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So, the Fruita recreation center vote came out a tie. That indicates to me that half of the people do not want to be burdened with paying for something they neither want nor will use. Undeterred, the proponents claim they can elicit more votes and want to put it on the ballot again this fall.
Herein lies the fallacy of “democracy,” when one group can, by “the tyranny of the majority,” take from the unwilling to satisfy their own wants. That, translated, is legalized theft, often from those who can ill afford it.
If the proponents want this so badly, let them put up their own money for it and charge for its use to pay off incurred indebtedness rather than steal from the “minority” who oppose it.
SUSIE ADAMSON
Montrose
6 Responses to “Proponents want to keep pressing for a rec center”
Posted April 10th, 2008 at 2:17 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
What nonsense! I didn’t vote for Bush. I don’t want to pay for his war. I consider the various incentives and subsidies given to favorite industries distasteful but if they are stealing from me it’s legalized theft. Bush didn’t get a majority of the votes the first time around but the Supreme Court gave him the election. He did get a clear majority the second time. We live in a representative democracy and if I don’t like the outcome of the “tyranny of the majority” then I better see what I can do to change the outcome the next time around so I can be in the “tyranny of the majority”. How else can you do it? How else can you see to it that what you don’t want can’t come about? The majority will and the committments they make are stealing? If you were the queen in an absolute monarchy you could do only as you wish and nobody would “steal” from you. What kind of classes in civics and American government did you get in school? This letter is the epitome of the “me first, screw you” generation that seems all to prevalent these days.
Posted April 10th, 2008 at 3:53 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
And people say I’m a raving fanatic.
I bow to the master. How good are you at putting worms on hooks?
Posted April 10th, 2008 at 4:50 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Mr. Johnson is way to free with his “quips.” One must therefore conclude that we are dealing with someone who has not yet acquired the ability to discern which one is the hook, which the worm, never mind “why” one puts a worm on a hook.
Posted April 10th, 2008 at 5:08 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
It is important to find out why half of voters said “no” to the rec center. If they voted no because they won’t use it or don’t want to fund it with a 1-cent sales tax, then the election results should be taken at face value. But if they voted against it because of literature saying the center would be funded with property taxes (which is false), or if it is discovered that Joe Miller purposely misled voters so that he could preserve his gym’s asking price, then the vote is not an accurate reflection of what the Fruita community wants. It’s a reflection of what they were coerced into voting against by a jerk looking to make a buck.
I’m all for taking election results at face value IF they are arrived at fairly, but let’s make sure the results are factual and not based on falsities.
Posted April 11th, 2008 at 10:16 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
As an aside becuase I’m curious. Susie, why do you care whether or not those of us who live in Fruita vote for or against a hike in our city sales tax to fund a rec center? You live in Montrose.
Posted April 12th, 2008 at 9:00 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
This reply is to cemayer who commented as to my motive for selling the club. First of all what hole did you crawl out of? I suggest before you go spouting off about things you no NOTHING about you get some facts. I suggest you read the Rec Center’s feasibility study before you or anyone else questions the Sales tax flyer. The sales tax flyer was posed as a question with an explanation on the back. If the city does not reach the projected pass sales or tax revenues as projected in their joke of a feasibility study where do you think the money will come from to pay the debt and expeses? The proponents did nothing to tell voters the negatives to the rec center we just tried to educate voters as to the facts and encurage people to ask question. As for me selling the club. For your information I won’t make a dime on the sale and will be losing money on the $250,000 asking price. You can hardly call that a profit. If you feel the rec center is so important I suggest you and the other $1261 people who want the rec center reach in your own pockets and pay $28,526 each to build it rather than have tax payers carry the burden for the cities pet project.
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