Wednesday, November 21, 2012

SEIU makes LAX even worse. El Toro is the solution.


It is a good thing I drove out of town, rather than catch a flight out of LAX. Today SEIU protesters literally added jet fuel to the fire that is LAX traffic. They disrupted one of the busiest travel days of the year to throw a tantrum. These degnerates have the mindset of South County NIMBYs who are selfish and don't care about how much inconvenience and economic damage they cause. For those who drove from Orange County, your inconvenient drive became that much worse.

If the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station was re-opened for business, air travelers would have a very nice alternative to LAX. It has more than twice the acreage, lots of freeways surrounding it, and an Amtrak/Metrolink station. Also, unions are not particularly strong or well liked in much of Orange County. The police forces in O.C. don't mess around and would have any protesters quickly dispersed.

Instead, El Toro is going to waste as Irvine's Democrat majority city council has blown through over $200 million on their alleged "Great Park" and has achieved very little progress developing their white elephant. (There was a recent LA Times article about it. ) The Great Pork is such an epic fail, that it got to the point where Irvine voters recently rejected Larry Agran for mayor for the first time since the 90s.  (He is the brain trust of the Fake Park.)

To anyone who voted not to keep El Toro open and had a nasty time at LAX today, this is your comeuppance. Seeing the Great Pork fail and air travel out of LAX become increasingly miserable proves we have been right this whole time about El Toro.

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