Council not up to its tasks
To the editor:
The collapse of the Cape Coral council is a mental breakdown, not uncommon in political circles.
For some, the job is just too big and in plain talk the responsibility and authority simply “blows ones mind.”
To vote yes or no to the water expansion is the perfect example.
This is not a complicated issue and, as a matter of fact, it’s a simple situation that if decided on its merits could be arbitrated by a panel of children. This council in deciding no permitted emotion to replace fact and hysteria to override absolute common sense.
On the one hand we have ecological considerations, we have current ratepayers (the majority of Cape Coral) who have paid their share and don’t deserve to be forced to subsidize those that have not, we have an opportunity to present hundreds of jobs to hungry Cape Coral citizens, and, we have a duty to prepare Cape Coral for industrial development, septics and wells are far from inviting infrastructure to modern developers.
On the other hand, there is no “other hand.”
Some on the council seem to think that the situation can be mitigated by long- winded speeches, amounting to meaningless babble, where time is consumed and nothing is accomplished.
This waste of time is futile and, as a matter of fact, being a chatterbox is nothing more than the conduct of a dumb creation and some council members would be wise to cut it short, stick to the facts, and focus on doing the right thing.
Those on the council that didn’t have the guts to vote yes need to stop whining about residents disrespecting them. Act with judicious professionalism and respect and admiration will follow.
Dick Kalfus
Council not up to its tasks
To the editor:
The collapse of the Cape Coral council is a mental breakdown, not uncommon in political circles.
For some, the job is just too big and in plain talk the responsibility and authority simply “blows ones mind.”
To vote yes or no to the water expansion is the perfect example.
This is not a complicated issue and, as a matter of fact, it’s a simple situation that if decided on its merits could be arbitrated by a panel of children. This council in deciding no permitted emotion to replace fact and hysteria to override absolute common sense.
On the one hand we have ecological considerations, we have current ratepayers (the majority of Cape Coral) who have paid their share and don’t deserve to be forced to subsidize those that have not, we have an opportunity to present hundreds of jobs to hungry Cape Coral citizens, and, we have a duty to prepare Cape Coral for industrial development, septics and wells are far from inviting infrastructure to modern developers.
On the other hand, there is no “other hand.”
Some on the council seem to think that the situation can be mitigated by long- winded speeches, amounting to meaningless babble, where time is consumed and nothing is accomplished.
This waste of time is futile and, as a matter of fact, being a chatterbox is nothing more than the conduct of a dumb creation and some council members would be wise to cut it short, stick to the facts, and focus on doing the right thing.
Those on the council that didn’t have the guts to vote yes need to stop whining about residents disrespecting them. Act with judicious professionalism and respect and admiration will follow.
Dick Kalfus
Cape Coral