Neighborhood 'executive director', Roberta Englund writes a huffy puffy letter condemning the attempt at balancing the budget, threatening 'voter action' if anything in her neighborhood gets its city funding diminished by a penny. Of course she gets a hefty salary as the neighborhood 'director', so she is defending both her turf and her paycheck.
Of course, her ox is being gored, as is her neighborhood's. But the situation is such that a lot of oxen are going to get gored if we're going to solve the financial problems. The Walker library is on the hit list, too, and what I've read says it's the busiest, most-used branch library in the system. Seems like that will upset even more patrons than in the Webber neighborhood.
What really gripes me, though, is that we wouldn't have to be in this situation of being at each other's throats trying to protect our own turf if politicians, policy makers and others could see beyond the end of their noses.
Why is it so impossible for politicians to actually plan ahead? Anybody with half a clue about the economy knows that it goes up and down. Even children are taught to save for a rainy day. It's pathetic, but unfortunately it's the public that suffers in the end.
Chris Johnson / Fulton
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