{"id":21801,"date":"2014-04-29T09:26:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T13:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=21801"},"modified":"2014-04-29T09:26:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T13:26:08","slug":"letter-looting-horsemen-no-way-to-pay-for-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=21801","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Looting horsemen no way to pay for schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

To The Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Letters1\"<\/a>My background is that of an ‘Army Brat” who traveled the world — Turkey, France, Okinawa — with relatives in England, Australia, and New Zealand.\u00a0 My grandfather in England\u00a0used to call his bookie and enjoy making small bets from home and take me to the race courses in the 1950s. I love horses and always have from riding carriage<\/em> horses in Turkey to now owning my own farm.<\/p>\n

“The rich” had money to build farms in your state and relocate stallions there to bring economic growth to Pennsylvania and save farmland thereby putting less pressure on schools and infrastructure costing the taxpayers. I bring my<\/em> horses to Pennsylvania to foal because of the promised program which makes the babies more valuable to those who race all year.\u00a0 And then one hears of politicians — you, Mr. Rogers<\/em> — who have their eye on the cookie jar to save the schools?<\/p>\n

I was a teacher in Jim Thorpe, Pa. in 1970-71 with 34 second graders.\u00a0 We actually taught<\/em> with the creativity (God) gave us. So much money is wasted in education.\u00a0 Yes you need good buildings but the taxpayers have already\u00a0ponied\u00a0 up through their property taxes. And you, wish to bestow upon a select constituency (probably in your district) a windfall from the horsemen’s fund.\u00a0 Horse racing in Pennsylvania\u00a0is providing sustenance to ‘the little guy’ from the farriers, purveyors of hay, straw, grain, transportation, veterinarians, trainers, barn workers–I could go on:\u00a0 eateries located near the tracks and on the way…even tolls we in NJ pay to get there.<\/p>\n

It takes my breath away the wealth distribution mentality permeating the current climate.\u00a0 If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it….use common sense to encourage economic growth and the rewards will be more money from sales tax, income tax, and the like.\u00a0\u00a0Shop around\u00a0to give taxpayers more bang for the buck.\u00a0 And consider a 5% pay cut in the statehouse, Congress, or wherever to ‘help out’\u00a0 and share the burden.\u00a0 After all\u00a0politicians\u00a0have the security<\/em> of a pension and lifelong healthcare of your own choosing.\u00a0 What does the ‘little guy’ and their hanging-in-there \u00a0“rich” employers have?<\/p>\n

Frances C. Purdey,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Colts Neck, N.J.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To The Editor, My background is that of an ‘Army Brat” who traveled the world — Turkey, France, Okinawa — with relatives in England, Australia, and New Zealand.\u00a0 My grandfather in England\u00a0used to call his bookie and enjoy making small bets from home and take me to the race courses in the 1950s. I love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[1027,4444,5408,5448,1110],"class_list":["post-21801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","tag-education","tag-election-2014","tag-funding","tag-horse-breeeding","tag-roger-howard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}