(yawn) (Waiting to respond to an intelligent, rational reasonable person.)
Awwwww The usual DV response when he cannot say anything that proves his claim the city is getting better.
Time after time the
HIGHLY INTELLIGENT, RATIONAL, AND REASONABLE questions about the results of the spending on downtown are posed to him:
1. What has happened to the tax base in the city?
2. What has happened to the taxes on the financially struggling homeowners in the city?
3. What has happened to peoples home values in the city
4. What has happened to the desirability to live IN the city and buy a house IN the city
5. What has happened to the crime rate in the city
6. What has happened to the amount of essential services TO THE residents IN the NEIGHBORHOODDS
7. What has happened to the fees imposed upon the financially struggling homeowners IN the city
8. What has happened to the numbers of houses put up for sale
9. What has happened to the numbers of people losing their homes because of high taxes?
And time after time DV avoids answering these HIGHLY INTELLIGENT, RATIONAL, AND REASONABLE questions --
questions that ALL HIGHLY INTELLIGENT, RATIONAL, AND REASONABLE people would ask and answer when they are carrying on a discussion about the benefits and drawbacks of using hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to fix up a section of a city.
Additionally
these are questions that ALL HIGHLY INTELLIGENT, RATIONAL, AND REASONABLE people would ask about a community IF they considered moving into it as well
But we all know for a fact that DV quietly admits to himself that the wild, uncontrolled spending is a complete failure because: 1) he REFUSES to cite any facts (using numbers, evidence, links to facts) that prove otherwise, and 2) his actions of avoiding the city like the plague as far as it being his residence prove it.