Doormats

Nice job by GeeGuy who was featured on the recent podcast at Small town-Long Streets hosted by Craig at Montana Politics.

Some sarcasm from GeeGuy:

“I am not really sure why we need a coal plant in Great Falls Montana if the people that live here don’t get the power. Here’s what I say about the coal plant. I am born and raised in Great Falls, and Great Falls has an image problem. We have an inferiority complex.”

“You ask anybody born and raised in Great Falls and they will kick a can down the street and say... ‘We’re not Missoula…oh, they’re boomin, it stinks here.’

So somehow, somebody got the idea that they will go around to all these other cities… Bozeman, Billings, Red Lodge, all these communities that already look down their noses at our community and say ‘You know its really flat there, it’s windy, it’s not a pretty town, it’s a kind of a blue collar town’. So, we’re going to them to say ... ‘Hey you guys need power, how about we have a coal plant, and you put it in our town. We’ll take the pollution, you guys get the power.’

“I mean, where did that come from? How is that a good idea? We’re not the doormats of the state.. oh, wait.. I guess we are! We’ll take all your smoke, but we’ll lock in those power prices for you guys down in Billings, down there in the Magic City. We’ll be up here in Coal Central right?