"It's called planning"

Last Friday one of my co-workers was laid off. The reason given was, "Financial Reasons." Sure financial reasons were part of it, but I believe this issue goes A LOT deeper. He was the planning and zoning administrator for our city so obviously there were going to be disagreements between he and others.

Now that he is no longer working here, we do not have a planning and zoning administrator. Does it worry me that no more planning will happen around here? A little. The whole reason for my post though was to point out a somewhat funny letter to the editor in the local paper this morning. The guy basically pointed out it was a mistake to fire this guy and that the local finance leader, mayor and city council should have been setting aside money for a rainy day. Then he made this perfect comment, "It's called planning."

If you want to read the whole story and some funny comments to the story visit: http://www.rexburgstandardjournal.com/articles/2009/07/22/news/48.txt