A recent guest opinion article posted in the Daily Iowan, got me thinking, as I have previously touched on in my past posts, how seriously the project director David Oman and legistators are taking this rainforest project. Just as Carol Deprosse and Clara Oleson co-founders of Stop a Vast Error say, they are "objected to this project from the outset, believing not only that a fake rain forest was an innapropriate tourist attraction for Iowa, but also that the financial data provided by the backers were unrealistic, especially in view of the fact that many such projects were unable to be self-supporting and either forced to close their doors or to rely on tax dollars for continued operations."
It has also been called to their attention that many of the areas citizens and elected officials were not in support of this project, but somehow managed to stay on the agenda. Obviously, there is something going on, if projects of this magnitude, that really have no reason in being developed and are not supported, are somehow still on the agenda. The state could take this money and use it for other programs to help the state's economy as well as inividual people and programs. It is good to have these opnion articles in newspapers, because it makes citizens aware of the dumb things organizations and the government can and are doing.