Infinonytune: Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding, Elton John
This is Good-Bye - For Now
2 weeks ago
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Yinzer Admission Test: Parking Section
2. A Council supermajority voted to reject The Great InsolvenCity Parking Garage Sale because
Infinonytune: Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding, Elton John
Infinonytune: Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding, Elton John
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So is the meaning of #3 that the sole vote is dead wrong, or is it that we don't like him so we dismiss otherwise valid commentary as bullcrap?
Sounds like the complaints you lodge against your opposition, "They don't like us so they don't listen to anything we say..."
Not an altogether an enlightened approach to governing, but what the hell, we do live in Pittsburgh, or at least, I do.
And what's up with the word verifications? sometimes they're simple and sometimes, well, I'm sure you know too.
2-5%
That's a generous curve, don't you think? Why, that's almost 15,000 people. That's an outrageous assertion.
If you count all the people who showed up for the public hearings, all of the people who will be affected by it combined you might still be high by a couple of thousand....
LOL
Rev. Burgess deservedly lacks credibility among his colleagues.
In this circumstance, his arguments were so weak they failed to persuade even the council members who customarily are loyal to and rewarded by the mayor's administration.
Put those points together and the result is being alone among nine council members when the vote is conducted.
That's a generous curve, don't you think? Why, that's almost 15,000 people. That's an outrageous assertion.
Good point. Exaggerated math withdrawn. There is no great need to explain the few percent who expressed support for the lease.
(1) This definitely. Though I wonder how many of those constituents left messages suggesting how to tackle the pension problem. Or how many are even aware of it, or aware it truly cannot be solved by, "Cut their benefits! Cut salaries! Cut waste!"
(2) This definitely.
(3) Well, I don't think that was a motivating factor, per se.
(4) I doubt it. Of course they probably seek advice in the same ideological and parochial circles as themselves.
(5) Maybe two thought that. Assuming Council's rejection withstands the coming actuarial reports and miscellaneous other hole cards, the next responsible option is probably the state takeover. WE'LL SEE how many Council members regard the neutering of the city's own vaunted pensions board as anything less than demonic.
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