The meaning of 'representative' lost
I find it difficult to know how to form this letter to my fellow Americans because I fear our wishes are not being represented in the halls of Congress.
I would ask a couple of questions of our elected congressmen. No. 1, Can they first spell representative? Secondly, do they know and acknowledge the definition and meaning of the word represent?
My concern arises from several congressmen who have stated that they are smarter than the very people who elected them. In other words, the people now work for their congressmen, not the other way around. This is a good example of an inflated ego and ignorance run wild.
A short word to my new president. You won the election, it is now time to stop campaigning and start trying to run this great country of which you don't seem to have much respect. I wish to remind you that if America was not a great and fair country, you would not have had a prayer of being elected, so stop trying to make it over into a socialist nation. I know you say that is not so, but, if it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, it is probably a duck.
Winfield A. James
Oneonta
Move memorials to Wilber Park
This letter is in agreement with one by Emily VanLaeys in the Aug. 22 issue of your paper. It concerns the proposed plan for a Veterans Memorial Walkway, which would take out both roadways and too many trees on the right side of the pond.
I grew up in Oneonta and have many fond memories of Neahwa Park. It is fine the way it is _ it's a small park compared to Wilber Park so why not move the memorials to the lower part of Wilber Park facing Center Street? It doesn't make sense to disrupt our small park any more than it is. I'm sure it would be much less expensive and simpler to move the memorials to one circular area possibly over by the second pavilion if you must.
The meeting held in the park was a waste of time because apparently the powers that be have already decided to go with the one they're pushing on us. How come nothing was discussed before this so-called deadline?
Mary Richards
Sidney
Don't debate bill before it exists
Calm down. Regardless of what the talking heads (left and right) of radio, TV and computer tell you there is no bill on anything until it is printed and delivered to Congress.
If the media (i.e, newspapers) do their jobs, we will know what is in that bill. Then we can logically scream in anguish.
The bill will be debated, fine-tuned and amended by legislators who will be keeping a wary eye on their constituencies. It will be voted up or down. Until that time we are in a place known as Dumbhead Democracy.
Donald Lewis
Stamford
Ban automobiles in Neahwa Park
Re: Neahwa Park, I suggest a ban on autos. Use the roads as walkways. Prune conservatively or move playing fields. Transplanting won't work.
Two years in the planning and just now we, the public, hear about it?
"I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree." _ Joyce Kilmer. Amen.
Esther Nordberg
Oneonta
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