We just taught the local politicians a lesson here in our little city at the foot of the Rockies
They threatened to fire policemen and lay off firemen if we didn't vote them a big tax increase.
They threatened to fire policemen and lay off firemen if we didn't vote them a big tax increase.
We resoundingly turned them down.
On top of that, a citizens group has started a recall petition for gross financial incompetence (they were funding current operations with new construction fees), and for threatening voters.
Nevermind about those threats!
Guess what? The council just announced that, tada! They found other ways to cover the shortfall. They may have to close city pools and decrease bus service.
Guess what? The council just announced that, tada! They found other ways to cover the shortfall. They may have to close city pools and decrease bus service.
Why is the city running pools (at a loss)?
Sell them to the private sector and they will turn a profit while still serving the public.
Buses? They are privatized in Socialist Latin America. And they are more user friendly
Latin America does buses much better than the US. They go where people need them, when they need them. No labyrinthine routes and complex schedules it takes a college degree to figure out. Each bus has a specific run, back and forth with the names of both ends of the route on the front. A city will have numerous crisscross routes like that, providing transportation to thousands. And it's all privatized! In socialist Latin America!
Community Centers: Turning Wangsters into Gangsters
Finally, the city council gave the municipal community centers 6 months to find private funding, and the liberals are screaming. What good do community centers do anyway? I think they just give junior criminals a place to exchange tactics and plot their depredations on the populace. And they probably carry out many of their crimes slouching to and from the community center!
It Doesn't Take a Village
Kids get bored. I got bored one time and threw rocks at the neighbors' car, when they were in it, driving. Papa Silverfiddle beat my ass with a belt. I learned the value of finding non-criminal activities to entertain myself when bored.
It doesn't take a village. It doesn't take a community center. It takes a society that won't tolerate criminal behavior, from kids or from politicians.
And an angry dad (or voter) with a belt (or ballot) bringing down the wrath of God upon a little hooligan (big elected hooligan) doesn't hurt...
And an angry dad (or voter) with a belt (or ballot) bringing down the wrath of God upon a little hooligan (big elected hooligan) doesn't hurt...
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My last trip Mexico I took a bus to a resort villiage outside Mexico City... the clean interior was set up like a passenger aircraft, with a pretty latina serving up beverages along the way. Very nice and in contrast to AMTRAK, where you can expect a disgruntled apple-shaped government worker to constantly tell you what you can't do on the train.
Good job, by the way, in staring down these jumbo-shrimp tyrants.
"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny - when the government fears the people, there is Liberty"
"apple-shaped government worker" LOL!!!
Thanks for some anecdotal info from the field to back me up!
OUCH! About the belt, but that's what kids in America need, not a "your on a time-out!" Yeah, like that really works. I have tried that, but with two boys, that's not gonna do it.
Glad to see that people are finally standing up their officials and telling them where they can go.
AMEN! Our elected officials have been bowed to, had their egos stroked, and the right amount of smoke blown up their asses. Now it is time we put the fear of GOD in them.
This is really good Silverfiddle. Too practical for politics man...lol..
"exchange tactics and plot their depredations on the populace. "
I was rollin on that one cause it's true man...
Well, We The Taxpayers are fed up, and thank God there are enough of us to stop this liberal crap.
Rev Gregori: I fear many of these people don't know God. To quote an old cartoon, "they worship Pan, the goat god!"
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