WHICH ROAD?

     We are at a crossroads. Right here in the Village we are at one and in America the same type of choice awaits our decision. Are we going to stand up to what amounts to incapable government, decisions that are bad from the outset, government by a few for the many, even those who want no part of it, or are we going to stand up and shout "Enough!!" 
      Robert Frost wrote of the road not taken and there are many meanings and interpretations, but today the fitting, most apt one is the choice between the high road and the low one. We have made a major mistake, in both places. We allowed the tinpot dictator here to ram thru his programs, such as they are, and his financial decisions full of folly and woe for us. Our CAM appears to be working hard, but it is not enough to overcome all that needs to be done. Our finances are a mess and what comes across as a budget constantly neglects to answer the question as to where and how we are going to find the funds to take care of the crumbling and aged infrastructure, the funds to repave the road and do it right this time, the constant repair on the Clubhouse - both of them- that are actually capital improvements but we always suck it up and pay for it. Where is the money to come from? With all reserves going into a big  slush fund, there is no way to tell and no way to separate it all out. The only road to take here is the road of on line elections where tampering would be nigh onto impossible - that is, unless the Russians are coming!! Seriously, there would be none of this recounting any more, this sham of honesty that still stinks to the heavens and the voting needs to follow democracy - one vote per resident owner. Enough of David and back to the way it should be with term limits, a constant flow of new blood and new ideas as volunteers are actually welcomed into UCO and  asked for heir thoughts, not shut down as they are today.
     Even more so do we have to choose the high road, the one which tells us that we have a government full of thieves and liars, incompetents and governmental amateurs at a time when we truly need public servants, professionals and honest people who know the needs of the people, be it healthcare or jobs, honest jobs that actually lead someplace, that offer a future. They know the needs of the environment and the need for us to work with other countries of the world. We have irritated our closest allies, be it the UK, France, Canada, Mexico or any other country which functions on democracy and not tyranny. On the other hand, it appears that Trump woos the dictators and murderers of the world, from the Philippines to Turkey. 
      The ranks of the government are empty as more and more choose to separate themselves from the ever growing cloud over the White House. Those who need to be confirmed are not reaching the Senate for that because no one wants the job and Trump is not nominating!! This is not a do nothing regime, far and away the opposite, but what it is doing is horrific and so bad for us.
     Now we have a suit brought by lawyers from DC and Maryland who are arguing what I have long ago stated - that the moneys that foreign governments pay to the Trump outlets - or inlets, if one wishes - are a violation of the emoluments clause and a high violation of ethics. In fact, this whole administration violates ethics left and right and what is most annoying is the growth of the heirs apparent, the Trump family. Donald JR. seems to have developed a role for himself within the government, perhaps he will be called a new senior adviser right there along with Jared and Ivanka!! We do   not need a royal family, thank you!!
     When Sessions himself lied thru his teeth at the hearings then whom are we to trust when the very officers who are supposed to provide and guide justice in the country are themselves guilty of violating the law, grossly so. They took the low road and we need to go high and show the world once more that we are ourselves, open to the world, prepared to take our role and place within it. We need to show our own citizens that we welcome them, that we will provide that social safety net for them, that we will provide the funding for the new jobs for a new economy, that we all have  a future - once we get rid of the trash now ensconced in DC. Not an easy job nor an easy road but it must get done. We must choose and choose the correct road or the future will grow even more dim. Choose.