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Plain Dealer Looks Past Imperial Ave. to Towpath, Public Square
Posted by Roldo Bartimole in Economic Development, Media on November 5, 2009
November 5, 2009… It didn’t even take a day for The Plain Dealer to set up the next pillage and plunder of Cleveland.
Listen to what the Pee Dee said editorially the day after the casino issue, strongly backed by the paper, about the use of its tax revenue:
“So consider this idea, which is already germinating among downtown boosters (read: looters): Divert some of the new property taxes the casino will pay – from the city’s share, not the school district’s – to complete the Towpath Trail and Canal Basin Park, to redesign Public Square and to add pocket parks, waterfront access and other residential enhancements.”
Forget about Imperial Avenue. Forget about all the Cleveland Imperial Avenues.
Let’s spend a few more million on a bike path and redo Public Square. Again.
Just read the intention of this proposal. You will see a community looting being pushed by the Pee Dee.
This is what the Pee Dee – acting as a front for the Greater Cleveland Partnership and its corporate thugs – wants to do with any revenue that might come to the city from the casino. Disgusting.
Can you believe it?
How insensitive is that on the day following the discovery of multi-murder victims and a city police force and government that allowed what happened on Imperial Avenue to happen. As the bodies are being ushered out.
Ms. Goldberg and the editorial staff of the Pee Dee, have you no shame?
To whom do you owe allegiance? Certainly not to the people of Cleveland. Certainly not to those in dire need.
Here you are already spending tax dollars, the result of a sickening monopoly casino, on the trinkets you want for downtown.
My God, when does it stop?
Doing What We Don’t Need, Not Doing What We Need
Posted by Roldo Bartimole in Economic Development, Politicians on November 1, 2009
November, 1, 2009… Stampede, stampede , stampede.
That’s The Plain Dealer’s editorial push on Issues 3 & 6, as it was on Gateway, as it was on Browns Stadium, as it was on the Medical Mart and as it is on the monopoly casino.
What do they have in common?
Build – Build – Build.
That is the Pee Dee’s desire – concrete. That’s the Establishment’s desire – concrete.
Why? Profits. A semblance of Progress.
Do you notice great improvement? Do you notice Progress?
They build what we don’t need and they deprive us of what we do need.
They build, over and over, and tell us this is what we need to make Cleveland and Northeast Ohio better. This is Progress.
But what’s the major problem in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio?
Education. Of all ages. That’s what we need.
Taking care of people. That’s what we need.
But over and over again it’s build something for the multi-millionaires and even billionaires.
Forget about the poor. Forget about the needs of ordinary people.
Build, build, build. Build and it will come. It never comes.
More retail outlets even though we have much too much retail.
Subsidize office space. Even though we have too much office space.
Expand, expand, expand, they tell us.
Even though expansion simply leads to too much unneeded growth.
We must GROW, they say. Even though we have too much of almost everything. They still want to expand.
Take care of the human problems we have, we should say.
That will come later, they say. Later never comes.
So vote NO on Issue 3, vote NO on issue 5, vote NO on issue 6.
Vote YES only on Cuyahoga Community College’s levy. But start looking closely at the operations at CCC.
We keep doing what THEY want. Yet we keep sinking deeper and deeper.
Let’s be intuitive. Let’s do the opposite of what leaders tell us to do this time. Let’s think for ourselves. About what we really need and what we really don’t need.
Let’s give them the shaft this time. They surely deserve it.