Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“Don’t tax you, don’t tax me, tax that fellow behind the tree!” – Russell B. Long
Let’s tax the hell out of our neighbors so we can build monuments that depict our greatness and kindhearted spirit. I know. A cultural center embracing the spirit of Satan and call it good.
God doesn’t know how to create.
I will have the taxpayers pay for Gods mistake of making Tom a boy, when indeed she is a woman. Taxpayers to the rescue of gender confused Tom’s….meanwhile the Gretchen’s of the nation see their dreams vaporize.
Austin’s liberal tradition has also caught up to them with ongoing traffic nightmares. Back in the early eighties, the city mayor was a former flower cart salesman (I kid you not). The city council along with the Whole Foods hippies refused to allow the necessary growth of the city’s infrastructure, and now they are paying the price big time. They still have plenty of hippies though, they’re just cleaner versions called hipsters.
This reminds me of the protest sign I saw at an “occupy Wall St.” protest. It said something to the effect: “I spent $120,000 getting a masters in gay, lesbian and transgender identity issues, and now I can’t find a job!”
Seems like “life 001” (that’s a remedial course) might have taught either of them the rudiments of cost/benefit analysis.
One needn’t worry too much about Ms. Gardner going homeless. If she
purchased her Bouldin neighborhood bungalow back in ’91, then with
our real estate market here being what it is, she’ll likely be selling it for
about 10x to 12x her purchase price. I live in Austin and I’m not exaggerating.
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I do think that Ms. Gardner’s closing remark, “someone needs to step in
and address the big picture”, is very telling. Who is this mysterious ‘someone’
that’s going to show up and put things the way Ms. Gardner would like?
Ms. Gardner spent the last 20+ years congratulating herself for her generosity
with taxpayer dollars, voting for every bond package that was proposed.
She was that ‘someone’, and she refused to address the big picture. It’s
childish for her to dodge her own responsibility for her predicament, and
childish to wish for someone else to appear who’ll suspend the laws of economics
and clean up her mess.
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I’d say that her sort of childish hankering for a magical authority figure to
spring up out of nowhere and make one’s consequences disappear is the sort of
cluelessness that destroys republics.
Clinton.
Thanks for the local clarity.
Good points.
This really points out the importance of local involvement of conservative people. Leadership is needed in our own towns and counties.
Clinton: “I’d say that her sort of childish hankering for a magical authority figure to spring up out of nowhere and make one’s consequences disappear is the sort of cluelessness that destroys republics.”
Yes, Gretchen would probably like a strong central, magical authority to take care of her and make it all right. Like Napoleon. Or Napoleon III. Or “Papa Joe” Stalin. Or Mao. Or Fidel. Trade freedom for “security”, if you can call it that under those Big Daddies..