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April 26, 2008

Letter: Go along, get along

To the editor:

This is what the town of Hamilton elites think you should do regarding overrides. They say "Go along, get along. It's only the cost of a cup of coffee." The general public is voting with its feet. "Let me out of here." The population is down! Lots of houses are for sale! The quality of education is in the pits! Proof positive that money thrown at schools doesn't necessarily raise results.

What's in focus now is that the economically strained can't afford to live in Hamilton. If you are young or old, fixed income or middle America, you don't count.

Alex Solzhenitsyn said it this way: "A man with a full stomach will never understand the problems of a man with an empty stomach."

When you fly on an airplane, the oxygen mask instructions say put on your own mask first, and then you can help others. As with the oxygen mask, the economically strained must come first, they cannot finance more overrides, there is no wiggle room left in the common man's pocket.

Vote for your neighbor, vote for your community, vote for your schools by voting no to overrides.

Edwin Howard

Hamilton

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