Commissioners’ nonsense shouldn’t make the news
Poor Gerald Witt. I imagine Gerald must have parked in the boss’ parking space and was “sentenced” to cover the county commissioners’ last meeting (May 22).
All is well since he got even with the News & Record by doing them the disservice of not covering a single issue on the agenda. Instead we got more coverage of the Skip and Billy show. Billy Yow says something dumb (constituents love it) and Skip calls racism (constituents love it) and our paper covers that as the meeting. Is the business of the county so damn boring that these leaders need something to liven it up? Readers get a silly story.
Enough said.
In many countries, people believe government never solves problems. If there is a banking crisis or some other crisis, the people call a “strike” and for a day or two the players in the crisis get no business. All they get is time to work out their problems.
I propose that the News & Record stop covering the silliness. Go on strike! In the long run, the future owners of the News & Record will inherit a better paper and a better community for the newspaper.
Mark Holder
Summerfield
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"If there is a banking crisis or some other crisis, the people call a “strike” and for a day or two the players in the crisis get no business. All they get is time to work out their problems."
So FDR declares the nation's banks - clearly in crisis - close for a week (note 1) in order to stop the bleeding, get "time to work out their problems" ... and 75 years later we hear FDR is the cause of all evil.
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Note 1: "On Saturday, March 4, a few hours before FDR's swearing-in, the governors of New York, Illinois and Pennsylvania signed orders closing banks in those states. The New York Stock Exchange had suspended trading, and the Chicago Board of Trade bolted its doors for the first time since its founding in 1848. The terrifying "runs" that began the year before on more than 5,000 failing banks .. "
Posted on June 2, 2008 6:05 AM