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BY LANCE SPARKS
All Boats Rise
When we support our public sector
I
’m buzzed by business, honor
and respect entrepreneurs
(and their families, often
the primary employees) who
save and borrow to launch
an idea that (they hope) will
produce a modest living
and a satisfying life spent
doing enjoyable work. Artists
(all kinds), crafts- and trades-
people, farmers and ranchers,
restaurateurs and vintners, shop-
keepers and dog-walkers, butchers, bakers,
candlestick-makers — all these and more
swell the economic tide that lifts all our
boats, not just the yachts. And often the
folks who start a little gig of their own
work longer and harder than they ever
would working for someone else. I’ve
been there, felt the aches and pleasures,
feel them even now.
But I know that any real, viable
community also needs a strong public
sector, people who commit themselves
to service in all the government/ public
agencies that make possible the smooth
functioning of a civil society — teachers,
¿ re¿ ghters, cops, utility workers, the folks
who care for kids and the elderly, the many
who do dif¿ cult tasks, usually for menial
pay and bene¿ ts, maybe the promise of
a scrimping retirement after decades of
service. I am also one of these.
So I’m deeply troubled
when conÀ ict breaks out
between these two groups so
essential to our community’s
well-being. And we’re seeing
it too much these days.
Businesspeople
attacking
government workers just
makes no sense at all. Some
radicals in the business community
are treating their own customers like
enemies, and too often the extremists
propagating the nastiest attacks are also
those who are among the wealthiest.
We’re coming to a vote on whether
to pass a small and temporary income
tax — Measure 20-182 — to prop up our
schools while the state can’t or won’t.
Sure, the measure has its À aws; at best, it’s
a lifeboat. But anti-tax forces have fought
every other proposal to a standstill. Now, if
we don’t pass this measure, we face school
closures, increased class sizes, shortened
school years, and the layoffs of dozens of
teachers. We have to ask, is this really what
people in the business community want?
Those teachers don’t make much dough,
but they are the people who buy groceries
and houses and appliances and cars. And
for every teacher, according to the so-
called multiplier effect, another seven
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people have jobs. And that’s good business.
Free-market wingnuts argue that only
reducing taxes (to nil if possible) and
increasing private wealth will create jobs.
Well, the wealthy in the last 10 years had a
couple trillion dollars in tax cuts and they
really have increased jobs — in Sri Lanka,
Cambodia, China, lots of places, but not here
at home. Near as I can tell, many of those
folks have no civic or national pride. They’re
neither patriotic nor particularly loyal to their
own communities. People who care are the
people who take care; they don’t.
Which brings us back to wine.
A vintner who has always cared for his
community and his land is John Paul of
Cameron Winery, Dundee. His Cameroni
2010 Giovanni Pinot Bianco (Pinot Blanc,
$15) is worth some love, a dry, fresh white
with pear/melon/tropical fruit À avors, delish
with local seafood.
Charles & Charles (Washington) wines
are, across the board, made for the pleasures
of the table and priced for access by normal
people. Charles & Charles 2009 Cabernet
Sauvignon/Syrah ($10) is bold, rich with
dark-fruit À avors, smooth and quaffable.
And they’re good citizens.
A modest white for tight budgets: Antica
Osteria Bianco ($6) comes from the Puglia
region of Italy, is crisply citrusy and mighty
friendly to creamy pastas. They deserve your
vote.
So do the kids and schools right. Stand up
for our community. Mayday, friends.
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Lance Sparks, Ph.D., teaches writing at LCC and can be
reached at freelanceandwildkat@comcast.net
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