Best Regards

If we go back forty even fifty years we will fine that there was a drug problem, some youths & adults were carrying guns using and selling drugs, but compared to today it was on a much smaller scale, so then the question becomes how & why?.

The problem is in fact all of the above that is all the views & opinions of your readers, but whats missing then that would help bring about a solution? the million dollar question. We know that they have a gang task force the police department drug & gang programs and committees to over see all of this, but again why does it seem that nothing working.

I believe that I have some ideas, I am a motivational speaker I've just left my job of ten years and at the request of many and have now started my own company, Mighty Moe- Empowerment Speaking And Consulting. To me whats missing is the ability to connect with the youth of today, to say that one is a professional with a degree so now qualifies them & gives them the tools that will be needed to reach the minds of are trouble youth, I believe we are still left short of what is fully needed to address the problem head on with any kind of success.

There is a way to meet this problem head we talk about the home and proper parenting, new laws gun control, better school programs, and on & on.
But what I see as the bigger problem is a communities that is divided a home that is divided a government that is divided and a world that is divided, like the bible says a divided hose cannot & will not stand against adversity.

So my questions is ? who will stand up and speak for the children of the world, who is truly willing to step out front and take on their woes, were is that someone?

Here’s where CNN's report failed:
1. They missed showing the almost a mile of traffic backup that occurs and is growing every morning during rush-hours on the biggest West-to-East thoroughfare in Martin County called Monterey Blvd.
2. They made it sound like Palm City is a little no-where town but it’s a suburb of Stuart which is one of the fastest growing towns in Florida, sandwiched between the very large Palm Beach County and the nation’s fastest growing St Lucie County.
3. They failed to take into account that Martin County has one of highest unemployment rates in Florida that will benefit from the bridge’s estimated 35 hundred jobs.
4. They failed to take into account that this area is ramping up to be one of the nation’s centers of medical research with the new Scripts Labs and other medical technology giants moving in just a few miles north-west of Palm City.
5. They failed to take into account that a healthy real estate development program in western Martin and St Lucie counties is in danger of being choked off by the existing bridge.
6. CNN’s reporters fell victim to a few outspoken wealthy, retired residents and vacation home owners who are adamantly opposed to the bridge because of its potential for growth in the area.

As a fulltime resident of Palm City I would like to strongly refute CNN’s report on the Palm City Bridge and urge Florida and the Federal Government to support this bridge.

I have one more beef about CNN. In last night’s report they prided themselves in helping to stop funding for a live Polar Bear zoo and a water-slide park. I think this is also bad judgment on their part. Zoos and parks such as these create jobs and help the environment and towns. They also provide healthy places for not only American families to have fun and to spend money but, for foreign travelers who love to come to this country and bring in dollars from other countries. Tourism is one of America’s most profitable businesses.

The Fed should draw up a list of criteria that can be used to determine good stimulus funding candidates. I think things like zoos and parks that draw American families and foreign tourists should listed among the good stimulus candidates.

John James
Palm City, Florida
hikerjohn@comcast.net

RE: WATCHING YOUR MONEY-CNN SPECIAL INVESTIGATION

I understand the theory behind watching your money; however, your people are making a joke of some real issues.

These reporters have a job. The people in the Appalachians, small towns, and the jobless don’t think it is funny.

I live in a city that you can not get from north to south without having to go through going across the entire city. This issue has been under study for years. This city is Toledo, Maumee, Holland and other cities in this area of Ohio.

Come here and live and maybe you will understand these issues. You travel through a city on a rainy day when traffic is slow. Come back another day when the situation is different then your view might change.

If you want to follow an issue that will get your goat; stand and watch the mail carrier drive down my sub-division. He stops at every house, drops the mail gets back in his truck and continues this process throughout the area. These homes are less than 100 feet line to line.

Again, I believe that many people are getting jobs as a result of these “Shovel Ready” projects. You do not really understand that people are really hurting out here. And it is time that the “The Left Behind People” get parity.

CNN is one of my favorite channels to watch but you show no humility in your reporting on this issue. What is your salary?

NIMBYs want to close the door but only after they are in. I am one of the homeowners whose house passing traffic will be reduced because of the bridge. Long lines of traffic forming and stopping right outside our home.

We need the bridge. Stop the NIMBYs.