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I've been by Mtn Home a hundred times on I-84 but I've only been in town twice in 30 years. There just isn't anything there that I need to see. The closest I've been to downtown is the Walmart at exit 95.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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Our little burg was destroyed by a "500 year flood" in 1997. County courthouse, Sheriff's office, County EMS, local PD, local Fire Dept, City Hall, County Road Dept. Immediately after the flood, FEMA offered 87.5% (7 to 1) matching funds to rebuild city and county infrastructure on the edge of town, outside of the 500 year flood plain. Local politicians refused. Wanted to "Save" downtown. eg: Support their own businesses and cronies.
The money spent out of pocket rebuilding a run down building into the new city hall could have built all new Infrastructure for ALL of the affected local government entities if they had paired it with the FEMA 7 to 1 matching funds.
Twenty years later, only one of the 7 or 8 multi generational family businesses that they were "worried about saving" is still in business in the downtown area. And the opportunity to improve their lot is lost...
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You want to talk about wasting tax payers' dollars.
There are two towns located in the desert north of Phoenix named Carefree and Cave Creek. At one time (maybe still) their cop cars were lime green Lamborginis. There are a lot of celebrities that have homes there and they said that they needed the Lamborginis to cath the celebrities fast cars and issue speeding tickets.
Wind in my hair, Sun on my face, I gazed at the wide open spaces, And I was at home.
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Lynchburg va is on a traffic circle kick there installing traffic circles at major intersections because it’s a “wonderful thing” 80% of the population can’t comprehend a on ramp or a traffic light
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The biggest waste is cities with 45 minute police response times and failing public schools spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build pro sports stadiums.
They justify it based on creating downtown entertainment spending--bars, restaurants, and the like. Mebbe so but if they just didn't build the stadiums, the people would simply go to different bars, restaurants, etc.
Don't blame me. I voted for Trump.
Democrats would burn this country to the ground, if they could rule over the ashes.
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If they build a bigger jail they will just arrest more, and house more, it always seems to work that way
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The brother in law getting the contract and the kickbacks to the politicians is the why.
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Our home county just closed a public elementary school about 2 yr ago just had a recently built gym that the county owed over 100k on and sold the entire property for 75k
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