SURPRISING STUFF
“It’s fun to stay at the YMCA…”
The Lake Geneva YMCA is attempting to get rid of its old location on Wells Street and move to a new location. Money was raised and property was purchased east of Badger High School along Edwards Boulevard. Then Hillmoor happened. The city bought the Hillmoor tract, lock stock and barrel. Mike Kramp, the executive director of the YMCA sent out a survey, although rumor has it that the survey, (insight.com is the supposed independent objective recipient of survey results), really isn’t necessary at all. The decision has been made to acquire part of the Hillmoor property and get rid of the Edwards land. Rumor has it. The request for a survey response was sent out last week. It was addressed in bold: “This confidential survey will be sent out to a random sampling of individuals under the email address of mike.kramp @vpinsight.com.”
What need is there for a paid outside company to write some questions down and send those out to some members, and then get the results back and total them up? Confidential? Oh please. This YMCA is beginning to sound a whole lot like the city administration: “let’s hire a survey company to decide on city salaries, then hold that information secret as proprietary and give a bunch of friends, and self, six-figure annual incomes.” Based on stupid numbers that were totally wrong, a bunch of people are getting rich. What’s going on with anything at all being confidential or anonymous with the YMCA. Every time any citizen hears about a city official, elected or appointed, that citizen should immediately grow extremely suspicious. Oh, by the way, Mr. Kramp is going to share the ‘results’ with the YMCA board, the Hillmoor ad hoc committee, the city council and Mayor Mayor.
Notice the media and the public are left out of that. Gee, we wonder why.
Balance of Nature scam.
Don’t do it. These sixty to seventy dollars a month continuing scam induces people, especially older people, to purchase supposed fruits and vegetables reduced to pills. This process cannot be done. You can’t put an apple, with all of its nutrients and supplemental nutritious benefits, into a pill the size of an aspirin. However, and it’s a huge however, the FDA does not regulate supplements. Those people committing nothing more or less than legalized fraud, selling Balance of Nature and other supplements do not have to tell the truth about what is inside their products as long as what they sell doesn’t kill or make the poor saps who buy it sick.
They can sell sugar in pill form and tell the public something else entirely, as with the Balance of Nature scam. The owners and operators of this scam get off on helping people by making them feel better because of what they believe (it’s called the placebo effect) as opposed to what’s really in what they are taking. Think about the obvious fact that these people owning this company are making the billions it takes to run constant hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of television ads constantly, day and night. That should be alert enough, but it’s not.
