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To the Editor:

Soon, we will all be paying for something we already pay for with our taxes. But it’s the price we have to pay for the environment we live in. It’s nothing new to us, so we shouldn’t be so shocked to hear about it. The trash pick-up fee is supposed to keep the city’s services operating as was stated by a City Council member who is a good friend of the mayor.

We all must understand we live in a city which is controlled by one political party faction, or in laymen’s terms, a controlled system of representation. This same group has shown us that they would go as far as pass a ban on the people just because a friend of theirs asked them to.

So, what makes you think it would happen now with the trash fee. The mayor has too many voters on City Council who can’t wait to raise their hands to vote “yes” for every one of the mayor’s desires. Sure we will have one or two members who will oppose the trash pick-up fees. But this will be their 15 minutes of fame and glory. The trash fee is for city services, or is it City Hall’s way of making us pay for their controlled system of representation?

Speaking for the people

To the Editor:

It is truly a damned shame what Americans are condemned to live with and are how they are given no real choice as to how and who represents and serves us in our most important and crucial political and civil needs.

Both the Democratic and Republican Parties make it an absolute certainty that no one else can ever wrestle any kind of control from them by the elimination of the American voters of newer, better, younger and much wiser candidates seeking the never-ending and mostly, unproductive tenure that will go unceasingly while they sit so comfortable and confidently in office knowing that because of the laws deliberately orchestrated by them. For instance, the Electoral College and how it consistently squeezes out prospective candidates from public office who belong to offshoot Independent/Libertarian or any other legitimate party in accordance with regulations and political organizations who could re-light and bring back the faded American dream of democracy that once served as a beacon and light to the world.

These are not the ideas or ideals that democracy and freedom were built on and they are being discarded. We should not have a group that was elected to make laws that are made to serve them in their quest for no other reason but to keep securing their position long after they have outlived their usefulness, productivity and languish unendingly in office much to the detriment of the citizens they were meant to serve.

Regardless of their affiliation with any other party, give us back our right as a democracy and as free people to choose who we want to serve us instead of elected officials deciding who should serve us — that’s what dictators have done. It ultimately strips away democracy and freedom. Give us back our American rights to choose for ourselves freely.

If you think that politicians don’t depend on the lethargy, unconcern and involvement in our political process — you had better guess again.

Rewriting policy

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