Today's Valley News Dispatch has a great editorial on the astonishing ongoing opposition to the Tarentum Skate Park by Mayor James Wolfe.In my own wanderings around Tarentum, the "elderly mayor" is the only senior citizen I have found who voices opposition to the skate park.
I concur with the VND editor's assessment of this opposition as "odd."
Once upon a time I had heard about NIMBY-ism, where the acronym stands for Not In My Back Yard. More recently I learned about the BANANA mentality: Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything.
It is encouraging to see the skate park project moving forward even against the mayor's opposition.
2 comments:
Dear Pastor,
You have obviously not talked to many of the senior citizens that live in my high-rise.The Mayor is a good man and has had the vote of many of us seniors for years.I too am for the youth and would like to see something for them.Why did you put the "elderly mayor" in quotes.Do you have something against the elderly having the right to say how they feel.It seems you have your say but have problems with the Mayor.He has done a great job and yes he like you is getting older.I have passed copies of what you have said about the "elderly mayor" around and intend to bring them to the attention of the others in Tarentum.Can you ever say anything about us or is it in your opinion we are just elderly and should not be listened to.By the way the Mayor first name is James not Banana.
I put the words "elderly mayor" in quotes because the Valley News Dispatch editorial on which I was commenting used that phrase.
I do not have anything against the elderly. I agreed with the sentiments in the editorial on which I was commenting, but so far it is my experience that Mayor James Wolfe is the only senior citizen who is voicing opposition to the skatepark project anywhere in Tarentum. His opposition does not seem to me to be representative of the other senior citizens in Tarentum.
He is entitled to voice his opinion, but his opinion does seem to be a form of the BANANA mentality: Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything.
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