to 10 years old racing up and down Watkins Avenue, Main Street, and Holmes Avenue. Now this has been going on for well over two years and nothing seems to get done about it. One day I almost hit one of those kids. I stopped at the stop sign on the corner of Holmes Avenue and Watkins and a kid dashed out from the lawn doing a wheelie. This has happened to several other neighbors on Holmes Avenue, but no one seems to put a stop to it. 

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While we are having an exodus of hard working taxpayers from New York State, Cuomo continues to pass legislation to give people ALL the more reason to leave or to go do business in close border states. Cuomo raising the smoking age to 21 makes no sense. Smoking is a terrible addictive disease and I certainly do not support this habit in anyway. However, raising the age to 21 will only mean in our area a short drive to Pennsylvania. When our brilliant government decided to heavily tax smokers, the result was an occasional drive to Great Bend or Sayre. If you don’t believe me then go there and check out the license plates. Now Cuomo wants more regulation and ability for organized labor for farm workers. I know this by first hand experience. Many farmers utilize local teenagers for extra help during the busy spring thru fall season, giving them not only a life learning experience, but also the opportunity to earn some money. These farmers DO NOT need more laws increasing their cost of doing business. I recently was talking with the owner of a local convenience store who historically hired some young people over the summer (i.e. out of school) season. She can no longer afford to do it because of the raised minimum wage. Emperor Cuomo, when are you going to finally realize you are in competition with other states for economic competitiveness, levels of government-imposed regulations, and overall personal and business environments? Either you don’t get it or you just continue on your path forward, ignoring reality completely.

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When Governor Cuomo completes his mission of replacing gas / coal / oil / nuclear electric producing plants around the state with mandated wind turbines in Long Island Sound o provide New York City with their inadequate and troubled electric grid, more than half of the needed funds will come from rate-payers north of New York City, including economically struggling upstate areas. Conveniently enough, Cuomo’s energy regulators have ordered electric utilities not to itemize these sorts of costs on ratepayer bills (no need to know how much goes to Albany). Cuomo’s offshore wind push — and his related efforts to block added natural gas pipeline capacity and upstate gas production via fracking — comes when the state has been failing to hit its own renewable energy targets. After almost 15 years of subsidies, New York’s electric grid managed to deliver less energy from renewable sources in 2018 than it did the year before. Even so, projection is for 2030 to have the NEW New York on line with wind for all electricity. That’s how Progressive Government works; you working for the government first, you and your family second. If you need any help, put out your hand and ask. They may or may not hand you a few bucks back so you can pay your utility bill. They own you.

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I just wanted to say thank you to Meisha and Lisa for another great Umbrella Academy talk.

National Political Viewpoints

The 4 Horse Women of the Apocalypse, namely Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, Omar and Pressley, are truly the face of the new democrat socialists. Voters now have a very clear choice. Anti-American traitors or a patriot President Trump? It’s time for conservative democrats to take back their party and stand up for America. Make America great once again.

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The democrat’s lie, and numbers do not. Not one has a plan to pay for Medicare for all. The democrats own the squad. I cannot believe people are this ignorant and shoot from the hip. It’s as if they don’t want to be reelected. The squad is in the news for all the wrong reasons. They are in the news for their ignorance and nothing more. The American people are tired of them already. They need to move on, start working for the people, the people that elected them; because hopefully they’re not going to be there too much longer in office. Replace them with republicans. 

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In response to last week’s callers – Yes, Barack Obama took out the citizenship question on the census in 2010. 

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Ask yourself a few questions. Why are there so many help wanted signs for workers all over the U.S.? Why are the illegal alien invaders streaming into the U.S. and even sending their children by themselves across the border? You know why. The Trump economy is booming – a million jobs need to be filled. The despicable democrats want open borders that will penalize anyone rather than handing Trump another well-deserved victory. Trump should take a page from the Marxist democrat playbook, declare martial law and send the democrats to reeducation camps, which could be built by their illegal alien labor. A win-win for all loyal patriotic Americans. 

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Omorosa, who had worked for Trump on the Apprentice and in the White House, was on CNN and she spoke of Vice President Pence’s nephew, John Pence. He is in charge of Trump’s crowds, his chants at his rallies, and what goes on there. It’s all orchestrated and manufactured for the crowd from the White House and it spreads hate. I feel sorry for the people who attend his rallies because they think that Trump is for them, but he is only for himself. I hope these people will wake up before it’s too late.

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Do the democrats realize how ignorant they sound whenever they speak? They don’t know the laws of the land. They are just so against Trump; that is all they focus on. They are not in congress to help and work for the American legal citizens as they were elected to do. They need to all be defeated in the elections. I can’t wait for the Republicans to take back the House and regain control of the Senate, and Trump is our president again for four more years; then let’s look for Donald Junior or daughter Ivanka to run for president. They’ll have my vote!

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You know the plain and simple fact that the Republican Party will not acknowledge what a despicable individual Donald Trump is says it all. Where is your pride in America? Where is your price?

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There’s your republican buddies, doing it again, cutting the food stamps. We can’t have kids that can’t afford food, we can’t have them eating, not when the tax cuts are gong to the billionaires. They need more money, they’ve made their money illegally and they’re keeping and hoarding it and they’re trying to starve everybody else out. What’s next? You know what’s next, social security and Medicare. Keep on voting the idiot republicans in!

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Such an unfortunate thing to go after our New York City police! That was awful that those people threw the water and the buckets at them. Where is their respect for our wonderful men in blue? By the way, where was Biden? Where was the outrage from Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, Harris, Gillibrand? No they’re all hiding in the woodwork, which proves that they care more about illegals than they do even our wonderful men in blue. Vote republican! Those democrats had better be defeated come next November 2020 or we are all in trouble.

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When you think of politicians what are the first things you think about? For me, the first idea that comes to mind is that they will say anything to convince people to vote for them. One day they will say this and the next day they will say exactly the opposite. It has become such a problem that younger generations have lost faith in the political system. If people will flip flop so easily there is no reason to even bother voting. The changing status of politicians damages the entire political process for the sake of individuals wanting to get elected. Let’s be honest and say exactly what we will help and what we will do, because it can ruin the voting system. 

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Marrying your brother to get in this country is fraud and is illegal immigration. In regards to congressperson Omar, if that really is her name, it becomes apparent to me why congress will not pass immigration laws, because she is here illegally and there is a real conflict of interest. She should not be here, should not be in congress, period! Once again, you democrats are doing one hell of a good job to destroy our country. Wake up people, vote republican! President Trump, keep up the good work. Trump 2020. 

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Be still my heart! First, Mueller’s disaster of a report etc., now Omar is found to have cheated on the immigration process to get into this country, has cheated on her taxes, and assorted other “inappropriate” activities. Bill Clinton is a friend of Jeffrey Epstein and that whole sordid mess. Obama is thought to have orchestrated the whole spy on President Trump thing. Is it possible this whole bunch can be headed to where they belong – JAIL!

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Notice how whenever we pursue large spending increases and tax cuts for corporations, contractors and the connected, it’s treated as business as usual. But the moment we consider investing similar money in working class people (ex: tuition-free college) it is decried as “unrealistic.”

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Freedom means having the freedom to not fly the flag.

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All you folks that are saying illegal’s vote should go to the Board of Elections and apply to be an election inspector or poll watcher. Then you can catch them in the act and solve the problem.

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In case you only read the local paper, no, Russia didn’t do it. The muffled shot not heard around the world was nothing less than a U.S. court ruling that laid to rest the story of a “Kremlin-connected troll farm” that was allegedly engaged in conducting information warfare against U.S. voters ahead of the 2016 presidential election. As many people have been guessing for a long time, the entire story turned out to be a complete fabrication, a wild conspiracy theory. There was never a shred of evidence – despite countless stories in the liberal media proclaiming otherwise – that the Russian government sought to disrupt the U.S. political system.

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A group of scientists in a Scandinavian country just released the results of their multi-year comprehensive study of man’s effect on the environment. The result: human activity is having zero, zip, nada affect, PERIOD! We could burn all the fossil fuels we want and MAYBE cause the earth’s temp to increase one degree Celsius over the next many, many years. Why aren’t you being told of this study? Because it doesn’t fit the narrative the nut job Socialist Democrats want you to believe. Google it yourself, don’t take my word for it.

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If we don’t start impeachment proceedings against this lawless President, then what we fought for 243 years ago will have been for nothing. We will once again be relegating power to a King who is above the law. This can’t be about politics. It’s about the survival of Democracy.

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Democrat “RIGHTS” to FREE STUFF (medical care, living wage, affordable housing, free education, social security, etc.) is the greatest invention since President Johnson’s Great Society Program 56 years ago. The amounts and quality of your FREE STUFF shall be as determined for you by the Ruling Elites. Your rights to free speech and bear arms are no longer sacrosanct. FREE STUFFERS decide via taxation how much of your labor you keep. The Party platform of “identify politics” is the Orwellian Newspeak term for “people of a particular religion, race, social background, etc. to form exclusive political alliances.” Life, liberty, and prosperity are YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES, no one else’s! The Founding Fathers, old guys all, could never envision that duties and responsibilities of citizens needed codification in the Constitution. Do our children have any right to be free of the shackles of crushing financial debt? The cost of FREE STUFFERS will be the indentured servitude of our children and a class of FREE STUFFERS who will always yearn and vote for more, more, and more. “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville “Democracy in America” (1835).

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Time for a civics lesson boys and girls. Neither Obama nor Trump can be held responsible for the budget deficits created during their terms. Taxing and spending are totally the responsibility of the House of Representatives, which is so scared of creating an economic downturn, threatening their reelection, that they are willing to bankrupt the nation. One would think that during the present economic boom the government would be creating a fiscal surplus. The great Republican “tax cut” has, instead, created the largest shortfall in history. The blame for this disaster rests solidly on the shoulders of Tom Reed and his cohorts.

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Previously understanding the Democratic Party was impossible. Thank you Dem “Squad” for providing insight. The Democratic Party platform is the generation, facilitation, and exploitation of envy. Envy is a virtue of Democrat politicians. By this, Dems exploit the human tendency to envy what others have. No Democrat or Liberal, regardless of circumstance or tribal group (any comment thread), should be content with their blessings. This is Identity Politics. Dem politicians are using this very effectively in gaining power and control over largely unsuspecting masses. “Unsuspecting masses” are the product of uneducated and liberally indoctrinated useful idiots of America’s liberal education monopoly. Gender Studies does not teach thinking. Compare and contrast the Identity politics with the Identity politics of Stalin and Mao Zedong. Always create class enemies. Stalin created Kulaks (peasant farmers who were slightly better off than their peers). Mao created landlords and bourgeoisie. All were then liquidated, a.k.a. Classicide. Standing against the Dem Utopia is the deplorable horde of tippy-tops, 1-percenters, xenophobes, nativists, misogynists, etc. or stated another way, the wrongheaded thinkers. Consider Colin Kaepernick’s attack on the Betsy Ross Flag. His intent is rewriting history. This is to transform rugged American individualism, self-reliance, and virtues into an underpinning of Victimhood. Victimhood wrests envy up from the evil suppressed deep of man’s soul. The 10th Commandment, “Thou shalt not covet.” Dem leadership and presidential candidates are conjuring reparations either directly or indirectly. All know it’s ridiculous, but its enablement of envy is powerful. 

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I watched the Mueller circus. The Democrats kept saying no one is above the law. Well, every question that was put to him referring to anyone in Hillary Clinton’s camp involved in this fake Russian collusion, he said he could not answer that question. He answered anything against President Trump with his opinion, which were basically the same questions but worded a different way. They proved the double standard point. This was a witch-hunt against President Trump to try and get him impeached because they don’t like him. If someone was saying false statements against me that weren’t true, I would be fighting back, and that’s what President Trump did in his Tweets. The Democrats just wanted this hearing to fuel any impeachment charges against him. They will never stop trying to impeach President Trump, even though he didn’t do anything to be impeached. It’s so sad that they have so much hate for one person and have blinders on all of President Trump’s accomplishments. I want to thank the men and women who have fought and died and who are still serving to protect our rights. Maybe one day we will see people working with each other to keep this a free and protected Country. God Bless America.

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If the Democrats feel the U.S. is that bad, why are they encouraging people to come in rather than warning them to stay away? Hmm, can you say VOTES?

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Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called Social Security. Socialism is what they called farm price supports. Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. — Harry S. Truman

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The U.S. and its one size fits all government isn’t going to happen. The more Washington, D.C. threatens, demands, blackmails economic sanction and alleged action without proof, the more these countries are determined not to change. The changes the U.S. wants have to happen from inside the country with the support of the majority, which has already failed with the U.S. backed President. Stop meddling in the affairs of sovereign countries, the U.S. wasted 40 million trying to blame the results of the 2016 election on Russia meddling, which has been proven to be untrue by the U.S. Courts, so stop doing it to other countries and take care of the problems at home.

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I’d vote to join the gentleman who stated that he’d nominate A.O.C. for the Pulitzer Prize for stupid! Someone needs to inform her that it’s July in Upstate New York. It normally gets hot in July, and August, and has for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Get over it, IT’S NOT CLIMATE CHANGE! Good try, but no cigar! 

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