THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR APRIL 18, 2024 AT 11:52 AM
Paul Plante says:
For an example of these “hidden” costs to local taxpayers associated with this STIMULATION money and CORPORATE WELFARE Joe Biden is handing out like candy to the richest corporations in the world as he pumps out enormous amounts of state support to these corporations, let’s go back to Joe’s so-called State of the Union Address on 7 March 2024, where we have the following self-congratulatory BIDEN PUFFERY and BOBAUNCE, to wit:
The great comeback story is Belvidere, Illinois.
Home to an auto plant for nearly 60 years.
Before I came to office, the plant was on its way to shutting down.
Thousands of workers feared for their livelihoods.
Hope was fading.
Then, I was elected to office, and we raised Belvidere repeatedly with auto companies, knowing unions would make all the difference.
The UAW worked like hell to keep the plant open and get these jobs back.
And together, we succeeded.
Instead of auto factories shutting down, auto factories are reopening and a new state-of-the-art battery factory is being built to power those cars there at the same.
To the folks — to the folks of Belvidere, I’d say: Instead of your town being left behind, your community is moving forward again.
Because instead of watching auto ja- — jobs of the future go overseas, 4,000 union jobs with higher wages are building a future in Belvidere right here in America.
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Now, people, seriously doesn’t that that sound just grand and glorious – there is beleaguered Belvidere, Illinois down on its knees, gasping for its last breaths before finally expiring for good when just in the nick of time along comes WHITE KNIGHT Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior on his white destrier standing 20 hands tall with Joe and his couched lance, pennants flying, firmly in the saddle, and the day is saved, and peace and prosperity will reign forever after in Belvidere, Illinois, thanks to Joe.
But is that really true?
For that answer, let’s go to the Jan 18, 2024 edition of the Rockford Register Star and a news item titled “A $32M sewer expansion needed for Belvidere battery plant” where we learn as follows, to wit:
Four Rivers Sanitation Authority Executive Director Tim Hanson said his office is preparing an estimated $32 million plan talked about for three decades to extend sanitary sewer lines to the area from Cherry Valley to service the Stellantis facility and any suppliers that will be needed.
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So, to make Joe’s INSANE GREEN DREAM come true in Belvidere, Illinois, the people in that area are going to have to pony up an estimated $32 million plus cost overruns to make Joe’s INSANE GREEN DREAM actually come true, so that when Joe said to the folks of Belvidere on 7 March 2024, that “instead of your town being left behind, your community is moving forward again,” we have to ask ourselves this important question, which applies to corrupt Poestenkill as well:
ARE THEY REALLY?
Or is Joe driving those people in Belvidere, like the people of corrupt Poestenkill, NY, into eternal debt slavery to pay off the cost of that $32 million sewer expansion in their case, and in the case of Poestenkill, about a million in hidden costs to upgrade the piping system from Troy, New York through Brunswick, New York in order to actually be able to get the water Joe’s STIMULATION money appears to be paying for?
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WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR APRIL 19, 2024 AT 8:18 PM
Paul Plante says:
And hey, hey hey, people, JOBS JOBS JOBS!
Millions and gazillions of them, all high-paying union manufacturing jobs thanks to BUILD BACK BETTER BIDE-O-NOMICS, Joe Biden’s ultra-new, ultra-chic economic plan that is building a new American economy to replace the other American economy with this one being built from the bottom up and the middle out, so that everybody who isn’t yet in the middle class, the class everybody knows really built America, and the class to be in, can get into the middle class and be just like everybody else in the middle class with the Escalade in the driveway for her, the Corvette and super-loaded fwd pick-up for he, and the McMansion on its own eighth-acre, all thanks to Joe Biden and BIDE-O-NOMICS!
Joe Biden is good!
Joe Biden is great!
Joe Biden is going to give us all chocolate cake!
But if that is the case, where are all these JOBS, JOBS, JOBS?
Consider a Reuters article titled “Smaller US manufacturers warm to Biden’s big industrial plan, survey shows” by Timothy Aeppel on April 16, 2024, where we had as follows:
April 16 (Reuters) – America’s small and mid-sized manufacturers may be warming up to the Biden administration’s push for an aggressive industrial policy.
Biden’s industrial policy, headlined by legislation passed in 2022 that sparked a surge of factory construction, is aimed at boosting semiconductors, electric vehicles and green technologies, as well as other sectors.
The efforts so far have not produced many manufacturing jobs.
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I love that last sentence because it tells the ******* truth about BIDE-O-NOMICS, as opposed to the BULL**** Joe Biden and his crowd keep spewing, which thought takes us back to that story, to wit:
And so, as the presidential campaign shifts into higher gear ahead of November’s election, Biden is touring factories to tout his accomplishments, especially to voters in battleground states.
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And here I am, helping Joe “tout” his accomplishments by pointing out he doesn’t have any to tout which takes us back to that story about BIDEN TRICKLE-DOWN BIDE-O-NOMICS, to wit:
“This is the first time in a long time that we’ve had a deliberate industrial strategy being pushed by the executive branch – that’s unique,” said Randy Altschuler, chief executive of Xometry.
Altschuler said federal investments have yet to filter down to smaller producers, with many of the most high-profile projects favoring giants like Intel and Samsung, which are both planning new semiconductor plants.
“You’re going to see a bigger benefit (for smaller companies) further down the road,” said Altschuler, as those projects create demand for the underlying pipeline of goods and services needed to complete and supply those factories.
end quotes
Yes, people, Joe Biden is using taxpayer dollars to reward the richest corporations in the world and the richest people in the US in his own version of TOP-DOWN, TRICKLE-DOWN economics, which takes us back for more on Joe Biden’s CENTRALLY-PLANNED ECONOMY where it is Joe Biden who gets to pick who the winners and losers are going to be, to wit:
Altschuler, who ran for Congress in New York in 2010 and lost and remains a registered Republican, said the political divide over industrial policy – which was once opposed by many Republicans as picking winners and losers – has narrowed sharply in recent years.
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Which brings us to another Reuters article titled “Philly Fed manufacturing gauge charges to 2-year high” on April 18, 2024, where we have more reality about JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, to wit:
Factory employment, meanwhile, continued to fall, dropping to its lowest level overall since May 2020, in keeping with other gauges showing sluggish employment in the sector.
Manufacturing job growth has been next to non-existent over the past year, with the Labor Department’s measure of new factory jobs averaging just 2,000 a month in that span, among the weakest-performing industries in the private sector.
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That’s what Joe’s government is saying, while this is what Joe himself was spinning in Joe’s so-called State of the Union Address on 7 March 2024, to wit:
Folks, I inherited an economy that was on the brink.
Now, our economy is literally the envy of the world.
Fifteen million new jobs in just three years.
A record.
A record.
end quotes
Yeah, right, Joe, so other than on paper, where are they actually?
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Paul Plante says:
And hey, hey hey, people, JOBS JOBS JOBS!
Millions and gazillions of them, all high-paying union manufacturing jobs thanks to BUILD BACK BETTER BIDE-O-NOMICS, Joe Biden’s ultra-new, ultra-chic economic plan that is building a new American economy to replace the other American economy with this one being built from the bottom up and the middle out, so that everybody who isn’t yet in the middle class, the class everybody knows really built America, and the class to be in, can get into the middle class and be just like everybody else in the middle class with the Escalade in the driveway for her, the Corvette and super-loaded fwd pick-up for he, and the McMansion on its own eighth-acre, all thanks to Joe Biden and BIDE-O-NOMICS!
Joe Biden is good!
Joe Biden is great!
Joe Biden is going to give us all chocolate cake!
But if that is the case, where are all these JOBS, JOBS, JOBS?
Consider a Reuters article titled “Smaller US manufacturers warm to Biden’s big industrial plan, survey shows” by Timothy Aeppel on April 16, 2024, where we had as follows:
April 16 (Reuters) – America’s small and mid-sized manufacturers may be warming up to the Biden administration’s push for an aggressive industrial policy.
Biden’s industrial policy, headlined by legislation passed in 2022 that sparked a surge of factory construction, is aimed at boosting semiconductors, electric vehicles and green technologies, as well as other sectors.
The efforts so far have not produced many manufacturing jobs.
end quotes
I love that last sentence because it tells the ******* truth about BIDE-O-NOMICS, as opposed to the BULL**** Joe Biden and his crowd keep spewing, which thought takes us back to that story, to wit:
And so, as the presidential campaign shifts into higher gear ahead of November’s election, Biden is touring factories to tout his accomplishments, especially to voters in battleground states.
end quote
And here I am, helping Joe “tout” his accomplishments by pointing out he doesn’t have any to tout which takes us back to that story about BIDEN TRICKLE-DOWN BIDE-O-NOMICS, to wit:
“This is the first time in a long time that we’ve had a deliberate industrial strategy being pushed by the executive branch – that’s unique,” said Randy Altschuler, chief executive of Xometry.
Altschuler said federal investments have yet to filter down to smaller producers, with many of the most high-profile projects favoring giants like Intel and Samsung, which are both planning new semiconductor plants.
“You’re going to see a bigger benefit (for smaller companies) further down the road,” said Altschuler, as those projects create demand for the underlying pipeline of goods and services needed to complete and supply those factories.
end quotes
Yes, people, Joe Biden is using taxpayer dollars to reward the richest corporations in the world and the richest people in the US in his own version of TOP-DOWN, TRICKLE-DOWN economics, which takes us back for more on Joe Biden’s CENTRALLY-PLANNED ECONOMY where it is Joe Biden who gets to pick who the winners and losers are going to be, to wit:
Altschuler, who ran for Congress in New York in 2010 and lost and remains a registered Republican, said the political divide over industrial policy – which was once opposed by many Republicans as picking winners and losers – has narrowed sharply in recent years.
end quotes
Which brings us to another Reuters article titled “Philly Fed manufacturing gauge charges to 2-year high” on April 18, 2024, where we have more reality about JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, to wit:
Factory employment, meanwhile, continued to fall, dropping to its lowest level overall since May 2020, in keeping with other gauges showing sluggish employment in the sector.
Manufacturing job growth has been next to non-existent over the past year, with the Labor Department’s measure of new factory jobs averaging just 2,000 a month in that span, among the weakest-performing industries in the private sector.
end quotes
That’s what Joe’s government is saying, while this is what Joe himself was spinning in Joe’s so-called State of the Union Address on 7 March 2024, to wit:
Folks, I inherited an economy that was on the brink.
Now, our economy is literally the envy of the world.
Fifteen million new jobs in just three years.
A record.
A record.
end quotes
Yeah, right, Joe, so other than on paper, where are they actually?
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR APRIL 25, 2024 AT 11:49 AM
Paul Plante says:
And hey, hey, hey, people JOBS, JOBS, JOBS and even more jobs on top of all those jobs!
SCADS of them thanks to American president and noted and well-loved world leader Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, into whose strong and loving hands we have entrusted Joe with custodianship of the SOUL OF AMERICA, thanks to his INSANE GREEN DREAM which is going to literally coat the oceans of America, east and west, with so many windmills it won’t be funny, and America is going to get so RICH, RICH, RICH selling electric power to the rest of the world that not only will our federal deficit of $33 TRILLION be wiped out literally overnight, but all our taxes will be canceled and not only that, but the federal government will have so much extra money it won’t know what to do with, so each and every one of us will get a MILLION DOLLAR ROYALTY CHECK each year in time for BLACK FRIDAY sales, and life in America will be glorious, thanks to Joe Biden and BUILD BACK BETTER BIDENOMICS which has built the NEW AMERICAN ECONOMY from the BOTTOM UP and the MIDDLE OUT so sing hallelujah, people, and say AMEN, because as we can see in this Albany, New York Times Union article titled “New York offshore wind projects scrapped, along with promise of local jobs – GE Vernova was to build turbines at Port of Coeymans, but that is canceled for now” by Rick Karlin on April 22, 2024, the GOOD TIMES promised by Joe Biden are finally here at last:
COEYMANS — Just over a year ago, state and corporate executives were heralding what they said could be some 870 high-paying jobs at the Port of Coeymans that would involve assembling offshore wind turbine engines and blades built by GE Vernova and LM Wind Power.
But last week, those jobs vanished — at least for now — before they were ever created.
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And talk about BIDEN BOBAUNCE (ostentatious or boastful behavior, vain display, worldly vanity) and all these HIGH-PAYING GOOD UNION JOBS Joe Biden says he has “created,” there is the true Biden job creation right there in front of us, numbers on pieces of paper that mean nothing in the reality that exists outside of white house press releases – a pocketful of mumbles such are Joe Biden’s promises, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
That’s because two major offshore wind farms that were going to use the port as a fabrication area canceled their plans.
However, executives at the Port of Coeymans say they intend to continue expanding despite the cancellation of the Attentive and Community Offshore wind projects off the coast of Long Island.
The cancellations were just the latest of several similar reversals along the East Coast over the last year that illustrate the variables and cost challenges facing the push by both New York and the Biden administration to develop coastal wind as a major energy source.
Both the 1,314-megawatt Community Offshore project proposed by RWE, as well as the 1,404-megawatt Attentive project from Rise Power and Light and the French energy giant Total were canceled last week.
The news was listed on the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s website, and was first reported by Politico.
“No final awards will be made … and NYSERDA will look to advance a future competitive solicitation,” the agency stated on its website.
The reason cited was GE Vernova’s pivot from a new 18-megawatt turbine to their existing 15.5-megawatt device.
Without the larger turbines, developers would have to build more wind towers, which would add to the cost.
The Port of Coeymans had initially been identified as the facility where GE Vernova was going to build some of their turbines and blades, as well as LM Wind Power blades.
But with the Attentive project also halted, at least in the near term the port won’t be hosting a turbine factory.
Port officials, though, stressed that work is proceeding for two other wind projects that are currently under construction off Long Island: Empire Wind from Equinor and Sunrise from Orsted, two Scandinavian companies that are major global developers of offshore wind farms.
Both the Port of Coeymans and GE Vernova said they haven’t given up on the idea of building turbines and blades in Coeymans.
end quotes
For the record, the port of Coeymans, which is on the Hudson River in corrupt, backwards, Democrat-controlled New York state is about ONE HUNDRED FORTY MILES from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean.
Going back to the story of BIDEN INSANE GREEN DREAM FAILURE, it continues as follows:
“The offshore wind industry still presents a tremendous opportunity for New York state,” Carver Companies Chief Operating Officer Nick Laraway said in a statement.
The Carver Companies owns and operates the Port of Coeymans.
“The Port of Coeymans will continue supporting offshore wind projects Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind as announced by the state earlier this year,” Laraway added.
The port is handling some of the steel needed for the Sunrise project, and will supply aggregate stone for Empire Wind.
The number of people working on the steel and aggregate supplies at the Port of Coeymans wasn’t immediately available.
GE Vernova also said it remains committed to the Port of Coeymans as a site for any future construction needs.
The wind developers said their cancellation followed a change in plans by GE Vernova: The power spinoff of General Electric Co. earlier this year said it was focusing on producing more “workhorse” 15.5-megawatt turbines rather than the newer and more complex 18-MW variant.
The company said there is plenty of demand for the 15.5-megawatt models as well as the 3- and 6-megawatt turbines it builds for land-based wind farms.
The Port of Coeymans isn’t the only spot along the Hudson River in the Capital Region to be buffeted by what has become a volatile offshore wind industry.
Three and a half years ago, local politicians and business boosters cheered news that the Port of Albany, about nine miles north of Coeymans, would host a turnkey factory for the construction of the massive steel towers that support the offshore turbines to be used in Equinor’s projects.
But a year later, port officials said the costs of building the factory had grown from early estimates of $350 million to $604 million.
For now, the site is prepared and shovel-ready, but no construction has started due to a lack of funds.
Both Coeymans and Albany, though, remain prime spots for wind development, with lower costs than the New York City area and access to the Hudson River, where barges can haul items like towers and turbines to wind farm locations off the Atlantic Coast.
“The fundamentals of both Coeymans and the Port of Albany are both compelling,” remarked Fred Zalcman, director of the NY Offshore Wind Alliance, a trade group of wind developers.
“Even if this didn’t pan out, I do believe there will be other opportunities down the road,” he said.
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And that is the news, people, stay tuned, more is yet to come!
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Paul Plante says:
And hey, hey, hey, people JOBS, JOBS, JOBS and even more jobs on top of all those jobs!
SCADS of them thanks to American president and noted and well-loved world leader Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, into whose strong and loving hands we have entrusted Joe with custodianship of the SOUL OF AMERICA, thanks to his INSANE GREEN DREAM which is going to literally coat the oceans of America, east and west, with so many windmills it won’t be funny, and America is going to get so RICH, RICH, RICH selling electric power to the rest of the world that not only will our federal deficit of $33 TRILLION be wiped out literally overnight, but all our taxes will be canceled and not only that, but the federal government will have so much extra money it won’t know what to do with, so each and every one of us will get a MILLION DOLLAR ROYALTY CHECK each year in time for BLACK FRIDAY sales, and life in America will be glorious, thanks to Joe Biden and BUILD BACK BETTER BIDENOMICS which has built the NEW AMERICAN ECONOMY from the BOTTOM UP and the MIDDLE OUT so sing hallelujah, people, and say AMEN, because as we can see in this Albany, New York Times Union article titled “New York offshore wind projects scrapped, along with promise of local jobs – GE Vernova was to build turbines at Port of Coeymans, but that is canceled for now” by Rick Karlin on April 22, 2024, the GOOD TIMES promised by Joe Biden are finally here at last:
COEYMANS — Just over a year ago, state and corporate executives were heralding what they said could be some 870 high-paying jobs at the Port of Coeymans that would involve assembling offshore wind turbine engines and blades built by GE Vernova and LM Wind Power.
But last week, those jobs vanished — at least for now — before they were ever created.
end quotes
And talk about BIDEN BOBAUNCE (ostentatious or boastful behavior, vain display, worldly vanity) and all these HIGH-PAYING GOOD UNION JOBS Joe Biden says he has “created,” there is the true Biden job creation right there in front of us, numbers on pieces of paper that mean nothing in the reality that exists outside of white house press releases – a pocketful of mumbles such are Joe Biden’s promises, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
That’s because two major offshore wind farms that were going to use the port as a fabrication area canceled their plans.
However, executives at the Port of Coeymans say they intend to continue expanding despite the cancellation of the Attentive and Community Offshore wind projects off the coast of Long Island.
The cancellations were just the latest of several similar reversals along the East Coast over the last year that illustrate the variables and cost challenges facing the push by both New York and the Biden administration to develop coastal wind as a major energy source.
Both the 1,314-megawatt Community Offshore project proposed by RWE, as well as the 1,404-megawatt Attentive project from Rise Power and Light and the French energy giant Total were canceled last week.
The news was listed on the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s website, and was first reported by Politico.
“No final awards will be made … and NYSERDA will look to advance a future competitive solicitation,” the agency stated on its website.
The reason cited was GE Vernova’s pivot from a new 18-megawatt turbine to their existing 15.5-megawatt device.
Without the larger turbines, developers would have to build more wind towers, which would add to the cost.
The Port of Coeymans had initially been identified as the facility where GE Vernova was going to build some of their turbines and blades, as well as LM Wind Power blades.
But with the Attentive project also halted, at least in the near term the port won’t be hosting a turbine factory.
Port officials, though, stressed that work is proceeding for two other wind projects that are currently under construction off Long Island: Empire Wind from Equinor and Sunrise from Orsted, two Scandinavian companies that are major global developers of offshore wind farms.
Both the Port of Coeymans and GE Vernova said they haven’t given up on the idea of building turbines and blades in Coeymans.
end quotes
For the record, the port of Coeymans, which is on the Hudson River in corrupt, backwards, Democrat-controlled New York state is about ONE HUNDRED FORTY MILES from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean.
Going back to the story of BIDEN INSANE GREEN DREAM FAILURE, it continues as follows:
“The offshore wind industry still presents a tremendous opportunity for New York state,” Carver Companies Chief Operating Officer Nick Laraway said in a statement.
The Carver Companies owns and operates the Port of Coeymans.
“The Port of Coeymans will continue supporting offshore wind projects Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind as announced by the state earlier this year,” Laraway added.
The port is handling some of the steel needed for the Sunrise project, and will supply aggregate stone for Empire Wind.
The number of people working on the steel and aggregate supplies at the Port of Coeymans wasn’t immediately available.
GE Vernova also said it remains committed to the Port of Coeymans as a site for any future construction needs.
The wind developers said their cancellation followed a change in plans by GE Vernova: The power spinoff of General Electric Co. earlier this year said it was focusing on producing more “workhorse” 15.5-megawatt turbines rather than the newer and more complex 18-MW variant.
The company said there is plenty of demand for the 15.5-megawatt models as well as the 3- and 6-megawatt turbines it builds for land-based wind farms.
The Port of Coeymans isn’t the only spot along the Hudson River in the Capital Region to be buffeted by what has become a volatile offshore wind industry.
Three and a half years ago, local politicians and business boosters cheered news that the Port of Albany, about nine miles north of Coeymans, would host a turnkey factory for the construction of the massive steel towers that support the offshore turbines to be used in Equinor’s projects.
But a year later, port officials said the costs of building the factory had grown from early estimates of $350 million to $604 million.
For now, the site is prepared and shovel-ready, but no construction has started due to a lack of funds.
Both Coeymans and Albany, though, remain prime spots for wind development, with lower costs than the New York City area and access to the Hudson River, where barges can haul items like towers and turbines to wind farm locations off the Atlantic Coast.
“The fundamentals of both Coeymans and the Port of Albany are both compelling,” remarked Fred Zalcman, director of the NY Offshore Wind Alliance, a trade group of wind developers.
“Even if this didn’t pan out, I do believe there will be other opportunities down the road,” he said.
end quotes
And that is the news, people, stay tuned, more is yet to come!
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR APRIL 29, 2024 AT 11:56 AM
Paul R Plante, NYSPE says:
Following up on a perceptive comment elsewhere in here by Kim @ APRIL 28, 2024 AT 1:23 PM concerning these “government grants” of money coming down to localities from the federal government, where Kim remarks quite correctly that “local governments just view this as ‘free money,’“ and further following up on a comment made by myself above here @ APRIL 17, 2024 AT 5:49 PM, where I remarked that the last several days of my apparent quietude in here, as has again been the case these last so many days, is because I am forced by circumstances way beyond my control, like trying to stop a train wreck, to instead be “out there” in what these days passes for the “real” world, where I am embroiled in a controversy splitting my small community which is a direct outcome of what happens when BIDEN INFRASTRUCTURE MONEY is mindlessly made available to small towns like mine for alleged “infrastructure” improvements, which small towns, to get their hands on what they consider “free money,” a windfall of riches into their pockets courtesy of the federal government in Washington, D.C., have to promise to put their local taxpayers in hock for a certain percentage of the project cost, whether those taxpayers want or need the project, in this case a public water supply for a school that already has a public water supply, without we who are the taxpayers having any say in the matter, period, largely because the process of actually getting that money, being entirely political in nature, is going on behind closed doors with absolutely no transparency for the affected taxpayers of whom I am one, as can be seen beginning @6:34 into this video of the April 11, 2024 Poestenkill, New York town board meeting ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc0BOo3NIa4 ) where I go ballistic with respect to us being lied to and misled as I vent some incandescent rage at a corrupt town board for selling us into debt slavery to get their hands on some $5,277,567 of grant money of which $670,367 is coming from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law-EC grant, and $1,693,ooo in a congressional community project funding grant from Kirsten Gillibrand, with us in a small community being on the hook for a minimum of $272,433, subject to cost overruns we will also be on the hook for, all based upon an imaginary crisis at local middle school as the need for the grant money.
In other words, to get their hands on this “free government money,” the Poestenkill town board simply lied, knowing they could and would get away with it, because first of all, given the secrecy, who would even know, and then, once they did find out, which always happens, other than vent some fury about it, as I am seen and heard doing in that video, and make some noise, which goes away real soon, what can they do about it?
Which takes us to a letter on the subject I just sent out this morning to Democrat New York state governor Kathy Hochul wherein was stated as follows, to wit:
29 APRIL 2024
The Honorable Kathy Hochul
Governor of New York State
NYS State Capitol Building
Albany, NY 12224
RE: Questionable WIIA Grants in Town of Poestenkill, Rensselaer County; Condemnation by Poestenkill Town Board of Algonquin Middle School carbon filtration system paid for in part by WIIA Grant as inadequate to protect children’s health; An incredible waste of taxpayer dollars
Dear Governor Hochul:
I am writing to you as a concerned taxpayer of the Averill Park Central School District, which district serves the needs of elementary, secondary, and special education students residing in the towns of Berlin, Brunswick, East Greenbush, Nassau, North Greenbush, Poestenkill, Sand Lake, Schodack and Stephentown concerning a $90,000 Water Infrastructure Improvement (WIIA) and Intermunicipal Grant awarded by your office in its wisdom on May 11, 2023 to the Averill Park Central School District and its Board of Education through the State Environmental Facilities Corporation for the effective treatment of drinking water at Algonquin Middle School in Poestenkill (T), Rensselaer County by installing granular activated carbon vessels for PFAS treatment at the Algonquin Middle School.
At the time your office awarded this WIIA Grant to the Averill Park School District less than a year ago on May 11, 2023, you were quoted as saying “New York is committed to providing communities with the resources needed to upgrade water systems and improve water quality,” and “We are continuing our nation-leading clean water investments with $500 million for clean water infrastructure in this year’s budget helping to protect the health and safety of our residents, preserve our environment, and improve quality of life for all with access to safe, reliable and clean water,” which is why your office awarded that WIIA grant, which act by your office we thought was fully supported by the following language from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in a February 2022 Community Update to the people of Poestenkill, to wit:
Beginning in December 2021, the school installed a granular activated carbon (GAC) system to provide effective long-term treatment of the contaminants to ensure clean water for the school community.
end quote
What happened subsequent thereto is that the Town Board of Poestenkill, acting in its capacity as the Board of Health of the town of Poestenkill where the Algonquin Middle School is physically located, in conjunction with its Public Health Coordinator, a professional position in Poestenkill involving responsibility for supervision of the environmental health program of the Poestenkill Department of Health, and whose work involves the enforcement of state Public Health Laws relating to public water supplies in Poestenkill, appointed a Blue Ribbon Select Commission of Investigation headed up by Poestenkill councilman Eric Wohlleber and comprised of the best scientific and legal minds in Poestenkill including former Obama EPA administrator Judith Enck, which Blue Ribbon Investigatory Commission was charged by the Poestenkill town board in its capacity as Poestenkill board of health with conducting an independent investigation of the charcoal filters paid for in part by the WIIA Grant awarded by your office to the Averill Park School District on May 11, 2023.
As a result of that investigation, the findings of which were released at a public information meeting in Poestenkill on April 25, 2024, it was determined by the Poestenkill town board acting in its capacity as the Town of Poestenkill Board of Health that the carbon filtration system at the Algonquin School paid for in part by the $90,000 WIIA Grant awarded by your office on May 11, 2023 should be condemned and withdrawn from service as it is in essence a piece of junk that fails to protect the health and well-being of the students, faculty and staff of the Algonquin School, that the system is no good, that when your office awarded the Grant, it didn’t know what it was doing, and that in the learned opinion of the Poestenkill town board, its public health coordinator, and its Blue Ribbon Select Commission of Investigation, Tomhannock Reservoir water would better protect the health and safety of the children who are students at the Algonquin Middle School, along with faculty and staff, while preserving the environment in Poestenkill, and improving quality of life for all in the Algonquin Middle School in Poestenkill with access to safe, reliable and clean water from the City of Troy piped through the Town of Brunswick, and then through the Town of Poestenkill, for which purpose the town of Poestenkill is about to obtain another WIIA Grant of $2,314,200 to run a special water main to the school and to dismantle and scrap the carbon filtration system the May 11, 2023 WIIA Grant awarded by your office in part paid for.
Which raises the important question of how on earth this fiscal fiasco could have happened in the first place, where the State Environmental Facilities Corporation approved a $90,000 grant to the Averill Park Central School District for something worthless, and is now forced to have to award a $2,314,200 WIIA Grant to the town board of Poestenkill to undo and correct the harm done by the $90,000 WIIA Grant on May 11, 2023 to the Board of Education of the Averill Park Central School District that paid in part for a system the town board of Poestenkill acting as board of health of Poestenkill has determined is an unsafe piece of junk by dismantling and scrapping the charcoal filters and ordering the Averill Park School Board to hook up to Poestenkill’s municipal water supply, instead.
Thanking you in advance for a prompt response to this taxpayer inquiry, I remain
Respectfully,
Paul R. Plante
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Paul R Plante, NYSPE says:
Following up on a perceptive comment elsewhere in here by Kim @ APRIL 28, 2024 AT 1:23 PM concerning these “government grants” of money coming down to localities from the federal government, where Kim remarks quite correctly that “local governments just view this as ‘free money,’“ and further following up on a comment made by myself above here @ APRIL 17, 2024 AT 5:49 PM, where I remarked that the last several days of my apparent quietude in here, as has again been the case these last so many days, is because I am forced by circumstances way beyond my control, like trying to stop a train wreck, to instead be “out there” in what these days passes for the “real” world, where I am embroiled in a controversy splitting my small community which is a direct outcome of what happens when BIDEN INFRASTRUCTURE MONEY is mindlessly made available to small towns like mine for alleged “infrastructure” improvements, which small towns, to get their hands on what they consider “free money,” a windfall of riches into their pockets courtesy of the federal government in Washington, D.C., have to promise to put their local taxpayers in hock for a certain percentage of the project cost, whether those taxpayers want or need the project, in this case a public water supply for a school that already has a public water supply, without we who are the taxpayers having any say in the matter, period, largely because the process of actually getting that money, being entirely political in nature, is going on behind closed doors with absolutely no transparency for the affected taxpayers of whom I am one, as can be seen beginning @6:34 into this video of the April 11, 2024 Poestenkill, New York town board meeting ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc0BOo3NIa4 ) where I go ballistic with respect to us being lied to and misled as I vent some incandescent rage at a corrupt town board for selling us into debt slavery to get their hands on some $5,277,567 of grant money of which $670,367 is coming from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law-EC grant, and $1,693,ooo in a congressional community project funding grant from Kirsten Gillibrand, with us in a small community being on the hook for a minimum of $272,433, subject to cost overruns we will also be on the hook for, all based upon an imaginary crisis at local middle school as the need for the grant money.
In other words, to get their hands on this “free government money,” the Poestenkill town board simply lied, knowing they could and would get away with it, because first of all, given the secrecy, who would even know, and then, once they did find out, which always happens, other than vent some fury about it, as I am seen and heard doing in that video, and make some noise, which goes away real soon, what can they do about it?
Which takes us to a letter on the subject I just sent out this morning to Democrat New York state governor Kathy Hochul wherein was stated as follows, to wit:
29 APRIL 2024
The Honorable Kathy Hochul
Governor of New York State
NYS State Capitol Building
Albany, NY 12224
RE: Questionable WIIA Grants in Town of Poestenkill, Rensselaer County; Condemnation by Poestenkill Town Board of Algonquin Middle School carbon filtration system paid for in part by WIIA Grant as inadequate to protect children’s health; An incredible waste of taxpayer dollars
Dear Governor Hochul:
I am writing to you as a concerned taxpayer of the Averill Park Central School District, which district serves the needs of elementary, secondary, and special education students residing in the towns of Berlin, Brunswick, East Greenbush, Nassau, North Greenbush, Poestenkill, Sand Lake, Schodack and Stephentown concerning a $90,000 Water Infrastructure Improvement (WIIA) and Intermunicipal Grant awarded by your office in its wisdom on May 11, 2023 to the Averill Park Central School District and its Board of Education through the State Environmental Facilities Corporation for the effective treatment of drinking water at Algonquin Middle School in Poestenkill (T), Rensselaer County by installing granular activated carbon vessels for PFAS treatment at the Algonquin Middle School.
At the time your office awarded this WIIA Grant to the Averill Park School District less than a year ago on May 11, 2023, you were quoted as saying “New York is committed to providing communities with the resources needed to upgrade water systems and improve water quality,” and “We are continuing our nation-leading clean water investments with $500 million for clean water infrastructure in this year’s budget helping to protect the health and safety of our residents, preserve our environment, and improve quality of life for all with access to safe, reliable and clean water,” which is why your office awarded that WIIA grant, which act by your office we thought was fully supported by the following language from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in a February 2022 Community Update to the people of Poestenkill, to wit:
Beginning in December 2021, the school installed a granular activated carbon (GAC) system to provide effective long-term treatment of the contaminants to ensure clean water for the school community.
end quote
What happened subsequent thereto is that the Town Board of Poestenkill, acting in its capacity as the Board of Health of the town of Poestenkill where the Algonquin Middle School is physically located, in conjunction with its Public Health Coordinator, a professional position in Poestenkill involving responsibility for supervision of the environmental health program of the Poestenkill Department of Health, and whose work involves the enforcement of state Public Health Laws relating to public water supplies in Poestenkill, appointed a Blue Ribbon Select Commission of Investigation headed up by Poestenkill councilman Eric Wohlleber and comprised of the best scientific and legal minds in Poestenkill including former Obama EPA administrator Judith Enck, which Blue Ribbon Investigatory Commission was charged by the Poestenkill town board in its capacity as Poestenkill board of health with conducting an independent investigation of the charcoal filters paid for in part by the WIIA Grant awarded by your office to the Averill Park School District on May 11, 2023.
As a result of that investigation, the findings of which were released at a public information meeting in Poestenkill on April 25, 2024, it was determined by the Poestenkill town board acting in its capacity as the Town of Poestenkill Board of Health that the carbon filtration system at the Algonquin School paid for in part by the $90,000 WIIA Grant awarded by your office on May 11, 2023 should be condemned and withdrawn from service as it is in essence a piece of junk that fails to protect the health and well-being of the students, faculty and staff of the Algonquin School, that the system is no good, that when your office awarded the Grant, it didn’t know what it was doing, and that in the learned opinion of the Poestenkill town board, its public health coordinator, and its Blue Ribbon Select Commission of Investigation, Tomhannock Reservoir water would better protect the health and safety of the children who are students at the Algonquin Middle School, along with faculty and staff, while preserving the environment in Poestenkill, and improving quality of life for all in the Algonquin Middle School in Poestenkill with access to safe, reliable and clean water from the City of Troy piped through the Town of Brunswick, and then through the Town of Poestenkill, for which purpose the town of Poestenkill is about to obtain another WIIA Grant of $2,314,200 to run a special water main to the school and to dismantle and scrap the carbon filtration system the May 11, 2023 WIIA Grant awarded by your office in part paid for.
Which raises the important question of how on earth this fiscal fiasco could have happened in the first place, where the State Environmental Facilities Corporation approved a $90,000 grant to the Averill Park Central School District for something worthless, and is now forced to have to award a $2,314,200 WIIA Grant to the town board of Poestenkill to undo and correct the harm done by the $90,000 WIIA Grant on May 11, 2023 to the Board of Education of the Averill Park Central School District that paid in part for a system the town board of Poestenkill acting as board of health of Poestenkill has determined is an unsafe piece of junk by dismantling and scrapping the charcoal filters and ordering the Averill Park School Board to hook up to Poestenkill’s municipal water supply, instead.
Thanking you in advance for a prompt response to this taxpayer inquiry, I remain
Respectfully,
Paul R. Plante
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR APRIL 30, 2024 AT 5:12 PM
Paul R Plante, NYSPE says:
To understand what is going on here some 476.2 miles to the north of Cape Charles when I say I am embroiled in a controversy splitting my small community, it must first be understood that this particular controversy is a direct outcome of what happens when BIDEN INFRASTRUCTURE MONEY is mindlessly made available to small towns like mine for alleged “infrastructure” improvements, in this case allegedly providing municipal water to a school that already has its own water supply, which controversy dividing the community in this case involving what I would say is a CLASSIC TEXTBOOK CASE of blatant TAXPAYER FRAUD with these two WIIA grants, one to put something in, the other to tear that something back out and replace it with something else again, which project is going to reap that class of persons I call GRANT GRIFTERS (con artists: someone who swindles people out of money through fraud; as in “I see these consultants as grifters who prey upon people”) as is the case here, a minimum of $395,000 for “engineering,” plus $140,000 for what they call “construction observation,” with another $100,000 for what they are calling “legal/administrative” costs, plus $60,000 for what they call “geotechnical,” $65,000 for “survey and mapping,” and $7,500 for “environmental,” whatever in fact that might be, so all in all a nice paycheck for the consultants, who have an inside political track as middlemen for these state and federal grants, which is why these small towns use them, or perhaps more properly, why these GRANT GRIFTERS use these small towns as an excuse to tap into more state and federal money, no questions asked and EVERYBODY involved is very happy, while the taxpayers footing the bills are getting royally screwed with no voice whatsoever in the matter, period, as how these grants are obtained is a totally closed process, and to get their hands on what they consider “free money” these GRANT GRIFTERS are promising them, in this case a windfall of riches into their pockets courtesy of the federal government in Washington, D.C. to the tune of $670,367 from Joe Biden and $1,693,000 from Kirsten Gillibrand to tear out what was paid for by a $90,000 WIIA grant in May of 2023, the town board has to promise to put their local taxpayers in hock for a certain percentage of the project cost, whether those taxpayers want or need the project, in this case a public water supply for a school that already has a public water supply, without we who are the taxpayers having any say in the matter, period, largely because, as was said above, the process of actually getting that money, being entirely political in nature, is going on behind closed doors with absolutely no transparency for the affected taxpayers of whom I am one.
As to HOW the community is being split, this following article from a local newsletter I started in imitation of the Cape Charles Mirror, given I have no other voice in my small community, where to be an “anti” is to be a pariah and an “outsider,” notwithstanding I have lived there for over 70 years now, gives a good understanding of where this matter has escalated to in the last so many days. to wit:
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill
April 29th 2024 Edition
“THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM – AN INCREDIBLE WASTE OF TAXPAYER MONEY AND HOW ‘SLIPPERY TOM’ SAVED LABERGE’S BACON”
So, as we concerned taxpayers can clearly see here, what Poestenkill and Laberge are pushing for with their bush-league, amateur hour scam on the taxpayers in order to put some huge coin in Laberge’s pockets at taxpayer expense is an incredible, irresponsible and deliberate waste of taxpayer dollars, because there already has been one $90,000 WIIA grant made in May of 2023 to install granular activated carbon vessels for PFAS treatment at the Algonquin Middle School, and what Laberge and Poestenkill are trying to get with this water district no. 2 FLIM-FLAM of theirs is a second $2,314,299 WIIA grant for Poestenkill to take the brand-new carbon filters paid for by the first WIIA grant and toss them in the garbage, scrap them, and instead replace them with Troy water paid for by the second WIIA grant and the people of Poestenkill.
As to the very skillful map scam Democrat Poestenkill supervisor Tom Russell is pulling on us here with his water district no. 2 FLIM-FLAM, as the Democrat plays every dirty, slippery, oily, slimy political trick in his extensive arsenal developed, honed and polished during his time as Keith Hammond’s Poestenkill planning board chairman in his bid to be a hero in the eyes of his masters the Laberge Group, from whom the Democrat takes his marching orders, as was made incandescently clear to all on April 3, 2024 at the so-called “water district no. 2 information hearing” at the Poestenkill fire house, where no record of the proceeding was made, there is a good shot of the bogus map with no title block being called water district no. 2 by Laberge and the Poestenkill town board at 26:37 in the Youtube video of the April 25, 2024 water district no. 2 comic opera farce, which farce one would expect to encounter in the pages of National Lampoon, not in real life, said farce conducted by “Slippery Tom” Russell, an honorific (a title expressing high status and respect) awarded to the Democrat by those in Poestenkill qualified to render such judgments, and that is high praise indeed awarded there for Mr. Russel’s stellar performance of both knowledge of and proficiency at the venerable art and science of SLIMEBALL and GUTTER politics as a Laberge shill that evening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8r1X3GYZE8 , begins at 27.30.
As to that bogus “map” and what caused Poestenkill councilman Burzesi, like myself and Ronald Laberge a licensed professional engineer in New York subject to Section 29 of the Rules of the NY Board of Regents which make it clear as glass to each of us that unprofessional conduct in the practice of professional engineering shall include conduct in the practice of the profession which evidences moral unfitness to practice the profession, and/or being associated in a professional capacity with any project or practice known to the licensee to be fraudulent or dishonest in character, rules I am accused of taking far too seriously in Poestenkill, where “fast and loose” are the order of the day, unless you are the Shuhart’s, to run squealing to the supervisor about the need to stifle and thwart me at the April 25, 2024 FARCE the Democrat called a “public hearing” by not allowing me to question Laberge, which should have happened in a legitimate public hearing, on Tue, April 23, 2024 @ 1:58 PM, I sent the following e-mail to councilman Burzesi, to wit:
I don’t know about you, Frank, because each of us has to set their own moral compass here in a town where feeding off the taxpayers isn’t a crime and dishonesty is not a federal offence, but I have called out this Laberge for being dishonest (at the May 11, 2023 public hearing), and I intend to do so again Thursday night, and I am going to question him about the specific meaning of the language in his engineering certification of 29 August 2022, what exactly was it that he was certifying, did his certification include the map he had taken pains to put in his report?
And I am going to ask the town board to clarify exactly what it was they were listing as an unlisted action in September of 2022 and then gave a neg. dec. to.
And Frank, seriously, and I am speaking as a town resident, both you and Tom Russell have absolutely no claim whatsoever to ignorance here as to what is going on with this MAP SCAM.
Tom Russell was planning board chairman responsible for administering DUE PROCESS and the town code, plus he was the town’s chief SEQRA compliance officer, so he can’t say he has no idea what is going on here.
You were zoning board chairman responsible for INTERPRETING the town code, and you also administered SEQRA.
So how come you think you can slide by me this tall tale or outright lie that the map referred in the hearing notice for the May 11, 2023 hearing as having been accepted by the Poestenkill town board in AUGUST of 2022 is that map of a segment presented at the May 11, 2023 hearing, and again by the town at the April 3, 2024 hearing?
Do you honestly think I am that stupid so as to actually believe that falsehood?
Would be silly on your part, Frank, if you were foolish enough to make that mistake because Keith Hammond told you I was a RETARD and you believed him.
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Paul R Plante, NYSPE says:
To understand what is going on here some 476.2 miles to the north of Cape Charles when I say I am embroiled in a controversy splitting my small community, it must first be understood that this particular controversy is a direct outcome of what happens when BIDEN INFRASTRUCTURE MONEY is mindlessly made available to small towns like mine for alleged “infrastructure” improvements, in this case allegedly providing municipal water to a school that already has its own water supply, which controversy dividing the community in this case involving what I would say is a CLASSIC TEXTBOOK CASE of blatant TAXPAYER FRAUD with these two WIIA grants, one to put something in, the other to tear that something back out and replace it with something else again, which project is going to reap that class of persons I call GRANT GRIFTERS (con artists: someone who swindles people out of money through fraud; as in “I see these consultants as grifters who prey upon people”) as is the case here, a minimum of $395,000 for “engineering,” plus $140,000 for what they call “construction observation,” with another $100,000 for what they are calling “legal/administrative” costs, plus $60,000 for what they call “geotechnical,” $65,000 for “survey and mapping,” and $7,500 for “environmental,” whatever in fact that might be, so all in all a nice paycheck for the consultants, who have an inside political track as middlemen for these state and federal grants, which is why these small towns use them, or perhaps more properly, why these GRANT GRIFTERS use these small towns as an excuse to tap into more state and federal money, no questions asked and EVERYBODY involved is very happy, while the taxpayers footing the bills are getting royally screwed with no voice whatsoever in the matter, period, as how these grants are obtained is a totally closed process, and to get their hands on what they consider “free money” these GRANT GRIFTERS are promising them, in this case a windfall of riches into their pockets courtesy of the federal government in Washington, D.C. to the tune of $670,367 from Joe Biden and $1,693,000 from Kirsten Gillibrand to tear out what was paid for by a $90,000 WIIA grant in May of 2023, the town board has to promise to put their local taxpayers in hock for a certain percentage of the project cost, whether those taxpayers want or need the project, in this case a public water supply for a school that already has a public water supply, without we who are the taxpayers having any say in the matter, period, largely because, as was said above, the process of actually getting that money, being entirely political in nature, is going on behind closed doors with absolutely no transparency for the affected taxpayers of whom I am one.
As to HOW the community is being split, this following article from a local newsletter I started in imitation of the Cape Charles Mirror, given I have no other voice in my small community, where to be an “anti” is to be a pariah and an “outsider,” notwithstanding I have lived there for over 70 years now, gives a good understanding of where this matter has escalated to in the last so many days. to wit:
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill
April 29th 2024 Edition
“THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM – AN INCREDIBLE WASTE OF TAXPAYER MONEY AND HOW ‘SLIPPERY TOM’ SAVED LABERGE’S BACON”
So, as we concerned taxpayers can clearly see here, what Poestenkill and Laberge are pushing for with their bush-league, amateur hour scam on the taxpayers in order to put some huge coin in Laberge’s pockets at taxpayer expense is an incredible, irresponsible and deliberate waste of taxpayer dollars, because there already has been one $90,000 WIIA grant made in May of 2023 to install granular activated carbon vessels for PFAS treatment at the Algonquin Middle School, and what Laberge and Poestenkill are trying to get with this water district no. 2 FLIM-FLAM of theirs is a second $2,314,299 WIIA grant for Poestenkill to take the brand-new carbon filters paid for by the first WIIA grant and toss them in the garbage, scrap them, and instead replace them with Troy water paid for by the second WIIA grant and the people of Poestenkill.
As to the very skillful map scam Democrat Poestenkill supervisor Tom Russell is pulling on us here with his water district no. 2 FLIM-FLAM, as the Democrat plays every dirty, slippery, oily, slimy political trick in his extensive arsenal developed, honed and polished during his time as Keith Hammond’s Poestenkill planning board chairman in his bid to be a hero in the eyes of his masters the Laberge Group, from whom the Democrat takes his marching orders, as was made incandescently clear to all on April 3, 2024 at the so-called “water district no. 2 information hearing” at the Poestenkill fire house, where no record of the proceeding was made, there is a good shot of the bogus map with no title block being called water district no. 2 by Laberge and the Poestenkill town board at 26:37 in the Youtube video of the April 25, 2024 water district no. 2 comic opera farce, which farce one would expect to encounter in the pages of National Lampoon, not in real life, said farce conducted by “Slippery Tom” Russell, an honorific (a title expressing high status and respect) awarded to the Democrat by those in Poestenkill qualified to render such judgments, and that is high praise indeed awarded there for Mr. Russel’s stellar performance of both knowledge of and proficiency at the venerable art and science of SLIMEBALL and GUTTER politics as a Laberge shill that evening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8r1X3GYZE8 , begins at 27.30.
As to that bogus “map” and what caused Poestenkill councilman Burzesi, like myself and Ronald Laberge a licensed professional engineer in New York subject to Section 29 of the Rules of the NY Board of Regents which make it clear as glass to each of us that unprofessional conduct in the practice of professional engineering shall include conduct in the practice of the profession which evidences moral unfitness to practice the profession, and/or being associated in a professional capacity with any project or practice known to the licensee to be fraudulent or dishonest in character, rules I am accused of taking far too seriously in Poestenkill, where “fast and loose” are the order of the day, unless you are the Shuhart’s, to run squealing to the supervisor about the need to stifle and thwart me at the April 25, 2024 FARCE the Democrat called a “public hearing” by not allowing me to question Laberge, which should have happened in a legitimate public hearing, on Tue, April 23, 2024 @ 1:58 PM, I sent the following e-mail to councilman Burzesi, to wit:
I don’t know about you, Frank, because each of us has to set their own moral compass here in a town where feeding off the taxpayers isn’t a crime and dishonesty is not a federal offence, but I have called out this Laberge for being dishonest (at the May 11, 2023 public hearing), and I intend to do so again Thursday night, and I am going to question him about the specific meaning of the language in his engineering certification of 29 August 2022, what exactly was it that he was certifying, did his certification include the map he had taken pains to put in his report?
And I am going to ask the town board to clarify exactly what it was they were listing as an unlisted action in September of 2022 and then gave a neg. dec. to.
And Frank, seriously, and I am speaking as a town resident, both you and Tom Russell have absolutely no claim whatsoever to ignorance here as to what is going on with this MAP SCAM.
Tom Russell was planning board chairman responsible for administering DUE PROCESS and the town code, plus he was the town’s chief SEQRA compliance officer, so he can’t say he has no idea what is going on here.
You were zoning board chairman responsible for INTERPRETING the town code, and you also administered SEQRA.
So how come you think you can slide by me this tall tale or outright lie that the map referred in the hearing notice for the May 11, 2023 hearing as having been accepted by the Poestenkill town board in AUGUST of 2022 is that map of a segment presented at the May 11, 2023 hearing, and again by the town at the April 3, 2024 hearing?
Do you honestly think I am that stupid so as to actually believe that falsehood?
Would be silly on your part, Frank, if you were foolish enough to make that mistake because Keith Hammond told you I was a RETARD and you believed him.
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 2, 2024 AT 9:28 PM
Paul Plante says:
Getting back to lawless BIDE-O-NISM for the moment, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “Yellen to warn that eroding US democracy, Fed, threatens economic growth” by David Lawder on May 1, 2024, where we have Joe Biden’s treasury secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen wadding up the Hatch Act into a crumpled ball and wiping her backside with it, to make sure we all know how both she and Joe hold the concept of RULE OF LAW in contempt, and yet, “TOODLES” has the unmitigated gall to talk about “strong democratic institutions” like a law-abiding executive office, which we DO NOT have with Joe Biden in power, being a key foundation to shared growth and prosperity, which we most certainly DO NOT have under Joe Biden, as we are seeing with this story about GRANT GRIFTERISM above here, to wit:
WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will make the argument on Friday that strong democratic institutions — including an independent Federal Reserve — are a key foundation for sustained and shared growth and prosperity, according to excerpts of remarks released by the Treasury.
end quotes
And we DO NOT have an independent federal reserve, either, regardless of any BLATHER from “TOODLES” Yellen to the contrary, which takes us back to Reuters for more, to wit:
Yellen, in an address to the McCain Institute’s Sedona Forum in Arizona, will say that rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021 put democracy under threat, “spurred by a lie,” according to the excerpts released on Wednesday.
“Undercutting democracy undercuts a foundation of sustainable and inclusive growth,” Yellen will say in the remarks.
The speech, at a Republican-founded institution in the important election battleground state of Arizona, is expected to be among Yellen’s most political addresses as Treasury secretary.
end quotes
And as a member of Joe’s cabinet, the Hatch Act most certainly does apply to the conduct of “TOODLES” Yellen, but she doesn’t care because she doesn’t have to care, because under “LAWLESS JOE” Biden, the Hatch Act has been rendered null and void, which takes us back to “TOODLES” playing politics on the Joe Biden campaign trail, as a Biden shill or cheerleader, to wit:
It is significant in that she will stray from promoting President Joe Biden’s economic policies into a key argument that his campaign is making against Republican rival Donald Trump: that Trump put democracy at risk by egging on the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters at the end of his presidential term and is likely to further erode institutions if elected to a second term.
end quotes
“PROOF” of something actually existing, such as the future, under Joe Biden, does not have to exist for “TOODLES” Yellen to say something does exist in the future, such as what “TOODLES” is saying about Trump being likely to further erode institutions if elected to a second term, which is SLIMEBALL POLITICS at its finest by “TOODLES” who doesn’t mind violating the Hatch Act by smearing Trump, while in the real world, the world “IVORY TOWER TOODLES” Yellen DOES NOT live in, and is totally unaware of, it is Joe Biden who has been doing exactly that, eroding democratic institutions such as the so-called and misnamed department of justice since he came into office, which takes us back to Reuters, to wit:
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Trump allies are drafting proposals that would attempt to erode the Federal Reserve’s independence and give Trump more influence over the central bank if he wins in November.
Yellen will make a plug for maintaining Fed independence in her speech.
“As Chair of the Federal Reserve, I insisted on the Fed’s independence and transparency because I believe it matters for financial stability and economic growth,” Yellen will say, according to the excerpts.
end quotes
As Chair of the Federal Reserve, “TOODLES” Yellen insisted on the Fed’s independence”
That’s hogwash and bull**** as we clearly see by going to the Foreign Policy magazine article titled “Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi Have One Last Job – The U.S. treasury secretary and the Italian prime minister have spent decades shaping this economy. But can they control what comes next?” by Adam Tooze, a columnist at Foreign Policy and director of the European Institute at Columbia University on April 1, 2021, to wit:
For the last 30 years, both Yellen and Draghi have held positions of high authority, culminating in the period between 2014 and 2018 when they overlapped as the heads of the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank (ECB), respectively, the two most powerful central banks in the world.
They were chosen to wield power based on their expertise and judgment but also because they aligned with the prevailing brand of centrist politics — Yellen more on the left, Draghi more on the center-right.
They have now been called back to the ramparts, at an age that would normally suggest retirement, to take on roles that are more political than ever.
Yellen, the first woman to lead the U.S. Treasury Department, is set to preside over the most audacious round of stimulus of any democracy in peacetime.
end quotes
Take on roles that are more political then ever?
Hmmmmmmm.
So how does that square with being independent?
And the answer is, it doesn’t, which takes us back to Foreign Policy for more, to wit:
Of course, it would be absurd to blame either Draghi or Yellen personally for the sequence of shifts and shocks that has destabilized capitalist democracies since the 1990s or the crisis of confidence these have triggered among centrist liberals.
But as people of huge influence and as representatives of a class of experts who have ruled the roost for the last 30 years, they can hardly plead innocence either.
It was on their watch that growth slowed, inequality between social classes and regions became ever deeper, and the risk of inflation tipped into that of deflation.
It was on their watch that the financial system was allowed to become a flywheel of mass destruction.
end quotes
And thanks to the POLITICAL policies of “TOODLES” back then as Hussein Obama’s fed chief, we are reeling under massive debt and BIDENFLATION today, which again takes us back to Foreign Policy, to wit:
In the Clinton administration, the charge on financial sector deregulation was led by Summers at the Treasury Department, but as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Yellen had raised no objections.
From her vantage point at the San Francisco Fed, she did take note early of the signs of a housing crisis; in California, you could hardly miss them.
But as late as July 2007, Yellen opined: “From the standpoint of monetary policy, I do not consider it very likely that developments relating to subprime mortgages will have a big effect on overall U.S. economic performance, although they do add to downside risk.”
end quotes
And how wrong that pathetic little fool was to prove to be on that score, just as she was dead wrong about BIDENFLATION being transitory, which again takes us back to Foreign Policy, to wit:
Yellen was chosen as Fed chair as a candidate of the liberal left.
No one could accuse the Biden administration of being nonpolitical.
Despite her track record, precisely on the issue of fiscal responsibility, Yellen was once again the candidate for treasury secretary acceptable to the left wing of the party.
end quotes
And she is independent?
What a crock!
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Paul Plante says:
Getting back to lawless BIDE-O-NISM for the moment, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “Yellen to warn that eroding US democracy, Fed, threatens economic growth” by David Lawder on May 1, 2024, where we have Joe Biden’s treasury secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen wadding up the Hatch Act into a crumpled ball and wiping her backside with it, to make sure we all know how both she and Joe hold the concept of RULE OF LAW in contempt, and yet, “TOODLES” has the unmitigated gall to talk about “strong democratic institutions” like a law-abiding executive office, which we DO NOT have with Joe Biden in power, being a key foundation to shared growth and prosperity, which we most certainly DO NOT have under Joe Biden, as we are seeing with this story about GRANT GRIFTERISM above here, to wit:
WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will make the argument on Friday that strong democratic institutions — including an independent Federal Reserve — are a key foundation for sustained and shared growth and prosperity, according to excerpts of remarks released by the Treasury.
end quotes
And we DO NOT have an independent federal reserve, either, regardless of any BLATHER from “TOODLES” Yellen to the contrary, which takes us back to Reuters for more, to wit:
Yellen, in an address to the McCain Institute’s Sedona Forum in Arizona, will say that rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021 put democracy under threat, “spurred by a lie,” according to the excerpts released on Wednesday.
“Undercutting democracy undercuts a foundation of sustainable and inclusive growth,” Yellen will say in the remarks.
The speech, at a Republican-founded institution in the important election battleground state of Arizona, is expected to be among Yellen’s most political addresses as Treasury secretary.
end quotes
And as a member of Joe’s cabinet, the Hatch Act most certainly does apply to the conduct of “TOODLES” Yellen, but she doesn’t care because she doesn’t have to care, because under “LAWLESS JOE” Biden, the Hatch Act has been rendered null and void, which takes us back to “TOODLES” playing politics on the Joe Biden campaign trail, as a Biden shill or cheerleader, to wit:
It is significant in that she will stray from promoting President Joe Biden’s economic policies into a key argument that his campaign is making against Republican rival Donald Trump: that Trump put democracy at risk by egging on the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters at the end of his presidential term and is likely to further erode institutions if elected to a second term.
end quotes
“PROOF” of something actually existing, such as the future, under Joe Biden, does not have to exist for “TOODLES” Yellen to say something does exist in the future, such as what “TOODLES” is saying about Trump being likely to further erode institutions if elected to a second term, which is SLIMEBALL POLITICS at its finest by “TOODLES” who doesn’t mind violating the Hatch Act by smearing Trump, while in the real world, the world “IVORY TOWER TOODLES” Yellen DOES NOT live in, and is totally unaware of, it is Joe Biden who has been doing exactly that, eroding democratic institutions such as the so-called and misnamed department of justice since he came into office, which takes us back to Reuters, to wit:
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Trump allies are drafting proposals that would attempt to erode the Federal Reserve’s independence and give Trump more influence over the central bank if he wins in November.
Yellen will make a plug for maintaining Fed independence in her speech.
“As Chair of the Federal Reserve, I insisted on the Fed’s independence and transparency because I believe it matters for financial stability and economic growth,” Yellen will say, according to the excerpts.
end quotes
As Chair of the Federal Reserve, “TOODLES” Yellen insisted on the Fed’s independence”
That’s hogwash and bull**** as we clearly see by going to the Foreign Policy magazine article titled “Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi Have One Last Job – The U.S. treasury secretary and the Italian prime minister have spent decades shaping this economy. But can they control what comes next?” by Adam Tooze, a columnist at Foreign Policy and director of the European Institute at Columbia University on April 1, 2021, to wit:
For the last 30 years, both Yellen and Draghi have held positions of high authority, culminating in the period between 2014 and 2018 when they overlapped as the heads of the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank (ECB), respectively, the two most powerful central banks in the world.
They were chosen to wield power based on their expertise and judgment but also because they aligned with the prevailing brand of centrist politics — Yellen more on the left, Draghi more on the center-right.
They have now been called back to the ramparts, at an age that would normally suggest retirement, to take on roles that are more political than ever.
Yellen, the first woman to lead the U.S. Treasury Department, is set to preside over the most audacious round of stimulus of any democracy in peacetime.
end quotes
Take on roles that are more political then ever?
Hmmmmmmm.
So how does that square with being independent?
And the answer is, it doesn’t, which takes us back to Foreign Policy for more, to wit:
Of course, it would be absurd to blame either Draghi or Yellen personally for the sequence of shifts and shocks that has destabilized capitalist democracies since the 1990s or the crisis of confidence these have triggered among centrist liberals.
But as people of huge influence and as representatives of a class of experts who have ruled the roost for the last 30 years, they can hardly plead innocence either.
It was on their watch that growth slowed, inequality between social classes and regions became ever deeper, and the risk of inflation tipped into that of deflation.
It was on their watch that the financial system was allowed to become a flywheel of mass destruction.
end quotes
And thanks to the POLITICAL policies of “TOODLES” back then as Hussein Obama’s fed chief, we are reeling under massive debt and BIDENFLATION today, which again takes us back to Foreign Policy, to wit:
In the Clinton administration, the charge on financial sector deregulation was led by Summers at the Treasury Department, but as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Yellen had raised no objections.
From her vantage point at the San Francisco Fed, she did take note early of the signs of a housing crisis; in California, you could hardly miss them.
But as late as July 2007, Yellen opined: “From the standpoint of monetary policy, I do not consider it very likely that developments relating to subprime mortgages will have a big effect on overall U.S. economic performance, although they do add to downside risk.”
end quotes
And how wrong that pathetic little fool was to prove to be on that score, just as she was dead wrong about BIDENFLATION being transitory, which again takes us back to Foreign Policy, to wit:
Yellen was chosen as Fed chair as a candidate of the liberal left.
No one could accuse the Biden administration of being nonpolitical.
Despite her track record, precisely on the issue of fiscal responsibility, Yellen was once again the candidate for treasury secretary acceptable to the left wing of the party.
end quotes
And she is independent?
What a crock!
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 4, 2024 AT 6:29 PM
Paul Plante says:
And before we go back to these GRANT GRIFTERS who feed off the taxpayers like leeches or some other form of parasite, let’s for the moment go back to Janet “TOODLES” Yellen in the Reuters article titled “Yellen to warn that eroding US democracy, Fed, threatens economic growth” by David Lawder on May 1, 2024, where we had Joe Biden’s treasury secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen telling us that strong democratic institutions, which we clearly do not have under Joe Biden, which strong democratic institutions would of necessity include an independent Federal Reserve, which we do not have under Joe Biden, are a key foundation for sustained and shared growth and prosperity, which we are going to see we also do not have under Joe Biden, while undercutting democracy as the dictatorial Biden regime is doing undercuts a foundation of sustainable and inclusive growth, which takes us first to a Reuters article titled “US Treasury keeps auction sizes unchanged through July, launches buyback” by Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss on May 1, 2024, where we have the reality we all inhabit as it exists in the real world outside the space/time warp known as the Washington Beltway, where unreality lies on the other side, to wit:
NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters) – The Treasury Department said on Wednesday it intends to keep auction sizes steady for U.S. notes and bonds over the next several quarters, in line with expectations, as it announced total refunding of $125 billion for the May to July quarter.
end quotes
And there we have “TOODLES” selling us yet deeper into debt as she struggles to keep up with paying for the massive debt Joe Biden is wracking up with his BIDE-O-NOMICS, which takes us back to that story for more, to wit:
It (the treasury) also launched its buyback program, with the first scheduled on May 29.
The Treasury’s last regular buyback program began in the early 2000s and ended in April 2002.
Under the buyback program, the Treasury said it plans to hold weekly “liquidity support” buybacks of up to $2 billion per operation in nominal coupon securities, and up to $500 million per operation in TIPS.
At an International Swaps and Derivatives Association conference in September, Frost (Josh Frost, the Treasury’s assistant secretary for Financial Markets) had said debt buybacks can help improve liquidity in the bond market by providing a regular opportunity for market participants to sell back to Treasury off-the-run securities, which are older and less liquid, across the yield curve.
end quotes
And focus on the phrase “can help improve liquidity in the bond market,” which means, in other words, that “TOODLES” is having to buy back low-interest paying bonds and notes issued by the treasury some time back which are now known as “drugs on the market” (a commodity no longer in demand and so is commercially valueless or unsaleable) with yet more borrowed money, so the people or companies holding those notes and bonds can finally get some money for them, because outside of “TOODLES,” who has no choice but to buy them back, they are otherwise worthless in the open marketplace.
So much for U.S. debt being readily marketable.
Going back to Reuters, that story continues as follows:
“The auction sizes were unchanged as expected, but the key here is that this a pause in increases not a reversal,” said Gennadiy Goldberg, head of U.S. rates strategy at TD Securities in New York.
“The Treasury very clearly said they don’t anticipate increasing auction sizes at least for the next several quarters.”
“But they’re still talking about an increase, not a decrease.”
“Our view is that by mid-2025, Treasury may have to start increasing auction sizes again.”
end quotes
And they will have to start increasing auction sizes for the simple reason that Joe Biden’s BIDE-O-NOMICS keeps driving our national debt upwards, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “US construction spending falls in March” on May 1, 2024, where we have more on BIDE-O-NOMICS, to wit:
The Commerce Department’s Census Bureau said on Wednesday that construction spending slipped 0.2% after being unchanged in February.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast construction spending gaining 0.3%. Construction spending increased 9.6% year-on-year in March.
Spending on private construction projects decreased 0.5% in March after rising 0.2% in February.
Spending on private non-residential structures like factories fell 0.2%.
Spending on structures contracted in the first quarter for the first time in more than a year as the boost from policies by the Biden administration to bring the production of semiconductor manufacturing back to the United States faded.
end quotes
So, hmmmmmm, people, where oh where has all that BORROWED government money Joe Biden has gifted these rich corporations with to build all these mega factories gone to?
Bonuses for senior management?
Stock buybacks?
Which takes us to a Reuters story titled “US manufacturing sector regresses in April; prices paid near two-year high” on May 1, 2024, where we have the fruits of all this borrowed money Joe Biden has gifted these rich corporations with to create JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, scads of good, high-paying union jobs as Joe Biden repurposes America as the manufacturing center of the known world, to wit:
WASHINGTON, May 1(Reuters) – U.S. manufacturing contracted in April amid a decline in orders after briefly expanding in the prior month, while a measure of prices paid by factories for inputs approached a two-year high.
end quotes
HUH?
That can’t be right so that has to be wrong because it contradicts Joe Biden who himself is never wrong about anything, because he’s the president, and everybody knows they are always right, so let’s go back for more, to wit:
The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said on Wednesday that its manufacturing PMI dropped to 49.2 last month from 50.3 in March, which was the highest and first reading above 50 since September 2022.
end quotes
Oh no, Joe, say it ain’t so, dude!
Tell the ISM they got it all wrong and they are just playing partisan politics going into the election season because the ISM is MAGA and hates Joe Biden and would do anything to embarrass him to aid Trump, which takes us back to Reuters, to wit:
Manufacturing is being constrained by higher borrowing costs and spending shifting back to services and away from goods. Spending on goods fell in the first quarter.
end quote
And the higher borrowing costs plaguing manufacturing are a direct result of Joe Biden’s BIDE-O-NOMICS and BIDENFLATION, which again takes us back to Reuters, to wit:
The ISM survey’s forward-looking new orders sub-index decreased to 49.1 from 51.4 in March.
Output at factories slowed, with the production sub-index slipping to 51.3 after jumping to 54.6 in the prior month.
end quotes
And talking about BIDENFLATION:
Despite weakening demand, inflation at the factory gate continued to heat up, suggesting that goods price disinflation could be close to running its course.
The survey’s measure of prices paid by manufacturers shot up to 60.9, the highest reading since June 2022, from 55.8 in March.
With price pressures picking up in the first quarter, the surge in input costs is unlikely to be welcomed by Federal Reserve officials as they wrap up their two-day policy meeting.
Policy makers are on Wednesday expected to leave the U.S. central bank’s benchmark overnight interest rate unchanged in the current 5.25%-5.50% range, where it has been since July.
end quotes
Which means the higher borrowing costs plaguing manufacturing are here to stay for a bit longer!
And that is the news!
Stay tuned, more is yet to come.
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Paul Plante says:
And before we go back to these GRANT GRIFTERS who feed off the taxpayers like leeches or some other form of parasite, let’s for the moment go back to Janet “TOODLES” Yellen in the Reuters article titled “Yellen to warn that eroding US democracy, Fed, threatens economic growth” by David Lawder on May 1, 2024, where we had Joe Biden’s treasury secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen telling us that strong democratic institutions, which we clearly do not have under Joe Biden, which strong democratic institutions would of necessity include an independent Federal Reserve, which we do not have under Joe Biden, are a key foundation for sustained and shared growth and prosperity, which we are going to see we also do not have under Joe Biden, while undercutting democracy as the dictatorial Biden regime is doing undercuts a foundation of sustainable and inclusive growth, which takes us first to a Reuters article titled “US Treasury keeps auction sizes unchanged through July, launches buyback” by Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss on May 1, 2024, where we have the reality we all inhabit as it exists in the real world outside the space/time warp known as the Washington Beltway, where unreality lies on the other side, to wit:
NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters) – The Treasury Department said on Wednesday it intends to keep auction sizes steady for U.S. notes and bonds over the next several quarters, in line with expectations, as it announced total refunding of $125 billion for the May to July quarter.
end quotes
And there we have “TOODLES” selling us yet deeper into debt as she struggles to keep up with paying for the massive debt Joe Biden is wracking up with his BIDE-O-NOMICS, which takes us back to that story for more, to wit:
It (the treasury) also launched its buyback program, with the first scheduled on May 29.
The Treasury’s last regular buyback program began in the early 2000s and ended in April 2002.
Under the buyback program, the Treasury said it plans to hold weekly “liquidity support” buybacks of up to $2 billion per operation in nominal coupon securities, and up to $500 million per operation in TIPS.
At an International Swaps and Derivatives Association conference in September, Frost (Josh Frost, the Treasury’s assistant secretary for Financial Markets) had said debt buybacks can help improve liquidity in the bond market by providing a regular opportunity for market participants to sell back to Treasury off-the-run securities, which are older and less liquid, across the yield curve.
end quotes
And focus on the phrase “can help improve liquidity in the bond market,” which means, in other words, that “TOODLES” is having to buy back low-interest paying bonds and notes issued by the treasury some time back which are now known as “drugs on the market” (a commodity no longer in demand and so is commercially valueless or unsaleable) with yet more borrowed money, so the people or companies holding those notes and bonds can finally get some money for them, because outside of “TOODLES,” who has no choice but to buy them back, they are otherwise worthless in the open marketplace.
So much for U.S. debt being readily marketable.
Going back to Reuters, that story continues as follows:
“The auction sizes were unchanged as expected, but the key here is that this a pause in increases not a reversal,” said Gennadiy Goldberg, head of U.S. rates strategy at TD Securities in New York.
“The Treasury very clearly said they don’t anticipate increasing auction sizes at least for the next several quarters.”
“But they’re still talking about an increase, not a decrease.”
“Our view is that by mid-2025, Treasury may have to start increasing auction sizes again.”
end quotes
And they will have to start increasing auction sizes for the simple reason that Joe Biden’s BIDE-O-NOMICS keeps driving our national debt upwards, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “US construction spending falls in March” on May 1, 2024, where we have more on BIDE-O-NOMICS, to wit:
The Commerce Department’s Census Bureau said on Wednesday that construction spending slipped 0.2% after being unchanged in February.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast construction spending gaining 0.3%. Construction spending increased 9.6% year-on-year in March.
Spending on private construction projects decreased 0.5% in March after rising 0.2% in February.
Spending on private non-residential structures like factories fell 0.2%.
Spending on structures contracted in the first quarter for the first time in more than a year as the boost from policies by the Biden administration to bring the production of semiconductor manufacturing back to the United States faded.
end quotes
So, hmmmmmm, people, where oh where has all that BORROWED government money Joe Biden has gifted these rich corporations with to build all these mega factories gone to?
Bonuses for senior management?
Stock buybacks?
Which takes us to a Reuters story titled “US manufacturing sector regresses in April; prices paid near two-year high” on May 1, 2024, where we have the fruits of all this borrowed money Joe Biden has gifted these rich corporations with to create JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, scads of good, high-paying union jobs as Joe Biden repurposes America as the manufacturing center of the known world, to wit:
WASHINGTON, May 1(Reuters) – U.S. manufacturing contracted in April amid a decline in orders after briefly expanding in the prior month, while a measure of prices paid by factories for inputs approached a two-year high.
end quotes
HUH?
That can’t be right so that has to be wrong because it contradicts Joe Biden who himself is never wrong about anything, because he’s the president, and everybody knows they are always right, so let’s go back for more, to wit:
The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said on Wednesday that its manufacturing PMI dropped to 49.2 last month from 50.3 in March, which was the highest and first reading above 50 since September 2022.
end quotes
Oh no, Joe, say it ain’t so, dude!
Tell the ISM they got it all wrong and they are just playing partisan politics going into the election season because the ISM is MAGA and hates Joe Biden and would do anything to embarrass him to aid Trump, which takes us back to Reuters, to wit:
Manufacturing is being constrained by higher borrowing costs and spending shifting back to services and away from goods. Spending on goods fell in the first quarter.
end quote
And the higher borrowing costs plaguing manufacturing are a direct result of Joe Biden’s BIDE-O-NOMICS and BIDENFLATION, which again takes us back to Reuters, to wit:
The ISM survey’s forward-looking new orders sub-index decreased to 49.1 from 51.4 in March.
Output at factories slowed, with the production sub-index slipping to 51.3 after jumping to 54.6 in the prior month.
end quotes
And talking about BIDENFLATION:
Despite weakening demand, inflation at the factory gate continued to heat up, suggesting that goods price disinflation could be close to running its course.
The survey’s measure of prices paid by manufacturers shot up to 60.9, the highest reading since June 2022, from 55.8 in March.
With price pressures picking up in the first quarter, the surge in input costs is unlikely to be welcomed by Federal Reserve officials as they wrap up their two-day policy meeting.
Policy makers are on Wednesday expected to leave the U.S. central bank’s benchmark overnight interest rate unchanged in the current 5.25%-5.50% range, where it has been since July.
end quotes
Which means the higher borrowing costs plaguing manufacturing are here to stay for a bit longer!
And that is the news!
Stay tuned, more is yet to come.
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 6, 2024 AT 8:56 PM
Paul Plante says:
And on another note, HOOOOEEEEE, but it’s going to be a real DOOZEY this time around for all you people too young to have been around the last time for the event, that being back in 1968, and I am talking about the up-coming Democrat National Convention with all the protestors slated to be there, which promises to make the 1968 Democrat convention in Mayor Daley’s corrupt city of Chicago seem tame and dull by comparison, and my goodness, but who can forget the festivities at the ’68 Democrat convention, where the thuggish Democrat Mayor Daley, citing intelligence reports of potential violence, put the 12,000 members of the Chicago Police Department on twelve-hour shifts, while the U.S. Army placed 6,000 troops in position to protect the city during the convention and nearly 6,000 members of the National Guard were sent to the city.
Talk about a hot time in the old town tonight, there was the recipe, and who can ever forget Mayor Daley’s cops wading into the protestors, billy clubs swinging as they beat the living crap out of the protestors, having themselves a real field day on national television, the play action of which is picked up for us in a Guardian article titled “The whole world is watching – How the 1968 Chicago ‘police riot’ shocked America and divided the nation” by David Taylor and Sam Morris where we have as follows, to wit:
Where the national guard once stood in formation with bayonets fixed, a line of stands for rental bikes now stretches away along South Michigan Avenue.
Where protesters against the Vietnam war once massed, chanting “the whole world is watching”, sun shines on formal flower beds filled with purple hostas and golden lilies.
Across the street, the facade of the Hilton Chicago looms, four towers of brick rising above war-like stone carvings of figures carrying shields and axes.
There are few clues, but 50 years ago, this spot was a crucible of violence, which exposed fault lines in a divided and traumatised nation.
end quotes
And as the Cape Charles Mirror reports in Asses and Villains in this week’s episode, those very same fault lines are being exposed once again in college protests around the country, which protests promise to make this year’s Democrat convention where “Lightning Joe” Biden is set to be anointed as the TOP DOG DEMOCRAT the SHOW to watch, and if Chicago ’68 was any indication, it should be a real great show, and knowing Joe Biden, we can expect a real heavy military presence with tanks, maybe, and Bradley fighting vehicles with their chain guns and HELLFIRE missile launchers, and the troops on line with glittering, live bayonets, while heavily armed helicopter gunships hover ominously overhead, which takes us back to the Guardian, to wit:
A tumultuous season of assassinations, riots and war, 1968 was the year that changed America, in ways that still unfold today.
end quotes
Having been around for a bit before that, and having been around quite a bit after, I would challenge that statement about 1968 being the year that changed America in ways that still unfold today, because America had begun that process of change long before 1968 rolled around and 1968 reflected that change, in my estimation, anyway, having actually lived through those admittedly tumultuous times, but that's an opinion, so let’s go back to the Guardian for more, to wit:
And part of that momentous drama played out on summer nights in Chicago when blood ran in the streets and police orchestrated a riot as anti-war protesters tried to march upon the Democratic national convention calling for an end to the Vietnam war.
After four days and nights of violence, 668 people had been arrested, 425 demonstrators were treated at temporary medical facilities, 200 were treated on the spot, 400 given first aid for tear gas exposure and 110 went to hospital.
A total of 192 police officers were injured.
Images of police firing teargas and beating demonstrators with their nightsticks played on network television news.
It looked like an oppressive fascist state and offered a view of a nation apparently tearing itself apart.
end quotes
And NO, it was a case of the DEMOCRATS tearing the nation apart, as they are doing again today, not a case of the nation tearing itself apart, which again takes us back to the Guardian, to wit:
Rick Perlstein, the author of Nixonland, speaking at an event at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism to mark the Chicago ’68 anniversary, cited an NBC news producer who thought the footage he had produced was “a crystalline theatre of moral witness, evil being visited upon innocents”.
But not all saw it like that – a Gallup poll showed 56% of Americans backed the police actions against the demonstrators.
Charles Kaiser, the author of 1968 in America, said: “The biggest impact was on the older generation because they were so completely freaked out by it, this spectacle of anarchy was really terrifying.”
“The combination of the two assassinations [Rev Martin Luther King Jr and Robert F Kennedy], the extremely violent and numerous riots after Martin Luther King was killed, the spectacle of upper-middle-class white college students fighting with policemen in Chicago,”
“I think there is an argument to be made that the images of police riots in Chicago were as useful to Richard Nixon’s campaign as anything else that happened in the whole year.”
“They contribute in a big way to this whole sense that everything is out of control and therefore the man who is preaching law and order becomes very attractive.”
In 1969, President Nixon would hail a “silent majority” and urge them to support him, claiming patriotism for conservatives and condemning the “bitter hatred” of young Americans as he derided a minority who tried to impose their view on the nation “by mounting demonstrations in the street”.
Some of those fault lines, and that language, still echo 50 years later.
Trouble had been anticipated for months as the Democrats prepared to vote at their Chicago convention for a candidate to take on Nixon in the race for the White House, following President Lyndon B Johnson’s announcement that he would not run for a second term.
Bobby Kennedy, who carried the anti-war hopes of young Democratic voters had been shot dead in June, hours after winning the California Democratic primary.
Anti-war protests were geared toward trying to get behind an anti-war candidate like Eugene McCarthy or George McGovern, who would defeat vice-president Hubert Humphrey.
In Vietnam, American casualties were rising in what would prove to be the worst year of the conflict.
At home, college campuses were gripped by protest as students opposed the war and the draft.
The Mobe – the national mobilization committee to end the war in Vietnam – was planning the main demonstration, while the Yippies, a radical revolutionary group, had planned a festival in Lincoln Park.
Mayor Richard J Daley had refused permits to allow anti-war protestors to march on the convention or sleep in the city parks and had put Chicago police on notice with an infamous “shoot to kill arsonists” order after the April riots which ravaged the city after Dr King’s assassination.
Frank Kusch, author of Battleground Chicago, who interviewed 87 veteran police officers for his book, said: “They knew that they were not to let these things happen again and that they were to come down much harder on protests in the future.”
“They felt they had to, and they felt encouraged too, that they had permission to go after demonstrators and be brutal.”
In the days before the August gathering, a military occupying force was sent to the city – 6,000 members of the national guard and 6,000 army troops joined the 12,000-strong Chicago police department to face demonstrators and keep protests away from the convention being held at the International Amphitheater
By the weekend before the convention, about 2,000 demonstrators had set up camp in Lincoln Park, their show of strength apparently weakened by fears of confrontation.
By Wednesday and the worst of the violence, there were 10,000.
end quotes
And with that said, let’s pause for station identification!
But don’t go away. because we will be back with more, so stay tuned.
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Paul Plante says:
And on another note, HOOOOEEEEE, but it’s going to be a real DOOZEY this time around for all you people too young to have been around the last time for the event, that being back in 1968, and I am talking about the up-coming Democrat National Convention with all the protestors slated to be there, which promises to make the 1968 Democrat convention in Mayor Daley’s corrupt city of Chicago seem tame and dull by comparison, and my goodness, but who can forget the festivities at the ’68 Democrat convention, where the thuggish Democrat Mayor Daley, citing intelligence reports of potential violence, put the 12,000 members of the Chicago Police Department on twelve-hour shifts, while the U.S. Army placed 6,000 troops in position to protect the city during the convention and nearly 6,000 members of the National Guard were sent to the city.
Talk about a hot time in the old town tonight, there was the recipe, and who can ever forget Mayor Daley’s cops wading into the protestors, billy clubs swinging as they beat the living crap out of the protestors, having themselves a real field day on national television, the play action of which is picked up for us in a Guardian article titled “The whole world is watching – How the 1968 Chicago ‘police riot’ shocked America and divided the nation” by David Taylor and Sam Morris where we have as follows, to wit:
Where the national guard once stood in formation with bayonets fixed, a line of stands for rental bikes now stretches away along South Michigan Avenue.
Where protesters against the Vietnam war once massed, chanting “the whole world is watching”, sun shines on formal flower beds filled with purple hostas and golden lilies.
Across the street, the facade of the Hilton Chicago looms, four towers of brick rising above war-like stone carvings of figures carrying shields and axes.
There are few clues, but 50 years ago, this spot was a crucible of violence, which exposed fault lines in a divided and traumatised nation.
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And as the Cape Charles Mirror reports in Asses and Villains in this week’s episode, those very same fault lines are being exposed once again in college protests around the country, which protests promise to make this year’s Democrat convention where “Lightning Joe” Biden is set to be anointed as the TOP DOG DEMOCRAT the SHOW to watch, and if Chicago ’68 was any indication, it should be a real great show, and knowing Joe Biden, we can expect a real heavy military presence with tanks, maybe, and Bradley fighting vehicles with their chain guns and HELLFIRE missile launchers, and the troops on line with glittering, live bayonets, while heavily armed helicopter gunships hover ominously overhead, which takes us back to the Guardian, to wit:
A tumultuous season of assassinations, riots and war, 1968 was the year that changed America, in ways that still unfold today.
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Having been around for a bit before that, and having been around quite a bit after, I would challenge that statement about 1968 being the year that changed America in ways that still unfold today, because America had begun that process of change long before 1968 rolled around and 1968 reflected that change, in my estimation, anyway, having actually lived through those admittedly tumultuous times, but that's an opinion, so let’s go back to the Guardian for more, to wit:
And part of that momentous drama played out on summer nights in Chicago when blood ran in the streets and police orchestrated a riot as anti-war protesters tried to march upon the Democratic national convention calling for an end to the Vietnam war.
After four days and nights of violence, 668 people had been arrested, 425 demonstrators were treated at temporary medical facilities, 200 were treated on the spot, 400 given first aid for tear gas exposure and 110 went to hospital.
A total of 192 police officers were injured.
Images of police firing teargas and beating demonstrators with their nightsticks played on network television news.
It looked like an oppressive fascist state and offered a view of a nation apparently tearing itself apart.
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And NO, it was a case of the DEMOCRATS tearing the nation apart, as they are doing again today, not a case of the nation tearing itself apart, which again takes us back to the Guardian, to wit:
Rick Perlstein, the author of Nixonland, speaking at an event at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism to mark the Chicago ’68 anniversary, cited an NBC news producer who thought the footage he had produced was “a crystalline theatre of moral witness, evil being visited upon innocents”.
But not all saw it like that – a Gallup poll showed 56% of Americans backed the police actions against the demonstrators.
Charles Kaiser, the author of 1968 in America, said: “The biggest impact was on the older generation because they were so completely freaked out by it, this spectacle of anarchy was really terrifying.”
“The combination of the two assassinations [Rev Martin Luther King Jr and Robert F Kennedy], the extremely violent and numerous riots after Martin Luther King was killed, the spectacle of upper-middle-class white college students fighting with policemen in Chicago,”
“I think there is an argument to be made that the images of police riots in Chicago were as useful to Richard Nixon’s campaign as anything else that happened in the whole year.”
“They contribute in a big way to this whole sense that everything is out of control and therefore the man who is preaching law and order becomes very attractive.”
In 1969, President Nixon would hail a “silent majority” and urge them to support him, claiming patriotism for conservatives and condemning the “bitter hatred” of young Americans as he derided a minority who tried to impose their view on the nation “by mounting demonstrations in the street”.
Some of those fault lines, and that language, still echo 50 years later.
Trouble had been anticipated for months as the Democrats prepared to vote at their Chicago convention for a candidate to take on Nixon in the race for the White House, following President Lyndon B Johnson’s announcement that he would not run for a second term.
Bobby Kennedy, who carried the anti-war hopes of young Democratic voters had been shot dead in June, hours after winning the California Democratic primary.
Anti-war protests were geared toward trying to get behind an anti-war candidate like Eugene McCarthy or George McGovern, who would defeat vice-president Hubert Humphrey.
In Vietnam, American casualties were rising in what would prove to be the worst year of the conflict.
At home, college campuses were gripped by protest as students opposed the war and the draft.
The Mobe – the national mobilization committee to end the war in Vietnam – was planning the main demonstration, while the Yippies, a radical revolutionary group, had planned a festival in Lincoln Park.
Mayor Richard J Daley had refused permits to allow anti-war protestors to march on the convention or sleep in the city parks and had put Chicago police on notice with an infamous “shoot to kill arsonists” order after the April riots which ravaged the city after Dr King’s assassination.
Frank Kusch, author of Battleground Chicago, who interviewed 87 veteran police officers for his book, said: “They knew that they were not to let these things happen again and that they were to come down much harder on protests in the future.”
“They felt they had to, and they felt encouraged too, that they had permission to go after demonstrators and be brutal.”
In the days before the August gathering, a military occupying force was sent to the city – 6,000 members of the national guard and 6,000 army troops joined the 12,000-strong Chicago police department to face demonstrators and keep protests away from the convention being held at the International Amphitheater
By the weekend before the convention, about 2,000 demonstrators had set up camp in Lincoln Park, their show of strength apparently weakened by fears of confrontation.
By Wednesday and the worst of the violence, there were 10,000.
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And with that said, let’s pause for station identification!
But don’t go away. because we will be back with more, so stay tuned.
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 8, 2024 AT 6:04 PM
Paul Plante says:
And going back to this GRANT GRIFTERISM going on here some 476.2 miles to the north of Cape Charles which has resulted in a controversy splitting my small community, which particular controversy is a direct outcome of what happens when BIDEN INFRASTRUCTURE MONEY is mindlessly made available to small towns like mine for alleged “infrastructure” improvements, in this case allegedly providing municipal water to a school that already has its own water supply, which controversy dividing the community in this case involves what I would say is a CLASSIC TEXTBOOK CASE of blatant TAXPAYER FRAUD with these two WIIA grants, one to put something in, the other to tear that something back out and replace it with something else again, which project is going to reap that class of persons I call GRANT GRIFTERS (con artists: someone who swindles people out of money through fraud; as in “I see these consultants as grifters who prey upon people”) a minimum of $395,000 for “engineering,” plus $140,000 for what they call “construction observation,” with another $100,000 for what they are calling “legal/administrative” costs, plus $60,000 for what they call “geotechnical,” $65,000 for “survey and mapping,” and $7,500 for “environmental,” whatever in fact that might be, so all in all a nice paycheck for the consultants, who have an inside political track as middlemen for these state and federal grants, which is why these GRANT GRIFTERS use these small towns like mine as an excuse to tap into more state and federal money, no questions asked and EVERYBODY involved is very happy, while the taxpayers footing the bills are getting royally screwed with no voice whatsoever in the matter, period, as how these grants are obtained is a totally closed process, and to get their hands on what they consider “free money” these GRANT GRIFTERS are promising them, in this case a windfall of riches into their pockets courtesy of the federal government in Washington, D.C. to the tune of $670,367 from Joe Biden and $1,693,000 from Kirsten Gillibrand to tear out what was paid for by a $90,000 NYS WIIA grant in May of 2023, the town board has to promise to put their local taxpayers in hock for a certain percentage of the project cost, whether those taxpayers want or need the project, in this case a public water supply for a school that already has a public water supply, without we who are the taxpayers having any say in the matter, period, largely because, as was said above, the process of actually getting that money, being entirely political in nature, is going on behind closed doors with absolutely no transparency for the affected taxpayers of whom I am one, this following puts the matter of the controversy into its proper perspective, to wit:
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill
May 8th 2024 Edition
“THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM – ON WHY I AM NOT STUPID ENOUGH TO VOTE ‘YES’ ON WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 IN POESTENKILL”
Recently, I was approached by a group of well-meaning citizens in Poestenkill, good people all, who mistaking me for a mindless eejit whose mind got retarded from reading too many engineering books, which everybody knows pollutes the purity of an otherwise empty mind and renders the book reader too stupid to understand what is going on around him in the real world the well-meaning citizens reside in, sought to cure what they thought was my benighted ignorance concerning water district no. 2 and its innumerable benefits to the town, including luring a CHIP FAB here, which needs a lot of water, because to them, I have indicated that I am not likely to vote YES for Poestenkill’s water district no. 2, when everybody else knows that that is the right thing to do, or else Poestenkill wouldn’t be doing it.
And taking very seriously what these people concerned for my health and well-being were telling me about these innumerable advantages that will come to Poestenkill because everybody knows, apparently except for me, that the town was extremely fortunate to receive this level of governmental funding for the project, 95% of the total with $5.2 million in tax dollars being returned to Poestenkill for investment in critical infrastructure that will ensure that a public water source will be consistently tested and treated rather than each individual homeowner having to test to see what contamination is lurking in their pipes, I informed these people who were adamant that Troy does test the public water (along with Brunswick and Poestenkill) daily with more detailed tests at other frequencies and provides annual water quality reports, that I would take the matter under advisement, and having done so, and having actually read through every page of the Laberge Report that forms the basis of these grant requests, along with Troy’s 2022 water report, and a Documentary History of American Water-works article titled “Two Centuries of Public Service – History of Troy Water Works, Troy, New York,” and the Capital Region PRISM AIS Lake Survey Report for the Tomhannock dated August 18th and 26th 2020 and “A STUDY OF LAKES IN RENSSELAER COUNTY, NEW YORK WITH PROPOSALS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT – FINAL REPORT” by Donald Scavia, Project Director, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, December, 1972, @p.100, where we were informed that the north end of the reservoir was stratified throughout the summer as long ago as 1972, and in the stratified section the hypolimnetic (below 12 meters) dissolved oxygen was one ppm at the end of June, while it was totally, depleted a month later and remained that way the remainder of the project, which is a sign of contamination and an important factor in determining water quality and treatment process, while Secchi disk readings indicated a fairly extensive algal bloom, and we learned therein that the reservoir was being chemically treated with copper sulphate, a powerful oxidizing agent and depending upon the dose ingested in drinking water, can lead to widespread cellular damage with the systemic effects of poisoning being seen primarily on red blood cells, gastrointestinal system, kidneys and cardiovascular system, and if the conditions in the reservoir’s watershed remained uncontrolled, which they have, it may become necessary to increase the extent of chlorination needed to control the bacteria of the water which will increase costs and decrease. the aesthetic nature of the drinking water, while even then, in 1972, the City of Troy was already having problems in the filtration treatment of the water due to increased algae productivity, and the TOMHANNOCK SPILLWAY DAM I PHASE I INSPECTION REPORT by the NEW YORK DISTRICT CORPS OF ENGINEERS from August of 1981, which report contains an extensive history of the Tomhannock dam and the fact that in 1917, just eleven (11) years after the reservoir was first out into operation in 1906, the dam nearly failed because it being corrupt Troy, it was shoddily built, I would have to say that I would have to be the world’s biggest idiot and very stupid, to boot, to vote YES on water district no.2 and thereby put my life, my future, my health, my well-being, and that of my community into the hands of some politicians in Troy and their crumbling infrastructure, which is as stupid as buying into a shoddily-built, crumbling condominium complex in Florida, and then getting slapped with a million-dollar repair bill for your trouble.
Water district no. 2 is NOT an investment in Poestenkill’s future; to the contrary, it is an investment in stupidity.
Stay tuned, more to come.
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Paul Plante says:
And going back to this GRANT GRIFTERISM going on here some 476.2 miles to the north of Cape Charles which has resulted in a controversy splitting my small community, which particular controversy is a direct outcome of what happens when BIDEN INFRASTRUCTURE MONEY is mindlessly made available to small towns like mine for alleged “infrastructure” improvements, in this case allegedly providing municipal water to a school that already has its own water supply, which controversy dividing the community in this case involves what I would say is a CLASSIC TEXTBOOK CASE of blatant TAXPAYER FRAUD with these two WIIA grants, one to put something in, the other to tear that something back out and replace it with something else again, which project is going to reap that class of persons I call GRANT GRIFTERS (con artists: someone who swindles people out of money through fraud; as in “I see these consultants as grifters who prey upon people”) a minimum of $395,000 for “engineering,” plus $140,000 for what they call “construction observation,” with another $100,000 for what they are calling “legal/administrative” costs, plus $60,000 for what they call “geotechnical,” $65,000 for “survey and mapping,” and $7,500 for “environmental,” whatever in fact that might be, so all in all a nice paycheck for the consultants, who have an inside political track as middlemen for these state and federal grants, which is why these GRANT GRIFTERS use these small towns like mine as an excuse to tap into more state and federal money, no questions asked and EVERYBODY involved is very happy, while the taxpayers footing the bills are getting royally screwed with no voice whatsoever in the matter, period, as how these grants are obtained is a totally closed process, and to get their hands on what they consider “free money” these GRANT GRIFTERS are promising them, in this case a windfall of riches into their pockets courtesy of the federal government in Washington, D.C. to the tune of $670,367 from Joe Biden and $1,693,000 from Kirsten Gillibrand to tear out what was paid for by a $90,000 NYS WIIA grant in May of 2023, the town board has to promise to put their local taxpayers in hock for a certain percentage of the project cost, whether those taxpayers want or need the project, in this case a public water supply for a school that already has a public water supply, without we who are the taxpayers having any say in the matter, period, largely because, as was said above, the process of actually getting that money, being entirely political in nature, is going on behind closed doors with absolutely no transparency for the affected taxpayers of whom I am one, this following puts the matter of the controversy into its proper perspective, to wit:
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill
May 8th 2024 Edition
“THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM – ON WHY I AM NOT STUPID ENOUGH TO VOTE ‘YES’ ON WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 IN POESTENKILL”
Recently, I was approached by a group of well-meaning citizens in Poestenkill, good people all, who mistaking me for a mindless eejit whose mind got retarded from reading too many engineering books, which everybody knows pollutes the purity of an otherwise empty mind and renders the book reader too stupid to understand what is going on around him in the real world the well-meaning citizens reside in, sought to cure what they thought was my benighted ignorance concerning water district no. 2 and its innumerable benefits to the town, including luring a CHIP FAB here, which needs a lot of water, because to them, I have indicated that I am not likely to vote YES for Poestenkill’s water district no. 2, when everybody else knows that that is the right thing to do, or else Poestenkill wouldn’t be doing it.
And taking very seriously what these people concerned for my health and well-being were telling me about these innumerable advantages that will come to Poestenkill because everybody knows, apparently except for me, that the town was extremely fortunate to receive this level of governmental funding for the project, 95% of the total with $5.2 million in tax dollars being returned to Poestenkill for investment in critical infrastructure that will ensure that a public water source will be consistently tested and treated rather than each individual homeowner having to test to see what contamination is lurking in their pipes, I informed these people who were adamant that Troy does test the public water (along with Brunswick and Poestenkill) daily with more detailed tests at other frequencies and provides annual water quality reports, that I would take the matter under advisement, and having done so, and having actually read through every page of the Laberge Report that forms the basis of these grant requests, along with Troy’s 2022 water report, and a Documentary History of American Water-works article titled “Two Centuries of Public Service – History of Troy Water Works, Troy, New York,” and the Capital Region PRISM AIS Lake Survey Report for the Tomhannock dated August 18th and 26th 2020 and “A STUDY OF LAKES IN RENSSELAER COUNTY, NEW YORK WITH PROPOSALS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT – FINAL REPORT” by Donald Scavia, Project Director, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, December, 1972, @p.100, where we were informed that the north end of the reservoir was stratified throughout the summer as long ago as 1972, and in the stratified section the hypolimnetic (below 12 meters) dissolved oxygen was one ppm at the end of June, while it was totally, depleted a month later and remained that way the remainder of the project, which is a sign of contamination and an important factor in determining water quality and treatment process, while Secchi disk readings indicated a fairly extensive algal bloom, and we learned therein that the reservoir was being chemically treated with copper sulphate, a powerful oxidizing agent and depending upon the dose ingested in drinking water, can lead to widespread cellular damage with the systemic effects of poisoning being seen primarily on red blood cells, gastrointestinal system, kidneys and cardiovascular system, and if the conditions in the reservoir’s watershed remained uncontrolled, which they have, it may become necessary to increase the extent of chlorination needed to control the bacteria of the water which will increase costs and decrease. the aesthetic nature of the drinking water, while even then, in 1972, the City of Troy was already having problems in the filtration treatment of the water due to increased algae productivity, and the TOMHANNOCK SPILLWAY DAM I PHASE I INSPECTION REPORT by the NEW YORK DISTRICT CORPS OF ENGINEERS from August of 1981, which report contains an extensive history of the Tomhannock dam and the fact that in 1917, just eleven (11) years after the reservoir was first out into operation in 1906, the dam nearly failed because it being corrupt Troy, it was shoddily built, I would have to say that I would have to be the world’s biggest idiot and very stupid, to boot, to vote YES on water district no.2 and thereby put my life, my future, my health, my well-being, and that of my community into the hands of some politicians in Troy and their crumbling infrastructure, which is as stupid as buying into a shoddily-built, crumbling condominium complex in Florida, and then getting slapped with a million-dollar repair bill for your trouble.
Water district no. 2 is NOT an investment in Poestenkill’s future; to the contrary, it is an investment in stupidity.
Stay tuned, more to come.
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 9, 2024 AT 5:39 PM
Paul Plante says:
And my goodness, people, but JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, gazillions of extremely high-paying, good union jobs that are going to grow the American economy from the bottom up and the middle out, as Joe Biden, through the tenets of BIDE-O-NISM and thanks to BIDE-O-NOMICS, expands the middle class so that there is enough room in it to fit not only everybody in America, but everybody in the world, as well, who also wants to be middle-class like “MIDDLE CLASS JOE” Biden, who is the epitome of what a middle-classer in America should be like as an example to everybody in the world who wants to be middle class but isn’t sure what it really means.
So where on earth are they?
Are they stealth jobs, perhaps, because according to the CNBC article “U.S. job growth totaled 175,000 in April, much less than expected, while unemployment rose to 3.9%” by Jeff Cox on May 3, 2024, they don’t appear to exist, to wit:
Consistent with recent trends, health care led job creation, with a 56,000 increase.
Other sectors showing significant rises included social assistance (31,000), transportation and warehousing (22,000), and retail (20,000).
Construction added 9,000 positions while government, which had shown solid gains in recent months, was up just 8,000 after averaging 55,000 over the previous 12 months.
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And if we go to the Reuters article titled “US job gains fewest in six months as labor market cools” by Lucia Mutikani on May 3, 2024, the story appears to be much the same, to wit:
Job growth last month was diverse.
The healthcare sector added 56,000 positions, spread across ambulatory healthcare services, hospitals, nursing and residential care facilities.
Social assistance payrolls increased by 31,000 jobs.
Employment in the transportation and warehousing industry rose by 22,000 jobs, driven by couriers and messengers as well as hiring at warehousing and storage facilities.
Retailers hired 20,100 more workers.
There were modest increases in construction and government as well as leisure and hospitality payrolls, which had been among the major drivers of employment in the past months.
Moderate job growth was also reported in manufacturing.
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So where on earth are all those jobs Joe Biden keeps telling us he has created?
In Joe’s mind?
And while we are on the subject of BLATANT BIDEN BULL****, of which Joe has a copious supply, let’s go to another Reuters article titled “Biden touts new $3.3 billion Microsoft data center at failed Foxconn site Trump backed” by Andrea Shalal on May 8, 2024, where we have a real good dose of it, to wit:
RACINE, Wisconsin, May 8 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday unveiled plans by Microsoft Corp to build a $3.3 billion data center in southeastern Wisconsin, drawing a sharp contrast to his Republican predecessor who had backed a previous $10 billion project at the same site that was significantly scaled back.
Biden, on his fourth visit to Wisconsin this year, said Microsoft’s investment would create thousands of jobs in the presidential election battleground state that his campaign sees as critical to his bid for a second term.
The facility will be built where Biden’s rival for the presidency, Donald Trump, announced a $10 billion investment by Taiwan electronics manufacturer Foxconn in 2017 that the company later drastically scaled back.
Trump had called it “the eighth wonder of the world.”
“I’m here to talk about a great comeback story in America,” Biden told about 200 people at Gateway Technical College’s Sturtevant campus in a Midwestern state hit by manufacturing declines.
The president said Microsoft’s investment would “be transformative, not only here, but worldwide.”
“My predecessor made promises, which he broke,” Biden said.
“On my watch, we make promises and we keep promises.”
Foxconn in 2021 said it would invest $672 million at the site instead of the $10 billion initially planned and forecast 1,454 new jobs, down from 13,000 as its plans shifted and tax breaks were reduced amid local skepticism.
Microsoft President Brad Smith said the U.S. company planned to invest $3.3 billion by the end of 2026 and use artificial intelligence to boost manufacturing and help workers.
The White House said that investment would result in 2,300 union construction jobs and around 2,000 permanent jobs over time.
It said nearly 4,000 jobs had been added in the nearby city of Racine since Biden took office, while about 1,000 manufacturing jobs were lost during the Trump administration.
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Joe Biden is so full of **** it’s a wonder he is so pasty white, which takes us back in time to a CNBC article titled “Foxconn mostly abandons $10 billion Wisconsin project touted by Trump” on September 13, 2022, where we have some actual facts to counter the TOXIC BIDEN BULL****, to wit:
Taiwan electronics manufacturer Foxconn is drastically scaling back a planned $10 billion factory in Wisconsin, confirming its retreat from a project that former U.S. President Donald Trump once called “the eighth wonder of the world.”
Under a deal with the state of Wisconsin announced on Tuesday, Foxconn will reduce its planned investment to $672 million from $10 billion and cut the number of new jobs to 1,454 from 13,000.
The Foxconn-Wisconsin deal was first announced to great fanfare at the White House in July 2017, with Trump boasting of it as an example of how his “America First” agenda could revive U.S. tech manufacturing.
For Foxconn, the investment promise was an opportunity for its charismatic founder and then-chairman, Terry Gou, to build goodwill at a moment when Trump’s trade policies threatened the company’s cash cow: building Apple’s iPhones in China for export to America.
Foxconn, the world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronic devices, proposed a 20-million-square-foot manufacturing campus in Wisconsin that would have been the largest investment in U.S. history for a new location by a foreign-based company.
It was supposed to build cutting-edge flat-panel display screens for TVs and other devices and instantly establish Wisconsin as a destination for tech firms.
But industry executives, including some at Foxconn, were highly skeptical of the plan from the start, pointing out that none of the crucial suppliers needed for flat-panel display production were located anywhere near Wisconsin.
The plan faced local opposition too, with critics denouncing a taxpayer giveaway to a foreign company and provisions of the deal that granted extensive water rights and allowed for the acquisition and demolition of houses through eminent domain.
As of 2019, the village where the plant is located had paid just over $152 million for 132 properties to make way for Foxconn, plus $7.9 million in relocation costs, according to village records obtained by Wisconsin Public Radio and analyzed by Wisconsin Watch.
Foxconn, formally called Hon Hai Precision, said the new agreement gives it “flexibility to pursue business opportunities in response to changing global market conditions.”
The company said: “Original projections used during negotiations in 2017 have at this time changed due to unanticipated market fluctuations.”
After abandoning its plans for advanced displays, Foxconn later said it would build smaller, earlier-generation displays in Wisconsin, but that plan never came to fruition either.
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So what promises did Trump break?
Or is that a figment of Joe’s senile imagination, as well?
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Paul Plante says:
And my goodness, people, but JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, gazillions of extremely high-paying, good union jobs that are going to grow the American economy from the bottom up and the middle out, as Joe Biden, through the tenets of BIDE-O-NISM and thanks to BIDE-O-NOMICS, expands the middle class so that there is enough room in it to fit not only everybody in America, but everybody in the world, as well, who also wants to be middle-class like “MIDDLE CLASS JOE” Biden, who is the epitome of what a middle-classer in America should be like as an example to everybody in the world who wants to be middle class but isn’t sure what it really means.
So where on earth are they?
Are they stealth jobs, perhaps, because according to the CNBC article “U.S. job growth totaled 175,000 in April, much less than expected, while unemployment rose to 3.9%” by Jeff Cox on May 3, 2024, they don’t appear to exist, to wit:
Consistent with recent trends, health care led job creation, with a 56,000 increase.
Other sectors showing significant rises included social assistance (31,000), transportation and warehousing (22,000), and retail (20,000).
Construction added 9,000 positions while government, which had shown solid gains in recent months, was up just 8,000 after averaging 55,000 over the previous 12 months.
end quotes
And if we go to the Reuters article titled “US job gains fewest in six months as labor market cools” by Lucia Mutikani on May 3, 2024, the story appears to be much the same, to wit:
Job growth last month was diverse.
The healthcare sector added 56,000 positions, spread across ambulatory healthcare services, hospitals, nursing and residential care facilities.
Social assistance payrolls increased by 31,000 jobs.
Employment in the transportation and warehousing industry rose by 22,000 jobs, driven by couriers and messengers as well as hiring at warehousing and storage facilities.
Retailers hired 20,100 more workers.
There were modest increases in construction and government as well as leisure and hospitality payrolls, which had been among the major drivers of employment in the past months.
Moderate job growth was also reported in manufacturing.
end quotes
So where on earth are all those jobs Joe Biden keeps telling us he has created?
In Joe’s mind?
And while we are on the subject of BLATANT BIDEN BULL****, of which Joe has a copious supply, let’s go to another Reuters article titled “Biden touts new $3.3 billion Microsoft data center at failed Foxconn site Trump backed” by Andrea Shalal on May 8, 2024, where we have a real good dose of it, to wit:
RACINE, Wisconsin, May 8 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday unveiled plans by Microsoft Corp to build a $3.3 billion data center in southeastern Wisconsin, drawing a sharp contrast to his Republican predecessor who had backed a previous $10 billion project at the same site that was significantly scaled back.
Biden, on his fourth visit to Wisconsin this year, said Microsoft’s investment would create thousands of jobs in the presidential election battleground state that his campaign sees as critical to his bid for a second term.
The facility will be built where Biden’s rival for the presidency, Donald Trump, announced a $10 billion investment by Taiwan electronics manufacturer Foxconn in 2017 that the company later drastically scaled back.
Trump had called it “the eighth wonder of the world.”
“I’m here to talk about a great comeback story in America,” Biden told about 200 people at Gateway Technical College’s Sturtevant campus in a Midwestern state hit by manufacturing declines.
The president said Microsoft’s investment would “be transformative, not only here, but worldwide.”
“My predecessor made promises, which he broke,” Biden said.
“On my watch, we make promises and we keep promises.”
Foxconn in 2021 said it would invest $672 million at the site instead of the $10 billion initially planned and forecast 1,454 new jobs, down from 13,000 as its plans shifted and tax breaks were reduced amid local skepticism.
Microsoft President Brad Smith said the U.S. company planned to invest $3.3 billion by the end of 2026 and use artificial intelligence to boost manufacturing and help workers.
The White House said that investment would result in 2,300 union construction jobs and around 2,000 permanent jobs over time.
It said nearly 4,000 jobs had been added in the nearby city of Racine since Biden took office, while about 1,000 manufacturing jobs were lost during the Trump administration.
end quotes
Joe Biden is so full of **** it’s a wonder he is so pasty white, which takes us back in time to a CNBC article titled “Foxconn mostly abandons $10 billion Wisconsin project touted by Trump” on September 13, 2022, where we have some actual facts to counter the TOXIC BIDEN BULL****, to wit:
Taiwan electronics manufacturer Foxconn is drastically scaling back a planned $10 billion factory in Wisconsin, confirming its retreat from a project that former U.S. President Donald Trump once called “the eighth wonder of the world.”
Under a deal with the state of Wisconsin announced on Tuesday, Foxconn will reduce its planned investment to $672 million from $10 billion and cut the number of new jobs to 1,454 from 13,000.
The Foxconn-Wisconsin deal was first announced to great fanfare at the White House in July 2017, with Trump boasting of it as an example of how his “America First” agenda could revive U.S. tech manufacturing.
For Foxconn, the investment promise was an opportunity for its charismatic founder and then-chairman, Terry Gou, to build goodwill at a moment when Trump’s trade policies threatened the company’s cash cow: building Apple’s iPhones in China for export to America.
Foxconn, the world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronic devices, proposed a 20-million-square-foot manufacturing campus in Wisconsin that would have been the largest investment in U.S. history for a new location by a foreign-based company.
It was supposed to build cutting-edge flat-panel display screens for TVs and other devices and instantly establish Wisconsin as a destination for tech firms.
But industry executives, including some at Foxconn, were highly skeptical of the plan from the start, pointing out that none of the crucial suppliers needed for flat-panel display production were located anywhere near Wisconsin.
The plan faced local opposition too, with critics denouncing a taxpayer giveaway to a foreign company and provisions of the deal that granted extensive water rights and allowed for the acquisition and demolition of houses through eminent domain.
As of 2019, the village where the plant is located had paid just over $152 million for 132 properties to make way for Foxconn, plus $7.9 million in relocation costs, according to village records obtained by Wisconsin Public Radio and analyzed by Wisconsin Watch.
Foxconn, formally called Hon Hai Precision, said the new agreement gives it “flexibility to pursue business opportunities in response to changing global market conditions.”
The company said: “Original projections used during negotiations in 2017 have at this time changed due to unanticipated market fluctuations.”
After abandoning its plans for advanced displays, Foxconn later said it would build smaller, earlier-generation displays in Wisconsin, but that plan never came to fruition either.
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So what promises did Trump break?
Or is that a figment of Joe’s senile imagination, as well?
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