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Ed, isn’t there a law against using city equipment for personal use? I don’t see how these Trenton detectives get away with using city cars and city gas for personal use. I’m not making six figures, like most of these Trenton detectives, plus I’ve got to pay for my own car, gas and taxes. This is ridiculous. It all starts at the top with Santiago trying to protect his two pensions and Palmer, who is nothing but a self-promoter and doesn’t care about the city. It’s time to stop government waste in Trenton. Let’s get rid of these politicians, every one of them; we’ll vote them out.
Chronic
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Get rid of all these politicians, BUT yours. Right? Your idea is wonderful in the fantasy world, but in the real world, people vote for the same people over and over again.
— Ed. Note
posted by Trentonian Editor at
12:14 AM
1 Comments:
Ed, have you no faith in the Democratic System?
Change must begin somewhere and cleaning house in Trenton beginning with the City's offices of Mayor and Police-Chief sound to be as good a beginning as any.
Democracy CAN work, but only if people exchange their arm-chair opinions for iron-clad convictions; because only convictions are strong enough to inspire work. Opinions change; convictions prevail. Convictions initiate change by getting people and their neighbours out to VOTE in favour of a change in government.
As a responsible newspaper-person, could you, perhaps envision a more positive role for yourself, as a sort of democracy-enabling cheerleader, encouraging those who are unhappy with ineffective, magical-thinking politicians, to initiate change by exercising their rights as citizens of a democracy? Maybe use your media power to encourage your readers to ask themselves, "What Would George Washington Do?"
Yes, it's more fun to be a wise-mouth cynic, and fashionable to have a laugh by trivializing others' opinions. Specifically, anyone who encourages people to vote, runs the risk of being considered some kind of cock-eyed optimistic, PollyAnna/idealist freak - but Consider: What does the cynic appear to want - a government composed of those "pigs (that) are more equal than other pigs" that has been appointed for it?
Democracy is not easy - but the Founding Fathers never promised "easy"; just that any citizen could, with effort, actually have a voice in determining our own sort of government.
At the end of the day, we get the government we deserve, but doesn't Trenton deserve better than gangs and terror, pie-in-the-sky real estate schemes and Palmer and Santiago?
Be brave, Ed. Lead.
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