Letter: Let big boys build their own toy train

Wednesday, Dec. 1, 1999 | 9:49 a.m.

Public/private partnerships are power plays between people of prominence and those paying the piper and holding the bag. It's a pipe dream for those in on the ground floor benefitting from perks, privileges and lucrative concessions along the line.

Public/private works are not a sure bet. Every fiasco in our town is paid for with sweat equity from taxpayers. Wheelers and dealers be aware. We old folks are frugal. Most of us graduated from the university of hard knocks. In 1937 I already sailed the seven seas. This was before pocket computers. We had to think for ourselves and know how to count.

Locals must know that casino owners don't care how we move about. Since the West brought down the wall, we started building stone enclaves around our homes and giant casinos with better mouse traps to contain us. Uninformed voters elected a new breed of commissars.

Let's make Las Vegas more citizen friendly. Don't give us the shaft for cost overruns because of unwise spending. When the big boys insist on an elevated toy train, let them build their own. However, love and respect your neighbors and their property.

JAN STORM

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