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Posted on September 28 at 2:04 p.m.
Nice attempt to defend your point regardless of the lack of logic.
You carry health insurance only because you can afford to?
Let's go back a few frames, perhaps people who provide protective seawall maintenance like you have should receive a discount on seawall insurance?
You are a very fortunate individual to be so independently self-sufficient. Others have not been as forunate and they are served best by banding togethet. This is why we have social security and health care plans for the elderly and poor.
I wish you good health and a long {seawall) life.
Posted on September 28 at 8:55 a.m.
Would you not carry auto insurance if it were not the law because you drive carefully?
Do you not have health care insurance because you take care of yourself?
If the seawall insurance program were not governmrnt run, but run as a private insurance program would you participate?
Posted on September 27 at 10:02 p.m.
Did you read the article above? The seawalls on Marco Island are beginning to fail. They are old. People are working together to figure out a solution to dealing with this problem by being proactive.
If your aging seawall fails during a storm this year or next how are you going to pay $30,000 to repair it if you are having difficult economic times?
However,if you got together with others who also have seawalls and each contribute (I'm picking a number out of thin air admittedly) $20 per month through your water bill then when your seawall fails the seawall insurance trust fund kicks in and your seawall gets rebuilt saving you from having find $30,000. The City gains nothing from this. They are merely the program administrators.
Posted on September 27 at 12:02 p.m.
25-that's like saying everyone should be responsible for paying their own health care bills without benefit of sharing in a pool of resources that they pay into overtime. Insurance is a concept for groups to get together and spread out the burden and risks and because of their combined size increases their ability to negotiate group deals. Homeowners purchase insurance to pool resources for the same reason. Private corporate insurance is based on the same concept. I suspect you are against these too based on your worries about someone profiting.
In fact, cities are not-for-profit cooperative agencies. They do not have shareholders and do not pay dividends. They are us. We, through the principle of democracy, make communal decisions with an eye on the greater good of the order. This does not mean everyone will always be happy. In fact, some people will never be happy except when they get to complain. They are typically very self-centered and refuse to see what the greater good could be.
A special district is designed as a method of cooperatively collecting premiums in the most efficient and cost effective method. Believe it or not, accomplishing the business of caring for the infrastructure of a community with local control is the most advanced governing method known.
But you already know that. You complain for sport.
Posted on August 2 at 9:42 a.m.
Moto-I think you have a very good point. You can publicly challenge the City Council to explain how this public park, deed restricted to uses specified can be used for the purposes it is now being used for which are NOT included. Good Luck.
Posted on June 15 at 4:57 p.m.
Instead of CEO Dennie breast beating and feather ruffling, he would have scored points by offering to make a deal on burying the electric lines that are at the heart of this controversy. The money he would spend on fighting a Marco buyout (including his PR people)might be better used as PR in offering to bury the lines at a reduced rate.
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Posted on February 24 at 1:21 p.m.
Mr. Foster, When you exaggerate and twist the truth it undermines our ability to believe you when you boast you have such a high IQ. You should not have to post a note about how smart you are, it should be evident from your statements and positions. Perhaps you are trying to convince yourself that since you believe you are so smart the rest of us mortals must be wrong. But telling us you scored high on something does not make you right. In fact, lately you have been nothing but insufferable.
I was at the Celebrate Marco event you mentioned. The one several of your counterparts secretly video-typed and attempted to disrupt….and there was indeed one man who in exasperation said the remark you quoted, but he was immediately shushed and there were no others who supported that outburst. It was not condoned by either those present or the leadership of Celebrate Marco.
Your snide comments about Mr. Popoff, Mr. Joel and others with whom you disagree do not show you have learned anything from the battles of the past two years. Learning is a measure of intelligence and you are failing to show your ability to learn. You remain bitter and lashing out rather than accepting the voters’ mandate. You are acting arrogant by attempting to belittle the rest of us who don’t agree with you when you point out (only on your say-so by the way) that you are vastly more intelligent than the rest of us.
We are able to rest peacefully in the aftermath of the decisive mandate given by the well informed voters of Marco Island. This is the referendum you have been calling for. The voice of the people has spoken. Your failure to accept it is your issue to work through.
Learning from our mistakes is truly a sign of high intelligence.
Posted on February 20 at 6:42 p.m.
Oh for goodness sake Ed, put a sock in it! You have mangled the truth so badly the story is no longer recognizable. All your breast beating is pointless now. You were the one who had asbestos chunks stored in his garage at the same time asbestos chunks were mysteriously showing up in an already cleared plot of land in Veterans' Park in an attempt to discredit the city management. City Hall has the photos of what the park looked like (after it was cleaned up) using marked stakes to map the area. These new chunks can clearly be seen on the surface next to the stakes after the fact (and suspiciously close to the sidewalk so as not to leave incriminating footprints…). It is easy to imagine that you or a fellow anti-cityite placed them there.
Your exaggerations and creative retelling of the story appear to be an attempt at face saving…but it is not only too late, no one is interested anymore.
We have a fantastic looking new Collier Boulevard with drainage and landscaping on time and much appreciated. We have overwhelmingly denounced your position suspecting the city management of any malfeasance by defeating your candidates by a two to one margin.
Move on.
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Posted on February 8 at 11:02 p.m.
Lola-Why didn't you address Russ Columbo's hateful comments? "Special interests"? Hogwash. Unless you believe 60 percent of the voters represent the special interests. You are sounding a little nutty and antagonistic in a passive aggressive kind of way. I will be more inclined to believe you have changed your tune when I read you reining in your fellow anti-STRPpers.
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Posted on November 1 at 12:50 p.m.
And what benefit would be worth the $1 million + audit? No one got rich off this. There is no suggestion of malfeasance.
Aren't the City's accounts audited annually?
Bill McMullen suggested the forensic audit but he has always been out to sling some mud on the City public servants. That is an extreme measure that is not warranted even by the Souza memo.
It is completely possible that Dana's inexperience in top level management has resulted in his not comprehending municipal financial procedures. Check out each of his complaints individually. Ask Thompson to prepare a detailed report on them to be presented to council in 2 or 3 months.
Under the circumstances, there are other more productive approaches being offered to moving the City and its financial management forward than through an expensive audit.
Let's slow done a little. The country is in a recession; there are hundreds of units on Marco Island and thousands more in Collier County in pre-foreclosure driving the assessed values down which means the tax receipts to run our City will be significantly reduced next year and probably the year after that.
We need to be able to hunker down and conserve our resources and work more closely together to keep our piece of paradise functioning. This is the time to be thoughtful and frugal, not wasting a million dollars on a witch hunt.
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