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Subject: Ho Ho tis the season to be jolly

Author:
Gene

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Date Posted: 09:04:43 11/28/05 Mon
In reply to: Ned Depew 's message, "What to do????" on 20:02:21 11/26/05 Sat

You and your FoH friends effectively stopped any kind of economic deveopment when you shot SLC down. By the way isn't Scalera and team leaving the city with a surplus in its budget. How can you do this and over spend? I do agree with you when you say Grant money is taxpayer money no matter where it comes from. Lets us know about the political atmosphere in you new diggs.

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Ned Depew
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Date Posted: 11:20:57 11/28/05 Mon

...that stopping the oversized, poorly-planned and badly-sited SLC proposal "effectively stopped any kind of economic deveopment," then you are living in a fantasy world.

H.A.V.E.'s planned expansion is taking place. New businesses have opened throughout the city - not on the scale of giant multi-national corporations , but on the level of small, Mom-and-Pop businesses that are the backbone of the American economy (American owned and run, recirculating their money - including their profits - in the region rather than exporting it to Switzerland).

Economic development is happening all around you Gene, but you refuse to see it.

I don't believe the Scalera administration will leave more than a token "surplus" (they are currently spending as fast as they can) - and what they do leave has been extorted from Scalera's political foes by an assessment process that is clearly skewed - for Grandinetti and Scalera's assessments to fall while those of others skyrocket by 200-300% and more!

If the Scaleranetti Faction has created a "surplus" it has been as a "slush fund" of exactly the sort I talked about above - out of which the Mayor can dole out favors to those whose political support he is seeking.

The Mayor's job is to collect enough taxes to meet accurately and openly presented budget needs - not to collect a "surplus." That "surplus" indicates taxes that were paid over and above what the City actually needed and elected representatives had agreed to spend.

That "surplus" is money collected from us and our fellow taxpayers that the City didn't even need, and that then was used as "free money" by the free-spending Scaleranetti's. If they leave a few dimes in the till, that only proves that they collected even more than they could find ways to spend.