Excellent letter in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram this weekend. Maybe the paper should have more letters and less editorials?
Good to know some people are paying attention. Are YOU? YOUR kids will thank you for it.
Bless you, Ms.Bledsoe.
Out of balance
In its July 26 editorial, the Star-Telegram bemoans the city's $2.5 million loan to get a space museum off the ground and into orbit. The editorial said: "The council shouldn't devote one more cent to the pursuit of an aviation museum. ... How do taxpayers get their money back?"
Without necessarily defending the loan or advocating for the museum, I will point out that for nearly a decade the paper has been an ardent booster of the $909 million water wonderland known as Trinity River Vision, the cost of which is to be borne equally by the feds and us locals.
The project is touted to be updating flood control. But we already have a flood-control system in place. It is pure economic development.
Our local half will be paid for by the taxpayers of the city, county, water district and an iffy TIF that will siphon funds from the city's general fund. That's $450 million, compared to $2.5 million loaned to the space museum.
What was it that Jesus said in Matthew? "Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel."
-- Barbara Bledsoe, Fort Worth
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