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AN OPEN LETTER TO ELECTED OFFICIALS

I had occasion to sit with a sick grandson while his parents were at work today. They live in Fremont and I was reading the Carriage Town News, which is a free newspaper in that area and also has a website. This was the Thursday, January 14 issue. In there NH State Representative L. Mike Kappler has a column, called “My Opinion” for his constituents that receive that newspaper. The Rep provides readers with an overview of the 2010 legislature opening and details several bills in the hopper that have general interest to his constituency. He also gives some lowdown on the fate of these bills and actually explains some abbreviations we sometimes see connected to Concord legislative process. He names names, calls people out and generally it is a damn informative read. And yes it takes the gentleman time and effort to do, but Mr. Kappler obviously understands what is involved in being a public servant.

So I thought about this with regard to our Representatives, our Selectmen (Senecal, Ginter, Webster, Silk, Murray) and our local concord Reps (Patten, Knox, Stevens, Ahlgren). What do we ever hear from any of these people? Do they write an periodic column for the Granite State News or any other publication? There certainly are a lot of free papers we get here in Wolfeboro. Do they run a blog or website to keep us informed? Don’t our selectman have a new, expensive website they could a monthly update for? We seem to elect them and they vanish, sort of like the character Major Major the blog mentioned yesterday. Are they in or out? Is there some unwritten code in Wolfeboro that once elected, you are sworn to secrecy? I suspect each has a circle of acquaintances and friends with whom they converse but for the great majority of us, we have no idea what they support, what they oppose and what they are tying to accomplish.

Here is a link to Rep. Kappler’s piece, read it and see if you agree with me that a monthly summary like this from each of our elected officials would be welcome.

http://www.carriagetownenews.com/myopinion/local_story_011142102.html?keyword=topstory

COURT RULING AFFECTS TOWNS AND CITIES WELFARE PROGRAMS

The State Supreme Court has backstopped the disabled who receive Medicaid and then apply to local welfare departments for additional aid. Some towns and cities have tried to refuse to pay, if the people were on Medicaid (a state administered Federal program) but now the court has said that they cannot in some instances refuse to provide additional help. Remember that Wolfeboro’s welfare budget is up considerably in the proposed next year’s budget. And note that in this case, involving the Franklin, NH, the person was seeking electric service financial aid, a subject this blog weighed in on this week. As our population ages, in this rural cold weather state, heating assistance and electric assistance will continue to mushroom upwards. This blog is not in opposition to this disabled person getting the help she sought, but rather continues to ask the larger long run question of how we, as citizens and taxpayers, will finance all this in the future and will continue to advocate for some sort of end game here that is logical.

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100116/FRONTPAGE/901160432


WHY DOES THE PRESIDENT WANT TO DRIVE A WEDGE?

Exempting union members from the 40% excise tax on high dollar health plans provided by employers is divisive. No argument. You are happy if you are exempt but (NH is not a big union state) you are unhappy, nay angry, if you are a non-union worker who wonders why he or she wasn’t “good” enough to get the same break?
Same thing with the states who get the special Medicaid deals, like Louisiana and Nebraska. We in NH didn’t get any deal. So our state faces more red ink with paying an increased burden for Medicaid. I thought this was the United States of America and the President was the President of all 50 states. All these special back room closed door deals are doing are setting states against other states, workers against other workers, all in the name of the “common good”. Well if it is the common good, it ought to be applied with equality for all citizens across our nation.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/unions_get_pecial_treatment_in_health_AB053CwqPIJlIxXAm37DOM