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"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who
comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates
himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with
everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any
such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is
predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and
nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance
here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else
also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag,
the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which
symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as
much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are
hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is
the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty
and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
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The man who reads
nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing
but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson
“Sports
franchise owners and managers aren’t focused on development in
their teams’ towns.”
Gary Hardee, Publisher, Arlington-Star
Telegram
page
11B , 8-10-04
“I really can’t tell you.” Mayor Bob Cluck, when
asked by Dallas Morning News reporters to estimate how much
Arlington has received in return for building
The Ballpark in Arlington.
Dallas Morning News, staff
article, page 1A, 8-6-04
“…retail
developments have not materialized.”
Dallas Morning News, caption under a
picture of The Ballpark in Arlington
Page 1A, 8-6-04
“Dedicating a half-percent of sales tax
to a stadium for the Cowboys would limit Arlington’s financial
ability to repair roads, build parks and undertake public works
projects for years to come.”
Arlington
Star-Telegram news article Page 1B, 8-24-04
“… what this election is really
about – shifting millions of dollars from taxpayers to a
billionaire.”
Mitchell Schnurman, Arlington
Star-Telegram column, Page 1C, 8-18-04
“…sports facilities are a rather poor
investment.”
Steven Spickard, Sr. Vice President, Economics Research
Associates,
(Firm which prepared City of Arlington’s economic impact study
for the proposed football stadium)
“…a sports
amenity itself is typically only a modest economic asset when
costs are subtracted ….”
O.K. Carter, Arlington Star-Telegram column, Page 9BB, 8-15-04
“… Super
Bowls, Big 12 championships, NCAA Final Fours … most experts
estimate, create only low-paying jobs and cost as much in public
services as the taxes they bring in.”
Gary Hardee, Publisher, Arlington-Star Telegram
Editorial commentary, page 11B , 8-10-04
“I don’t think the evidence exists that there would be a huge
new influx of sales tax revenues.”
Dennis Coates, University of
Maryland-Baltimore County, sports finance expert,
Dallas Morning News, staff article, page 2A, 8-6-04
“It’s not really an economic
engine. We all agree that that the team owners are
the big winners … ”
Craig Depken, UTA economist,
sports economics
Dallas Morning News, page 2A, 8-6-04
“This is corporate welfare.
I’d vote against it.”
Jim Mitchell, Arlington
resident,
quoted in a Star-Telegram Staff article, page 11A, 8-10-04
In a very telling observation in open council meeting
Ron Wright said “we just adjusted the budget to the changes the
Staff and City Manager brought us.
We need to do the budget a lot different
from how this city ever did it… we get general spending categories
without knowing what’s in there…
we never met as a group to go through the entire budget…
and either the full Council or at least its (budget) committee
should know everything in it.”
Ron Wright said the City would “be better off with a
zero-based budget rather than the consultant we hired.”
So when the people you elected to watch out for your interests tell
you that there is no more fat in the budget or that they have cut
all that they can, you know that at the very least, that they don't
know what they are talking about and frankly are flat out lying to
you.
McCollum, Bruner, Ogle, Wolff, and Cluck
are your councilpersons that really like to blow that smoke! Since
they "get general spending categories - from the Staff and City
Manager - without knowing what’s in there" and "would like to see
more of the actual budget" they have failed to represent you, the
taxpayer.
"Government does not tax to
get the money it needs;
government always finds a
need for the money it gets"
Ronald
Reagan
America will never be destroyed from the
outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed
ourselves.
Abraham
Lincoln
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