That being said, our local government is and will continue to be affected by (1) unfunded pressure to help the feds harass immigrants to domestic dissident groups, (2) a worsening economy in general, which will affect tax revenue, (3) mainly unfunded "preparations" for negligible security risks in our community that are mostly hypocracy, hyperbole, and hysteria, and (4) lowered state funding thanks to republican pressures from Tim Pawlenty & friends to pay for McCarthyist and other civil rights violations masquerading as "security measures" while cutting health care, education, housing, and the other core necessities for our people.
It's time that we realize that the war has become a Minneapolis issue. The BORDC civil liberties resolution in front of the City Council is threatened with a veto not because it isn't a Minneapolis issue (police and other agency spending by the city to support unfunded federal requests to violate civil rights hits the city right in the pocketbook at a time of fiscal crisis!), but because R.T. (and some council members) fear budget reprisal from the republican-controlled state government. The message is "support the war, and get with our program, or the people of Minneapolis will suffer even more."
So please - we don't need any "protection" smokescreens. We need to understand the war-rationalized political pressures that affect our city's spending & the state and federal funds that will or will not be withheld depending on the degree to which the city capitulates in putting the needs of its people second to Dubya's private little mid-east vendetta.
Peace & No Bushit, Roxana Orrell Central
On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 09:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Message: 17 From: "Victoria Heller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mpls Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:38:49 -0600 Subject: [Mpls] The War- About to become a major Minneapolis Issue...
Dyna Sluyter writes:
With payroll and expenses skyrocketing It would be no surprise to see R.T. asking citizens to pay their taxes early so the city can make payroll. All because of a totally uncalled for and inexcusable war that some say is "not a Minneapolis issue".
Vicky responds on the other side of the argument:
The 9/11 terror attacks have cost our economy $7 trillion. It seems to me
that spending a few hundred billion to prevent another such homeland attack
is well worth the money.
If you found a swarm of rattlesnakes in your basement, would you just close
the door and "hope" they don't venture upstairs.
Our economy cannot withstand another attack. Our government, at all levels, is trying to protect us.
Another attack is what we can't afford.
Vicky Heller Cedar-Riverside and North Oaks
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