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In regards to your article, Colonia Sewage Problems: Another government handout gone bad. Santa Rosa and other colonias, were built for years with no adequate or any sewage systems with the knowledge that sooner or later “Uncle Sam,” i.e. American taxpayers would foot the bill for flushable toilets! Ah, but something went amiss.
Second scenario: Two hard-working taxpaying American citizens became in need of a new septic system on their property. The husband, a Texas high school instructor who bothered to get an education and was medically retired at age 53, and his wife also retired after putting in many years in the workforce, both now on a fixed income somehow managed to purchase health insurance and prescription co-pay, pay their property taxes on time, and tithe back to their Lord (no sitting under a tree sipping a cold one) as was mentioned in your paper; no lottery tickets were purchased in hopes of hitting the “big one,” etc. What to do, what to do? They pay their own way, coughed up the $2,400 in 1998, for the new system, including the Texas license of approval, abiding by all rules and regulations, never expecting nor receiving any government reward for doing what needed to be done.
How strange a story to tell their grandchildren: Pay your way, do no harm and leave this Earth in better shape when you die.
I’m sorry for the little ones who will grow up expecting the same things from the government that their parents and grandparents were given. They may not ever realize there is a better way of obtaining the needs of life. Self sufficiency with education at the beginning of life goes along with accomplishments and just plain old feeling good about one’s self.
Elizabeth Bennett
Gonzales