User profile: Beowulf
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Posted on July 31 at 7:59 a.m.
Wayne, you really do live in Wayne's world. You can't compare Naples with Marco Island. Have you ever even been to the City of Naples and it's environs? You really are limited in your analytical thinking aren't you? The City of Naples is a real City not a little village like Marco Island. It has real City responsiblities with a real Chamber of Commerce, not a small group of business men that can all gather around one confernence table. The City of Naples is the munincipality that hosts the Collier County Goverment complex, to include it's law enforcement, County Courts and everything else a County does. If you hadn't noticed before, it's all right on a major road that the City of Naples depends upon. It also has a real airport that real airplanes fly into, not a private one with toy airplanes. It has a City dock and many more recreational responsibilities then our little community has. It has 20 times the restaurants our little community has. It has a real hospital and several medical arts malls. You need to get out more, visit a real city and see what it is like. Making a small community like Marco Island a City does not necessarily make it a real City.
Posted on July 18 at 6:45 p.m.
Happy and lauralbi1 the satire in the piece above seems to have hurt you both. Happy thinks that the thoughts being expressed are "crazy". He is correct. Anyone that thinks like that depicted in the article is crazy and should seek help. Unfortunately, the majority of our Council thinks this way. That's why the writer wrote the article. Get it? Lauralbi1, as for your statement that we need lower rates and "revenue". Speak for yourself. Our rates are resonable when one considers the customer service we get from this company. We would not require more "revenue" if our leaders didn't think up all these "crazy" reasons to spend more money.
Posted on July 8 at 6:04 p.m.
islandman4now, thank you. Another blogger pointed all this out to Issler months ago when he first attempted to make this comparison. He doesn't listen. I also recall that it was pointed out to Issler that the City of Naples has the County government living right next to it and shares responsibilities with an airport administration and a public dock and many more responsiblities then little Marco Island has. Issler would love to compare Marco Island with Miami if he could.
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Posted on July 8 at 7:59 a.m.
I would love to make the comparisons you suggest. After looking at several City's in Florida I cannot find one that actually compares in every way to Marco Island. We need to spend more time fixing OUR problems and not looking to others. Common sense and cutting out advice from big spenders that think this city is their SIM City to play with has to stop. Marco Island has too many employees and a budget that is far too big for a city of this size. As I recall you once made a comical attempt to compare our City to that of Naples. Is that what you want me to do? Acquiring more infrastructure will only require us to hire more and spend more. Our leadership is not doing well, if they were no one would be complaining. Thank you for repeating my entry. Having it said twice doubles it's exposure. Feel free to do the same with this one.
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Posted on July 7 at 6:42 a.m.
It is now becoming clear that Mr. Hall was correct. A Florida Court ruling is now making the rounds on the internet. All one needs to do is Google each partner in Tucker's firm to see who it concerns. It seems a certain partner of Tucker's law firm has had problems in the past with truth telling. Unlike Tucker's public admission, this person lost a job. Why would the people of Marco Island agree to hire these people to give them advice? Mr. Hall is correct it is an outrage. I also question Tucker's loyalty to his own firm. Why would he seek a public office knowing his action would again out one of his people. Is he that selfish?
Posted on July 7 at 6:27 a.m.
Lauralbi1, what kind of research would that be? I'm old enough to know a tax when I see it. I'm old enough to understand when politicos are trying to find ways to spend more of MY money. What have Neylon/Hall done now to get your hair up? You sir, have a real problem with reality. I'm beginning to think you are part of the problem.
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Posted on July 4 at 7:09 a.m.
Sanity, boring? I share your concern for our dearly departed and the selfishness of your minister. My immediate concern however is for the living and the here and now. Taxes and death are inevitable but murder and stealing by politicians is not.
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Posted on July 3 at 7:09 p.m.
GFonda, to disqualify a State tax from being a deductable item on your Federal tax is to not only increase your taxes but to deny the federal subsidy of our State's resources. OldMarcoMan, problem is, I did notice the increase for 7 years. I don't care where it came from, but don't tell me that my taxes were reduced when every year I am asked to pay more not less. Interesting that you do not deny that our taxes were in effect increased and not lessoned.
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Posted on July 3 at 1:58 p.m.
By the way MarcoFacts, our elected officials were elected to sit and listen to our citizens. If they choose to go their own way and not pay attention to the people then they shouldn't be surprised about citizens complaining "constantly". Our citizens do so for a very good reason and in large numbers. If our elected officials think like you do then they are really arrogant SOBs. Besides they are compensated plenty to take the abuse. $6,000 is a lot of money for the little I have seen them do. Because they can't make the really hard decsions our city requires they are either cowards or incompetent. Our elected officials with few exceptions take the easy way and do whatever Rony Joel tells them to do without ever telling him to wait a year or challenging him in any useful way. Perhaps it's simply because their expertise is too limited to serve our City. A bartender, failed real estate speculator, dentist and inefficiency expert don't make for very good experts.
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Posted on July 31 at 8:09 a.m.
Beowulf, I'm with Fossil on this one Wayne. You can call taxes whatever you want. The voters of Marco Island, the Collier County and the State of Florida mandated that taxing authorities CUT spending and revenues. You represent a group of politicos that want only to find new revenue sources, you even admit as much in your last post. Citizens of Marco Island are concerned with local government and that means the City of Marco Island. They are asking their representitives to adhere to their mandate. Stop the spending of our money and stop looking for new ways to tax us.
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