on 2/19/03 1:23 PM, Victoria Heller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I stayed at the seminar until the bitter end - it was a whine with no > cheese session.
Be careful judging another's complaints as whining...they could say the same thing about yours... > Instead of housing the homeless, Minneapolis built a skating rink. > Instead of maintaining its parks, Minneapolis moved the Shubert Theater. > Instead of upgrading its infrastructure, Minneapolis doled out corporate > welfare. All true. Fair points. The Shubert was ineffably dumb, and a great symbol to bludgeon us with. But there is more to the story on one other point. The primary responsibility for housing the homeless is the state's social-services (administered through the counties) and the fed's - instead, the state allows the suburbs to zone out low-income people and Minneapolis not only gets the social problems of concentration but has to pay for it. As for the state policy to shift taxes from high-priced homes and commercial-industrial businesses to lower-income homes and individuals, it's not welfare, but doling out something to someone... Did I mention a Convention Center that produces taxes for the whole state that Minneapolis pays 100 percent of? David Brauer King Field TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
