Why Bother With New Business?

…unless you are a giant, preferably foreign corporation with hooks in several communities across the U. S., are addicted to government “stimilus” money and quite willing to lie, like the giant Osage Corporation that the same county leaders hypocritically approved of last year. They got approval for a giant distillery to produce ethanol from corn, but their plans are on hold as resistance to this “gasohol” boondoggle mounts.  The LTE below appeared this week in several Southside Virginia newspapers but could apply  almost anywhere in the U. S.

Dear Editor

Should Mecklenburg’s Board of Supervisors’ decision making on development be replaced by public referendae?

Pressure is what the Board responds to— not necessarily the interests of all citizens. Voting for or against development according to the size of the applicant’s pocket book, the amount of taxpayer development or “Stimulus” money, or even how many show up at a meeting in support or opposition does not accurately reflect the needs of ALL Mecklenburg citizens. .

Making key decisions by only nine, or a few dozen who shout the loudest at a public meeting is neither accurate nor fair. We could go back to the old outworn concept of private property and minding ones’ own business— but that was abandoned long ago in favor of pleasing the loudest and grasping for as much federal and state “gub’mint” money as we could.

In applying for their tiny and legal moonshine still, the Ward’s made several mistakes:

-First perhaps was not having a huge corporation behind them, to build hundreds of stills, not one.

-They should have promised not family employment but dozens, perhaps hundreds of jobs.

-They could have offered to restore and reuse all of the empty country store buildings in Mecklenburg at, say, One Million Dollar each.

-They should have promised $Millions of Stimulus money diluted from the money supply that must be paid back by our grand children.

-Alcohol produced should have been for some useless purpose — like cutting our gas mileage and ruining car engines while driving up food prices from the use of millions of bushels of corn.

-Their backers, MegaCorp could have promised to hew the liberal line of “global climate change” and fund stupid, liberal, immoral, family and economy destroying projects.

-Finally, they could have offered to run typical chain convenience stores with filthy magazines on display— all within 500 feet of churches.

…but what do I know? I am only a Moonshine loving, Ignorant Hillbilly,