Does anyone else see the bizarre trade-off in Mr. Poorman's logic? He says that “The reason for [a roundabout] is the safety benefits...A modern roundabout reduces the frequency of fatal and injury accidents by up to 80 percent.” He then says that this is offset by the demolision of "an occupied building to make room" and concludes "that alone could be justification to drop the plan."
Does he suppose that the mother of the first person to die in a fatal accident at the intersection would say "That's OK...at least that building didn't get demolished."
Sara..."it was the 11th leading cause of death in the U.S." yes, but it is the 3rd cause of death for teens (accidents come first; homicides are second.) And the suicide rate among lGBT teens it is four times higher than among straight kids. The Trevor Project provides a hotline for LGBT and questioning youth. We don't know all of the circumstances in the Schenectady cases, so I'm not saying that was an issue, but these are facts worth noting.
My friendly (anonymous) commentor--maybe you're talking about the corporate tax rate. The U.S. has the second highest there--around 40%. When it comes to individual rates you should check your facts. "Taxed to near death?" Only if you live in Denmark where the basic individual tax rate begins at 42% and the income tax rate is the highest (68%.) Then comes Turkey, France and Poland. We have a ways to go. In 2003, the total federal state and local taxes in the United States were 24.2% of our gross domestic product, which puts us among the LOWEST in the world. (Only Mexico is lower at 19.5%.)
It's pretty evident that the terrorists have found a perfect outlet for their hatred of the U.S. on the comment pages of our newspapers. What better way to get the American people riled up and on their side. Once we've been sold on their thinly veiled anit-American rhetoric (i.e. "Obama's country is not my country...Obama is not the American of our fore fathers, but an insult to our Conservative values...I bought a gun made in America a couple of weeks ago...Taking from the rich and giving to the poor only holds America back from being the greatest country in the world.") it's just a short step to adopting the the radical, Islamic view of our country. They don't have to kill us off; it's obvious that they have already won over many of us.
So...the county manager "put in raises to boost morale..." And where can I look to see that this has changed anything? And what about the morale of the citizens? My morale could use a boost; that's why I'm planning to move out of town. Enough already.
What a contrast to our recent experience there. The only thing good was the food. The wait staff was totally disorganized (sometimes as many as four of them lounging about their wait-station) and no one seemed to care. We ordered the steaks (the filet minon and the delmonico...rare) and it took a full 30 minutes for us to get our order. (We heard those at the table across from us remarking about the service as well.) We were there for over and hour and a half and no one ever asked the standard "How is everything?" and there seemed to be no manager on duty. We will not be going back there.
Posted on April 9 at 7:13 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Does anyone else see the bizarre trade-off in Mr. Poorman's logic? He says that “The reason for [a roundabout] is the safety benefits...A modern roundabout reduces the frequency of fatal and injury accidents by up to 80 percent.” He then says that this is offset by the demolision of "an occupied building to make room" and concludes "that alone could be justification to drop the plan."
Does he suppose that the mother of the first person to die in a fatal accident at the intersection would say "That's OK...at least that building didn't get demolished."
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