An amusing letter from former President Ronald Reagan in response to a 13-year-old boy’s request for disaster relief funds to clean up his room.

Dear Andy:

I’m sorry to be so late in answering your letter but as you know I’ve been in China and found your letter here upon my return.

Your application for disaster relief has been duly noted but I must point out one technical problem; the authority declaring the disaster is supposed to make the request. In this case your mother.

However setting that aside I’ll have to point out the larger problem of available funds. This has been a year of disasters, 539 hurricanes as of May 4th and several more since, numerous floods, forest fires, drought in Texas and a number of earthquakes. What I’m getting at is that funds are dangerously low.

May I make a suggestion? This administration, believing that government has done many things that could better be done by volunteers at the local level, has sponsored a Private Sector Initiative program, calling upon people to practice voluntarism in the solving of a number of local problems.

Your situation appears to be a natural. I’m sure your mother was fully justified in proclaiming your room a disaster. Therefore you are in an excellent position to launch another volunteer program to go along with the more than 3,000 already underway in our nation—congratulations.

Give my best regards to your mother.

Sincerely, Ronald Reagan

—From Reagan: A Life in Letters

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Let those who are without sin throw the first stone. Go ahead if you can.

Freedom for the future or socialism…you decide!

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Taxpayers still paying for a DEAD horse?  Wasteful tax dollars down the drain again. 

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Video: Snyder’s 2012 State of the State: woodtv.com

Now you can do more than ever at the NEW Secretary of State website.

1. Renew your drivers license.
2. Replace your lost or stolen drivers license.
3. Renew your state ID card.
4. Replace your lost or stolen ID card.
5. Renew your plate.
6. Renew your watercraft.
7. Get a duplicate registration if you lost it from you glove box.
8. Get a duplicate title if you lost it and you want to sell your car.
9. And change your address when you move.

You can do this all online, at anytime from the convenience of your home without making the trip to the Secretary of States office.  Why waste your time when this can be done on your home computer 24/7 or on the computer at your local library?  More transactions will be coming.

 

This caption makes it sound like the insurance paid the $24,000 for this sign, which is highly unlikely.  I will FOIA (freedom of information act) exactly what the insurance company paid for the damaged sign to see exactly what the Dorr township library paid for this new sign.  It was just a little over 1 year ago in August of 2010, the township voters rejected a millage to operate the library, only to have the millage put  back on the ballot last November 3 months later until it passed, a tactic that is used quite frequently in this township to get a millage passed.  This vote was rejected by 150 votes in Aug, but passed 3 months later by only 22 votes.   See county vote results here:

Defeated Dorr Library millage in August of 2010

Passed Dorr Library millage November of 2010

I personally have nothing against any library, including the one here in Dorr,  but I am very concerned about politicians and board members who do not give the true facts on how our tax dollars are being used. The caption is written for us to believe that an insurance company paid for this $24,000 sign. This is bunk.  I will get the true payment from the insurance company via the freedom of information act from the township so we the people know exactly how much money was spent using our tax dollars when just over a year ago we heard comments about how the library had no money and the hours would be cut and we might have to close the library etc. unless the millage passes and now they spend money like this? Just makes you want to cry a river doesn’t it?

When taxpayers vote millages in, those who control the purse strings just cannot restrain themselves and once again spend money like drunken sailors, forgetting how limited for funds they were only 1 year ago when the people of Dorr rejected the first millage only to have it put back the ballot 3 months after the millage defeat to wear the people down to get this millage passed.  Government will always run out of money, because the more you vote to give them more, the more they will spend, its unrestrained spending.  We see this at all levels of government.

We must send all governments a message that government must live within their means like we do with our household expenses, because we are not giving you any more of our money to waste. This sign is not the issue, the unrestrained spending and the deception is!

$24,000 for the sign below?  More wasted tax dollars? The township gives the library $56,000 for their annual operations from the general fund, plus a millage that was passed last year by only 22 votes in November after being rejected by the voters just 3 months earlier in the Aug election by 150 votes.  People are fed up with this crap.

If you choose NOT to do anything and are able, the church must hold you accountable and tell you NO.  You must contribute to society and the world, that is what every human being is here for, to make this a better world.

The democratic party is the party of Robin Hood.  Take from those who work and give it to those who don’t work but vote their party members into office to stay in power.

Party differences:
 
Republican Party. 

As scripture says, “you don’t work, you dont eat.”  You must take responsibility for your own lives. It is not governments job to steal money from those who work (ei taxes) and redistribute it to those who are able to work but choose not to.

Democratic Party.

Vote our party members into office and we will continue to vote to tax those who work for a living (steal it from them through taxation) and redistribute to you who choose not to work as long as you will promise to vote our party members into office each election cycle so we can hold onto power we have grown accustomed to.  We love power so much, we will take from those who work and give you some of their money but you must continue to vote DemonRats into office.

We really dont care about you, we just want to bribe you for your votes and its not our money we’re taking, its the taxpayers who work who dont vote for us anyway!  We are what you call, legal robbers, stealing money through taxation, from those who get up everyday to go to work so you dont have to.  You only have to go to the polls on election day to keep us in office.

Clark Retirement Community LipDub from Vision Stew on Vimeo.

I am a state of Michigan employee and I totally agree with this. Keep going Gov. Snyder.

No retirement health benefits for State employees, including elected officials. You can all pay your own way by saving up for this in your retirement, instead of having the taxpayer pay your retirement benefits after you retire.

May he rest in Peace!  May your mother and Grandmother rest in Peace!
My condolences go out to you in your time of grief.