Spaw,
first let me say Hi Bud! long time no talk to!
Now then, do I ever agree with you! I live in Tucson Az. in the past 10 years the city has tripled in size,and population. our streets are woefully inadequate to carry all the added traffic,..the solution..We'll build a bike and pedestrian bridge that looks like a diamondback rattlesnake (I'm not making this up!)and spend 3.5 million dollars on it, but then run out of money so we can't finish the bike/pedestrian path leading to or from said artistic bridge. so we'll have to raise property taxes again so we can find other artistic things to spend the money on,..of course this won't eliminate the traffic problems but it will put thousands of dollars in the pockets of our struggling artists (Artists! Ha! you should see some of this crap!) so they won't have to go out and get a real job. of course that still won't be enough so we'll raise the trash collection fee from $3.00 per month to $17.00 per month per household so they can turn a profit,....Hold on here! the trash trucks, public utilitiy vehicles,and payroll are all paid for by tax dollars and fees, you aren't supposed to make a profit you're supposed to break even, you're a public utility! owned by the public. These are points I brought up at a recent city council meeting,..and they formed several "fact finding commities" (I could never make something like this up!) to research the problems and hurrumph thank you so much for your input on this matter,..and they still haven't done anything about the streets!
~Biskit~