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You know Monte.....YOU are the problem, along with John Arceri and the entire Knights Of Columbus. What is with you people and power? What do you really want? I do truly appreciate the fact that you all believe in hell however.

I have a vacant lot not next to me that has been used many times for seawall construction....not always even close to this location. It is an irritant, but only made worse by the workmen themselves. They throw their lunch garbage all over the property and never tidy up the area. One contractor even hooked up to my neighbors electric power without permission in order to pump out his sinking barge (guess which contractor). The neighbor called me wondering why his electric bill was $300 while he was gone in the summer. I had a similar problem last summer while I was gone.

Why did they build the units so close to the water in the first place? Buyer beware!

I sure hope that we do not wind up paying for this stupidity, but I would bet that we will in one way or another.

Agreed on Fiala. She is a major tax and spend Rhino!!

The answer to your question would be John Arceri and Monte Lazarus. Who else would prop up three councilmen who are personally bankrupt yet vote to spent YOUR money?

It is your own fault, however. You keep electing these "syndicate members". They are smart enough to orchestrate bullet balloting to the ignorant who vote single issues. They know that they can promise a few dollars monthly water/sewer bill savings to those who ignore the $400,000,000 of debt that they are now responsible for....more when they push through totally unnecessary "upgrades" to Mackle Park and eventually the CRA....and more yet as they expand Fire and Police and greater pensions.

You need only look to Stockton, CA for the eventual result of all of this spending, but Marco citizens are far too disinterested in their local politics to notice.

Good luck,

John Putnam

Wikipedia:

"In Marxist theory, socialism, lower-stage communism or the socialist mode of production, refers to a specific historical phase of economic development and its corresponding set of social relations that eventually supersede capitalism in the schema of historical materialism. Socialism is defined as a mode of production where the criterion for economic production is use-value, and is based on direct production for use coordinated through conscious economic planning, where the law of value no longer directs economic activity, and thus monetary relations in the form of exchange-value, profit, interest and wage labor no longer operate.[1] Income would be distributed according to individual contribution. The social relations of socialism are characterized by the working-class effectively controlling the means of production and the means of their livelihood either through cooperative enterprises or public ownership and self management, so that the social surplus would accrue to the working class or society as a whole."

So....what I am missing here?

Excellent comment Panola60. All you missed was the liberals hatred of freedom.

Marcofriend and Deltarome have hit the nail on the head!

If the citizens are stupid enough to reelect these councilmen, they deserve everything that they get.

Unfortunately, apathy is a big problem on Marco.

Hmmmm......and the next ice age is coming when?

Larry Sacher is EXACTLY the model candidate that can (and will) turn this Island around. There are three others like him that will hopefully announce soon. All, like Larry, attend Council and committee meetings on a regular basis and work hard to steer the City toward a conservative agenda.

I believe that seven or more of our Councilmen have been involved in foreclosure and bankruptcy during their terms. Three are on the current council. Two of those are running for re-election. Now that takes a fair amount of chutzpah! (My guess is that Arceri, Lazarus and the rest of the so-called "syndicate" are concerned about these two eating up their slate, but what can they do? They put them there!) One was even accused of sexual harassment at City Hall. This same one had his MANY pedantic LTEs called out for plagiarism several times. (Thank God for some relief!)

At any rate, are these really the leaders that we need? Do you think that they have run the City just like they have their personal lives and fortunes? I think yes.

There are serious spending issues still on the agenda that FAR outweigh utility rate disagreements, but I assure you that the "syndicate" will concentrate on dividing the Island over those rates alone. The other issues, such as re-building Mackle Park, will be ignored by those voters who will be inundated with threats of raising their utility rates a few dollars a month. In the meantime, the City will obligate those same residents to hundreds of millions of MORE debt. It is a fool's game and they play it well. (Remember how Larry was elected? Shameful, but extremely effective.) This is as sure as Obama playing the race card repeatedly in the coming election....or continuing to blame Bush for all of his failures.

The only hope is to elect a MINIMUM of two new conservative Councilmen, but four would be better. Maybe then we can get our spending under control. We can start with the fire and police and work our way down the list.

John Putnam

Businesses do NOT exist for ANY other reason than to make profit.....period! This is also the simple reasoning behind the statement that "businesses do not pay taxes: people pay taxes".

Any reader who does not understand these two simple statements deserves to live in the socialist hell that they seem to long for.

Incidentally, my bet is that the writer of this ill-informed article shops at Wal-Mart twice a week! I can only hope that he opens a not-for-profit donut and coffee shop on Marco so that we can all enjoy his generosity. He will probably even hire two or three "extra" union employees to serve. To hell with those greedy profits!!!!

He should really head out to NY and join the anti-Wallstreet crowd. Take along a doobie.

(Sometimes I crack myself up!)

"You see, counter to the Republican talking point that government does not create jobs, our federal, state, city and county governments are probably responsible for hiring more employees then any private company on the planet."

I am thinking that this man is truly an idiot. A government "job" is exceedingly easy to create, but it does not add to the economy, but rather adds to the debt that the private sector remains responsible for.

It is this type of mindless, deranged thinking that perpetuates the liberal lie.

While I am at at.....where is the outrage over Obama appointing Immelt as "Job Czar"? What a terrible nasty joke on the American public. Where is our unbiased press on this issue?

Immelt and GE are a DISGRACE. Obama's major campaign contributor paid no taxes on 4 billion in earnings and just shipped thousands of jobs to China along with two divisions of GE holdings.

In the meantime, Obama's NLRB is preventing Boeing from building a plant in South Carolina. They would rather it be built overseas one would think....since that is likely the end result.......and you wonder why you are talking to Comcast customer service in India? WAKE UP!

You are indeed "Nobody's Fool".

Thank you for your comment.

Lely is the problem. Otherwise there would be no need for MIA. Simple enough. Get it?

http://www.marconews.com/news/2011/ju...

Gee....no takes on my challenge. I wonder why. I do. Could it be that none of the Lely defenders have any faith at all in the outcome? Hmmm......and I was SOOOO hoping for a taker.....you know....someone with HONEST convictions. None of you are worth the time of day. You all talk, talk talk, bicker, bicker, bicker. True. And your names?

Cptnjimbo:

Well said sir. Please consider sending to the Sun Times as an LTE. It needs to be heard.

Thank you!

John Putnam

Such nonsense!

Jane Watt and MIA are attempting to grow young minds.The misguided (as always with the liberal set) continually use a false interest in the environment to push their agenda. First it was the eagles, now the turtles.

Out of curiosity, what was the environmental impact of the Obama bridge on your dear Island? What cost to your grand children?

Face it. You hate the concept of what you see as an "elite academy" on Marco Island. I love it! I want to see more and more of them. I want to see smart young kids getting a great education so that they can help all of us move on from this freedom killing political correctness that a very misguided and vocal minority has propagated upon us for far too long.

The sixties generation (mine) has left a great scar upon this wonderful American experiment. I wish that it would finally come to an end!

John Putnam

“They’re not paying for anything,” Waldack said. “They’re going to be able to take advantage of it while everyone else is paying.”

Interesting comment from a man who is in bankruptcy and foreclosure, don't you think?

Absolutely excellent LTE. Right on.

Unfortunately, the voters don't appear to give a crap.

I am afraid that it is you who is confused. I assure you that "Cave Dwellers" never referred to condo owners. "Cave Dwellers", after all, were painted to be anti STRP, but your analysis of the bullet vote in support of screwing the SFH owners into paying for a new sewer plant is RIGHT ON THE MARK! (and they know it too....which leads me to wondsering about the integrity of the hotel owners and condo owners......and Magel and Recker....whom I USED TO respect.)

And how will you all respond when the City (that's you) gets sued for A FEW MILLION DOLLARS? Just curious.

So far, we have been lucky, but now that the problem has been exposed and the perpetrator remains in office and undisciplined, we have set ourselves up for a killing.

This is an excellent idea and the time has come. I would be happy to join with all interested parties to give this a shot. Email me at jwputnam@comcast.net if you want to seriously start an effort to dissolve our city government. We can meet and investigate the process.

John Putnam

An EXCELLENT letter Ms. Lamos, I commend you.

You are not worth the time for me to write a studied response. You are dillusional and misinformed. As usual, you make false assumptions as well. You live in your false world.

November 3rd cannot come soon enough for me.