Let’s not let perfect be enemy of good
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Editor,
After reading all the proposals, counterproposals and oddly obscure nuances of the whole water rights issue, and as my eyes started to glaze over, I once again opened last week’s Valley Journal to see the latest back and forth of the motivated polemicists joined in the debate.
Much to my everlasting delight, there was a letter on page 11 from Ric Smith, Polson, which I hope everyone read. It was like a voice of pure reason parsing in from the wilderness. It was like an epiphany from the road to Damascus.
To use the old maxim, let’s not let the perfect be the enemy of the good, and let’s collectively get behind Mr. Smith’s proposal. Wheelbarrows full of cash could be saved, and some of that potential litigation money could actually be used to improve the efficiency of the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project.
Virgil Hess
Polson
