Swarmy Expectations: Mansfield CT Public Works

 The general public's understanding of of creating a public works project is pure ignorance. Parks, Statues, monuments, buildings, and civic projects are politically sacred obligations intended for posterity. 

When Mansfield, CT decided to build a Community Center 20 odd years ago someone should have explained this to them. Something along the lines of, "Oh, by the way, you build it - it's yours to have, hold and maintain, kit and kaboodle,  FOR POSTERITY". But that's not what was sold to them. Uh uh.

The citizens of Mansfield were sold an ever-Wokey nirvana-esque pit stop for peace, love, and understanding that involved all of Region 19 with Mansfield residents being very, very special and everybody else paying the overhead. Well, I'm getting ahead of the story.

 Most of the Mansfield public not imprinted with the woke mind virus understood it would never break even in terms of expenses and were more or less resigned to that reality. Putting up with listening to health nuts sing Kumbaya once in a while was tolerable and NO BIG DEAL.

But there was another disconnect. The building and the services offered in that building are two separate cost centers both of which were being taxed locally in Mansfield! Local taxes HAD TO pay for the public works thing built next to Mansfield's pos government offices. I mean you can't just hide it. Not that they didn't try by having an ugly, perfunctory MLK mural slapped on the side of the building to ward off anyone who might make noise. "Look, we got a therapy mural!"

But as the shiny new object got more expensive to operate, the local posse of political hacks began devising strategies to turn that Nirvanistic rat's nest of health seeking locals into an engine of health for profit. Now we've caught up.

Why are Mansfield tax-payers paying for the services side of the equation? Dagnabit, these angry citizoids were told to believe that they would have FREE (as in "free beer") access to the now legendary town under-utilized facility thing. Not that they actually ever want to go in there - its just the principle of not being asked to pay twice - this a theme that we will return to.

This cohort of social media participants could care less about senior citizens. It's a show-me-the-money crowd. Not that there's anything wrong with senior citizens.