Point of clarification, I understated something just a little bit. that isn’t 90k total getting stuffed into the pension fund, thats a $90,000 INCREASE from last year, for a total of $289,000, up from $198,000. not bad for a podunk town with a population of

soon to be discovered famous last words: said the massapequa park mayor to the town clerks “hurry up and skim it while we can town clerk, this party won’t last forever! Here’s a 5% raise for you just to keep quiet. i smell an audit!”

I’m never visiting this town……forget about my travel dollars…..

Oh, I just love this. Theres got to be a scandal brewing, either that or the poor residents of this town just have no clue as to whats going on. 2011/2012 budget, page 4: the mayor says “economic uncertainty” then jams through a 1.4% increase in spending and a 3% hike in taxes, despite a 3% drop in revenue. Then, raids these poor people’s rainy day fund for over $600,000 to cover his poor management of the place!! The town Judge gets a 22% pay hike! The town clerks – a 5% pay hike, 9% more to the town mechanics, they have 73,000 budgeted for “celebrations”!?!?! 45% more (!!!!) or 90,000 stuffed into their pension system !?!?!?!? And they have 1.2m in debt. Wow! Great placeto live and work.

*YAWN*, how much longer till the 2nd American revolution?

If they say it is for safety and not revenue, it is 100% about the revenue.

We live in a police state. We are all guilty now. Can’t fly without getting porn scanned or molested. The tyranny is rolling out into the sporting events …. soon it will be in the schools and malls. Spy on your your neighbors. A nation of fear!! We the people stand in the shadows of the wolves! Hang your head in shame America. This is not the land of the FREE !!

Sensors… embedded in the street? We’ll put those to the test.

I agree, Bell, CA

This message from the mayor is just too funny!! “Come on by, pay some fees, we need ‘em! Gotta get me a raise for a new SUV! There aint no recession in my paycheck!” Ha Ha Ha

http://www.masspk.com/mayor.html

“Officials say they’re implementing the new technology for safety, not revenue.”

What a bold face lie. The police state continues to be built.

Endless surveillance, yet another violation of our rights. Add it to the list of gov’t violations of our rights:
They violate the 1st Amendment by placing protesters in cages, banning books like “America Deceived II” and censoring the internet.
They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns.
They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by molesting airline passengers.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars for foreign countries.
Impeach Obama, vote for Ron Paul.
(Last link of Banned Book):
http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000190526

“What happens when somebody comes into town for the first time wants to stop into my shop for ten minutes, gets a parking ticket and then they never come back?” asks Quick-Stop Deli owner Ajay Singh.

BINGO! And precisely why I never shop in my little downtown. No sensors in the road yet, but an over zealous ‘officer’ in a high-tech 3 wheeled cart who is using license plate scanners to look for expired tags and wanted vehicles too. These scanners shoot both sides of the street and INTO private driveways and parking lots. Downright police state forming. Hit them in the pocket book.

DIG UP THE DISKS AND DESTORY THEM….EVERY TIME THEY PUT A NEW ONE IN THE STREET…DIG IT UP AND DESTROY IT…
CUT THE TIRES OF THE POLICE CARS…PUT SUGAR IN THE GAS TANKS OF ALL POLICE CARS…
MOST COPS ARE TOO STUPID TO SEE THAT BIG PICTURES…WE DONT WANT BIG BROTHER…

Just another example of a corrupt small town village government overreaching solely for revenue. They overtax residents, overpay themselves, bankrupt the town with big self determined salaries, then look for more revenue to pay themselves. One step away from Bell, CA. Take a page from the current Government 101 book – tax less, spend less. Then repeat.

Idiots. Don’t partk illegally.

Pie tin over sensor… nuff said.

How can we smash and destroy these discs and is there any way to jam the signals of the transmitters — and the police phones?

How far up on the 911 meter does this fall. Just between J-walking and Cat stuck in tree?

In all too may cases in all too many jurisdictions, the law has been perverted to create revenue. In these cases, the police have been turned into tax agents, a misuse of police power, and something that most police officers probably do not like doing. The fact that “officials” felt it necessary to say that this is being done “for safety, not revenue” would appear to indicate that revenue is indeed their prime motivation.

I misread the headline. I thought they were imbedding seniors in the street.

You know, i’d like to have the sensors imbedded where safety is an issue. I’ve tried on many occassions to have the locals shoo away parking violators along a street where many children are present. Their parents are the violators and think they can park anywhere. I think this calls for vigalantism…

Perhaps they need more parking available.

I love to hear whines and whimpers early in the morning.

“What happens when somebody comes into town for the first time wants to stop into my shop for ten minutes, gets a parking ticket and then they never come back?” asks Quick-Stop Deli owner Ajay Singh.

Easy – tell your customers to park legally!!

Officials say they’re implementing the new technology for safety, NOT revenue.

“I …am not a crook.”
” Read my lips…no new taxes”
“I did not have relations with that woman…”
” I was hiking on the Appalachian trail”

C’mon everyone, join in with YOUR favorite political whopper:

1984…