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Dear Editor,

I believe maybe some people should just move up to D.C. and stay there, since it seems to be all they care about. I have just been stunned by the silence over the things happening right here. But sure as God made green apples, while nobody will talk about stuff happening at home, they’ll grab a pitchfork and wail about stuff in Washington.

The Farmville Town Council just made it so they can take your property. Yes, it has to be run down. Yes, it has to be abandoned. But that’s not the point. They voted and this paper reported on the fact that a person’s property can be seized, with a judge then deciding if you’ve “done enough” to keep it or have it turned over to some land bank, where they’ll rebuild to their standards and try to stick you with the bill. Do I hear people getting worked up over that? Nope, but I’ll run across four to five people easy that will be all worked up over some politician they’ve never met, who doesn’t know their name and won’t impact their daily life.

I see where Farmville also might lower tap fees, in order to help those poor struggling developers, who are apparently trying to bring people here from California? That’s a very specific demographic to target. Not an age group, not a financial group, not any other kind of group. But in that meeting, the developer said ‘people from California’. Hmm. I wonder why that’s on his mind. I wonder, if that land bank does seize any property, fix it up and sell it, I wonder where the buyers will be from? Maybe the West Coast? Instead of getting worked up over some D.C. politician, maybe it’s time for people to start looking closer to home.

Thomas Babbage

Prince Edward