Residents in West Toledo and other city officials are expressing concern - and even anger - over Chief Mike Navarre's decision to make major operational changes at the Northwest District Police Station in an effort to save the city $500,000... [blade]
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As long as Navarre supports the people's right to keep and bear arms, what's really the problem here?
Well for one thing GZ, as Tom W. pointed out this morning on FRED's show, Northwest Toledoans are a big portion of the tax base for this city (lots of businesses and property owners). They (we) feel that we are law abiding, tax paying, hard working citizens that feel we are paying for that police presence (Northwest District Station). We were promised that it would still be there. Taxpayers voted approval for extending the 3/4% tax.
That's our problem.
I want to know how the environmentalists (as well as everyone else) will feel about the increase in fuel costs and consumption that will result when these police officers will have to drive the additional miles to get to District 5 from the downtown Safety Building for their patrols. Also, response time will be down Chief Navarre - no matter what you say to deny it. Common sense rules.
Then why did West Toledoans vote to continue giving money to politicians who absolutely delight in wasting it?
Any way you slice it, the voters were wrong, the public administration of law enforcement and justice is out of control, and the sad sacks I laughingly call taxpayers will have to withstand financial rape for a longer period.
Maybe next time this tax comes up for a vote, you scared little weenies should vote it down, eh? Maybe getting used to patrolling your own neighborhoods will give you some backbone for telling the politicians that government in Toledo is effectively obsolete.
Really, 1der, I do enjoy watching people eat their own livers. The tax was a mistake, extending it was a mistake -- after all, it can only come to a bad end when you steal money from your neighbor's pockets via the voting booth -- and now jabberjawing as if there's any rational solution is ALSO a mistake. Instead of jabbering here, get that tax back on the ballot so we can vote it down. Oop! Sorry, you're not really suffering enough yet. Not enough bankruptcies and foreclosures, yet. Forget I said anything. LOL.
thinking back to Oct./Nov. of last year, won't voters get a chance to vote on this tax again in 4 years?
Well, good. Toledoans should be nice and poor by then, assaulted too often by thugs, just to watch the po-po show up and arrest THEM for having the temerity to defend themselves. Hopefully by then the body politic around here will realize that government in Toledo is obsolete. We need to get rid of it for the largest part.
Of course, the media campaign at that time to retain the tax will be an order of magnitude greater than what we were slathered with last time.
Instead of jabbering here, get that tax back on the ballot so we can vote it down. Oop! Sorry, you're not really suffering enough yet. Not enough bankruptcies and foreclosures, yet.
I mentioned that the 3/4% won approval, but I should have clarified that I was NOT one of those people who voted for it. Just trying to make a point dude.
I do get a little irrationally angry at all this cultural denial. But I still don't think we've suffered enough, yet. Toledo's "homeownership" percentage (about 65%) will have to drop significantly before people wake up poor and start to act with all the fiscal rectitude they should have practiced all along.