Spending priorities
Fort Worth's public educational system is in shambles, but spending $9.2 million on a new state park is deemed to be more important.
In these fiscal times, do we really need another state park, just 20 miles south of Possum Kingdom state park, more than we need better schools for our kids?
One has to wonder how many other such expenditures are being made with no consideration for whether they could be put to better use, both locally and on a national level.
Our elected officials keep telling us they need more revenue and, when they don't get it, they cut essential services instead of re-examining their spending priorities and cutting or postponing projects and programs that could wait. This mentality has nearly destroyed our economy and sent us into enormous national debt.
We need new leadership, locally and nationally, to rescue us from this abyss.
-- Thomas J. Bazzone, Granbury
Texas is already 97% privately owned and has been starving park services for years and even trying to sell park land (i.e., Jerry Patterson & Christmas Mtns)
ReplyDeleteGreen space is important to school children too. To all of us. This state has a dismal record for enviromental concerns. Would you rather see the land used for more urban sprawl--add to the existing need for streets/roads and then whine about crumbling infrastructure and pollution.
Our government needs to preserve more land and not be criticized for starving children to do so.