Letters to the Editor

+ Selling Bobby Jones is short-sighted
Dear Editor:
Bobby Jones Golf Course has been a part of this community for many years.  We have been here 40 years and many of us learned to play golf on this course.  It is one of the few courses where golfers are still allowed to walk the course.

The idea of privatizing it or selling it because the land might be more valuable to the county seems to this reader to be short-sighted. Why not suggest that we privatize Yellowstone National Park or better yet sell it off because the land is more valuable than the benefit to the nation? I can see it now, “Bank of AmericaÂ’s Yellowstone Park” or better yet “Yellowstone Meadows Subdivision.”  Some things should not be looked at in monetary value alone.

I don’t know who wrote this article as it was not signed, but I would suggest that this space in the paper would be better used to talk about the real problems in Sarasota such as the attacks on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Maybe you could talk about the homeless, the poor and the unemployed instead of how to slice-up 300 acres of beauty and history that are as much a part of this community as any newspaper.
Arthur Banks
Sarasota

+ Seniors to blame for overspending
Dear Editor:
Thank you for Rod Thomson’s excellent article, “Government debt is a moral failure,” which appeared in the Sarasota Observer Aug. 11.

Although senior citizens are responsible, it is also true that their children and grandchildren are being raised (and encouraged) to expect the same treatment. This exacerbates the problem and affects the practical situation.

Do you have any estimate of the percentage of Americans who share your viewpoint? I do. And the political candidate who campaigns for cutting spending and a constitutional amendment for a balanced budget will receive my vote.
Jeanette N. Porpora
Sarasota