IMO, making sure retail Developments succeed is not the responsibility of the tax payers. It is the responsibility of those who decide to take the risk and invest in the development. They, in turn, will make sure that their investments make sense and are profitable. Forcing the tax payers to socialize the risk is not what is best for the taxpayers. Hence, Sierra Vista Housing Project, Evans Rosedale Development and THER housing project that never got off the ground but thousands of tax dollars are gone and the taxpayers are having to repay right now. Thanks to Nehemiah Davis (President of THER, donor to Hicks Campaign and President of Ft. Worth's NAACP), Ft. Worth City Council members in 2003, 2004 & 2005 including Ralph McCloud (Kathleen Hicks was his Council aide) and others for allowing the thousands of taxpayer dollars to be given away.
http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Davis_Nehemiah_24285192.aspx
http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=6093
Government needs to stick to taking care of basic services and quit playing Mommy & Daddy with the taxpayer's dollars and quit passing them out to their friends and supporters (in the name of helping the poor, of course!).
We the taxpayers have "stepped up" enough and bailed out every Tom, Dick & Harry. I say it's time that we elect someone to Ft. Worth's City Council who understands the value of a taxpayer's dollar and who's campaign IS funded by the people as opposed to Big Business. I say it's time that we elect someone to Ft. Worth's City Council who is not ethically challenged and who truly "cares" about The People, The Neighborhoods and Quality of Life here in Ft. Worth. http://www.suzetteforcouncil.com/
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http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2009/feb/24/fort-worth-city-council-looking-bring-large-retail/
http://www.fortworthgov.org/citysecretary/info/default.aspx?id=62960
http://www.pegasusnews.com/people/kathleen-hicks/
http://startelegram.typepad.com/files/hicks_jan.-15-part-1-1.pdf
http://startelegram.typepad.com/politex/fort-worth-city-council/
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Ft. Worth's Mayor Pro Tem, Kathleen Hicks, wants taxpayers to "step up" and make sure Development succeeds
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I think I know just the person to clear up this mess.
YOU.
The current system of "socialize the risk and privatize the profit" has gone on long enough. The city government needs to worry about repairing the streets on the East Side. After that (hundreds of years later) they should concern themselves with the crime rate. If someone wants to develop a housing project, there are plenty of ways to do so without taxpayer money.
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