I am stunned that our inept city council members have voted to
needlessly waste another $133K of our precious tax money to put
Measure H back on the ballot.
Dear Editor,
I am stunned that our inept city council members have voted to needlessly waste another $133K of our precious tax money to put Measure H back on the ballot. Why is this measure so important and so urgent that a special election needs to be scheduled? This is just another example of how out of touch the city council is with the reality of our economy.
Let’s look back over the past five years and add up all the money dribbled away by our leaders. How much has been spent on various consultants that lead to absolutely nothing? $200K, $300K, $500K? I can certainly recall $100K spent for auto mall consultants who tried to railroad certain neighborhoods into allowing auto dealerships. Yeah, good use of our money.
Every week I see a growing list of crimes in our city and every week we are told that Morgan Hill has the lowest police-to-resident ratio in the Bay Area. How about putting the $133k toward our protective services? It might not be enough to fund another officer, but it certainly can pay for some overtime.
Please call or e-mail the city council and voice your opinion. Ask them to stop wasting our money.
Allan Abrams, Morgan Hill
Where is the outrage over President’s stimulus package?
Dear Editor,
Where is the outrage over President Obama’s “stimulus package?” Why is the government rescuing people who purchased homes they couldn’t afford? Why is it squandering billions on the automobile and banking industries? Where in the Constitution does it say the government is responsible for my poor decisions?
What has happened to accountability and personal responsibility? Have Americans become sheep that blindly follow or individuals in control of their own destiny? Have we become so enamored with European models of government that we now embrace Socialism – Communism’s ugly twin?
The government does not generate its own income – it takes from those who produce. The treasury cannot give to anybody anything it hasn’t first taken from somebody else. And when those who loot get the idea that they don’t have to work or take responsibility for their actions because those who produce will bail them out, then that is the end of America.
I’m disgusted with the actions of both political parties. In the next election I’m voting Libertarian.
Dave Mounteer, Morgan Hill
Investment in children will make California stronger
Dear Editor,
Now that our nation is on track to a better tomorrow, California should try to move onto that track. All legislation, including the budget, passes by a simple majority.
Not one dime is cut from education until California public schools rank first in the nation. Investment in our children will make California golden and strengthen America.
Frank Crosby, Morgan Hill
VTA is a failed experiment
Dear Editor,
If the horse is sick, changing your jockey won’t help. If the team stinks, changing your manager won’t help. The Valley Transportation Authority’s flaw is not its appointed directors. The flaw that damns VTA and joint power authorities like it is its policy.
Resting on the foundation of quicksand socialism, rather than the bedrock of capitalism, VTA was conceived insolvent, born bankrupt and kept operating only by ever-increasingly massive taxpayers’ subsidies. It is a failed experiment like Amtrak and Caltrain, but our leaders don’t have the courage or wisdom to admit it.
The policy of urban mass transit as a “solution” is self-delusion by our leaders, and eternal optimism by the voters. History has many examples of the failure of this socialist policy: failed and bankrupt state-owned railroads in the 1830s and 1840s; Lincoln’s reply to Gen. Granville Dodge in 1864 on private ownership of the transcontinental and land grant railroads; denationalization of our railroads only 18 months after they were nationalized during WWI. If the socialist policy was correct, then the USSR would have won the Cold War, and people would have torn down the Berlin Wall to get into East Germany. Why did the nationalized transport industries around the world get privatized in the 1990s?
With all its faults, capitalism is the only horse we ought to be backing. Until we privatize the carriage of passenger business, our leaders have us on the same route taken by the USSR – straight to Hell.
Joseph P. Thompson, Gilroy
Students need nutritious food
Der Editor,
I read in complete disbelief the article “This, this or that”, Tuesday Feb. 17, 2009.
Mr. Scott Mcmillan, Morgan Hill Unified School District’s director or student nutrition should be ashamed of serving children junk food – tacos, macaroni and cheese, pizza, chili dogs, chicken corn dogs. grilled cheese – and preparing them to become obese and to develop heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, etc.
He “acknowledges they’re not the healthiest meals but it’s stuff children will eat and meets the federal standard for school lunches.”
-Adults should be the ones who set limits and standards about food – good food.
-Common sense tells you that the above mentioned choices of lunches are loaded with fat.
-Why is the MHUSD responsibility to provide lunch? As a parent you are responsible to feed your children, not the school.
-The custodian’s comment about noticing a difference in the weight of trash cans tells you that a lot of this “food” is thrown in the garbage, which is where it belongs. But I don’t like to see my tax money being thrown in the garbage.
Instead of feeding those tummies, feed their minds with good information about good nutrition.
Evelia Babb, Morgan Hill
