THE PEOPLE SPEAK OUT!!

Boy, when it rains, it pours!!! God has been so good to us, and today was no exception. I was out with my husband on PERSONAL business, when someone came up to me in a local store, and handed me this little goodie! Apparently, the honorable first responders, and citizens of this town, are opening their eyes to his majesty, and his subjects antics, and they are now speaking out.

We read in the paper how the Mayor was bragging about not raising taxes and no layoffs. Then we read the rest of the article! Are you kidding us? First, you take money away from the six volunteer fire companies to pay for a paid fire company that only operates 40 hours a week during weekdays! Then you are all proud of yourselves for proposing a 64 million dollar budget while confirming that your "best estimate" of revenue is 54.5 million!

That is a deficit of 9.5 million dollars! How is that a balanced budget?

You next claim that you will be transferring 4.9 million dollars from the reserve fund to make up the difference! Where is the other 4.6 million coming from? Oh Wait, it gets better. Your "financial guru", states that it is really only 3 million from the reserve fund because you anticipate making 1 million in interest. Really???? Really???? Really????

How did you come up with that figure?

When the Mayor came into office there was 71 million in the reserve fund from the sale of the water and sewer department. Thanks again for that, our water and sewer rates have gone up every year since. What is the cost of the Mayor getting to claim he doesn't raise taxes? Continued increases in sewer and water bills!

Back to the 71 million dollars….how can you anticipate 1 million in interest when you also claim that the fund has been depleted from 71 million to 49 million due to the economic situation? Expecting a big turnaround this year?

Our township receives 11 million per year from the casino and we STILL have a 9.5 million dollar deficit! You complain about the president spending more than he takes in….look in the mirror!

You even have the nerve to ask for more casino money from the county!

In the same article you state that the costs of operating the police department will be 21.2 million dollars or 67% of the township budget. You say that this increase is due to contractual obligations. Yet you claim that you intend to reduce operating costs? How, putting off the purchases of equipment like cars and vests (not new cars for the Director and Deputy Director of course) for the officers? Maybe they will only patrol 20 hours a day saving on gas? Whatever happened to the police firearms range you promised them when you shut down the one behind your house?

We find it amazing that you congratulate yourselves by stating you are not raising taxes or having layoffs then report that you are spending 9.5 million then you receive! How many volunteer fire companies could survive operating like that?

You have created a township government that is too large to be supported by the citizens and businesses of Bensalem!

You list 5.8 million in capital improvements for intersections. Your own township engineer has told of the millions and millions needed to repair roads that are way overdue for re-paving and improvements that you continue to ignore. Then you mention the need for "Intersection improvements"? What Mr. Mayor, are you taking a different way home? The 5 million we paid for your left turn onto Galloway road was not enough?

Funding to our volunteer fire companies has dropped thanks to very poor planning and a very questionable SAFER grant application.

The township training center was a colossal waste of $5.3 million dollars that you were told by the county you did to expend. The fire companies get more training for free from the new training center in Bristol.

Your Director of Public Safety continues to ignore the National Fire Protection Association standards that are applicable to the training center.

Your Director of Public Safety continues to cover-up the assault committed by a paid fire department member.

You and the Council continue to ignore the township ordinance for fire companies established and operated in our township.

Your list of friends hired at your request by the school district involved in the millions of dollars of thefts continues to grow!

Your political friends pointing at the statute of limitations for many of the thefts as a defense for their decades of theft from the taxpayers are disgusting!

You promised that if we voted for the casinos, the funds would be divided between the township and the school district keeping our taxes down never happened.

Instead of a community center, you gave that was money given to us for the project to the school district for a new gym at the high school. All of this, with no plan to permit the public to use the new gym.

You did make one point when you were nice enough to throw us a bone of $100.00 from the casino money. You stated that it is our money. You are correct. It is our money. ALL OF IT IS! Not yours to throw around to get re-elected. Are you kidding? You want us to accept an offer that gives us less than $2.00 a week to put up with all the crap from that casino? Yeah right!!

Even your inner circle has been telling us that we can expect a tax increase after you are re-elected. We can here it now…."We have not raised taxes in decades!" No you haven't. You've done worse!! You just passed the buck to those that have to come in and clean up your mess! All you do is simply move your debt from one year to the next. Now you are patting yourselves on the back for submitting a budget that is 9.5 million dollars beyond your expected revenue!

We are the largest municipality in Bucks County and the only large municipality that does not include trash pickup as part of our services from the township. The Mayor's claim that individual homeowners can get a better deal than the entire township is ridiculous at best!

You have more in common with Mr. Obama then anyone realized…you both create a government that the people cannot financially support. You both hope you are out office before the bottom falls out, while you both are creating a haven for illegal aliens to live at the expense of taxpayers. You both use your law enforcement agencies to intimidate the public, preventing them from speaking out against you…and you and your group are as good as the President in covering up wrong doing!

Well Your Majesty, IT'S FAILED!!! Your "Sheriff of Nottingham", Fred Harran, FAILED to close Union Fire Co. down permanently, he FAILED to have Dave Jerri Jr. put in jail for a crime HE NEVER COMMITTED, and because of Detective Cannon, you now have your own personal Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal!! That plus the nearly 10 million dollar deficit, you are trying to cover up, (As well as the others from over the past few years.), from all the over spending you have been doing, is now being noticed by the people of this town, and they don't like it!! Your claims to J.D. Mullane, of having " an affinity for the (Latino) community", but that you cannot "crack" it, is just another load of Baloney! I have been informed of how much of an affinity you have with not only Latinos, but also other ethnic entities, and it even makes my spouse (He's black, by the way.) sick to his stomach! Face it, your majesty. You have been exposed, and very soon, it will be over for you, and all your little minions.

MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN!!