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What message is Real deal sending to kids?
It's amazing to see how politicians can come up with all kinds of creative excuses for buying something with so-called outside money, not taxpayers' money. The whole deal demonstrated how grown people could get steamrolled, lose all sense of perspective and then try to hoodwink the public to think it's a great investment.
They try to tell us it's not coming out of the taxpayer's pocket, rather outsiders' money. Give voters a break. It seems we have endured great sales techniques for more than a year, a groundbreaking without a deal, other buyers waiting with a better offer, deadlines and ultimatums that come and go, and what a favor the Utah people are being given to have such a gem in our state. We have even been told it would be a "black eye" on the state if we turned away such a deal. The world would turn away from Utah.
We have seen it all. We have a legislative leader who switched his support as many times as a losing presidential candidate who said, "First I voted for it .." Then we have another one who said that if the governor wanted it, he felt compelled to act on it.
Somehow, Utahns will survive this ordeal. After all, we survived the crickets, but then we had the seagulls to save us. But most troubling is the erosion of trust and confidence in our system of government. One has to wonder how state legislators can go back and forth with caucuses at a moment's notice on a deal that benefits a promoter, yet cannot find the time to determine how to help the less fortunate of our citizens, not take the time to understand the challenges our state faces in educating and training our people so they can succeed in today's competitive job market or to find ways to provide affordable health care for our families. Somehow, those matters take time and we have to be careful with tax dollars.
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