Statement from the Mayor of Fairfield
by Jesse J. Lewis, Sr.
Kenneth Copeland, the Mayor of Fairfield, stated that the City of Fairfield does not have any problems that money would not cure. I must remind the Mayor that this is true with 95 percent of all the problems anyone can have. I am not sure whether or not the City Council and the Mayor realize that this situation will only get worse. It’s sad when you can’t buy gas for the fire trucks and police cars on credit.
The next three big issues are going to be paying the water, light bill and salaries. The only thing the City of Fairfield can do at this point is have citizens vote to annex into the City of Birmingham. There are two questions here: (1) whether the City of Birmingham wants them, and (2) whether Birmingham can afford it. I cannot speak for my alma mater, Miles College, but if I were the president, at this period in time, I would rather be in Birmingham than Fairfield.
This same scenario can be said for Brighton, Lipscomb and, possibly, Midfield. My suggestion is all these small cities between Bessemer and Birmingham choose which way they what to go. At least Bessemer and Birmingham would get an increase in federal funds because of the increase in population.
Republicans Taking Over the Senate
I am one of the few people who welcomes the fact that there’s a possibility Republicans are going to take over the Senate in 2014. In the event this happens, I will guarantee you that in 2016 they will be running for the hills.
Here’s a group of people who have one issue: obstruction. In every state in America you would think that Barack Obama was on the ballot. The only thing they are saying is, ‘I am more conservative than the conservatives and I will never vote for Obamacare.’ Ninety-five percent of these same people say they will support a national health care program.
These people are saying that President Obama is responsible for Ebola coming to America’s shores, companies leaving the United States going to Canada to avoid paying taxes here; and he is responsible for ISIS, gay marriages and interracial marriages.
What they do not say is when Obama took office we were in a free fall recession, losing one million jobs a year with employment as high as 10-12 percent. Now we have a stock market doing better than anytime in 10 years, the unemployment rate is down below 6 percent and millions of uninsured people now have health insurance. I predict that as soon as 75 percent of the people get health insurance, we defeat ISIS and find a cure for Ebola, he will go down in history as the greatest of all the Presidents of the United States.
In order to win an election, these people will lie, rob, cheat, and I don’t want to say, attempt murder, but some politicians – I wouldn’t put it past them. For example, the former governor of Virginia, Robert McDonnell, who was found guilty of taking bribes. He said he didn’t do it; the mother of his children did it. He was going to put a woman in jail he had been married to for 38 years. If this is not low down, I don’t know what is.
Would You Believe?
This is hard to comprehend; very difficult to understand and almost unbelievable… of all the schools in America to play football, three teams from the SEC are at the top of the list.
Not only three teams on top; they are all in the Western Division of the SEC. The problem is they cannot stay there; the top four and Alabama has to play two teams in the top five. Ole Miss and Mississippi State have to play each other.
My guess would be at the end of the day the only team in America that would be undefeated is Florida State. Unquestionably, the question should be asked is Jameis Winston the best football player in America. The answer is yes. The next question is whether Jameis Winston is unstable, the answer is also yes.
I must add another statement about Florida State remaining No.1. They can only remain No.1 if Jameis Winston remains the quarterback.
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