The Feb. 3 editorial cartoon really struck a nerve with me. One more time we see a perfect example of where we are always being hit with more taxes and fees from state and local governments to get their job done, but there is little or no accountability for them not getting it right.
As an engineer, I find it hard to believe that a bridge given a total inspection about a year ago could totally fail now. The fact that not one life was lost is the real miracle!
If this were a privately owned structure, inspected by a private company, there would be so many government agencies crawling all over the site licking their chops to hold people accountable and issue beefy fines to feather their nests. I am sad to say that when the dust settles, I really feel that not one person will be held accountable, nor will there be any concrete steps taken to see that this does not happen again.
We the people are being asked every day to do more with less. It is about time that we ask the same of our government. The “well” surely has a bottom, and we are getting closer to it with every trip our government makes to it!
Kenneth R. Nath
Saltsburg