> Typical suburban/exurbanite writes: > > Before you all rush off and ban SUVs you might want to decide which of > Minneapolis' problems it will solve. Will it increase the graduation rate > of your students?
Yes it will. As the city of Minneapolis is able to spend less on street repair more money will be available to keep our libraries open longer hours. Thereby giving our students more time to study and conduct research. > Will it decrease the drug activity and shootings in your neighborhoods? Yes it will. It has been shown that a large number of the people buying drugs on Minneapolis streets are from suburban/exurban areas. It will also substantially reduce the prostitution on our streets. > Will it bring increased funding from the state? No, but no one has said it will. Why do you ask? Oh yeah, because Waconia is one of those places that get more money from the state than they pay in. Now granted, depending on how you do your accounting, one can argue that Minneapolis also gets more than we pay in. But then again, we also have to pay for the police and other ammenities that suburban/exurbanites force us to with your drug purchases and hiring of prostitutes. > Here's what I think will happen. Those of us who don't live in your city, > but visit occassionaly, will visit even less. "Great!", you may say. Hold > on. People from outstate or the suburbs visiting less will mean they will > care even less about Minneapolis' problems. Many of you have complained > about how Minneapolis is treated by the State, and that is because > Minneapolis has little control and influence at the state level. Banning > SUVs would not enhance the relationship one bit. Maybe not, but then again those of us in the city would not be forced to inhale the pollution coming out of your unnecessarily over-sized vehicles. Our children growing up near highways would not develop asthma nor would our minority populations or elderly who all live near the highways that your SUVs use and pollute. And our residents would not need to risk their life and limb every time they cross our suburban SUV filled streets. > You may now return to getting excited over inconsequential issues. This may be an isconsequential conversation, but the state of our schools, the crime on our streets, and the health of our public are not inconsequential issues. Randall Cutting Seward REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
