Utah Tea Party Article in the New York Times

[RICK LAKE]

David Kirkham It all seam so simple until you try and change something. My town is no different from any other town except for spending money at massive rates. 2 mid schools and highschool, all spended to the tune of 1/2 a billion dollars with bonds and loans. That's right 500 million. This didn't in clude 5 or 6 new PRO flieds for the kids to play on at 1.3 million per field. We had grass when I was there and if the field where maintained better this would not have happened. The main problem is that this is all for the kids. MY KIDS, Parents have turned into cult worshipers of them. Every parent wants there kids to be and have opportuinties more than what they had when growing up. PRO sports in not the answer. Our town get a special kid about every 10 years with ablitity for the pros. Jay Majuiski Pro pitcher for Philly triple a ball. 95 mph fast ball, blown out roto cuff in 4 weeks and cut. Man was a bull and now a working dad with one good arm, Walter Hastings, has the record for a high school kid 300 game average on match lanes of 877, should have went pro but drugs and drinking killed his life, today 3 kids living with wife in parents home. Future dead, bad rep. Best for last and why all the sports crap being done. Heather O'really soccer player for womens pro league. 1 gold metal, 1 silver metal, 1 champion ship in pro sports. This makes 3 out of 30,000 kids that have gone throught the system. I think the number is about 1 in 200,000 gets a shot at the pro life and most breakdown like racehorses in 1-3 years or learn to CHEAT the system to continue playing and hope they are not caught. Today kids are bigger and faster than 30 years ago. Poor coaching has cost kids there ability to walk though life and not end up in a bed or wheel chair. Sorry for the soapbox. Bottom line is that in my town the future was drafted 30 years ago and is not working today. It's just like highschool, vote in the popular person for a job and not the right one with brains and tuffness. In the end they all get greased, and a little deeper down the rabbit hole we go.
I would like to hope in the future that maybe we see your Name as govenor of Utah. I have seen Hatch over the years and like his ways and work done on senate committees. Problem is we need to clean houses an stop making these guys lifetime jobs. Limits really need to be made just like the president, 10 year max and out. this includes a VP taking over as pres in the middle of the other guys term. The problem is good guys like Hatch will also be chopped. There is no easy or simple fix. I bust George Andreson in Hastings for not running for Mayor. Go to Neb and it's had to fine a people who doesn't know George. Be honest, fair, no secerts and no BS is what is need in this country alone with alot of jobs. This we need to get back, Made in the USA, not Sold in the USA and built, machined, forged, or stolen from. I'm going drifting, see you latter Rick L. Ps the whole thing your parents tell you doesn't apply in todays world. We need a new John Wayne to start fixing the problems. Cowboy rules still work the best.