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Keys have own
tsunami, one of greed
EDITOR:
Waves
of greedy developers are currently surging through Monroe County,
destroying all trailer parks and small motels in a feverish rush to
displace all working-class, low-income residents and profitably replace
them with upscale "substantial" homes for the rich.
This tsunami of greed is washing away an entire
population and their homes, as surely as a 30-foot wave in Sri Lanka; it
is unfortunate that Gov. Jeb Bush is not touring the scenes of Monroe
County devastation like Jabour's in Key West, Gulfstream Mobile Home
Park in Marathon, Mandalay at Rock Harbor in Key Largo, and Islamorada's
Pelican Palms.
After the eviction notices come the bulldozers,
spreading the renowned greed disease to all surrounding hard-hearted and
short-sighted landowners, whose rapture with soaring property values and
ad valorem governmental windfalls blinds them to the unfairness,
inhumanity and hardship they are drowning the poor in with their
mindless ambition.
When the next
real tidal surge pushes across Upper Matecumbe, as it did in 1935,
knocking Henry Flagler's ill-fated railroad train off its tracks across
Islamorada's crossroad, De Leon Avenue, it will drown rich and poor
alike. God will know his own; the rest will rot in the sun, to be
consumed by the everlasting fires of hell.
Van Cadenhead
Islamorada |
