Let me tell you what I see and will teach my children. Those beautiful panels are producing clean, abundant, and free energy.

Imagine turning on your TV or lights knowing you have absolutely no impact on your planet or power bill. You say we are not benefiting. Do you not think cleaner energy that does not contribute to climate change, pollution, and dependency on dwindling fossil fuels does not benefit everyone including our children?

If you want to benefit financially, look into placing solar panels on city owned properties like I did with my own home. Not only does this reduce my carbon footprint and utility bill but it also creates a positive cash flow by production of SRECS which the utility company must buy back from me.

The system is costly but with state and federal rebates, the savings on utilities, and the sale of SRECS, it can be paid off in the time it takes to pay off a new car. As a City we have the potential to invest in our future the same way.

This could encourage the growth of green business and families looking to live in a town that cares about our planet.

I know it is hard to care about such abstract concepts when people are worrying about jobs, healthcare, etc., but I can tell you from personal experience I have a sense of control over something that I thought was out of my control, and you know what? It feels great.

Albert Einstein once said \”In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.\” Maybe the Mayor needs to look at those panels with different eyes.

Dawn Branton, Gloucester City

photo by Steve Skipton photography

The motive behind attacks upon the economy is greed. They provide an opportunity to bilk investors and tax payers out of trillions of dollars. War profiteering and spending sprees to squander tax revenues add to the damage. Investment fraud is at an all time high. The attached article, economy.txt, saves the reader thousands of hours going through tens of thousands of documents to find out how the United States economy was destroyed over the past ten years.

Both the number of property taxing authorities and their tax burden has degenerated into a state of unlimited abuse. Property tax controls are now required. See the file proptax.txt.

In many cases a corrupt system of justice deliberately allows nothing more than a play on words to get crooks off the hook. \”That isn\’t grand larceny. That is a breach of contract.\” or \”Those aren\’t insurance schemes, those are credit default swaps.\” or \”That is not embezzlement. That is just cashing in on large quantities of stock that we gave to ourselves for free.\” or \”That isn\’t mass murder. That is just killing tens of millions of people by price gouging with insulin.\” The quickest way to identify criminals is by their use of reverse logic. They think backwards.

The practice of legalizing criminal activities must be stopped immediately, criminal activities that have been legalized must be made illegal again, and the activities of those responsible terminated.

Bob Grant, 4-12-2010