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This is the last post of yours I'm going to waste my time on, Gary, but here goes:<br> <br> "Dragging their feet" is a baseless accusation with no fact behind it. Prove it...or give us some legitimate evidence of such. Responsible journalistic practices prohibit the reporting of "rumor" as "fact".<br> <br> The needy are not freeloaders, but some not-so-needy no doubt have just wanted a handout. Social service agencies have reported to us dozens of such have made a scene and stormed out of shelters when asked, politely, to fill out forms and provide proof of residency and income. I for one, have had my fill in the past ten days of hearing "sob stories" only to go to the agency involved and get an entirely different story from them.<br> <br> On such a storm in winter. Gary...you need to think what you just said. How many hurricanes happen in winter? Dayton has never seen hurricane force winds even in the worst blizzard.<br> <br> On people without insurance:<br> My point was: if your power is out and you're facing a life-threatening emergency, you call 9-1-1. No hospital is going to force you into indentured servitude if you don't have insurance. The Hippocratic Oath doctors take prevents that. If a friend of mine was on the verge of dying during a power outage, frankly, I wouldn't give a darn whether that person had insurance or not. I'd get them the help they needed.<br> <br> I can appreciate the insurance argument, I know lots of people don't have it. But to worry about lack of insurance in a truly life-threatening emergency is non-sensical.<br> <br> Lastly, Gary: as of today 8,000 customers are without power. On Sunday, D.P. & L. in revising its estimates said it could be Wednesday before that 90% figure was reached.<br> <br> Dayton Power and Light has 515,000 customers in the area. One tenth of 515,000 is 51,500. Right now, more than 90% of D.P. & L.'s customers have power.<br> <br> Those are facts.
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