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[Johnny French]

There was an old woman who swallowed a cow,
I don't know how she swallowed a cow!
She swallowed the cow to catch the goat,
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a horse,
She's dead—of course!

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Letters to the Editor: 01.15.06
January 15, 2006

Embrace resort

It is time we all put aside our personal bias and begin seeking the overall good of Corpus Christi. In the last election, there appeared to be a common concern among voters: economic and job development. It puzzles me that while we ask our leaders to develop projects that promote real economic and job growth, when an actual opportunity develops, we get a major uproar of opposition.

I just don't get it. We talk about eliminating the brain drain and the importance of keeping local talent here, but when the opportunity arises, so many citizens fight like mad to stifle the growth. We need to embrace the resort proposals, start thinking beyond the obvious, and look at these issues from a macro level. This project has the potential to attract other businesses to Corpus Christi - far beyond tourism.

Do you (citizens) really want job and economic growth? Do you really want to eliminate brain drain in Corpus Christi? Do you really want to keep and develop the talent our young people have to offer? Then let our leaders do what they were elected to do, and give our young people a reason to stay here instead of forcing them to move off to other metropolitan areas in order to earn a decent living. This project is the first step.

Embrace and support the resort proposal in its entirety, and let this city grow.

Kevin Kieschnick

Beach history

Let's see if I get this right:

First, you build a bunch of hotels and condos too close to the water, against much good advice.

This destroys the dune line, which replenishes the beach, and also eradicates your natural protection against hurricanes.

So you build a seawall to protect your property, which wouldn't be endangered if you had used good sense. This accelerates beach erosion.

Hurricane Allen roars through in 1980, and even though it is a runt as hurricanes go, it is more than enough to tear up your seawall, and ruin your fancy property.

So you lobby for subsidized insurance at discount rates, and also to have your ineffective seawall repaired at taxpayer expense.

Beach erosion continues, until the beach is 40 yards wide in front of your seawall, compared with 200 yards wide everywhere else.

You stare with wide-eyed amazement because you can't figure out why this happens.

This causes traffic congestion, so you lobby to have the beach closed to the public, saying it will turn Padre Island into a "Redneck Riviera" if the posh condo dwellers and fancy hotel guests have to rub elbows with the unwashed masses.

I would say, I would rather have a Redneck Riviera than a subsidy of stupidity to provide welfare to the wealthy to create a Parasites' Paradise.

David A. Roach

[Big John]

I sent this one in today as a reply:

Mr. Keischnick obviously does not understand what all the fuss is really about. We are in no way against letting Mr. Shexnailder build his resort. However we are against letting him take away the public's right to the beach in order to build here. By closing the beach to traffic, you are in effect giving the developers and the condo owners along the seawall a quasi-private beach, the way the beaches are in front of the houses and condos of the wealthy in Galveston, South Padre, California, and Florida.

Once the beach is closed for them, other developments, both those already established and future ones, will be able to force the city to close the beaches in front of their properties as well, under the same guise of "public safety," when there has never been a recorded instance of a pedestrian being struck by a vehicle on Corpus area beaches.

There is also the argument of stopping the brain-drain from corpus, but the minimum wage jobs that resorts like this provide will not do so. They do little for economic growth of an area either, because all the profits leave the area. There is no reinvestment in the community. The poorest areas of this country are largely resort and tourist based economies. The type of development we need in corpus christi is corporate growth. Our city counsel can not seem to grasp how to attract companies to headquarter here. This is why the brain-drain continues to exist.
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Give a man a fish, feed him for a day.

Teach a man to fish, he'll be broke and hungry the rest of his life!

John Sullivan
Native Corpus Christian
Currently Displaced in San Antonio

[Dexter]

You hit that on the head of the nail
too Big John. That was great!
Dexter

[funmeters]

The City Council should look to Beeville and see how they were able to attract a class business that pays top wages. Too bad the Corpus Christi City Council chooses to take the easy route low road and cater to those who will bring minimum wage jobs. Maybe attracting industrial companies to the area is just over their heads.