Quoted from Alva White

  

Congratulations, you understand the reality of the situation. Refreshing to say the least.

It's sad that people acknowledge that Metroplex is stealing money to give to a select few, then find it refreshing to hear it's not going anywhere as long as a few homeowners get some of the stolen booty.  These are the same people that will spend 25% higher prices for groceries at Price Chopper to get a nickel off in gas.

Quoted from CICERO

It's sad that people acknowledge that Metroplex is stealing money to give to a select few, then find it refreshing to hear it's not going anywhere as long as a few homeowners get some of the stolen booty.  These are the same people that will spend 25% higher prices for groceries at Price Chopper to get a nickel off in gas.

It's even sadder that some people acknowledge that Metroplex  is stealing money to give to a select few, and point it out day after day after day in a place where it's barely seen, and offer no real solution. You do have a choice in the matter to make change. Or maybe you don't.

From reading your posts, which I consider pretty much Ideological psycho-babble, you don't vote, so you've eliminated that as a course of action.

I'm not sure how you feel about taking over the govt. by force and making change that way. Maybe you could expound on that so I can get a clearer picture. Are you in favor of an armed overthrow of the current administration? Are you at least forming a militia group aimed toward that? And please enlighten me own how YOU plan to rectify this mess.

Since those are the only two ways that come to mind right now on how to make a change that might benefit you, then I guess you're kind of stuck spinning your wheels in the mud pit that we all created years ago. By the way, I have no problem with that. It does make for some amusing reading.

I don't shop at pc, and I still blame Curt Flood for all of the world's woes since 1968/

Quoted from CICERO

I understand it's tough to turn down what appears to be free money.  But what you just described is turning Metroplex from corporate welfare into social welfare.  It's not easy to see the long game in a society that wants instant gratification.  But taking the money just perpetuates the system.  It keeps those controlling the money in power, the same people that have been screwing the residents.  They are doing it by offering them a fresh coat of paint.  

Metroplex was created for commercial development and "investment".  The fact they are raining money into neighborhoods tells me that the residents are getting angry, and the city Democrats are using the Metroplex to pump money into neighborhoods to buy good will. To me...This is a sign that 17 years of Metroplex is failed, and the residents are becoming aware of it.  Don't let them buy good will by taking their filthy money.  

This is still about commercial development and not about anger of residents. They need to improve the neighborhoods (or at least a key few/portions of neighborhoods) so that they can bring in new, more lucrative business for their own gain. That is all this is about.

There is no evidence to support the idea that turning down money from Metroplex will stop them. 17 years have shown that to be the contrary. Show me where someone turning down metroplex money has damaged them as an organization and forced them to disband. So residents either need to completely eliminate their existence or find a way to benefit somehow.  They have enough friends, they have enough of their own businesses and organizations that will take the money that the whole "just stop taking their filthy money" proposal is an unrealistic pipe dream.  Residents need to work within reality. What do you propose is a realistic manner to shut down Metroplex?