ISSUES - JUST WHAT ARE THEY?

     Exactly what is an issue? It is a topic of some concern and interest with varying degrees of importance and generally needs to be discussed. Evidently not all people agree with this definition since no one from the team of David Israel, including himself, want to discuss any issues so we will have to do it ourselves. Let's take one issue that really needs to be put to bed right now and without the lies and evasions that have been thrown around, especially in The Reporter.
     
That issue is WiFi and here it is in simple terms and truths. The Village HAS WIFI. We are not sitting in a dead zone, out of contact with the world. Any unit can have wifi. Either pay for it, use a neighbor's (with permission), or have your building install it as a building. It has been done in several of them in varying manners and the unit owners are well pleased. We also have wifi in the Clubhouse and at all WPRF run pools. One does not need to run to Starbucks to use wifi. I also have never seen anyone wandering around  with a laptop or other such gadget crying why he cannot sit in the middle of the road or a lawn and get on wifi. Actually, in many places it is possible by hooking on to wifi that is already around.
     
I personally love wifi. We have several computers or laptops or pads and so do our often visiting children and grandchildren. We have it in our unit. When we go to the pool or take a walk around the Village we do not take them. We go to socialize, to talk with each other and friends. Our phones work just fine. Our lives manage to be fulfilled without seeing a huge 65 ft. tower emitting all sorts of whatever from its dishes. And that is assuming we could get all the permits needed to erect it and that includes a very extremely unlikely one from PBIA as we are in their flight path - as we well know.
     So what are the problems with wifi in the Village? According to an expert, Lawrence Dhambra, paid to evaluate the situation after David Israel nearly backed us into another disastrous contract and we protested, neither we nor the companies we had been dealing with are ready for an installation of this size. And though Anitra Kraus states that he did not know that DSL had done Boca CV, that is both an assumption and a non sequitur as the Boca installation is TERRIBLE. Terrible is what we do not need. We already have terrible in the roads, drains and flooding.
     Next up is Ruth Bernhard-Dreiss who claims that "there are those fighting to prevent WIFI in the Village. Lies, lies, and more lies. What we want is good wifi, secure wifi, with a contract in our favor and benefit, with a wifi that will not have its poorer moments as it does in the clubhouse. We want all questions answered, not to be told that in this sphere one does not ask questions. Nor expect specific answers. Really? Does David Israel and cohorts think we just fell off the turnip truck?

     Now, how do I know about the Clubhouse variances? Easy. See, unlike David Israel, I actually go out and talk to people, not just sit and tap tap tap. I ask questions and get answers. They like having wifi in the clubhouse but wish it were more even. I tell them to speak to Eva and when I am President, I will take it up with her.

     And as far as lack of sympathy with the older elements of our population, those who bought here long ago when their savings and Social Security were enough and who now have outlived savings and their SS stipends are a mere pittance compared to what they need - I have heard them tell me they need to buy food, not wifi. They have no computer and do not wish one. Well, I feel for them. I hear them. They need to be included in the final plans for wifi down the road. and if you, David Israel, do not care, then you definitely need to get the hell out of office, election or not.

Get out of the office - Vote for Esther - she has the Right Stuff