Letters to the Editor » budget crisis http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters Your views in 250 words or less Sat, 25 May 2013 00:10:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 TACOMA: Bridge rehab not necessary http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/2012/12/06/christmas-for-seafood-company/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/2012/12/06/christmas-for-seafood-company/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:33:43 +0000 Doug Willrich http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/?p=58496 For seven or more years, the city of Tacoma has been in the bridge rehab business and The News Tribune has been painting and welding right along side. If the Murray Morgan and Hylebos bridges can be out of service for years, their necessity is highly suspect. Small business owners have failed or relocated with these bridge closures. Emergency services have new routes for accessing properties.

The city of Tacoma is in a budget crisis and can’t even fill potholes, but they can maintain unnecessary bridges? What, all because they got some free money? Given by a country (read taxpayers) laboring under …

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]]> For seven or more years, the city of Tacoma has been in the bridge rehab business and The News Tribune has been painting and welding right along side. If the Murray Morgan and Hylebos bridges can be out of service for years, their necessity is highly suspect. Small business owners have failed or relocated with these bridge closures. Emergency services have new routes for accessing properties.

The city of Tacoma is in a budget crisis and can’t even fill potholes, but they can maintain unnecessary bridges? What, all because they got some free money? Given by a country (read taxpayers) laboring under massive, unsustainable debt.

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If our government goes into default we will suffer grievous harm to our nation, our identity, our system of government and our Constitution.

I wish it was possible to perform a mass impeachment, except that the judges and jury, conveniently, are the very ones who are about to betray us. The …

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]]> Our federally elected leaders solemnly swear (or affirm) to protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. In my opinion this endless political game of partisan politics whose object is to support the party (take your pick) rather the people is a violation of that oath.

If our government goes into default we will suffer grievous harm to our nation, our identity, our system of government and our Constitution.

I wish it was possible to perform a mass impeachment, except that the judges and jury, conveniently, are the very ones who are about to betray us. The only other recourse that I can see is to firmly commit to refuse re-election for any incumbent from either party and to have single-term public servants until we can hold a constitutional convention and change the system our elected officials have created in our name.

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