Today is Election Day. Here in the Clubhouse and at Anshe Shalom the Village votes on politics of the world outside. We have all gotten the telephone calls, the repeated political mail, have read articles, seen the ads on TV, even perhaps have met some of the candidates and wow! might even have seen and listened to a debate. What a quaint idea!
In fact, all of these things listed above are deemed quaint, useless, out of date, not important, or perhaps too dangerous to allow the average voter to have access to the information dispensed - and where does this viewpoint exist?
\Why right here in our Village, our home, right here in the good old USA!! And who has deemed this the rule of the day here in CV? Why, good old David Israel, good old Ed Black, good old Marilyn Gorodetzer. Just ask David Israel to debate an opponent and watch him turn even paler, with the sweat beading on his forehead at the mere thought of such a thing.
All of their work is done in secret, like the Star Chambers of old, when people were convicted and executed in secret. All here in the Village is done in secret. Nothing happens and then suddenly there is a posting on the other blog by Barbara Cornish just overflowing with "gratitude" to Ed Black for the most wonderful security contract. Really? I know we were looking at contracts but were any details published? Were comparisons of the contract made public? Did the information, rules, obligations, costs,
specifications - ANYTHING - get publicized and laid open for public viewing and comments?
The answer is a resounding NO, for never is anything made public here. Never is anything done in the open. Never is the apparent great "unwashed" masses of the Village allowed any insight into the innards of UCO and just what the hell makes one contract better than the other and this is done with nigh onto everything.
When something finally gets aired, we are told how wonderful it is and how hard "our" UCO has worked on achieving this wonder of modern times - all for us! Uh huh!
Right! And who wants to buy the Tunnel? Who wants to buy the Bridge? But we are tired of buying the garbage that has been the standard output of this UCO. Today we are going to vote, a privilege and responsibility. We are going to vote after having had the opportunity and privilege of being informed to the degree we chose. We do not have that opportunity, that right, here in the Village and what do we get? We get contracts such as the paving with M&M - wow, that was a great deal for us - NOT!
We get a supposed wonderful Wi Fi contract proposal and with whom - the same company that messed up major in Boca CV and we are so lucky that David Israel et al have decided to bestow their substandard work and capabilities on us. How sweet! How kind! How thoughtless! And we continue along that line with the sudden sneaky plans of rewriting OUR constitution, the Articles of Incorporation, and its Amendments - the bylaws.
More of this garbage is waiting for us unless we stand up and vote no on items flipped at us as if we are dogs waiting for a bone, a treat from the leftovers. Speak up and demand publicity. Demand time to get to know facts and time to think. Demand Town Halls here in the Village and demand answers and reasons and explanations and cost analyses and anything else you want.
Yes, we are "malcontents". We are malcontents for the Village, for the situation we are in, for the rights we are deprived of, as if we lived in a dictatorial country - oh, right - we do, right here in CV in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA. And whose fault - all of ours if we do not put a stop to it and right now.
READ THE ALTERNATIVE BLOG POSTINGS RIGHT HERE AND ON GARY'S BLOG. HEAR THE VOICES OF PEOPLE OTHER THAN THE USUAL SHILLS FOR DAVID ISRAEL. DEMAND YOUR RIGHTS. COME TO THE MESSENGER CLUB MEETING ON SUNDAY AT 3 IN THE PARTY ROOM. SEE THE MOVIE IN THE THEATER, ENJOY, AND THEN GAIN KNOWLEDGE. THERE ARE NO SIDES HERE EXCEPT FOR THE SIDE THAT IS ON THE VILLAGE'S SIDE.
VOTE TODAY AND THEN DEMAND THE SAME RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES HERE.
What disturbs me is that we have a Democratic Club here in Century Village with approximately 200 members, and they have never gotten involved in UCO politics. The Club believes that UCO politics have no business in their purview. They believe that politics are only valid outside their domain even though politics have a tremendous impact on their daily lives. I am ashamed of the principal values of the Century Village Democratic Club. I would like to see them become involved in the politics of UCO.They neglect to accept that politics encompass our daily lives. We use politics daily – children use politics with their parents – husbands and wives use politics - police and criminals use politics and most of all politicians use politics on us. Let’s get together and rid UCO of all the despots.
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