sharilewis wrote:

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Ag, you outdid yourself this time. But thank you since I consider that a compliment. I don't fancy myself to be that informed as Nancy or David, but I'll take it!

Naturally as you are more than likely one of them. :)

As far as the Pilchesky’s, I'll say it again (for the hundreth time), I am not concerned about what they do. Again, their website is a vehicle to get information out to people that you cannot or will not hear in the media. What they do or did it their problem, not mine.

 

I will say again (for the hundredth time) that you believe the end justifies the means…if hanging with scumbags is required to get what you want so be it!!  Very admirable! Very impressive!  

You kep refering to the unions under Connors like you insist what you read in the Times is real. Let me educate you again. The unions (all of them) took the biggest cuts in their history under Jimmy Connors. Your quote that the unions were "relatively happy" under mayor Connors is completely false. The only thing different between Connors and Doherty is Connors didn't enjoy screwing over the city employees.

 

As a person who was friendly with a union worker from the Connors’ days….that my deluded friend is called rewriting history…Connors was regarded as a union friend and you know it!

 

 It appears to be a sport to Doherty. Screwing with family's lives and livelyhoods gives him pleasure.

 

That is a rather strong comment can you give a few examples where Doherty demonstrates enjoyment upon implementation of his policies…please be specific.

 

Connors used the state and the distressed city laws to clobber them, but without the meanspiritness that Doherty utilizes.

 

If I remember correctly, Connors fought the distressed city label tooth and nail. He was ‘overruled’ so to speak by a city council led by Chris Doherty.  I believe something like that is really how it was... wasn’t it?

Additionally, you stress the same Times rhetoric that somehow the unions ran or run the city. You are truly a disciple of the Scranton Times. I thought you were smarter than that, but apparently you are not.
You state the city's workforce is still oversized and you base that one what? Please elaborate on your vast knowledge of ratio between workers and workload.
How do I know about the courts deciding contracts till 2014? I read Ag. http://www.scrantontimes.com/articles/2009/03/20/news/sc_times_trib.
20090320.a.pg4.tt20appeal_s1.2383705_loc.txt........ or I can just ask my better half.
Try it someday, reading the truth instead of taking the easy way out by reading what the Scranton Times wants you to hear and repeating what you read like it's gospel.

 

Did I just read this right?... you say: “you stress the same Times rhetoric that somehow the unions ran or run the city.”  Then you say…… “How do I know about the courts deciding contracts till 2014? I read Ag.” then you cite your source of information

http://www.scrantontimes.com/articles/2009/03/20/news/sc_times_trib
.20090320.a.pg4.tt20appeal_s1.2383705_loc.txt........ Well... call me ironic!! J

 

You and sheep like you are the reason why this region is the most corrupt area of the country. You believe what people tell you without taking a moment to find out if it's true.

 

OMG!!! Your not lumping people are you??? I know you hate that!!

Take a moment and read the audit I posted. There you will see where the city is financially and not the lies the mayor or the Times tells you.

 

You want me to read an article by the Times?  I thought they speak with forked tongue and are to be banished….shunned…..taken over….sent for immediate brain reprogramming…investigated for possible war crimes? Well... call me ironic!! Again! J

 

 

Or is it more important to spend time disecting a mosty train wreck of a web site and a person who cannot raise your taxes, Humph speaking of taxes think you can get him to pay his…no?  waste your money on his own personal political desires Really how much money and time (which is money btw) have been spent on his ridiculous lawsuits? Or for that matter on the lawsuits you and yours keep filing? or divde and run a city into the ground that you profess you love.  Oh clearly you don’t read over there enough… he doesn’t divide people... really??  Last time I checked that is exactly what he does….

 

 

 

You're the problem AG. Fess up to it and do something about it. If not, lets just be fat and happy, watch American Idol and sit around and bitch about our children moving away for this corrupt area. 

Last time I checked the only one bitching was you.  Girl was actually scolded for stating she is happy…. damn what a miscreant. She has no right to be happy until the municipal unions say she can be happy. Got that Girl!!??  You wipe that smile right off your face.

Balko,save your breath. Fine post but no one is listening. They're obsessed with Pilchesky and nothing more.

 

Oh boy I wonder why we mention Pilchesky a lot <hummmmmmm thinking thinking> oh do you think it might be because that’s the focus of the website Sherlock???!!  As I have stated before I simply can not understand staying somewhere that you feel sucks so much.   If you don’t like the work conditions, living conditions, or the political atmosphere…..either get a new job (I am almost certain other towns, cities, and states have police and fire departments) move to a another town, city or state (I hear Arizona is great for people with allergies but really feel free to pick your own state you have 49 besides this one to choose from.) or put your money where your mouth is, run for office and see if you can others to support your vision of “change”…..or you can sit back, get fat, watch the political games from behind a anonymous computer, bitch and bite the ankles of the ones who are trying to make things better.  Just my opinion!

 

 

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Balko Writes:

Uh Huh.  The recurring theme I read in you post is "quit whining".  Okay, I guess I'm just supposed to sit back and let the administration spend money recklessly and call it progress.  

No...Not at all. I think what I have said a million times is if you are this unhappy here and you don’t think it will change than why are you still here? I can not imagine staying in a job or a location where I was unhappy.Please don’t tell me you can’t anyone can move if they need to. Will it be easy probably not but it is possible.  Yes, I speak from experience.

You must not read this site very thoroughly.  I haven't said Dibileo will fix things.  In fact, I said he can't.  But that doesn't mean I should roll over and say it's okay if we build more parking garages.  (BTW, I wasn't referring to the people who don't drive.  I was referring to the vast majority of citizens who don't happen to work in the downtown metro area) 

Perhaps you don’t go downtown but I do, for Dr’s appointments and such. I remember very well trying to find parking back in the day. Please!! It was a nightmare.  I appreciate being able to go to my appointments with needing to head downtown at least 30 minutes early in order to circle the area 200 times for parking.

And of course, I can't forget those whiny crybabies who complain because their houses get flooded every couple of years.  Good idea for them to " bitch to the Olyphant Borough and Carbondale CIty/Twp Administrators, because it's THEIR fault the banks are overflowing in Lower Green Ridge. "   I'm fully confident those municipalities will be quite sympathetic to non- taxpaying non- residents who don't vote for those elected officials. 

If you could be any more ridiculous I don’t see how ….Girls point was that the flooding was not as a result of anything happening here in Scranton (i.e. everything is Chris Doherty’s fault) she merely pointed out we are trying to fix a problem that was handed down to us (literally) from up the line.  Now that having been said... if you elect to live next to a river or in the river’s flood plan….need I finish the sentence?  I would say the same to people who live near the beach, it is beautiful I agree but ……need I finish the sentence?

Another thing;  I pay nearly $5000.00 a year in freaking property tax, and I live in a modest home built over 40 years ago.  (And yeah, I've fu-cking appealed it!) I'm lucky if I see a plow truck ever. 

Did you investigate how much your taxes would be BEFORE you bought the property? That may have been the time to think about whether they were too high for your liking….call me crazy I thought about all those things before I bought not after.  If they were extremely low and have advanced that much over a few years I would love to see your bills (name and personal data blacked out of course) showing the increases and how long it took to reach the current level.

(Here comes the rant...) People like you who seem insulted because people like me ( law adiding, working class, non-politically connected) gripe, because the money I earn through sweat and toil every day, is thrown away on loans, grants, and tax exemptions for people who likley have more money in the bank than I earn a year, really, really, get on my nerves with your Goddamn sense of entitlement. 

Humm so you think I am non-law abiding, non-working class, politically connected person who enjoys handing out my less than hard earned money.  Wow talk about making huge assumptions.  First off my only encounter with the police was when I was the victim of a theft.  I happened to work like a mule, thank you very much. In fact I work so hard and diligently I have been the recipient of my company’s employee of the month 5 times in the last two years.  That acknowledgment, by the way, is decide on by co-workers not an management level person, so no I am not a brown nosier. Neither I nor my spouse has ever worked in the public sector nor do we do business with any municipality…period.  I and my spouse received our jobs the old fashioned way. We interviewed and had to prove our worth to the company. My spouse has worked with the same company for over 25 years. He did spend a few years of job bouncing first until he was satisfied with the job and the company. I haven’t worked so long as I was home raising my children. Neither I nor my spouse have ever relied on anyone (including a politician) to assist us in anyway, shape, or form.

Yeah, it does bother me that I'm paying a nickel for you to park your car in a garage, it bothers me that I'm paying school tax and have no kids, and it bothers me about paying for senior centers, when I assist my parents to live outside of nursing homes.  

Does it bother you to pay for fire and police despite not having any fires or police responding to your home?  We don’t get to only pay for the services we want or use….if we did then the whole system would collapse.  I would assume that someone paid for you to go to school.  Think some of those tax payers may not have had children?  I wouldn’t be so fast to dismiss elderly care if I were you. You have not yet reached the end of that roller coaster ride.  You may be eating your words in the very near future. Again, yes I am speaking from experience.

I'm seeing quite clearly that even though the administrator(s) here doesn't ban anyone for dissenting opinions, they simply shout the opposing idea down or fillibuster until we (me) are too tired to care anymore.

I guess you thought we would just accept your opinions as facts?  Sorry…. while you are certainly entitled to your opinion, I am allowed mine and the others are allowed theirs as well.  If you want to debate great but don’t expect anyone here to blindly follow your lead.  We blindly follow no one.  For that activity you need to post across the hall….word of advice though…. your opinion won’t be followed blindly over there either… sorry! Ole’ baldy has that position all sewed up.  J 

Perhaps you hadn't noticed, but a lot of people are sick and tired of the status quo corporate welfare for millionaires.  At least if they pretended to care, there wouldn't be such outrage.  

Mind citing some examples of that around here? I mean... maybe there is… but this is Scranton after all and I am thinking we probably don’t have an abundance of millionaires running around.  I stand ready to be corrected

Northeastern PA is usually a few years behind national trends, so it might take time before we boot out the self- indulgent, Narcissistic, tyrannical, unsympathetic A-holes in power now.  (No offense to Chris Doherty or whomever else might fit that description)  But that day is coming.

Does that include Missy Jan? She, Gary, and Bill Courtright all served together at the same time thus a “majority”. Can you remember any significant legislation they brought forward?  I am willing to give them credit for the legislation even if it never got adopted because the mayor vetoed it and they couldn’t come up with the 4^th vote to over-ride….anything?   (Hey Daveyboy if you are lurking.. you got anything?? If you can’t post... just drop Lus another e-mail LOL LOL )  If you can’t, Balko, tell me why you want to give Gary another bite at the apple?   Like it or not at least Doherty did something…Gary …not so much.  However, I continue to stand ready to be corrected.

Although highly unlikley,  I sincerely hope you or any of you ilk are never seated next to me in a drinking establishment, and begin spewing the same rhetoric there, as I am reading here, after I have consumed a few glasses of Bourbon.  I may succumb to baser instincts and allow my Id so override my Superego, and ultimately urinate upon said offender's leg. (Like a dog, as in Balko the wonder dog. )   Bow friggin Wow.

Wow Id and Super-Ego.  I am really impressed now. Forget everything I said previous,  if you are so smart as to actually type Id and super-ego then you must know tons more than I do……..oh wait you also said you might drink to much and lose control of your bladder….and then you barked like a dog yikes…never mind.