(09-23-2015 02:10 PM)Oldyeller Wrote:  

(09-22-2015 10:58 PM)panama Wrote:  

(09-22-2015 03:19 PM)SBEagle Wrote:  

(09-22-2015 10:38 AM)panama Wrote:  

(09-22-2015 06:30 AM)Eagles Cliff Wrote:  I like how he makes reference to the promises of transformation promised wasting money on the Olympics not working out but this time will be different. Sounds like a typical urban politician who thinks the problems in his city are caused by a lack of capital as opposed to lack of nuclear family structures and bankrupt culture breeding cyclical poverty and strife.

(09-22-2015 09:03 AM)Oldyeller Wrote:  If you don't subsidize the poor in the big city the rich have no cheap labor or too expensive labor. The problem is a result of capitalism or any other ism. Accept it. The problem is when areas that don't need the subsidy get it. The big city will never stop asking for more money. It's like the Geico commercial, it's what they do. Shifting power to local government is the key.

(09-22-2015 09:17 AM)soar#417 Wrote:  We've officially gotten off topic again.

Georgia politics is a tricky beast. You essentially have Atlanta and then the rest of Georgia. Unfortunately Atlanta does need more money. When only 500,000 live within your city limits but 5 million visit or work within that same area each day, thats going to cause problems. Add on the fact that the 500,000 are the ones paying property tax or what not and you've got a serious deficit issue when looking at repairing roads, providing adequate water supply, and all around general maintenance of the city infrastructure. Add on again that in Georgia law no state tax can be givin to public transit and you've got another issue on top of that. IMO better public transit if what the city of Atlanta needs to solve a lot of its issues, including our impoverished populations. The poor 9 times out of 10 can't afford a new car and with emissions requirements they normally purchase something that is under the standards that the city requires of cars. However these people need cars because all the low wage jobs are outside the city limits. Shifting things to local governments has already happened and thats Atlanta's problem. We have too many chefs in the kitchen trying to run their own areas separate of the larger Metro area. We don't have a money problem we have an identity crisis. We aren't Atlanta, we are Cobb, Gwinett, North Fulton, Dekalb, Decatur, Marietta.....and then Atlanta.


Shoot I just ranted didn't I?


Hail Southern

....wut...just...happened...

Don't worry about it panama, it was over your head.

Right...right...cuz Southern fans b so smart. As usual you're overly interested in something that has little to do with you.

Kinda like when you shared your disappointment with having to be associated with CCU on the CUSA board.