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Op-ed: Red scarves symbolize failure for Mason City (by Peter Children)

We’re sitting on the threshold of the fifth month of 2012. As far as we all know we currently have zero prospects on the horizon as it pertains to economic development.  All the while stories of success are all around us in the smaller towns; Osage and Charles City being chief among them. I am very happy for them.

The job creation that will result in new families moving into the region as a result along with the re-employment of once laid off workers that will also benefit our community. This is where they’ll shop for their needs, this is where they will come for entertainment and dining.  Some will even buy homes here because in the world outside rural Iowa a thirty minute commute is considered short; look how many of our residents commute each day to Winnebago.

We should all rejoice in the positive effort displayed by these smaller communities as they make our region stronger and more prosperous. But here is something that should be spotlighted; our own efforts along those same lines have failed miserably…and the fault lies at the feet of those running this town.  Do not exclude the Chamber in this assessment, these were the same people who flew to Washington D.C. to drink and dine on your dime….and lets not forget that photo displaying the “red scarf,” which by now has come to symbolize failure. If not failure what then? After 150 years in office which paid off his farm and then some; what can you point to that was a direct result of Grassely’s effort as payback for forty years of votes in his favor…or Harkin?  Where is it, I can’t find it…point it out to me.

Thinking about that red scarf, I think I figured it out; I think they must believe it was meant to give them all immunity from criticism. Like that reality show on television where someone wins immunity from expulsion.  What do the readers think? Do you think there are those who should have immunity?

Peter Children

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