In the Friday editorial, the Herald Anonymous Editor (AE) wrote that the proposed Bellingham trans-shipment facility for Montana and Wyoming coal would have an “unfair impact on Marysville.”
To a liberal, being fair is the most important attribute of all. That’s why wealth re-distribution is such a high priority to our current government. That’s why Democrats say Republicans hate the poor because they won’t vote to allow the Democrats to remove another trillion or so in taxes from our near-death private economy.
Guess what, some of us learned early on that life is not always fair, and our system guarantees us equal opportunities, not equal outcomes.
How about we start being smart, as well as fair. Bellingham wants a Cherry Point facility and 200 jobs, the coal miners want a way to get product to the Asian market and Marysville doesn’t want to face gridlock on a daily basis. So do it the free market way and figure out how to get everybody what they want.
Marysville has for years ignored the growing problem of its grade level crossings, as regional governments spent billions on useless light rail, ignoring the growing problems drivers faced. Well, now Marysville has an opportunity to leverage maybe three new non-grade level crossings and the jobs to build them, in exchange for facilitating coal trains to Bellingham. Everybody gets something, so funding shouldn’t be a problem to work out and more real jobs will be created than from Obama’s “stimulus”!
Curt Greer
Marysville
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