Observations from ground level and above

Updated on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 22:22 by mavenandmeddler

After that CBS ‘60 Minutes’ segment about the cancer patients in dear old Nevada that can’t get their chemo and care, I needed to get some time to clear my head- so that’s what Monday and Tuesday were about.

I want to mention that I did receive one - just one - reply from all the Nevada Democratic Assemblypersons and Senators about my blog post on the ‘60 Minutes’ segment. That was from Assemblywoman Peggy Pierce, and is as follows:

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Growth as our primary industry: Ponzi for the taxpayers

I was disapointed, but hardly surprised to see that the Spring Mountain development had been approved - along with all the access roads, and strip malls, fast food joints, traffic, pollution and stressed infrastructure to accomodate it.

We have it backwards, as Americans. Somehow we’ve gotten the notion - call it the “if you build it they will come” delusion - that gives us more of everything except quality of life and a sustainable future.

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