To the Editor:

Just great! Don Hooper thinks our biggest problem is overspending!

Wrong, wrong Mr. Hooper, our biggest problem is lost revenue! Are you aware, sir, of how many good, high paying jobs we have lost in this County? Of the great decrease in State aid and the increases in shared costs that have happened? Of the infrastructure needs of such a large County? Of the poverty? Of our citizens who are just trying to survive?

Being an effective legislator like Sam Burns takes more than a bean counter who sees this county through the narrow focus of numbers on a paper.

What is frustrating is having an accountant making statements about debit expenditures without looking at the offsetting budgeted unexpended funds covering those costs.

Such a narrow focus ends up nickel and diming and chipping away at the one thing everyone in this County needs...rich, poor, and old, young. Everyone! Our roads and bridges!

Sam Burns knows his people and they know him.

Mark Bellardini

Potsdam