Friday, October 26
EUR
Wow. I just went down to EUR, an old fascist-era city expansion that stretches out toward the sea (Mussolini wanted to grow Rome all the way out there). The place is totally depressing, stupid, and fascist. Let this be a lesson: central planning= bad idea. "Done right", even in the nonfascist way (you know, with the least bit of aesthetics), it is still done wrong. Thinking of central planning got me thinking: I forgot to pick up an absentee ballot. So, yeah, if you live in Charlotte, do me a favor. Vote to repeal in a couple of weeks. Or if you were planning on going to vote to keep the rail tax in place , just, you know, stay home, and it will be like you voted and I voted. It's only fair.
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Oh, for God's sake, do NOT vote to repeal. What do you want to do, put ALL of transit's costs on the backs of us property owners??? With the half cent sales tax, at least all these people driving around here with the South Carolina plates and slowing me down are contributing over a third of the money. There's no county or city income tax you know----we eat all the upkeep costs for all these folks who use our services nearly daily. This lets all the shoppers at Neiman Marcus give us a hand.
Or is it no mass transit???? With all the mass transit you've used in the past four months??? Think about every decent city you've visited since you were seven years old---notice a common denominator when you think about how you got around, by any chance??? Every one of them had rail transit, as well as an extensive above-ground system. This area's population is predicted to double in the next fifteen years----the trip on the light rail is going to be 22 minutes next month, next year, next decade, next century. Not so the road trip from the same point.
AND there has already been an increase in property tax revenue along the South Blvd. corridor that is more than what it cost ---even with the overruns---to build the light rail.
Let's not forget about this filthy air here. And it's filthy---so bad that we are very likely to lose our federal road building money next summer. It wasn't just day after day after day of Code Orange days---we had Code Red days---and Even a Code Purple day. That means nobody should breathe, or something. Your brother had to be on inhaled steroids to treat the chemical burn his lungs got by being here all of August for the first time in his life. Want to have to pay for your kids to go away to some camp in the northeast all summer so they don't get asthma or lung cancer?
If we need more transparency in our governing process, work to fix it. If we need more honest governing representatives,come home and run for office---Edwin Peacock is.
But to be in Rome and say the government shouldn't be in charge of building roads and rails---
That was my post--I forgot to initial it. And I already voted.
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This is not a sight for political campaigning.You sound just like a Republican
Love
Grandpa
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