Perfect is easy
By Don Wright  
October 19, 2011 

Perfect is easy when people don’t pay attention to what you say. In my last column I was not stating facts. I repeated what I had been told and asked the Greenville Administration for answers. To date there has been no response from the city. What we got was Bob Rhoades. 

For many years Bob Rhoades has been a very vocal supporter of the Public Service Unions. This is completely understandable. Bob Rhoades has spent his entire professional life supping at the public trough. I made an effort to plow through his facts. I have a very short attention span. I gave up and tossed them in the trash. 

The truth is when the public service unions were first formed they were small pigs. Over the last several decades they have become fat hogs. Tax payers can’t afford to keep feeding them. The good news is our new Governor is offering us the opportunity to turn these fat hogs into sausage. 

Coming up is a very important election for tax payers. Every person in the state of Ohio that is not a member of these unions should vote yes on SB5-State Issue 2. If you have to walk to the polls, walk. If you have to crawl to vote, crawl. This vote is so important that if I should find myself on my death bed I’ll ask for an absentee ballot and vote yes before I expire. 

This may be our only chance to escape the California-type financial earthquake that’s coming to our county and state. We simply can not sustain the pensions and benefits that’s piling up on us. 

I have more questions for the city. Did they pay a lot of money to send an employee to school in the state of Maryland? Did he get in trouble there for sexual harassment? Is he still working for the city? 

This was told to me by a Greenville contractor. He said shortly after Greenville got a new fire chief he was working on a house with his crew. They went to a fast food restaurant and bought their lunch. After chewing down one of the men put the bags and sandwich wrappers in a pile and set them on fire. The new fire chief showed up with two fire trucks to put out the fire and fined the contractor $75 for an illegal fire. Granted the fire was illegal. Would you think two fire trucks is over kill? Why couldn’t the chief have stomped out the fire and given a warning? This contractor continued to build houses in Englewood. Excellent public relations wouldn’t you think Bob? 

According to Bob Rhoades the Greenville school district doesn’t know what they are going to build. If they don’t know what they are going to build why in God’s name should we taxpayers give a bunch of fools millions of dollars to play with. 

Recently in the Greenville Advocate there was two pages of tax delinquencies. A large part of these were in the Greenville school district. A lot of these people because of circumstances beyond their control simply can’t pay their taxes. How many more good people will be pushed under water by this excessive school bond? No one has ever been able to explain to me why the people that own real estate should have to support this whole society. 

Several of us were reviewing the “Just the facts” school brochure. This piece of crap gives me a headache. In the fact sheet the current cost is $1.84 per square foot. The proposed new building is $1.00 per square foot. The problem I see is the secret of how many square feet the new building is. 

In 1989 we the people voted in a school improvement levy of 2 mills. We think the school board is using this to con taxpayers. How can they take something we voted for and transfer it to anything other than improvements? If this money is not needed for improvements it should come back to us taxpayers. 

Taxpayers in my opinion were up against a bunch of flem flam artists in the Greenville school district. You have to be ready and able to protect your money with your vote. Every time there is a bond issue they use the same tactics. They run drag lines through the nursing homes. Then try and convince the elderly that a vote for the bond issue won’t affect them. Any vote that takes money from a family affects everyone in that family. 

These people suck out of the woodwork every deadbeat non taxpayer they can get to vote for them. These people contribute nothing but sperm. They create more kids and we have to support and educate them. The rivers and streams in Darke County are a disgrace. I just read in the Dayton paper that the welfare department here is not doing their jobs putting these people to work for their money. If they were out cleaning up our rivers and streams maybe we could slow down the birth rate and not need a new school. 

How many of you dummies like myself didn’t know what HVAC stands for? This means air conditioning. How about that. 

My family moved to Lynn, Ind. when I was a freshman in high school. For me, the next four years I was very competitive as the lousiest student there. However, something wonderful happened to me. I discovered the Lynn Public Library. During the same four years I probably read an average of three books a week. I’m still a reader. The Lynn library was my salvation. I’m prejudiced in favor of libraries. I will vote for the Greenville library levy. 

There is an organ donor that rides a motorcycle down Route 127 at all different hours at what I would estimate well over 100 miles an hour. If I’m outside I can hear him coming when he passes the Route 49 exit. I can still hear him when he goes out of sight going south. There are thousands of people waiting for hearts, kidneys etc. to save their lives. It’s obvious his life means nothing to him. 

Several people have asked me what the signifigence is of the vulture setting on a limb in the latest Ackley cartoon. I’ve known Paul Ackley since he was a kid going to school with my son Brad. I think he is the greatest talent I know. 

In 1983 someone referred to me as a vulture. Paul drew this huge gross vulture setting on one foot in the middle of a W. He was picking his beak with the talon of the other foot. His eyes were maniacal under bushy eye brows. There are bones on the ground. I’ve seen nothing uglier since Paul gave this to me 28 years ago. I had it framed and it’s been on my office wall ever since. One of my prized possessions. Paul was giving me a needle.