Letter: Democratic Writer Out of Touch With Reality

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To the Editor:

Let me start by saying that I have zero expectations that this will be published on iBerkshires because any messages against the favored leftist narrative are not allowed on your platform.

After reading his letter to the editor entitled "Contrast Between Parties," I'm struggling to determine if Michael Wise is merely out of touch with reality or if he's intentionally attempting to gaslight people. My guess is that it's the latter.

He claims that "Only one of our national political parties cares anymore about good government," and asserts that is the Democrats. Is our wide-open southern border an example of that "good government?" What about the skyrocketing inflation that continues to grip our economy due to the Biden admin's reckless spending? Or is the rampant crime and homelessness in blue cities now made worse by surging illegal alien populations? Or the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan? Or the spectacle of our clearly diminished president stumbling and bumbling through his presidency? Or is our affirmative action VP spewing another meaningless word salad while waiting in the wings for an obviously frail octogenarian to break a hip? Or the weaponization of our intelligence agencies and DOJ against political rivals? That's good government?

Then there's the biggest whopper of them all: President Joe Biden, like President Obama, is running a no-scandal administration.

A no-scandal administration? Joe Biden is facing an impeachment inquiry for the blatant corruption he engaged in with his son Hunter and his brother James. Polls show that 60-70 percent of Americans think that Joe is dirty. His family clearly took money from China, Ukraine, Romania, and others. That's the biggest of many scandals. What about his mishandling of classified documents which the special counsel labeled as "willful," only escaping prosecution because Hur thought Biden demonstrated diminished mental capacity? That's not a scandal? How about Biden's DOJ labeling concerned parents at school board meetings as domestic terrorists? Are these not scandals?

I won't even get into the myriad of scandals from the Obama admin. Lois Lerner anyone? Fast and furious? Benghazi? Hillary's email server? Iran nuclear deal? Solyndra? The list goes on and on, no matter what Mr. Wise would like you to believe.

Mr. Wise assumes of course that the good Democrats of Berkshire County only consume news from the mainstream media aka the narrative-spewing lap dogs of the Democrat party like ABC, NBC, CBS, NY Times, WaPo, MSNBC, CNN, etc. That's why they won't be able to determine that his letter is packed full of lies on their own. It's not a surprising tactic from a leftist like Mr. Wise. He knows he truly can't tout the Biden admin's accomplishments, because there are none, so he resorts to attacking the opposition while relying on the easily duped Democratic base to be uncurious about the facts.

Allen Jezouit
Chicopee, Mass, formerly of Williamstown

 

 

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Williamstown Housing Trust Inquiring About Repairs Program

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The board of the town's Affordable Housing Trust last month agreed to seek legal guidance on an issue it has been batting around for a couple of years.
 
The question is whether Community Preservation Act money can be used to fund a critical repair program for income-qualified homeowners to help them stay in their residences.
 
The CPA, which identifies "community housing" as one of its three favored categories for funding, largely has been used in town to support home purchases by income-qualified first-home buyers and the creation of income-sensitive housing in town, like the apartments in the former St. Raphael's Church at the corner of Cole Avenue and Church Street or the homes that the Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity homes that the trustees have supported.
 
The trust, which has run a successful mortgage assistance program for more than 10 years, also during the COVID-19 pandemic created programs to help assist with mortgage and rental payments in emergencies.
 
But, from time to time, Trustees have discussed finding a way to use some of its funds — which primarily have come from the CPA — to help residents in need make needed repairs to leaky roofs or dilapidated porches in order to stay in their homes.
 
The Trustees have never gotten a definitive answer on whether that's an allowable use of the CPA money, generated locally by a 2 percent surcharge on property taxes (with the first $100,000 of a property's value exempted) and partially supplemented by revenue raised by the commonwealth from fees on transactions at the Registry of Deeds.
 
Guidance on the website of the state's Community Preservation Coalition (a non-profit that supports local Community Preservation Committees) indicates that the repair issue is, to put it mildly, complicated.
 
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