President should know that people are disgusted

President should know that people are disgusted

EDITOR:

Will someone tell the president to smell the roses surrounded by the thorns of people who are thoroughly disgusted with his performance, broken promises and wasteful spending? He should stop campaigning for survival and feeble support to save arrogant and incompetent Harry Reid’s seat in November (9 months away). We are stuck with him for the next three years.

Stop using taxpayer money to flit around the country trying to glad hand the electorate at programmed and self-serving photo ops that the DNC should be paying for. It starts again, with the storms gone, in of all places Las Vegas, the city Obama denigrated and is now try to appease with taxpayer money for real estate relief. Maybe an apology such as those the president is prone to give foreign countries would be cheaper.

It is amazing that FDR could run a war on two fronts and the country all without leaving the Oval Office and before “real time” TV coverage, but Obama can’t stay in the Oval Office and gets nothing done.

In this time of taxpayer unemployment and belt tightening for survival the president continues to blow money.

My daughter-in-law with the California State Police was given a 10 percent pay cut and two days off a month to save the state budget, but the feds get raises and more hiring. How about mandatory retirement and hiring freeze, along with cleaning up paperwork to reflect smaller staff/government?

Note: in 2008 government added 53,000 pages of rules and regulations to system. A local example of government waste can be seen up and down Meridian Road. For 30-plus years I have driven both ways five days a week. Lo and behold, someone decided it was imperative that drivers know the names of the waterways they are crossing and they posted a sign for each direction. I sleep better knowing that I crossed Axe Factory Run.

DANIEL VICTOR BIENKO

Canfield

Problem with appointments

EDITOR:

As a former member of the Mental Health and Recovery Board (formerly LifeLines), I am appalled and angry with the recent actions that Trumbull County Commissioners Heltzel, Fuda and Polivka have taken in appointing new members to this all-volunteer board. I have served on this board through appointments by the Ohio Department of Mental Health as a family member for eight years and, when an opportunity came up to serve again through a commissioners’ appointment, I was proud to have been reappointed, not once, but twice. As a member of this board, I devoted my personal experience as a family member, lifelong community member and took my oath to this position with great seriousness.

Since I had already served as an appointee under ODMH, and as an active parent advocate for families with mental health issues, plus being a parent representative on the Families and Children First Council, I always felt that my volunteer resume and recommendation by the board were the reasons I was appointed. The process of submitting applications to become a member of this board has always been done with great thoughtfulness for the concerns of Trumbull County. Emphasis and active recruitment to attempt to maintain a diverse balance of members from all around the county, culturally and racially, while sometimes difficult, has always been a priority and is mandated, not only by this board, but by the State of Ohio Revised Code.

I was shocked to hear one the commissioners state on TV that he was not familiar with “the law.” I feel that under the circumstances, the commissioners should reconsider and reverse their appointments and give due consideration to the names that were submitted to the board by the Mental Health and Recovery Board.

DIANE M. O’RELL

Warren