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Dear Editor:
A Hamilton County neighbor of ours recently put out a program of ideas that, if localized, may hold a key to solving Carmel’s fiscal mess.
Mike Pence earned no coverage locally, to speak of, when he announced his “Freedom Agenda,” but some of its ideas have local merit.
“The ruling elites,” he wrote, have never been more detached from the experiences of the average American – yet they have never worked harder to dictate what Americans can think, say and do.”
A cursory look at pronouncements by Carmel’s elected and non-elected elites demonstrate a similar nanny approach.
A $1.5 billion municipal debt? “Fuhgeddaboudit.”
Cover-ups of cost over-runs at Hotel Carmichael and a disgraceful sexual harassment case? “Pay no attention.”
Roundabout art that offends any public sense of beauty or aptness? “We know better.”
Requests for solid data on return-on-investment for hundreds of millions of borrowed dollars? “It’s above your pay grade.”
In one gratuitous outburst when concerned parents sought to express their wishes to the school board, the board eliminated public comment at all – for a time.
Carmel’s pompous Progressives have worn out their welcome.
However, we all should welcome our new neighbor, his family and his intellectual leadership.
He’s welcome to stop over for a cup of coffee at our house any time.
Bill Shaffer
Carmel
Being fair Mr. Shaffer ;
The Carmel mayor repeatedly gets re-elected with numbers in the 60’s
The City of Carmel is continually considered one of the best places to live, grow a family & a business.
Agreed on some ( ok, most ) of the attempts at public art & the resistance to transparency.
Honestly though, one would think that after all the decades spent grinding on it – that axe of yours should be plenty sharp by now.
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