Joe Doakes of Como Park writes:<\/p>\n
It\u2019s actually getting comical, reading the breathless scare stories about the shut-down. As if there were no way to handle these calamities:<\/p>\n
No State Troopers! Oh, gee, that would suck. Those guys don\u2019t do any real law enforcement anyway, Sheriff\u2019s Deputies do. I recall a judge once aptly described the State Patrol as the grown-up version of high school hall monitors handing out notes saying \u201cNo Running!\u201d Lay-off Hell, abolish \u2018em completely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
A cop friend of mine calls them “collection agents for the insurance industry”.<\/p>\n
No Zoo! Nobody to feed the animals at the zoo! We have a perfectly good zoo, at Como Park. Give away the animals to other zoos out of state, lay off all the zookeepers, shutter the facility, sell it to a developer for large lot hobby farms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Tired of seeing all those stupid TV “news” segments full of people whinging about not being able to go jogging at Afton?<\/p>\n
No camping at State Parks! So? Since when is your vacation choice my responsibility? Nobody paid for my motel room, when I was on vacation. Go to the KOA campground, if you must camp.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
For that matter, screw the gates. \u00a0I paid for that state park. I’m going there, closure or not.<\/p>\n
Have to let all the Prisoners go! Ship \u2018em elsewhere, promise to pay later. Everybody knows there eventually will be money and if there isn\u2019t, then yeah, let \u2018em go. What do you think happens when the government falls, as during the Civil War? We\u2019re not to that stage just yet; but if the governor continues to play chicken, holding everyone hostage until he gets his tax increases, then maybe we see how bad things will get.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
If the governor can’t run the government, then why have one?<\/p>\n
The “people” voted (sometimes two and three times) for a guy that we warned you could not possibly run a viable government. \u00a0We were right.<\/p>\n
No city or county internet! Apparently, they\u2019re on a contract to buy services from the state. Might want to shop around for an alternate provider, huh?<\/p>\n
These problems can be solved. All it takes is gumption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So let’s have gumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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