I have noticed that a lot of Massachusetts cities and towns have been complaining about budget shortfalls due to lack of funding from the state. The Hampshire Sheriffs Department is also not getting it’s normal funding which is a lot worse. If you all don’t realize it, you might look to the governor that you elected to find the reason for these funding shortfalls. The fact is that she has spent an estimated $2 billion on the illegal immigrant and migrant population in the state. It seems that she cares more about them than the residents of her own state. And yes, illegal is the correct term.
I would imagine that this money would be more than enough to fulfill all the city and town budgets along with the Sheriff’s Department. When are you all going to learn to stop putting Democrats in office? I mean what has Elizabeth Warren done for this state? I bet you can’t name one thing, I sure can’t. The Democrat Party has gone off the deep end and no longer seems to care about the citizens of this country, unless your ideology is the same as theirs, immigrants over citizens, men can be women and play in women’s sports, government can take care of you better than you can take care of yourself so need bigger government, they seem to be against common sense, they protest against deporting illegal immigrants who have committed crimes in our country, the way to lower crime rates is decrease the punishment, not report them and let the offenders back out on the street to commit more.
They have caused your electric and heating cost to go up by claiming to care about the climate. Sorry but look at the history of the Earth’s climate and you will see that it runs in cycles and it is in the upward cycle now. Man may have helped but not enough to want to impose the radical proposals they want, wind turbines made in China, if they are so great why is it that China does not use them? They just build more coal burning electric plants as does India. Solar farms take up a lot of space and look terrible like the wind turbines, the wind doesn’t always blow and the sun doesn’t always shine. This state won’t let more natural gas in via pipelines so you have to use fuel oil, sulfur in fuel oil puts out more pollutants than does natural gas. Your heating bill will be lower as well as be able to use it for heating hot water and cooking. More natural gas supply will also lower your electric bill as well as lead to more economic development by lower costs for energy. How many of you have to keep ordering fuel oil? A natural gas connection to your home will mean never having to worry about running out of fuel and will actually lower the pollutants released into the atmosphere.
Next time you go to the voting booth stop and think about common sense before you cast your vote.
Andrew Sturtevant lives in Northampton.