Tell it like it is

And as usual, he does it with style.

Thanks to Don for another gem of a letter in today's Fort Worth Star-Telegram daily newspaper.

Cut, cut, no cut

The Fort Worth city budget is $59 million in the red. Council members are probing into every nook and cranny in an effort to stanch the hemorrhaging.

Sister Cities? Stay home. See you later!

City employees? No pay raises, but your health premiums will be raised.

City jobs? Cut 200. Your income tax will be lower.

Swimming pools? Water is money. Cool off in 100-degree summer breezes.

Nonmowing of street medians? Green is in.

Parks and the Botanic Garden? We never promised you a rose garden.

Graffiti abatement? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Closing the city day labor center? Get a job.

Raise taxes? No way. Heaven forbid! I want to be re-elected!

But all is not lost. There seems to be one area that no council member is willing to touch — no, not one: the billion-dollar Trinity Uptown boondoggle to which they cling like a drunk to a lamp post.

I am reminded of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem about the brook:

For men may come and men may go

But I go on forever.

— Don Woodard Sr., Fort Worth