"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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There is, however, a *reason* hangars cost so much he monopoly. One
company, with a suspiciously cozy relationship to the Mobile Airport
Authority, has controlled all the hangars and tiedowns at both municipal
airports for years. No new light aircraft hangars or shelters have been
built
in decades. The ones destroyed by Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina were not
replaced. The company simply raised the rates on the surviving ones
while
continuing to do zero maintenance. The roofs leak, debris litters the
ramps,
weeds grow tall from the cracks. My shelter looks like some relic of the
Soviet Union. If I dared to complain, I might find my airplane pulled
outside.

Wow. And I thought Iowa City's government was corrupt!

"Government corruption" is redundant. Regardless of the party involved, the
lure of goodies and freebies is stronger than most peoples ethics and
faux-morals (NOTE: some of the most corrupt people in history were religious
fanatics and clergy).

Even the Amereican Founders incredible efforts for a very limited government
died out when people both inside and outside the government found little or
no penalty for scamming the system.

(If it sounds like I'm a Libertarian/Anarchist, most assuredly I'm not).


Your situation makes our single-party rule (Democrats have held every
elected office in Johnson County since 1957) look like a PTA meeting.

My wife and I stopped attening PTA meetings ten or twelve years ago when
they were already screaming fest by the "T" side.

Sorry to hear it, Dan. But there are plenty of great places to live
and own an airplane.

Many (most?) of our ancestors moved 6,000 or more miles to find liberty, at
a time when it was hard, dangerous, and they could not really afford the
trip. Today, we won't move a few hundred and many won't even get off their
fat asses at all.

Of course, there is NO instance of a violent takeover in this country, so
just remember when these things are discussed, you're talking about your
beloved "friends and neighbors". These fine folks are called "voters".