There are a group of citizens in the North Highline, White Center and Burien areas that are nothing but a bunch of whiners. They seem to be encouraged on by their city officials who also write complaining letters.

Many of these complainers pay less in taxes to the King County Library System but feel that they deserve more in services than the rest of us.

They work the system by being the loud, squeaky wheels gathering signatures on their ironing boards to whine about how they are being cheated.

The Burien/North Highline area has one library per 16,000 residents. The rest of us in the county get one library per 70,000 residents.

Burien seems to feel that they should get these extra services because they have fewer cars than the rest of us in the county.

Well, that is not so. According to the most recent 2011 survey of King County, the percentage of residents of Burien, White Center and Boulevard Park who do not have a car is 8.3 while the percentage for the rest of King County is 8.06. So cars are not the issue here.

Burien just has far more of the library resources than the rest of us and is not willing to share them. Even if the White Center and Boulevard Park libraries closed, Burien will still get one more new big library.

That means Burien will have one library per 22,000 residents. White Center will still have one library per 17,000 residents with the library at Greenbridge.

All of these libraries are on bus routes. Lots of us in the county don’t have as many bus routes as Burien or White Center.

So grow up, North Highline, White Center and Burien residents and learn to fairly share the King County Library System dollars with the rest of your county neighbors. The rest of us are tired of your rants about how you are being cheated and really deserve more—but contribute far less.

Oh yeah, and you seem to want to attack one of your City Council members constantly because she dares to do something as radical as serve on the Library Board or perhaps you think that her membership should even offer you more privileges?

You want nepotism.

M. Kent
Kent