On Sharon receives $400,000 grant to spruce up homes
Posted on February 4 at 10:21 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
What do I call the BP? A scumhole, owned and operated by people from WAY out of town. Dirty, expensive, catering to the best things in life; liquor, papers, choreboys, glass tubes, blunts, all the necessities for the projects next door.
Sharon used to have two REAL service stations. Both owned by locals, and actually IN the town.
Did you know that Sharon once had a REAL downtown grocery store? By a strange coincidence. After the BP opened, another person from WAY out of town bought the grocery store, and amazingly enough, it burned to the ground shortly after.
Come to think of it, he was from the same "out of town" as the people who own the BP. Odd.
But I digress. Why would I object to grants, loans, ANY seat at the public trough that would make the village more attractive? Simple. It's TAX MONEY. Let's do some Your Country 101. ANY money spent by the regime comes out of your pocket. They tax us, and they use the money as they see fit. Send it to Israel, send it to Botswanaland, send it to Sharon, wherever, it's still OUR money being used.
That's a start.
Now, how about the fact that most of the rundown properties in Sharon are rentals, owned by people who don't live in town, and who haven't touched them in years. Some of them are rented to good people, and some of them are rented to whoever rolls into town, good or bad. Why would I want to subsidize a slumlord's profits?
Last but not least, our tax dollars keep getting thrown at a downtown district that will never come back. Ever. I don't know if you are at all familiar with Sharon, but there are fewer than ten actual, real-live fulltime business' open there. The rest of the buildings are either off the tax rolls, abandoned, or falling down. The usual spiral is; real business, hobby business, trash-n-treasures, then empty and abandoned.
Let's see...we had a laundromat, but the utility company that owned the building that housed it decided to forego the repairs needed to keep it in business and use the building for storage. Off the tax rolls. We had an auto-body shop, but when the original owner died, the utility company that owned the building decided to use it for light repair and storage. Off the tax rolls. We had a lumberyard, but when they went bankrupt, the local utility company bought the building direct from the bank, and now it's used for storage. Off the tax rolls.
On and on, up and down the main drag.
Many people's idea of improving the downtown is to paint phony scenes of yesteryear on the blank windows, or installing plastic streetlights that are supposed to look like cast-iron lamps of yore. Guess what? It hasn't brought a single dime into the Village.
Bottom line. why would a Sharonite want to attract more people to rent refurbished houses? We don't need more people, we need some actual business. We need a Village Board that will try to bring something into the Village, something other than empty, unimproved land and trailer parks.
On Disrespecting the president
Posted on February 1 at 4:35 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Respect is earned, not given. While the OFFICE of the President deserves the respect earned over the last 200-odd years, the current President has earned none.
On Sharon receives $400,000 grant to spruce up homes
Posted on February 1 at 4:02 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
You could spruce up the whole town for less than a hundred dollars, but there isn't a gas station downtown anymore.
Democratic logic...the Federal Government is coughing up the money, and it is a grant, not repayable for however many years, therefore it is free!
Ya gotta love it.
On Sharon receives $400,000 grant to spruce up homes
Posted on January 31 at 8:45 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
At least some of the houses that should have been condemned and razed years ago will be nice and pretty by the time the Village goes bankrupt. When does that first loan installment come due?!
This is another wonderful boondoggle. Those that struggle to pay their taxes, while incidentally maintaining their homes, will now be forced to subsidize those who don't maintain their homes. Many of whom are driving new cars, watching big-screen televisions, and so on.
One thing to ponder, how many of the homes that are rehabbed using this money will be owned by the occupants, and how many by absentee landlords? Anyone who lives in Sharon knows that the majority of the rundown houses in the Village are owned by landlords and rented continually with little or no effort to maintain them, let alone make them more attractive.
But then, when you have a downtown that is devoid of business, where almost all of the empty buildings are off the tax-rolls and off the market, and whose main claim to fame is fancy faux-antique streetlights, I guess every little bit helps. I can only hope that some of the hard-working, conscientious homeowners will benefit from this.
After all, not everyone can live in the Section 8 insta-ghettos, oops, I mean "Affordable Senior Housing" a previous Village Board graced our Village with.
On Janesville School District decides to drop Deutsch
Posted on January 9 at 3 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Whoa...guess it isn't the PC thing to do to suggest that learning Spanish isn't the hot-ticket educational item!
But that's okay...if a paper as leftist as this one allowed every post I wrote on their blog, I'd think something was wrong!
Posted on December 9 at 8:48 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
"I think you meant sociopathic and deluded overlord class that lost trillions and needed us to bail them out while Fox News defended them by saying that people making $250,000 a year with a child in college is really living in poverty."
I've got to agree with you on that. Thing is, the truly rich in our current regine are mostly Demicans.
There is no way to save our country with the current "heads I win, tails you lose" form of political chicanery.
America has split into two distinct classes of peoples, and it's time we recognize this and work towards separating those who wish to live in a Constitutional Republic as was given us by the Founding Fathers, from those who wish to live in a socialistic welfare state, where all their needs are met at the expense of ther freedoms.
There is no excuse for the system that has allowed an elite group of plutocrats to develop alongside an underclass, suited for hardly more than fodder when street violence is fomented.
Seems we broke from the Oligarchy once...I think the tree is thirsty.
Posted on December 8 at 10:38 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Tell the truth-who's to blame for the children not having a work ethic? The parents? Sure, but they don't have one either. Look no further than the Federals, who decreed that no household containing a wage-earning male could receive assistance. The Black family was effectively destroyed, and decades of pandering by leftist sociopaths have given us a semi-permanent underclass.
For Blacks to realize their potential in this country-again-they need to reclaim a legitimate voice in the political debate. Unfortunately, that would mean they would have to distance themselves from the Democratic Partei. As long as they support the party of the nanny state, they have no chance.
Eliminate immigration from the Middle East and from Asia, seal the Mexican border, or better yet, annex Mexico as our newest 5 or 6 states, and insist on full employment of every American Citizen BEFORE one non-Citizen gets a job.
On Despite promises, securing US border impossible
Posted on December 7 at 2:53 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
janesvillean, I believe if you take the time to actually read the comments, you'll find that they refer to invaders, also known as "illegal aliens". and not immigrants.
The invaders coming over our southern border now are bringing nothing but poverty, drugs, and violence with them. Oh, and democratic voters. Forgot about that...guess that's why even illegal Kenyans get to stay here.
On Despite promises, securing US border impossible
Posted on December 6 at 11:11 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
And to address the issue of cost, at todays prices, we could mine the entire 1,969 miles of border between the U.S. and Mexico for just under eight-million dollars. That would be one Claymore mine, at $250, every 325 feet, about their max effective range. Just to be generous, call it ten-million. Allowing for roads, border-crossings, etc, that should allow enough for a defense-in-depth, and STILL be a radical saving over the cost of fences, walls, and troops stationed in foreign lands.
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On The need for a bilingual America
Posted on February 7 at 3:18 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
"Welcome to America, land of the white , english speaking, christian. Capitulate or LEAVE!!
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
"I guess now the nation isn't what it was intended to be on so many levels"
Actually, the above quote was not any part of the Founding Father's view of our Nation, but rather, some fodderal written by a self-proclaimed "Zionist" living in New York.
English is the lingua franca of our Nation, like it or not, and it always has been. Even Ms. Lazarus' ancestors learned English when they got here from Portugal, so why can't our Latino neighbors learn it now?
I speak three languages in addition to English, mainly because when I travel to the countries where they are spoken, I know damn well that they won't make any effort to speak English to me.