This Poem is enscribed on the Statue of Liberty
This poem is enscribed on a tabled within the statue.
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame.
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips.
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Emma Lazarus (18491887)
But NOT to Asbury Park!
Jim, Keep Fighting! I am FOR you and WITH you!
Sharon
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "jwkeady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Paul,
>
> You need to wake up, put your personal vendetta for me aside, and deal
> with the facts I have presented.
>
> We are currently have an $8 million dollar budget deficit. Next year
> we will have a $12.5 million dollar budget deficit. If we were in the
> corporate world, that would mean that we are BANKRUPT.
>
> If you invested in a company that went bankrupt, who would you hold
> accountable? The voting majority of the Board of Directors, that's
> who.
>
> Since you (and others) would like some evenhandedness here, let me
> offer the following. You were the driving force behind shutting down
> the homeless shelter and your main argument was that Asbury Park has
> shouldered the burden of all the other surrounding towns for far too
> long. You said that it's time that towns like Deal, Avon, Belmar, etc.
> pull their weight.
>
> This is a fair argument. Now, in the same way that you do not want to
> carry another town's burden, they may feel the same way about us. To
> use your logic, every town that is helping to pay our bills could be
> saying, "Hey Asbury Park, we are tired of paying for failed policies to
> the tune of $8 million dollars a year or more. Get your own house in
> order and stop wasting our hard-earned tax dollars."
>
> Given your stance on burden sharing, I would think you would agree with
> this sentiment. But, unfortunately, you are only "evenhanded" when it
> suits your personal agenda Paul.
>
> Here is the current state of our pending fiscal crisis. I spoke with a
> representative from the Department of Community Affairs yesterday at
> the League of Muncipalities Convention. The person I spoke with
> confirmed that we will be receiving $8 million in aid for 2008. That
> leaves us $4.5 million dollars short.
>
> Are you ready to make up this difference for us Paul? If it is passed
> on to the tax payers it will cost on average approximately $1300 more
> on your tax bill.
>
> It is no wonder that we are in the state we are in with people of your
> ilk believing that honestly stating the facts (regardless of who they
> implicate) and seeking solutions to our city's most pressing problems
> is "irresponsible."
>
> Peace,
>
> Councilman Jim Keady
>
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