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[David Shove]

Carl Pohlad is contending with about 100 other multi-billionaires for the
famous Golden Bathtub Award. It is a life-size bathtub, made entirely of
gold, with your face in gold on the hot and cold handles. It is paid for
by the losing entrants.

To win, you have to get the biggest welfare handout from LOCAL government.
A few million will never do - that's peanuts for the smooth-talking rich.
No, it has to be AT LEAST a billion. And it has to be done boldly,
arrogantly, demeaningly, contemptuously, right in front of the robbed
public, accustoming it to being robbed all the time, and just giving up
and handing everything over (and then jumping off a bridge or setting
itself on fire). It is about all of us showing ourselves to be
lily-livered chicken-hearted belly-crawling spineless slugs. The rich, and
capitalism, demand nothing less.

-David Shove
Roseville





On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 Aaarty at aol.com wrote:

>
> How Much Crime Can We Prevent With 1.1  Billion Dollars?
>
> That's how much the leading mayoral candidates want to spend, of  the
> taxpayers money, for a new stadium for one of the richest multi billionaires  in the
> world. When we're cutting funds for education, medical research,  libraries,
> fire and police protection these reckless politicians want to  squander
> taxpayer money on an open air stadium right next to the  garbage burner. According to
> an air emission study conducted for Hennepin  County, the precise point of
> impact or the "hot spot" for most of the  emissions is 417 meters southeast of
> the smokestacks or more  precisely, where the pitcher's mound will be.
>
> The 1.1 billion dollar figure comes from the Minnesota  Department of
> Revenue. That's what a new stadium will cost over the 30 year  proposed period. These
> two leading candidates have never been in business. They  are completely
> unaware that they are being hornswaggled by one of the most  cunning billionaires
> in the country. Pohlad is coughing up several million more  dollars than he
> originally proposed and if the young and naive candidates  wouldn't give in, he
> would pay for it all because the value of his  team will go up several million
> dollars in value when he gets a new  stadium. At that point, of course, he
> would probably put the team up for sale  and ride out of town like Red McCombs
> (and GW) with hundreds of millions of  dollars all ready for his next scam.
>
> Building a stadium is the kind of jobs that they would  create? Typical. It
> doesn't matter what kind of jobs, just so there's more jobs.  More part time
> temporary low pay jobs selling hot dogs or programs on the  Pohlad plantation.
> Jobs are the holy grail even tho we have too many people  working too many
> hours at obsolete completely unnecessary jobs which only cause  more waste,
> pollution, greenhouse gasses, resource shortages and inflation. All  the candidates
> say they will create more jobs but fail to say how or what kind  of jobs
> they'll produce. All the candidates promise they'll build more housing  when we are
> not using the housing we have efficiently. Yes we'll need more  housing for
> the accelerating flood of illegal immigrants. Get ready folks. Mpls  is big
> league now. If you like sitting in traffic that gets worse everyday, if  you love
> the increasing taxes, crime and pollution, you'll love the  future of
> Minneapolis.
>
>
> Sincerely,  Don Johnson, Candidate for Mayor, 3808 Grand Ave So. Minneapolis,
> MN 55409 (612)  824 1111 _www.DonJohnsonMayor.org_
> (http://www.donjohnsonmayor.org/)
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