Of Fish and Men

In this morning's AGN Allen Finegold poses a question in reference to the City of Amarillo's plans to spend $4 million to improve McDonald Lake. Finegold states that health care clinics would be a wiser use of the money and asks who will the city favor: the fish or the poor? Well, Allen, I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict they'll call it for the fish. Our leaders here in the reddest-of-the-red are con$ervative, and con$ervatives loathe the poor. Wealth is their morality and as such they believe that something you can't afford is something you don't deserve, be it a luxury item like a cell phone or a necessity like health care. From their perspective dumping billions of dollars into the military industrial complex and then hoping the money will make its way into the pockets of some working stiffs is a good thing. But a few million for a couple of health clinics is an unacceptable waste, even though it would be killing two birds with one stone - creating jobs and providing health care.