Is democracy dead in Arlington Hts.?

In following up to the many recent letters to the editor regarding the Arlington Village board's blatant disregard of overwhelming resident wishes of the term limits question on the ballot, let me remind residents this has become a pattern for some time now.

Case in point: the village's spending tax dollars TWICE to poll residents if we vote to keep waste disposal rates at bay by reducing pickups to once a week, like almost every town has had for years. Result: BOTH times residents voted by about two thirds to change the pickups to weekly to reduce rate increases, and published the results. BOTH times the board decided to ignore resident's wishes and continued twice weekly pick ups.

Let's not forget about the building of the "Taj Mahal"-like village hall that was strongly opposed by a majority of resident taxpayers, and countless other resident wishes and opinions that were also ignored by the board.

This reminds me an awful lot of our outrage in our federal, state and county (Cook) governments, and the disregard for taxpayers wishes here as well.

Where will this all lead to? I dread the thought, as we taxpayers and voters seem to no longer have any input, in spite of the creed of democracy in this country of "For the People, By the People ..."

Klaus Schuetze

Arlington Heights