Chatty Guy!

Chatty guy!

The County Executive was chatting again! Stevie Wonder was on the radio Monday with someone named Barry.(Was it Barry Cheney?-is he the grandson of Lon Cheney? Or is he related to Dick Cheney?) Steve promised that “We will save Valley View” and then he and Barry went on to extoll the virtues of selling Valley View and how the LDC was the best way to do that. (Assuming that one wanted to sell Valley View). Steve then stated that “…it is out of the legislators and (his) hands.”

Explain this: How do you, in one breath declare that you will save Valley View and then in the next breath state how it is out of your control?

That’s funny. Real funny, but not to the people who live in Valley View who are now scared out of their wits because they don’t know what is going to happen and such indecisive declarations do nothing to inspire confidence in anyone.

And we have asked before and ask again now: Who really benefits from the sale of Valley View?

And we don’t want to hear that it is to save the county from the $60 million mythological deficit.

You know, we haven’t talked about it for a while, but I f you remember our proposal for a TV show:

“The other star of the show is a County Executive with the robotic voices in his head. He has a super- obsession to sell off the county run nursing home no matter what. It turns out that the voices have been telling him that the residents of the nursing home are actually pod people (ala “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”) from another planet posing as Senior Citizens, Veterans and persons in need of rehab! So he MUST sell the nursing home to a private company, Billy Big Bucks Enterprises, who is fully equipped to eliminate these infiltrators! BUT he cannot do it outright because that will wake up the pod people who ears are trained to listen for the words: “sale” or “selling”. So they come up with the idea of forming a company to “oversee” the nursing home all the while getting ready to sell it to the Billy Big Bucks Company. Only then will this CE feel safe. Oh! Imagine the episodes as each POD Senior is rolled out in a garbage can! What hi-jinks!” 

In this next episode, the County Executive is now convinced that even though he is no longer responsible for the Nursing Home, the inhabitants are still after him and the voices in his head are now telling him that he not only has to sell the nursing home, but he must sell it to the Special One, the one with the power to stop the pod people from completely taking over the CE’s mind. This Special One supposedly has “dark side powers”, which are the only powers the CE believes could control the "podsters". The Special One has convinced the CE and everyone else of his powers but is laughing all the way to the bank, where he cheerfully deposits monies received for his non-existent magical services.

The Special One has many names including Joseph and Daniel, but we just call him Billy.