Like a bunch of spoiled brats, you're whining to have yet more of our
tax dollars spent to try to keep you fools from going off the road or
smashing into someone else. You can't accept anything under 90 miles an
hour road conditions. I personally think we're already spending too much
on winter road maintenance. If any of you ever notice, many times when
the state trucks are out, watch them scraping bare roads. It looks like
they're just sharpening their blades for the heck of it. I've witnessed
when we are having big snowstorm the trucks dumping tons of sand down
just to be covered up in minutes by snow, then within an hour plowing it
off into the ditch followed by more dumping sand down again over and
over many times on perfectly flat ground. Obviously, slowing down or
leaving for your destination a little earlier doesn't work for you.
Rather
than spending more tax dollars to keep you people that are unhappy with
our winter road conditions I've got a better idea: How about packing
your bags and leaving Vermont for good. Because as a friend of mine said
no matter how much is done to maintain our winter roads it will never
be good enough. I can assure you, us real Vermonters who live here can
cope with it just fine, in fact would rather drive on snow-covered
roads. Then maybe our vehicles would last for more than five years
before rotting from salt destruction, and we could take our saved tax
dollars and use it to buy better tires for the winter.
I guess
what's bothering me the most about this little insignificant problem of
yours is, take a good look around you. I mean if all you can cry about
our winter road conditions maybe moving to some place like North Korea,
Afghanistan, Haiti, or maybe even Egypt would be the thing to do. That's
where a little snow would be the least of your problems. I guess I'm
fed up with the high-on-the-hog entitlement attitudes that continues to
grow in this country and state. I wish you all would just grow up, that
includes those of you at the State House that started this whole thing.
Chris Viens lives in Waterbury.
