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Member since: April 17, 2011
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Kathy Taylor Makes Our City Work... three jobs to support her expensive, spoiled tastes.
Kathy Taylor Makes Our City Work... so she can have pretty things; that we cannot afford.
Imagine that the property taxes on your home were increased three to four hundred percent... imagine having to pay your new house payment.
Those people who owned buildings downtown -- many of them inherited from their families -- one of the great American dreams has always been to have something to pass on to your children so that their live might be better ...
Not so that Kathy Taylor can raise the taxes so high they cannot afford to keep them and they have to sell ... to support a baseball park.
Speaking of Forefathers... I am not good at history but I remember something about "taxation without representation... " and a "tea party".
Look at the Pearl District -- it is coming along fine -- by people doing business in a Democratic, Capitalistic, Laissez-faire fashion.
The Pearl has been slower coming along than the others spotlight locations but it has done so because people who owned that CHOOSE to hold on to the properties... and now they are CHOOSING to sell or improve...
The Dream is alive on 6th Street today... but it died in the area of the baseball field.. and Kathy Taylor is responsible...
There are plenty of people in this city who are operating on a pay as you go basis -- i.e. this amount is alloted for growth, "If I start now in x number of months I will be able to open this new business...Without being outrageously in debt. We have enough to buy the building, now we have enough to begin demolition... now we have enough to dry it in....
It is a nice baseball park, if you can keep from thinking of the pain and heartache that it cost so many people. It is a horrible sad place when you realize that it was built by strong arming so many good human beings.
Kathy needs a Buddah style Epiphany...
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I recently tried to volunteer for CASA for the kids. I was unsuccessful...not really seeming to be integrating into the work world or other professional settings just yet... But I do remember the Instructor pointing out that the new Juvenile Justice Center was on the last ballot and was voted down.
And I thought, I read that ballot. Actually, I even looked it up in the Tulsa World before I went to vote so that I knew who and what I wanted to vote for before I got to the box. But for the life of me I did not remember the Juvenile Justice Center being addressed.
I remembered a question about the Expo buildings which will forever be a "NO" for me, short of the County rebuilding Bells, as a much needed and long overdue apology; and I remember something about the hangers for the leased spaces near the airport... But, a new Juvinile Justice Center?
So I went back and looked and sure enough, right there it was in between a Low water damn and Expo Square.
We pay nearly 10 cents on the dollar at the grocery store for taxes... nearly a dime out of every dollar so that we are left with 90 cents worth of food and that 90 cents I don't think would buy a full handful of grapes--that is, unless you don't mind sour grapes-- I think they're cheaper.
We do need a new Juvenile Justice Center, I toured the building and it is true. I do not know what is wrong with the land the old one is on but the building is archaic.
But as for the EXPO-- you demolished your most profitable tenant at the Fairgrounds, you laughed in the face of the majority of Tulsans as you did it. As for the people who lived near the Fairgrounds -- No one who was old enough to own a home before Zingo was built is young enough to hear the roller coaster now. I was four or five the first time I saw that roller coaster and I knew that was something special... If a grown adult buys a house near a roller coaster and does not know it might make some noise, then they need a special kind of help.
Meanwhile, those poor lawyers, social workers, and judges will freeze to death in the winter and sweat till they quit in the summer while the building falls down around them as long as you "Package" the things you want me to pay for with the things that I refuse to.
I think that each project should be represented individually. Feel free to have multiple propositions in your vision; not just two....as a voter, albeit unemployed, I give you my permission to have many propositions. I feel fairly certain there are others who feel the same (they may not be the wealthy people they are more likely the poor like me- the ones who have very good reason to worry where our dimes are going.)
Many propositions and good media coverage (so I will have a good idea of which ones I want to vote for without having to work for it; job hunting takes up a lot of time)and I, for one, will vote for Roads and Bridges, and Juvenile Justice. (Note to self..._)
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I want a public transit system that works for me! For the 4th or 5th time in my adult life I actually looked at the schedules for the bus system in Tulsa. Why? Because I drive a Tahoe and it gets about 15 miles to the gallon. At this point I am spending 80 to 100 dollars a week on gasoline, and I cannot afford it. This week I have to decide between my natural gas bill and gas to get to work. UGH!
The major disfunction of the Tulsa Transit system is the same as it has always been -- the hours. People who have 9-5 jobs are about the only people who the schedule can accomodate.
I work as support for a school distric and I have to be there before school and after school. Just slightly outside of the normal work day and still I cannot get to work at 6:30 in the morning using the transit system, and I cannot get home if I get off work at 5:30. How crazy and useless is that?
You cannot build a business if you are not open when people need your service! I would much rather pay to ride the bus now, we are talking a savings of 75 to 80 a week!!! But Tulsa doesn't have a functioning public transit system. It is the perfect time for that to change!
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