Letter To The Editor – June 7, 2012

Dear Editor,
  I would like to thank all concerned citizens who have called or stopped by and expressed their gratitude for my view of the airport hanger. I don’t believe that this is the time in these economic times to be spending our tax monies, whether from the federal level or from the local level, for a building with so little potential.
  Spending $30,000 of our local tax money, plus paying an engineering firm another $30,000 to draw up plans for a building, and then another $265,000 for a building that will house only four small airplanes seems rather ridiculous to me since the only interest has been from individuals who want to build their own hangers, which will eventually belong to the city anyway.
  As for MEMA giving the city an exception for the flood zone, I, as an American, feel the same way I do about (Obama Care) giving waivers to their favorite contributors, it’s un-American and unconstitutional.
    Every American should have the same right no matter who they are or represent. MEMA is the most tax sucking, job killing, overbearing bunch of flood ignorant organization the legislature has ever created. They have flood zones specified in areas that haven’t seen a flood since Noah’s day, yet they have caused many individuals and businesses to have to buy expensive flood insurance that they will never use.
  I feel that if I want to build on the edge of the dam and take my chances of it flooding and I will bear the cost of replacing, or tearing down, the building I should have that choice. For any government agency to require me to buy, or build, according to their ideas is trampling on my freedoms as an American.
  /s/Larry Bell