Under their lack of leadership and vision, Austin is becoming undriveable, unlivable, and unsafe. The city's elected leaders aren't failing to learn, they're succeeding at learning how to destroy a city. And the voters, while they are rightfully complaining and signing the petition to rescind the insane camping policy, are likely to not only re-elect the same people again - they're probably going to vote for even worse policies and politicians next year, and the year after that, and the year after that.
Saturday, September 14, 2019
Well, that didn't take long
The city of Austin, Texas adopted a policy back in July of this year which pretty much permitted the homeless to pitch tents and build shanties anywhere (except near City Hall, of course). The results of this idiocy already are being seen far and wide. And things are unlikely to get better:
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...they're probably going to vote for even worse policies and politicians next year, and the year after that, and the year after that.
There's a well known saying describing that...oh, what is it?
Oh, yeah! "Stuck on stupid". AKA, "Dimocrat voters".
Just what you folks need over there, another San Franshitsco.
Okay, sure, it's really really stupid, but please consider...
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Okay, sorry, that's all I got.
Another thing to come out of Austin is Prop 4 that would institute a Texas income tax. But here is the underhanded California style trick: voting yes means no, and no means yes. We saw this trick first hand in California.
I spoke to staffers for the author Jeff Leach, and one of the co-authors Andrew Murr (our representative) in an effort to find who the responsible parties are. The research continues.
In Hollywood California, a friend told me the government distributes tents, blankets, and pillows.
Previously, the homeless were run out of parks, vacant lots, unsurpassed, creeksides, etc. So where are they supposed to go? Homeless activist Ted Hayes had Justiceville Dome Village that aided homeless people to get back into society. I don't remember why it was closed down. Such a shame.
Deborah,
We saw this trick first hand in California.
If that isn't underhanded enough, the AG rewrites the bollot proposition to make it something completely the opposite of what the citizens' petition read. Case in point: Proposition 6 on the Nov 2018 ballot was a gas tax repeal (it was passed with a simple majority when the CA Constitution requires a super-majority, 2/3 vote in both the Assembly and the Senate, for ALL tax increases). He rewrote the thing to a "roads and bridges construction and repair funding reduction", when NONE of the new revenues would have gone to road maintenance in the first place. It was intended to create new and expanded Sacramento bureaucracies.
Please, Texas, don't let San Francisco Democrats turn Texas into another Colorado.
I once considered moving to Texas, but I've been told up front that as a Californian I'm not welcome, and I understand why - even though I'm as conservative as at least 75% of Texas Republicans. Western Montana looks nice (I grew up in a mountain resort town, so snow doesn't bother me, that's what snowblowers are for), but I've crunched the numbers and, unless I get a hell of a job offer in another state, I can't afford to leave the Glorious Peoples' Republic.
:: ballot proposition ::
I previewed, but still missed that typo.
I drove through Seattle a few weeks ago and took to blowing the horn every time I saw those tents nestled up to I-5. Good clean fun.
As far as moving to Texas goes, not only do they not want me, I don't want to move there. Every time I ever ate something there, I got the shits. I think it's all the flies.
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