text: I work at LCC. I sit in a place each day, helping people gain an education that will hopefully move them from a lower income status to a more stable financial and personal life. My income is limited by public funds for the purpose of educating our community/state citizens, and those public funds are regularly decreased by the same wealthy corporate folks who hold all the power to buy up land, develop it, and use it for their own gain. 
  I have sat and watched as a truly beautiful place, which has often given it's value of solace and peace upon simply gazing out the window, has been decimated by machinery cutting down tree after tree, leaving only a thin fringe to "hide" what has been done to the land. 
  If I had money to buy it, believe me, I would have.