Do not believe every headline from the C’burg paper. Go to some meetings and see for yourself.

You can feel superior but with a bit of reflection it might occur to you that you have nothing to do with the success or failure of B’port or C’burg governments efforts to improve. You are just someone who stands by and roots as if democracy is a team sport. Show up at a B’port council meeting and question why they go into executive session almost every meeting?

Here’s a fact – Clarksburg has not paid for any “study reports” in recent years. No one in Clarksburg has threatened to “throw a punch”. If you think otherwise, cite your source.

In this whole wide country you claim that Bridgeport has one of the “top two Libraries”. Would you please document that?

Metro government has nothing to do with what you are describing as the differences between the county seat and a historically newer community growing up out of farmland. Check the difference in census data for social, economic, and educational facts. There is no land to expand in Clarksburg to build new houses. If you want one you have to leave the city. The population is much older in Clarksburg.

You should feel lucky to live in a wealthier, better educated community. But before your nose gets too far up in the air, please ask yourself if your living there actually made any difference or if your existence is just parasitic to the efforts put out by others.

Go to down town Bridgeport and sit on the funeral home wall that your tax dollars paid for and count the woman walking by. You’ll stay lonely there too.

Major retailers do not go to down town areas in rural America.

Check your History Channel again for pictures of WW II bombed out cities … after one property owner was forced to get out of the way so the city could clean up his lot there are no remnants of what you describe.

It is the property owner who has to decide what risk he wishes to make with his property – not a Clarksburg or Bridgeport City government.

Yeah life’s a bear and we dopes who bought into all the state, county, city and CP sales pitches get to suffer, simply because we have more than “most” as you say? I won’t bore you with all of our “poor me” stories about welfare, housing, job, food and family woes. Some of us were lucky to overcome, and some of us never forget to give back. I don’t know why I overcame. Ask God.

Let me just ask you that if it’s ok to screw those who don’t fit into your “most” category, isn’t it certainly ok to screw the others, no matter what category? I don’t think organizations care.

I got tired of fighting the “ruling elite” as Joe Sixpack called them. I decided to burn my chances of reselling someday, just to have a voice. And yes, I think I’m still getting double taxed.

I hope someday you get to whatever mark you think others not in your “most” category have gotten to, and I hope your attainment is lasting. Mostly, I hope you can pee without the guy downstairs hearing you.

GET OUT YOUR WALLET McCAIN