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     Ever have the experience where you sat in a room and listened to people just go on and on and actually say nothing? Course you have. We all have. It is neither pleasant nor pleasing nor useful to any degree at all, other than wasting time. But we have to talk, we must talk, we must share ideas and we must allow even the fools and liars to speak if we are to understand where they are standing and how we bypass their nonsense, their dangerous nonsense.
      It matters not on what level we are. There are wasters of time ranging from national, even international, down to the local group in your neighborhood. And it is aggravating! So how to overcome this? All we can do is try.
     Here in  the Village we are so tired of hearing about the "progress" under David Israel et al. This progress has led us to inadequate funding, overspending, wasting money on projects that simply do not work and/or are not necessary, and the neglect of things that must be taken care, replaced, repaired, advanced, and fixing the mistakes of his administration. I am hoping that this becomes even clearer today at the Forum. I hope there is freedom to ask whatever one wishes that refers to the necessities of this election campaign and for the improvement of this Village.
     I have made it clear whom I support and why. It is time for a change. Time to bring back the best of former officers and the best new blood, new officeholders. We need to bring in new faces to the committees and this will never happen under David Israel as he recycles his best buds, his sycophants and keeps others out. A new President will appoint new chairs, recycle where necessary and bring in others so we will not have the same people voting over and over again on the same issue. Once a person votes once - that should be it, not have a the same officers voting a zillion times for with their numbers they outvote all else. Time for a change and as the Brady Bunch song went - time to rearrange!
     This time to hear the truth has come to the nation as well. For how much longer are we to watch our kids die, be wounded, have lasting physical and emotional damage? We are to be ashamed at ourselves for our lack of action. We are to be ashamed at ourselves for allowing our representatives to be bought by the NRA. The Times had a listing of all Representatives and Senators who took money from them. Hello Rubio at over a million, A MILLION!! Hello Brian Mast! That guy is a definite weasel in training.
     The NRA has come out with opposition to the age limit on gun  purchase. OH, such a shock! NOT! They wrap themselves in the Constitution and claim Second Amendment danger. What hooey!!! We can have strict rules, safety rules and demands and yet allow hunting rifles, handguns. If one is a target shooting competitor and uses an AR-15, then it must be locked up under strong lock and key in unbreakable safes and only used for that purpose. To be honest I see no reason for that competition, but so be it. And safety first. Always.
     Yes, advance programs for mentally disturbed people and hey, there ya go, Donald old boy, but to propose locking them up and throwing away the key?! C'mon. People do get healed. Proper treatment, proper behavior, but the base of it all is the wild access to guns. Guns kill when a person pulls the trigger so people kill using this inanimate object. Limit access. Have coordinated background checks. And for Heaven's sake, arming teachers is a bad idea for many reasons. First of all, teachers signed up to teach, not to serve and protect in armed battles. There are people for that and if it takes hiring one or two per building then so be it. Government has no money for it - fine, bet the parents would pay for it and hey, cut down on Pruitt's travel and hey, there is the funding for it!!! Teachers are human too and what if one has a breakdown and breaks out his gun in school? Oops on that!! What if one is shot and his gun taken up by an accomplice of the shooter and wow, such a defense we have - increase the shooting power of the killer. Brilliant!!!
     I was a teacher and a principal and I dearly loved my educational kids, still keep in touch with many of them and I will tell you that a gun has no place in a school other than on a background checked security person. I spoke up for my kids, watched out for them on trips of varying durations but would I have the courage to stand in front of an assault rifle, know I would die and then the kids would be shot anyway? I believe I would rather think of ways to achieve safety and preferably prevent the shooter from getting in the building in the first place. Prevention is the answer. Always.
     Enough with the yadda, yadda, yadda. Enough with the repetition of 'strong' by Trump. His words and promises mean nothing, as much as the opioid programs he started. Oh, wait, no he did not. Only lies and lies and deflection. No assuming responsibility. He is in office now and it is time he realizes what he must do for the people. If he cannot do this - then get him gone. NOW!
     Time to join the kids in protests, in demonstrations nd in walkouts. There are many dates including April 20. Let us all make it very clear to our elected officials that if they are bought by private interest, we will turf them out of office.