Lovely Treasure

Dear Citizens of Lawrence, KS,

The Public Library is perfectly fine. It has the things I need, I don’t need to wait in line, I don’t have to walk two blocks to find a parking spot, your staff is helpful, and the building itself is a little old, but in good shape.

Why in the hell would spending $18 million dollars to build a new one and a parking garage be in any way necessary or productive? Most of the streets here are in terrible shape, crime has dramatically increased, and the buses don’t even run on the weekend. There are hundreds of things that could have been done with this money instead of wasting it on a library that is perfectly fine the way it is.

With 18 million dollars, you could have bought fucking Alvamar Golf Course THREE TIMES! Or just buy it once and build two really nice satellite libraries on the east and west end of town. Or buy Abe and Jakes… TEN TIMES. Can you imagine how kickass a library would be at either of those places? No, because you’re fucking morons.

18.9% of this city lives below the poverty line, including me. And you assholes just raised my rent.

Every time a tax increase comes to a vote, you idiots just say YES. Don’t get me wrong, the public transit was a good idea, now the entire city is serviced and that’s super neat, but $18 million dollars is a shit-ton of money to take from a city already having money problems.

In summary, you all are morons. I’m moving to Baldwin.