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| Vol. 116, No. 51 |
December 17, 2008
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OPINION
To the Messenger:
Hey Washington.
How about this idea? Take that $700 billion in bailout money and give it back to the people you got it from (the taxpayers) and let them catch up their mortgage payments, buy new cars, appliances, food and clothes.
And I’m not talking about a measley $600. I mean all they paid in 2008.
Oh, and give it a catchy name like bailout via proxy.
To the Messenger:
As a lifelong resident, I am very proud to call Flaherty my home. My parents have lived in the same home in Flaherty for nearly 40 years. They have always had great neighbors and have never had any problems with any of those neighbors, until now.
Owners of a local business in Flaherty decided they needed to add public restrooms and an expanded kitchen in their establishment. In order to make these additions, they had to update their sewage system. The solution was to add an extremely large sewer lagoon in the vacant lot next to my parents’ home. The sewage sits on top of the ground so you can imagine not only what this looks like, but also and most importantly, what horrible stench comes from the “pond.” The value of my parents’ home dropped drastically overnight.
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