The Board has collected another $23,000.00 in bennies from the Township Taxpayers that include Life Insurance, Pension, and Prescription Reimbursement. Prescription Reimbursement? What's that you ask? Not what you might think. This reimbursement is for Board members who choose to get name brand prescriptions rather than generic. That's right, they choose to get the more expensive kind and get reimbursed at your expense. Ed DeWitt received an astonishing $1,739.60 in reimbursements for the name brand prescriptions. Vicki Ulrich was the next highest with $1,502.76. That's not including their spouse reimbursements that are estimated to be another $2,500.00 more.

I'll bet your glad knowing that you pay for these Board members Pensions as well. $11,000.00 in Pension for Oberle, Besteman, Ulrich and Dewitt. Full time benefits for part time elected officials. Check out the FOIA information I received from the Township detailing this information. I had to pay another $21.31 for this information. Thank you to the reader that reminded me of these additional benefits.

Adam Smith described the 'invisible hand,'  the hand of free commerce that brings magic order and harmony to our lives.

Thomas Paine wrote of another hand, all too visible and intrusive: "The greedy hand of government"