Where is the government/police when you need then?

"Where's a cop when you need one?"

I've heard that question dozens of times. The question usually comes up on the highways not on the railroads.

But, today it's the railroads that makes people beg for a cop or more properly, a government!

The government and the cops have done nothing about a horrible situation in the Gainesville area.

Just southeast of Gainesville, a CSX train derailed. The derailed cars didn't kill anyone. But, no one has come to fix the mess. And, it's Mell of Hess, transposing a couple letters to keep the content child safe.

To access the full story in the Gainesville Times, click here.

The contents of the derailed car isn't child safe after six weeks of exposure to 100 degree weather and a couple of nice thunderstorms.

With the thunderstorms and heat, the contents are rotting just a few feet away from a daycare center with 108 children.

This isn't a private matter for the daycare center or a private matter for the railroad. The railroad through neglect has endangered the public health. The public is suffering not only the smell of rot but subject to the creatures attracted to garbage.

Where are the cops when you need them? Where is the state EPD? Where is the GOP led government?

Too downsized to be a force, too poor to confront a railroad, too poor to clean the mess up and send the bill to CSX.

Good job, Chambliss, Deal, Perdue, Cagle, Richardson, Johnson, Rogers ... and welcome to the consequences. As if any of these suckers ever cared about the health of small children.