July 22, 2017
Letters, Wyoming

Turbines only enrich billionaires

Kimbrough: Turbines only enrich billionaires | Casper Star Tribune | Jul 21, 2017 | trib.com

Help me, please. Explain why Wyoming voted for Trump. We currently are building the Barack Obama Legacy Wind Farm (aka Chokecherry/Sierra Madre) and soon we will have the Barack Obama Legacy Wind Farm #2 (too many names to list here) in Shirley Basin. Eternal shrines to the legacy of Obama saving the Earth. Such love for a savior of the planet, yet Trump was elected? Why? Why not Hillary?

That MAGA stuff – China is sponsoring employment education and participating in the building of at least one of these shrines, plus Venezuela (that model of economic stability). So when did China and Venezuela become part of the U.S.? Or is this Wyoming’s way of laughing at the man they voted for to run the country? Forget MAGA if there’s money to be made through China? It’s about money, not America, as always.

It’s also nice of Wyoming to volunteer to be California’s dumping ground. Of course, in the 35 years I’ve lived here, Wyoming officials were always willing to sell landscapes, way of life, anything people actually enjoyed here, if what was offered looked like a “hot deal,” involved monetary handouts or made Wyoming look like one of the “in” crowd. Wyoming is forever the pathetic loser with their hand out for a scrape of fame, tossing aside everything they have to try and be liberal and subsidized and anything but unique. So why did you vote for Trump?

The up side is every time I am forced to drive by these monstrosities of greed, it will remind me of the disdain of some who run this state and those who voted to fund this mess in Washington, how they truly do not love Wyoming in the least. Turbines are nothing but a way to enrich billionaires while dumping on those who live in Wyoming.

SHERI KIMBROUGH, Evansville


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