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Would you all stop the nonsense.....when was it someone's business what anyone does in their
personal life....

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STS--in the words of the great Senders "Get Off My Back."  Everybody on this board gets slandered.  Grow-up.

Senders--of course seniors need home visits and assessments--what do you think senior directors do?  The money in Rotterdam for transportation is used by the senior center for trips.  That as the way it was designated long before Ritano or Marco came into the picture.  Ritano tried to get the money diverted to be used for medical appointments but at that time that was the job of Catholic Charities.  Things change and needs change.  Seniors now don't need the same things they needed seven years ago.  Rotterdam needs to make a leap into this century and start preparing for the Boomers who are aging in place and sandwiched between caring for their own parents and their grandchildren.

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Senders you are pretty wrong on most everything you cite.

1.  Aging in place as we know it now is in fact a new concept for ALL people.  The term NOW is increasing the money to go for home care and keeping the aged if possible out of hospitals with repeat admissions and nursing homes before they are absoloutely necessary.
2.  One in eight "boomers" are taking care of an aging parent and their own kids.  That has not been the ase in the past.  First people live longer now.  People work longer now.  I work with that research and those statistics are provided to me from my grant from Pew Research.
3.  Town needs to move forward because the number of aged in this town is going to double in the next 15 -20 years.  ROTTERDAM JUST AIN'T READY.
4.  You need a coalition of folks to move this town forward especially as it refers to senior iss5.  On the other hand, maybe the young people moving in will decide to move out to towns that are more progressive with better schools.  Certainly Guilderland and Colonie offer much more to their seniors and children.  My own daughter although emotionally tied to her home has already made arrangements for her baby to go to daycare in Albany and when appropriate attend Albany Academy for Girls.  She uses the Guilderland Y for swimming classes now.  And though it's nice to have her closeby, I say put up the for sale sign and go to a better town.

Boomers have become the sanwiched generation like no one else before them.  Sorry stats are on my side.

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Yeah Senders--I just don't agree with you and the literature is on my side.  I would hate to be your parents.  You are kind of scary.

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Oddly enough I am heading to both places.

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Column by Paul Hein.


Exclusive to STR





It is interesting to read what St. Augustine had to say about what we now call government:


A gang is a group of men under the command of a leader, bound by a compact of association, in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy wins so many recruits from the ranks of the demoralized that it acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues peoples, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom, which is conferred on it in the eyes of the world, not by the renunciation of aggression, but by the attainment of impunity.




One is tempted to paraphrase the poet: When plunder doth succeed, none dare call it plunder.



Indeed, the plunder has become so common, and the plunderers so smug and self-confident, that their predations are taken for granted, and the thieves themselves treated with extraordinary deference! It is something akin to the Stockholm syndrome. You encounter the same mugger at the same spot every day, and eventually establish a sort of bizarre relationship with him----even, eventually, thanking him for not taking more. When you are given the opportunity to replace him with another mugger, you vote for the incumbent---sticking with the devil you know, unless his opponent offers to share more of his loot with you.



What brought these thoughts to mind involves the bailouts and other forms of stimuli now being inflicted upon us. I have not counted the times when some pundit on television has bemoaned these extravagances, saying something like, “And our children and their children will have to pay for all this,” or “pity the poor taxpayer, who must pay for all this,” but they must be legion. Wait a minute!  What do they mean, “HAVE to pay for all this,” or “MUST pay for all this?” If productive Americans accept the idea that they must accept financial responsibility for government largess to its cronies, then what can be the objection to the bailouts?



How refreshing it would be to hear those same pundits who bemoan the absurdity of government bailouts bemoan with equal logic and passion the idea that we, the people who produce this country’s wealth, can be saddled with the debts of strangers!  I assume they fail to notice the injustice of it because it has become so common that, as St. Augustine pointed out, the hapless victims have become subdued and demoralized, and the thieves, now well-established and empowered, have assumed the roles, if not the titles, of nobility.



When you think about it (and wouldn’t it be wonderful if people did!), you can only be struck numb with amazement. Can you go into a store, order thousands of dollars worth of goods, and then tell the clerk to send the bill to assorted strangers? Obviously, you cannot do such a thing, and, in fact, it would probably never even occur to you to attempt such a preposterous act. Yet your elected “representatives” do it regularly, with impunity, spending not thousands, but billions, based upon the power which, we are told, we have delegated to them, although in fact they somehow gave themselves the power they use.



But not to worry! Everything is entirely legal and above-board. Overlook, please, the fact that the plunderers themselves write the “laws” which enable them to plunder! While you’re at it, overlook as well the fact that when existing laws might hamper their activities, those laws are disregarded. Indignant victims could sue, of course, but the issue would be settled in a court owned and operated by your opponent, with one of his gang--with a vested interest in the outcome--on the bench. All entirely legal, of course!



So: what to do? One could learn a lesson from the experience of Prohibition. Massive civil disobedience overwhelmed the rulers, although in that instance, the massive disobedience involved the public doing something it wanted to do--drink alcohol. True, today’s public no doubt wants to hold onto its earnings, but merely being allowed to retain a portion of those earnings, by a government much more powerful than that of Prohibition, satisfies many. It’s that Stockholm syndrome, again.



Perhaps state legislators might be persuaded to question how the states (and the citizens thereof, of course) can be made parties to the debts of the federal government that is, after all, to be the servant of the people and the states. State government is closer to the people, and, perhaps, less intimidating than the federal government. If the states still consider themselves sovereign, how can they stand by while the residents of those states are impoverished by the federal government? Somebody call the sheriff!



Simplest of all, surely, would be the simple “I’ve had enough” uttered by the poor, beleaguered citizens. It wouldn’t take a majority of fed-up victims to put the fear of the voter (they don’t fear the Lord) into the houses of Congress.



A few days ago I saw a TV news program showing thousands of people lined up to get applications for federal housing assistance. What they wanted, of course, was to use the government to obtain your money for their benefit. They didn’t seem at all ashamed of their demands, and the reporters at the scene found nothing remarkable about it except the large numbers at the turnout, which reflected, they said, the sad state of the economy. Unfortunately, they didn’t equate the sad state of the economy with precisely the sort of activity being documented.



If the tax-feeders can congregate in the thousands to demand more benefits from the productive, surely the productive can do the same thing to demand that the plunder cease

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Del Gallo stands by senior post pick
John Purcell 03/16/11

Resident calls for ethics board investigation of supervisor

Supervisor Frank Del Gallo is determined to make John DeGeorgio the head of Recreation and Senior Programs, but when the resolution failed to pass the Rotterdam Town Board a second time, Del Gallo said, “Whatever way I’ve got to do it, I’m going to do it.”

On Wednesday, March 9, for the second board meeting in a row, Del Gallo brought forward a resolution to appoint DeGeorgio, former head of the Recreation and Senior Programs, to the position previously occupied by Diane Marco, who was terminated at the end of February amid public outcry and concern from board members.

Despite Councilwoman Nicola DiLeva’s absence, the resolution failed to pass, with fellow board members Matthew Martin and Wayne Calder voting against it and calling for the position to be advertised before any selection is made. The part-time position has a salary of $15,000.

“Mr. DeGeorgio is qualified for this job, and one way or another, he is going on that job,” said De Gallo. “Hopefully, they will vote him on it. If they don’t, the senior center must run, and as the supervisor, I am going to put the most qualified guy in that job.”........................>>>>...................>>>>.................http://www.spotlightnews.com/news/view_news.php?news_id=1300309151

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seems fitting.....I'll see you on The Yellow Submarine we can all drink eachothers recycled urine......