Andy Weil, Summitville

A response to request made by Rochester Citizens for Library Choice, (R.C.L.C.). This is a misguided flow of energy. Some of the issues have a pinch of merit, but plain and simple the town of Marbletown including the library have resisted change at every door. The library has always been aloof from Rochester.

I am a forty year resident of the town of Rochester and I resent the attempt by a few to put their hands in my wallet for personal preferences. "The buck stops here", stance should be taken by Mr. Chipman. Keep the funding as it has been for the last decade. Namely the lion's share should continue to go to the Ellenville Public Library and Museum.

The Ellenville Public Library and Museum is a state of the art, modern, roomy library available and receptive to the whole community. I daresay the creators of the petition have not been inside or attended any of the events and activities offered in the spacious community room.

The Stone Ridge Library is housed in an historic building capable of serving few. The fragile structure of the building is self-limiting. It is currently being supported by very large lumber and steel braces.

The issued presented by the Blue Stone Press can easily be addressed by the town of Marbletown. As a township receptive to the needs of the community, a remedy could easily be found. The travel issue alone could be tabled. We live in a rural area, travel is implied as normal everyday life. The U.C.A.T. bus system is in place to assist with transportation.

A coalition of fringe residents of the mentioned townships should get together and present this hardsip to the close-by town of Marbletown.

Now, please R.C.L.C., withdraw this petition of division. Leave the library funding alone. It will only lead to division among residents. The siphoning of funds will only impair the success of one library and get lost supporting the lumber braces of another.

Kerhonkson resident

Your editorial [One Way Or Another You Pay, August 6, 2009] concerning the health proposal put forth by the Obama Administration betrays a lack of research, and I am sure like me you have not read the 1,000 odd pages in the bill.

And while I have not read it I have made it my business to try to be as informed as possible through secondary sources. I have a deep interest since I am close to 70 years of age and many aspects, if not all, of this bill are very disturbing to any member of this age group.

For instance, the bill contains language that the elderly-and the obese and the diabetic and those with chronic conditions-will be less than equal in receiving health care under the Obama plan. Your present doctor will not decide who received the by-pass surgery, the kidney, the pace-maker, but a panel of government bureaucrats who will be instructed per the bill and the Obama philosophy [look up his record] to deny care to those people.

The list of affronts this bill contains to the health care of the citizenry as long as the 1,000 pages in it, suffice it to say it also burdens future generations, as you note, with ADDITIONAL trillions of dollars in debt, which the Peoples Republic of China will hold over future American generations for decades to come. The Congressional Budget office correctly warned against it, and the fact that once the government takes over health care the government grows and grows and there is not any going back, it will be paid for by out taxes, where the present health system PAYS taxes is not supported by them. As an aside, the British health care industry is the third largest employer in the world-the Chinese Army is the largest. How big will a U.S. government health care organization grow? Who will control it if not an Obama czar or czarina?

The former Lieutenant Governor of New York, Betsy McCaughey, presently a health care specialist with the Hudson Institute, in a recent radio interview [WOR-NY the John Gambling Show] warned that the Obama "Reform" is a disaster waiting to happen and that in addition members of the AARP should withhold their support for the organization because it is currying favor with the administration by foolishly supporting the bill, which is against the best interest of its members.

Robert Petty
Napanoch