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LetterNew Fencing on Bridge???? 

OK, WHO WAS THE MORON  that designed this? And who were the idiots that OK’d it?!!! Even a 5 year old knows that this does not stop jumpers….Why waste taxpayers money……another embarrassing stupidity from people that don’t care and like to spend our money! DAMN! SOMEBODY WITH COMMON SENSE TAKE OVER PLEASE!!!

Wilma R. Matey

Mail Censorship?

Should NJ pass a ‘Do Not Mail’ list that allows state government to ban advertising sent through the mail? Does any state have the right to control the operation of the Post Office? What will be next?

What about the advertisements on radio, television, and in newspapers? Why not control them as well? I find these more annoying at times than the “junk mail” that is placed in the circular file. Is this proposal a scheme to shift advertising dollars to the broadcast media? While the intention is good, the means are wide open to abuse.

Why aren’t our legislators looking into ways to lower the highest property taxes in the nation? Splitting the sales tax with each county could reduce property taxes. Allocating the first 1% of the income tax to each municipality could reduce property taxes. The methods are known, the political will to do this is lacking. What do Pennsylvania and New York do?

Ronald A. Sobieraj

Planet X 

Remember last year when someone said that the world was going to end? That’s because he was talking about a planet called X that was to fly by the earth which it never did. So, I started looking into this so-called Planet X. It’s a big red planet with a trial dust that’s very long. Planet X was found in the late 1950’s then it was forgotten. In 1979 the U.S. Navy made a coastal flood map from east to west and the southern states for a reason. In 1983 a group of scientist had a talk with President Reagan about this Planet X. What they told him was to be on what man can think.

So President Reagan signed an executive order to keep it close for 20 years. In 2003 a man named Marshall Masters started looking into this Planet X and continued to study it and where it will be headed. Before NASA knew about this and kept this top secret. The Vatican in Rome knew this, too. That’s why they have a telescope in Arizona watching this. And there’s many other telescopes watching this Planet X. What will this Planet X do if it flies by the earth? I don’t want to say anything yet. But you can look it up yourself on the internet. It’s called Planet X or 2003-UR 313 . Now it’s up to you to decide what’s true or false.

Orlando “Wildman” Perez

That Gold Standard

There is a candidate for an elective office who promises to return to the “gold standard”, which means tying the value of US money to a rare commodity. Gold money did not prevent the Panic of 1837, the Panic of 1873, the depression in 1893 (the worst in the 19th century), the Panic of 1907, or the Great Depression of the 1920s-1930s. A “panic” was the old name for an economic depression.

President Roosevelt ended the use of gold money in his first term. Gold specie and notes (paper money redeemable in gold) ended, but silver specie and notes continued in use. President Johnson ended silver coins and notes in 1964. Paper money was only produced by the Federal Reserve Banks, a private cartel that charges a yearly fee to the US government for its product. President Kennedy had issued US Treasury Notes in $100 denominations to avoid a payment to the Federal Reserve Banks and keep costs down. That ended with his death. President Nixon ended the gold standard for US money; he had been advised to raise the rate to $60 an ounce, which was similar to President Roosevelt’s change from $20 to $35 an ounce. Nixon also ended the production of notes with a value more than $100; such as $500, $1000, $2000, or $5000 notes.

Presidents Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush did nothing about returning to a gold standard, or even a silver standard. So what is the purpose to make this promise at this time? Will it end the worst depression since the 1930s? Will it lower the tax burden or raise wages for most Americans? I wonder if the powerful Federal Reserve Banks would even allow this proposal to be voted on by Congress? How would a gold standard affect most people?

The Panic of 1873 was caused by a financier trying to monopolize the market in gold. A gold standard could allow billionaires to buy up most of the gold as a form of economic warfare against people, and then we would have to issue paper money again. Is this what they want? A gold standard should be a solution to a problem, not the cause of problems. Money is a medium of exchange, wealth is produced from agriculture or manufacturing items that people need or want. Would it prevent outsourcing jobs?

Ronald A. Sobieraj

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