"Until Aspen’s mob shouted it down it, valet parking service was planned this winter at the base of the Aspen Mountain gondola.
No longer.
Local politicos saw an opportunity to bash business, which they always find profitable, and to accumulate some political capital — which is apparently the only kind of capital that is permissible to accumulate these days.
Take our mayor, a former tennis instructor.He whined: “I question the equitability and ethic of” the valet parking service.
Others politicians jumped in.
With an analysis equaling her syntax, one councilwoman complained, “It had a huge insulting factor to locals. It was like separating the rich from the poor, and here you are going skiing and those rich people have something they can afford that you can’t.”
...Back to the valet service.
What if those rich folks get dropped off by a friend or pay a taxi or a butthurt whiner (Can they sit long enough to drive?) to drop them off, rather than using the valet service?
Does that transform the drop-off into something equitable and ethical?
By the way, is it inequitable and unethical when the rich folks get to the top of the gondola and buy lunch at the swanky Mountain Club which employs many locals?
Or at the expensive restaurants in town? Or when they spend money at local ski shops on pricey jackets?
Or on $800/day local ski instructors?
Or on tennis lessons from the mayor? I can see the lesson.
“Keep your eye on the ball, you capitalist pig, and how about a bigger tip?”...
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