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Letters for 11-30-2011
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Dear Editor,
Ants in sugar!
The Lacassine Sugar Mill has never produced sugar that I know of since its first beginning, nor can any sugar from that mill be found on grocery store shelves.
The sugar cane that is planted in Jeff Davis Parish and surrounding areas is poor quality. It is being shipped to another mill – “out of sight, out of mind.”
All one has to do is examine these stands of cane and realize that grass seems to be a major concern and that the taller stuff in the grass is the con game.
A former head of the ag department in Jeff Davis Parish has stated that the soil in this area is not conducive to growing sugar cane.
The taxpayers of the state are already on the hook for a sawmill due to the actions of our past head of LDAF, Bob Odom.
I think it took a lot of nerve for these foreigners to ask for a 92-year payout on such a scrap heap.
The taxpayers were also left on the hook for other government experimental projects such as ethanol, windmills, and solar panels. All of which are teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and will be an enormous debt on the backs of our grandchildren along with the bail outs of the housing and banking industries.
To continue these operations is not only an eyesore and a drain on taxpayer dollars. If the banks continue to assist in such failing ventures, let them suffer the loss, not the taxpayer.
Marion Fox needs to realize that this parish is in Louisiana and this comes out the pockets of all of us, not just Jeff Davis Parish. I don’t see financing a defunct sugar mill in an area whose soil isn’t conducive to growing cane as economic development, but rather as throwing good money after bad.
The taxpayers are already on the hook for the sugar mill, a sawmill, and a chicken plant, but at least we can eat the chickens!
The sugar mill should be called “the Solyandra of Sweets.”
Dick Waltrip
Mermentau
