David wrote: > Used car salesmen are preferable to developers. Dori: At least with car salesmen, you expect them to create an aura that will sell you the car and it becomes a game to the winner goes the spoils. With politics of late...some elected have become such controlling factors, the populace is treated as subservient menials with no voice much less in the game for spoils. City government is too big, too controlled by special interest, it does have a weak Mayoralty...which seems to be changing ...yet to be decided in what direction, and we are over taxed big time for what we get in core services...So where is the money going? I think David did a great job describing the mess...
> Imagine how much more just, pleasant, democratic, and affordable life in > the cities would be without them! Without them manipulating and diverting > council and park board members, misusing TIF and eminent domain and taxes. > Without their glossy songs and dances, taking huge chunks of public > meeting time to the exclusion of citizens, the better to fleece them. > Prefabricated dog and pony shows to bamboozle the hicks. An invading army > of pillagers, slashing and burning for undeserved big piles of cash, then > running back to their pleasant safe homes (may I add ...in the suburbs/lake area to the west) far from their destructions....of high density! Personally, I am glad to see this discussion along with the Strib's. First step in solving a problem is to acknowledge it. You can have all the *Community Engagement * parties in the world with the idea of *telling the community what is going on.*...perhaps one should just start to *listen* and read some of these posts and work on the real issues at hand for the common taxpayer, (without hiring another team of consultants)..such as being taxed out of their home that they have worked for all their life or having the MFD charge for services that are being paid for through taxes already, low wages in service industry without protection and benefits, and getting education/jobs to those who need it. These are the issues of today... not building another condo for someone who does not live here yet... but is sure to move here in the next twenty years! There lies the gold... Dorie Rae Gallagher Nokomis > > > 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 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
