Seems to be enough water

Editor,

At the Feb. 1 council meeting regarding the resolution of intent No. 913 to annex into the City of Polson land contiguous to the Skyline No. 3 subdivision, Greg Hertz stood up and spoke in favor of said annexation within the larger context of his self-stated belief in responsible growth.

Keeping in mind that Mr. Hertz is the head of Lake County First, I hope he and that organization will now drop the canard that there isn't enough Polson water in place for the proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter.

Pretty obviously if he thinks there is enough water for 99 new homes on what could become a southern edge of Polson, then he and the Firsters can't seriously claim there isn't enough water for the new Supercenter.

Of course, Lake County First could still make that claim and further erode what little credibility they have left, but I hope they don't. Because then they would bring into play Lincoln's famous axiom about not be able to fool all the people all the time.

Incidentally, the anti-Wal-Mart movie that Lake County First touts so highly while using it as a principal pillar of their propaganda has been shown by objective analysts to be blatantly fallacious, even to the point of outright falsehoods. Wal-Mart is not perfect, nor is any other large American corporation, but on balance Wal-Mart is overwhelmingly a positive force in the American and world economy.

To echo an earlier letter writer, American servicemen did indeed die face down in the sand at Iwo Jima and many other places in part for the right of any citizen of this country to potentially start and possibly expand a business. I hope Polson's city council will remember that truism above all else as they consider the issue of the proposed Supercenter.

Virgil Hess

Polson