Piling on taxpayers
The News & Record quoted Mayor Keith Holliday as proposing the inclusion of bonds to finance the endless money pit that is the old Woolworth building in the upcoming bond package. Did the mayor perhaps forget that the citizens, who pay the bills around here, voted this proposal down in 2000?
Is he so anxious to repeat the Project Homestead fiasco that he would endorse another assault on the taxpayers? Does he not see that piling on more debt for unnecessary projects will be the straw that breaks the backs of many of our citizens who struggle day to day to exist?
A debt assumed by a political body is called a bond. This is an appropriate name for an instrument that will keep a city and its citizens in bondage for many generations.
Donnie Stowe
Greensboro
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Apparently he is hoping to play on the lives of all the mindless nitwits who become button slappers by the end of a long voting form and just hit the yes button. Or perhaps they are going to make the wording so confusing that the people who want something will know to hit no, while the people who don't want it hit no without even reading it through (ballpark sound familiar?) If I can appeal to everyone right now. Please read before you vote.
(f.y.i. I went to vote with my neighbor a few years back when there was a schools bond on the ballot. She admitted to me that by the time she got to the 3rd page she was either pressing buttons by names that stood out to her as familiar and the rest she just hit the yes button. Of course I took time to help her understand why what she did was so damaging, and I hope it helped)
Posted on April 7, 2006 10:38 AM
I like to see the mayor explain where all the money has gone on this project. Could it be, he buying votes with other people money? Of course the NR a big endorser of this might want to explain the money to!!!!!!
Posted on April 8, 2006 6:27 AM