Occasionally, an idea or article emerges which pushes all my buttons. Such was the case Sunday morning, when I read the Morning Call's coverage of Wolf's plan to employ the unemployed to track the virus. Talk of illness, which of those things is more sick?
The Morning Call compared the plan to the WPA era, complete with pictures of structures in the Allentown park system. As somebody who struggles everyday to bring some attention to these neglected, irreplaceable icons, the paper's hypocrisy is stinging. They refuse to print my informed letters or cover the current neglect.
In what way could the typical unemployed person be qualified to track the virus? In what way could that gathered data not be flawed?
Governor Wolf, you're no Franklin Roosevelt. The Morning Call, if you want to know about our crumbling remnants of the WPA, call me. Better yet, if you're sincerely interested in politics and historic structures, report how South Whitehall is conspiring with the Wildlands Conservancy to override the voter referendum, and demolish the Wehr's Dam.*
* The current Morning Call Editor/Publisher told me back in February that the paper would look into the Wehr's Dam situation...They never did.
This story reported with all due seriousness and a straight face is the stupidest idea I ever saw. If the governor seriously want to get people back to work just let us, end the lockdowns! Instead he want to hire an army of secret police to track any and all contacts of people who test positive for the corona virus. This should scare the socks of all of us. But of course this army of "trackers" will have to become state employees and members of SEIU. Then all their union dues will be directed to the usual Democratic Party slush funds. Only a complete rag like the call would even attempt to dress up this pig.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever noticed that when government fails, particularly on a large scale, the solution is always to put more power into the hands of those who failed us?
ReplyDeleteAnd people (and nowadays the press) go along with it like sheep.
How can the Governor possibly pay for any new employees during this shutdown
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