Try this simple test of the Montezuma County economic picture. Throw a pebble from your porch and sooner than later you’ll hit someone on SNAP benefits. Go ahead and throw another one. You’ll hit someone soon to be hard hit with rising medical insurance costs. Now, go get some groceries. See how little you get for more money today?
When your thermostat is turned up for the coming cold, you’ll pay more to stay warm. The people sleeping in the park are not just enthralled with nature. They don’t have an indoor bed and just maybe need help.
Now let’s join “The Great Gatsby”-themed Halloween bacchanal in the gilded digs of Mar-a-Lago. Got anything in common with those revelers? No. Now go outside and take down your Trump flag.
Keith Riker
Mancos
