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  • Posted by:
    Joe Bialek 1 on 03/08/2020 at 1:29 PM
    One of the most disturbing facts about our capitalist nation is the
    misappropriation of funds directed to the salaries of entertainers.
    Everyone should agree that the value an athlete, movie star, talk-show host,
    team-owner, etcetera brings to the average citizen is very small. Granted,
    they do offer a minuscule of diversion from our daily trials and
    tribulations as did the jesters in the king's court during the middle ages.
    But to allow these entertainers to horde such great amounts of wealth at the
    expense of more benevolent societal programs is unacceptable.
    They do not provide a product or a service so why are they rewarded as such?

    Our society is also subjected to the "profound wisdom" of these people
    because it equates wealth with influence. Perhaps a solution to this
    problem and a alternative to defeated school levies, crumbling
    infrastructures, as well as all the programs established to help feed,
    clothe and shelter those who cannot help themselves would be to tax this
    undeserved wealth. Entertainers could keep 1% of the gross earnings reaped
    from their endeavor and 99% could be deposited into the public coffers.

    The old ideas of the redistribution of wealth have failed, and it is time to
    adapt to modern-day preferences. People put their money into entertainment
    above everything else; isn't it time to tap that wealth? Does anyone think
    this will reduce the quality of entertainment? It seems to me that when
    entertainers received less income, the quality was much higher.
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    Joe Bialek 1 on 10/23/2019 at 6:56 PM
    Articles like this really chap my ass. Who died and left Lynn Radcliffe as
    owner of "her Union building"? I discussed this article briefly with Kevin
    Kelley last night at the OBDC annual dinner and am in full agreement that removing an elected official from a public meeting [without just cause} is tantamount to equivocating the Democratic Party with Trump-ism {better known in 1939 Germany as Nazi-ism}. Whether or not you agree with the councilman's public positions you do not have the right to arbitrarily and capriciously trump the will of the people who voted him in. Tonight for homework Ms. Radcliffe needs to read Democracy for Dummies and submit to a pop quiz in the morning. I hereby demand a public apology to Cleveland City Council President Kevin Kelley and his re-admission to any further public meetings sponsored by the SEIU and the Ohio Democratic Party. We democrats are about to embark on the most important election ever in the history of this country and we already have one sour apple causing division. As Lincoln said "a house divided will not stand." Neither will the Democratic Party if antics like this keep occurring.
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    Joe Bialek 1 on 05/06/2019 at 8:49 PM
    Life begins at the point of conception. No one can deny that after a human being is conceived it will develop into the very same being as those debating this issue. What astounds me is that those who favor abortion went through an identical development stage as the being they are condemning to death. Would these very same people agree that a similar choice should have been made about their own existence?

    Abortion today is used primarily as a birth control of convenience because people are too self-centered to take precautions. They prefer their own pleasurable self-indulgence over the care and sanctity of the life they created. What ever happened to taking responsibility for one's actions in this country? Is it too much to ask a woman who has conceived to place the child into adoption? Nine months of
    discomfort is nothing compared to life in prison for voluntary manslaughter!

    Does the father of the child have a say in this? And what about the
    constitution of the United States? Are not all people conceived in this
    country deserving of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? I believe
    abortion is a crime against humanity and should be outlawed. We need to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision and get back to cherishing life in this country. For a country that murders it's children cannot be far from self destruction.
  • Posted by:
    Joe Bialek 1 on 03/27/2019 at 1:29 AM
    give those living in Hough free tuition to Case
  • Posted by:
    Joe Bialek 1 on 03/18/2019 at 4:50 PM
    Pg mo thin to the writers
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    Joe Bialek 1 on 03/18/2019 at 4:41 PM
    Grandma and Grandpa Moran would not approve
  • Posted by:
    Joe Bialek 1 on 03/18/2019 at 4:38 PM
    agree with all of the above
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