There were four Fayette County citizens – two of them newspaper reporters - in the audience at the public hearing regarding this fiscal year’s 78-million-dollar budget. If the citizens of this great county don’t trouble themselves to attend an occasional commission meeting and find out for themselves what is going on, but instead depend on what is printed in the local newspaper, whose purpose is to print words that will sell its product, then they deserve exactly what they get when they cast their ballots having no yardstick with which to measure whether those words are truth or fiction.