Small town politics …
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
There was in a certain town, a 5 ton bridge. It served the community well for many years. One Tuesday morning a 10 ton truck traveled down the road and crossed the 5 ton bridge. The bridge, having only a 5 ton capacity, immediately broke and the 10 ton truck plunged into the river below. The people of the town gathered around the accident.
“What happened?” someone asked.
“The 10 ton truck went trough the 5 ton bridge,” was the answer.
“What shall we do? asked someone else.
A man, who would probably someday be mayor answered, ‘well, first we will rent a crane to pull the truck out and get it on its way – then we will hire a crew of men to repair the bridge.”
This done, everything went smoothly until the next Tuesday morning when the 10 ton truck again crossed the 5 ton bridge with the same results. Everyone gathered around the bridge.
“Didn’t this happen before?” someone asked.
“Yes” was the answer.
“What did we do then?” someone else asked.
“Well,” said he man who would be mayor, “we rented a crane to pull out the truck and then hired some men to fix the bridge.”
So it went every Tuesday, the 10 ton truck went through the 5 ton bridge and the crane was rented and the crew was hired to repair the bridge.
Then one day a man who would be know as the “young up and comer”, said, “I can save the town much money. Let us buy the crane instead of renting it. We can depreciate the value and write off the expense. It will pay for itself in three years, plus we can train our own men to fix the bridge. So the town leaders were able to show a great savings to the community.
Some people wondered why the truck wasn’t rerouted or the bridge reinforced, but then they thought – you know, that’s the way things are.
– Author Unknown
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