Published: July 16, 2008 10:08 am         

Reader concern about city, county government

Where oh where is our local government going and what are they doing for their citizens, the people for whom they work?

Now I thought long and hard before I wrote this letter.

The county government has bought a building they can't sell, that being the Braswell Eye Clinic for the tax collector and assessor and the owner was given a $50,000 tax write off to boot.

There are a large number of homes for sale in Kosciusko and Attala County that no one can afford to buy. Many have been up for sale for over a year. The average person can't buy a home, much less pay $4 or more for a gallon of gas. Food prices have gone out the roof. Who is governing who? The powers to be or the citizens of our great county?

There are plans to build a new jail and a facility to house Home Land Security and a new Attala County Fire Station, which may be justified.

Our local government needs to tend to the true needs of their citizens and get off this wild spending binge. It is my understanding that that the Attala County Courthouse needs more room to store old records in our court house. My suggestion would be to store these records in the old Attala County Jail when they build a new one and if there is not enough room in the court house to house the Tax Collector and Assessor, move the office over to the Attala County Boondoggle and build a vault to house their records. It already has burglar bars on it and if it could be used for a Medical Eye Clinic, it surely will be ok for the Tax Collector and Assessor.

It will also pass the test for the Attala County Historical Society. You would expect this type of behavior for our so call leaders in Washington D.C., but not Attala County.

For the City of Kosciusko; they should thing twice before forcing a citizen from her home when she has been going through hard times with serious illness and death in her family. Where is the compassion? What is the real motive behind this demand? There are plenty of houses in Kosciusko that need attention. Where is the rights of the owner. She has already cut the grass! Since the city has taken over tax collection again, this will no longer be a burden on the Attala County Tax Collector and Assessor Office.

We are living in very very dangerous times! There are countries and people in the world that want to destroy us and our way of life.

Our local government needs to wake up and face the face of life and stop putting their personal wants and desires up front and stand up for the true needs of the citizens of Kosciuko and Attala County. Their needs is what counts, not leaders that want to spin around in their easy chairs in a new building at the expense of hard working tax payers.

By the way, the county and city still have not defined what is meant by going into Executive Session with the news paper and all those in attendance asked to leave while government is behind closed doors.

May God Bless our Great Nation, our beloved state and the Citizens of Attala County.



Eugene B. Hill, Jr.

Kosciusko