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Updated 2:41 PM Friday, November 20, 2009

To all the liberals who are going to spend an inordinate amount of time in the next couple of weeks, laughing at Sarah Palin: Every one of you with wonderful, critical, sarcastic, laughing comments should be reminded of one simple thing: In America, the biggest measure of success is your earning capacity. I can assure all the liberal critics that she will probably out-earn them. ... So who is ultimately laughing at who? I think Sarah Palin is going to have the last laugh and is going to laugh all the way to the bank. ...

Regarding the Nov. 15 Community Voice about a resident on Ross Avenue with 70 dogs: I live in the neighborhood. I understand his situation. The gentleman never leaves the dogs out in the evening time. They are always inside by 10:30 p.m. ... Are we going to start telling everybody that they are not allowed to have dogs if they bark? I understand what the caller is saying but I disagree. I feel that is taking away from some people’s rights to have dogs.

Sheriff (Richard) Jones has every right to show his patriotism and his family’s, although it may appear to be a bit campy to us. As long as he pays for it, I have no problem with it. It’s a free country. What bothers me more is that he has informed, I understand, the commissioners that he will not meet their budget cut directions. Unless changes have been made recently, I believe that commissioners hold the purse strings. I don’t think anyone has made Sheriff Jones dictator recently.

As the holiday shopping season has come upon us, it saddens me so much to drive past that empty Elder-Beerman store, knowing that it used to be so convenient to run in on my way home from work and pick up a gift. Or run there on Sunday afternoon while my husband watched football. It is so sad that we can’t have anywhere at all to shop in downtown Hamilton.

Congratulations to Larry Knapp, the superintendent of schools at Edgewood, for making $5 million in cuts. This is what we need for other school districts, including Hamilton, Middletown, Fairfield and Lakota. Keep it up, Larry. That’s what we need.

In regard to companies that feel it is necessary to have employees in large animal costumes, waving on the side of the road: I understand it gets customers to look and shop. However, when they have these people standing in climates that are unbearable — for example, Nov. 18, with the pouring rain — it makes me want to stay away from that store permanently due to a poor work environment for employees. They really ought to consider what type of weather and conditions to have the employees standing out in, waving to try to get business.

Regarding the article in the Nov. 19 Hamilton JournalNews about the amphitheater: I certainly believe that the money could be spent for something better than an amphitheater. Our children of Hamilton don’t even have a swimming pool. People don’t even turn out for those free movies in the park. I think it is a crying shame. I think something better could be done with the money than that.

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