My last few posts consisted of interesting debates relating to the Antietam Lake drama. I still believe that we are facing a serious problem if the County takes over the land. What it comes down to is that Antietam does not want the land developed due to the fact of already having lacked the resources for expansion in their schools. The rest of Berks County will be paying through the nose within the next couple of years to cover Antietam’s Mistake. Berks County is turning into the Pick Pocket Political Capital of Pennsylvania. 2005 will be remembered as the year corruption in all levels of government have been exposed, and the misuse of tax payer money for the very first time is called on.

Sadly the County Commissioners lack the back bone to do what is right, and we will get hit with this tax increase come 2007. It’s time for some accountability. During discussion of the last topic I mentioned about investigating Antietam School District, and the township’s Budget for the past 10 years to determine why they are in the sad shape that they are in being the highest taxed area in Berks County. If we are going to have our pockets picked again the rest of Berks County has a right to know why. I am announcing today that I will be starting an effort to probe Antietam School District, and the Townships Budget over the past 10 year to determine why they are not only the highest taxed township in the county, but that they have to shove their own mistakes on the rest of us, and the rest of this Commonwealth. I have had a few people e-mail me with accounting backgrounds interested in volunteering. I will welcome all volunteers that are interested. For those that don’t have my e-mail address it is mheckman1978@comcast.net if you are interested. I will also be putting up a web site dedicated to this project to show Berks County on our progress. I look forward to seeing what surfaces during this process.