Spending priorities

Dear Editor,

I would like to help Mr. Corbett from your June 7 Letters to the Editor, which by the way, I found as the most useful edition of the past several months, answer his questions.

The answers are yes, yes and yes. I answer his questions with confidence because this is the same county that tells its citizens that its middle school is going to be delayed because of rising construction costs despite getting a huge bond referendum passed for new school construction.

It is the same county that feels it is better to pour our tax dollars into the lovely Cloverleaf Mall project than renovate an older school into a new middle school for approximately the same price. Ah, but what the heck, the kids don't want to go to school anyway. We can always throw out some more chicken coups, ah, I mean trailers, and there aren't any SOLs for school conditions anyway.

It is the same county that feels it is better to put new asphalt and paint on dangerous winding roads than address the safety issues of those roads first. But, on the upside, now people get to die on better looking roads.

Not to worry though, they have a plan-we'll start zoning at higher density levels; the places will be so small they can't have kids. No kids, no need to use any proffer money for schools. We will dedicate all proffers to roads and build another couple of lanes of bumper-to-bumper traffic and just blame the state and VDOT for the problem.

If we're going to have such jet-setting officials, you just have to let them throw away money on their pet projects just like the big boys. Don't you?

Jim Slaughenhaupt

Midlothian