What do I care? I'm leaving!
On his way out the door to yet another government job in Sacramento, 4th District County Supervisor Chris Norby paused just long enough to cast a vote at yesterday’s Board of Supervisor’s meeting to support the asinine expenditure of $350,000 on some sort of Viet Nam memorial in a little-known Midway City park.
Forget the fact that there are already two memorials to the war and to the subsequent diaspora in the vicinity; and forget the fact that times are tough and the County is in severe budget cutting mode; but ask: why on the Green Planet Earth should the taxpayers hand over a third of a million bucks to some kind of private “community culture and performing arts society” to design and build what is described as an interactive wall/memorial of some sort. This is the sort of thing that is routinely developed and built with private fund raising.
Remember the old T.V. with Chuck Conners called “Thrill Seekers”? I wonder what would happen if O.J. blog ever threw up a photo of Ho Chi Minh on the web site? That would take some guts! Spending $350,000 on a bronze statue when people can’t afford their mortgages and the people of Haiti are living in Hell seems a bit obscene to me and something Mr. Minh might do!
“I wonder what would happen if O.J. blog ever threw up a photo of Ho Chi Minh on the web site?”
You wonder?
Remember this: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/02/11/national/main32537.shtml
Perhaps Janet can erect a memorial to all those valiant protesters that sought to stifle free speech in America at the site of the video store on Bolsa and Bushard. That should help her and her board colleagues waste more of the tax dollars that we don’t have.