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Chief
01-03-2008, 07:50 AM
This one is just bizzarre. See if you can follow all of the nits he picks with this one...

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In My Opinion

Date: January 2nd, 2008


What better way to ring in the New Year than express My Opinion, as to the missteps, and problems being caused by the ‘Custodian’s of Our Tax Dollars’ and recommend for them a couple of New Years' Resolution.

Vancouver City Council:

In addition to their Portland Envy, the council, instead of pledging, 9.5 million dollars they don’t have to support the development of the Flood Plain, commonly known, as “the former Boise Cascade Industrial Property” should look to the movers and shakers in Salem who, according to recent news stories, have a group of investors to develop their “only available waterfront site”. The 9.5 Million is in addition to a 13.5 million funding gap for this “got to have boondoggle”. (Resolution: Lets stop the "Give away to Developers Program" and learn how to prioritize spending).

And while they fiddle with yet another boondoggle, crime in the form of Shootings, Murder, Robbery, Vandalism, and Gang Activity continue to grow.

Since they (the Council) do not know how to prioritize spending, you need to hang on to your wallet or pocketbook. The next shoe they will drop will be a tax increase.

C Tran

I found the Biodiesel Fuel use comments by C-Tran Maintenance Director for Maintenance and Development, John Hoefs and C – Tran Spokesman Scott Patterson, bothersome. As you read their quotes remember that these gentleman and others like them are custodians of the taxpayer dollar, yet they appear, as they spend the tax dollars entrusted to them, to be unaware of just where the tax dollars they spend come from. They were, in response to questions on the Cut Back in the use of Biodiesel in the taxpayer Subsidized Bus Fleet, quoted in the Columbian as saying:

“The agency may yet find ways to use B-20 despite its limitations, Hoefs said. In any case, switching fuels back and forth won’t cost the agency anything.” (Mr. Hoefs everything you do at C-Tran cost the Taxpayers something.)

“Thanks to FEDERAL SUBSIDIZES, Biodiesel is about the price of petroleum diesel, said C-Tran Spokesman Scott Patterson. Some days it’s Cheaper.” (Resolution: "Spend every tax entrusted to you as if it were your own money you were spending").

Apparently, most who spend our hard earned tax dollars have no clue where the tax dollars they spends come from. Nor do they understand that it cost more tax dollars and energy to make things such as bio fuel than it sells for or provides. (Only Alaskan/Off-Shore drilling and Nuclear Power Plants can, in the immediate future make us energy independent.) (Resolution: Teach all politician and Government Agency Employees that ALL the dollars they spend come out of the taxpayers Pockets. Government does not have any money of its own.)

And so it goes.


L. M. Patella
CDR USN.

tefen
01-03-2008, 08:19 AM
What the hell was that about C-Tran?

The guy at C-Tran said that switching between B-20 and regular Diesel won't cost anything (EXTRA).
Also, if the federal government is subsidizing biodiesel to make it cheap, and I could put it in my car, then that's what I would do with my own money!

<a href="http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/servicerpt/subsidy/executive_summary.html">The feds subsidize oil too</a>, but I bet Patella still uses that.

Chief
01-03-2008, 10:32 AM
I know...and he seems to imply that C-Tran needs to look at Nuclear power somehow too. Too convoluted to do much more than laugh, and I'm sure City Council got a kick out of his proposed resolutions too.

On a side note, I wonder if it was Patella who wrote the 6-page rant that Elizabeth Hovde talked about in her column this morning...

Waterbuffalo
01-03-2008, 04:49 PM
Chief, some one has been borrowing my ideas again? :-) Who has harped loudest about the flood plain issue of boise cascade and until a week ago kept his mouth shut.. Sounds like Larry needs a flood plain right under his own nose.

Sorry Larry but please get your research and facts straight before you start spouting off from ideas you have no bounds to be communicating on...

"In addition to their Portland Envy, the council, instead of pledging, 9.5 million dollars they don’t have to support the development of the Flood Plain, commonly known, as “the former Boise Cascade Industrial Property” should look to the movers and shakers in Salem who, according to recent news stories, have a group of investors to develop their “only available waterfront site”. The 9.5 Million is in addition to a 13.5 million funding gap for this “got to have boondoggle”. (Resolution: Lets stop the "Give away to Developers Program" and learn how to prioritize spending)."

tefen
01-04-2008, 06:14 AM
Actually, I think Karma has harped loudest/most consistently on that one :)

Waterbuffalo
01-04-2008, 07:43 AM
She harped on it being a boondoggle and swindle? :-) Don't think I don't disagree with her on that point?

Waterbuffalo
01-11-2008, 08:12 PM
Wouldn't it be a sad fate if Kornel Kneecaps moved into one of those lavish palacial villas for his post doctorate and need for closeness to his favorite diatribe?

if he moved down there, all he would have to do is yell over the din for the local paper to hear him.