Sunday Visit #3

This week we covered how the “Silly” Council and the Mayor replace good solid policies with costly grandiose master plans. We covered a number of good examples, but one that really exposes the full extent of the problem is the East Phillips proposal. This plan called for a $6.1 million cultural and community center. I think centers such as this can be a good thing for a neighborhood, but when you need to go to both the Federal and State governments for the funding with a price tag that is this high you are not managing priorities. Keep in mind that this city council blames it’s financial woes on the lack of state funding. The reason we don’t have enough cops is the lack of state funding. Ok, no community center and all the taxpayers in Minnesota fund the needed cops in Minneapolis. How’s that for a trade off? Why should the Federal and State governments fund a community center in East Phillips?

Common Sense steps for fixing government ills .. follow the bread crumbs
1. Our government needs to get back to the basics across all levels. Fund the expenditures that each level is really responsible for.
2. Without the huge money grab we would start to get truer representation.
3. Less professional politicians and more true representatives.
4. More truer representation more common sense policy.
5. More common sense policy less bureaucracy.
6. Less bureaucracy the less government will cost.
7. The less government costs the more money available in the system.
8. The more money available in the system the more easily funding will be available for the community centers of the world.

In short, Minneapolis get out of your own way of getting the community center built.