My criticism of Art and my support of the levies led to one particularly angry email yesterday. It could suggest that I’m losing my base of Anti-Red Plan voters.
The email would be easy to lampoon. It begins by saying that the author does not have time to explain everything here then proceeds in a few thousand words to lambaste me. Much of it is redundant. Some of it reveals things that would be easy to poke fun at. Its not a chicken hearted anonymous email because, while I don’t know the author’s actual name, I have his/her email address meaning that I could respond and defend myself.
The author is right about the costs of the Red Plan. He’s nearing a fixed income and, as Mike Jaros has complained, the Red Plan’s cost falls most heavily on the poor because they are regressive property taxes. Rich people like me, one of the emailers bitterest complaints, have gotten off easy in our providing ourselves with shiney new schools. Its not paid for with income taxes.
Lots of the email is capitalized which Internet chat folks know as “shouting.” He’s mad. I don’t blame him. Neither do I think I have any hope of convincing him that our spending a half billion on the Red Plan means we have an especial need to follow it up with even more taxes to prevent the investment from being a total disaster by allowing our schools to fail.
Here’s the email:
Welty,
I can’t trust you any farther than I could throw you. Maybe that is what you need anyway is my tossing you around like a rag doll. It appears that is what you are trying to do some of us. You are an idiot. I do not have the time to explain it here.
In sum, a person does NOT throw more money after bad money. Why don’t we all just spend money out of control and in the back of our minds say that there is nothing that will be able to be done about the mess later so we can just make them pay more later as they will have NO CHOICE BUT TO DO SO. It is too late now in your words, right? THAT WAS THE PLAN YOU MORON. Or maybe you knew this as Dixon did!
THIS THINKING DOES NOT WORK FOR THE REST OF US AND IT SHOULD NOT WORK FOR YOU SHYSTERS EITHER. You made your bed, now lay in it….that is what I was grown up to believe and be responsible for me and my actions. You don’t make others pay for someone else’s mistakes! WHO ARE YOU SHITTING HERE? You are a backstabbing traitor.
I am living on poverty wages and I do not get real estate rebates. DO YOU GET IT…I PAY THE ENTIRE TAX WITHOUT HELP ON POVERTY WAGES. Big shot Welty has got some cash in his pocket SO EVERYTHING IS RIGHT IN HIS WORLD. HE cares less who else gets hurt. I would never vote for you anyway.
By the way…if you remember several years back you talked to me in the Cub Foods parking lot about your running for some County office or something. I could see and hear by your response you are just one of them. This is about Harry Welty. Get lost Welty as I see you as a creep. I only trust Art on that council and he is not even in my district but is the only one I can communicate with. What has been done is disgusting by any standard to he citizens that care in this city. Some had this planned so they ARE GLEEFUL ABOUT WHAT HAD BEEN DONE AND YOU EXPECT the rest of us to suck it up and pay up? Nobody has been held to account here. They are ALL walking away scott-free.
You people got your way and now you want more money on top of the rest. We know this money grab does not end here. I would not let my own kids bankrupt me. Why should I let yours and everybody else’s kids? This is a disaster which can only precipitate hurting more and more people as this money grab will not stop. Some of you need a lesson about thinking about others less fortunate.
I went to a small school. I did not need all this that has been done. Neither do these kids. They are spoiled as it is and lets just give until YOU bankrupt some of us. YOU BANKRUPT ME WELTY AND YOU WISH YOU NEVER DID! I am telling you NOW! GET OFF MY BACK WELTY!
I do not trust you more than ever now. Are YOU so much an idiot that you would vote to bankrupt yourself? Then why would you do it to someone else? Do you have NO conscience? You are just one of them and the whole lot of you besides Art are the ones that just don’t get it.
I know that school system IS FULL OF MASONS. I know Dixon was a high level Mason. I know by their OWN literature from Albert Pike, their official handbook, that their God is Lucifer. It is printed plain as day. Some will argue and say it ain’t so, but it can be readily proved.
Prayer and the name of Jesus taken out of schools. Masons are getting preference in job hiring’s as can also be shown IN THEIR OWN handbook. So it is no surprise that public school system IS FULL OF THEM. I know this AS A FACT! So do others I am sure as the writing is on the wall if one wants to look far enough into it. Who would send their kids to a devil infested system like is being run there? That is part the reason for numbers declining.
I do not have kids. I can not afford them. I am too old now and never had the money to take on the responsibility. I also DO NOT think I should have to pay for ANY OF THIS EITHER. I pay and pay and pay and no benefits to me. Don’t give me the education puts kids ahead on a better career. I AM sick of hearing these STUPID sayings. I have a college degree and my life is just about finished and my wages have been non existent or poverty level. Check into to it Welty YOU moron if you think I exaggerate.
Maybe you have had the jobs and the money over your lifetime but some of us haven’t. And then we have people like you taking the last crumbs out of our mouths FOR THE KIDS., There is some kind of sick and perverse use of kids here.
You are a class CREEP Welty. I do not trust you and I did not since I met you that first time. I do not care IF SOME IDIOT that had a mission took billions of dollars and built something. Your remark about having the buildings now we MAY AS WELL PAY. This IS stupid. You NEED to USE YOUR HEAD. If I spent money like that and then sent out a bill to all of you you would say I was an idiot for doing something like that. WOULD YOU GIVE ME MORE MONEY AFTER I FOOL HEARTEDLY SPENT MONEY I DID NOT HAVE THINKING I COULD JUST ASK YOU FOR IT? YOU WOULD NOT GIVE ME A RED CENT AND YOU KNOW IT! You would call me an idiot and whatever happens to me I deserve. And any clear thinking person would think the same.
Following your reasoning Welty, you would send me ALL YOUR MONEY EVEN IF THAT MEANT BANKRUPTING YOURSELF, RIGHT? You foolish SOB. Don’t give me your Dudley Do-Right persona Welty. I read you kissing the News Tribunes ass to that propagandized editorial board. There is also at least one Mason sitting on that editorial panel also. Do I need to explain this to you too?
There is a bigger mask and agenda here than you are willing to accept. I know and have been informing Art because he is the only one I can trust.
I also have been talking to some of my neighbors and some even expressed to me without asking saying “they do not think they should have to pay taxes when they have no kids in that system.” I suggest you bring this up and bring a resolution on exempting those of us that have NO KIDS in that system. Pay for your OWN KIDS I WOULD SAY…AND watch the crying begin when THEIR taxes go through the roof. As long as you have people like me pouring money in it is all alright. But, if THEY had to pay for what they use themselves their would be revolt. Maybe they’d FINALLY see what it was like to get bankrupted over foolishness. They would not stand for it.
This is the epitome of socialism. PAY FOR YOUR OWN KIDS. I should not have to PUT IP WITH PAYING FOR THIS AS I CAN NOT AFFORD IT AND HAVE NO KIDS. They can PAY AND that is why they are promoting it. Take mine money out of the mix and the rest that do not have kids and watch the squealing commence when their taxes go up and up and up. Tell me the truth, HOW many DO YOU THINK would buy into this: PULL YOUR OWN WEIGHT, PAY FOR YOUR OWN KIDS AND LEAVE THE REST OF US ALONE?.
You would see the hypocrisy in raising taxes immediately when it started accumulating more than they could handle by themselves.
GET OFF MY BACK WELTY. I WOULD NOT VOTE FOR YOU OR ANYBODY ELSE THAT WOULD SPEND MY MONEY AND RAISE MY TAXES LIKE MANY OF THESE PEOPLE HAVE. They have no conscience let alone empathy for people on fixed or poverty level income.
G et real yourself Welty. There are many of us getting SICK AND TRIED OF THE SMOKE SCREEN, RHETORIC, PROPAGANDA, LIES, ETC, here. We see through this mess and there is no way out of it but letting the thing fail like any normal person would have to face if they did the same thing. You don;’t condone actions like these and say we need to move forward so we can bankrupt YOU now. This is insane!
There IS NO SAFETY NET FOR ME. AM I TOO BIG TO FAIL? Or is this a double standard here?
I do not need your gobbelty gook either. You have money in YOUR POCKET SO EVERYTHING IS RIGHT IN THE WORLD. The rest of us are lazy, right?
Again, I am a white male, college educated and have never made over poverty level wages in this town all my life. I HAD DECADES OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND NO WAGES. I HAD TO LIVE AT MY MOTHERS HOUSE BECAUSE OF IT WHILE SHE WAS ALIVE. My working life is about over now. There are no prospects except more of he same. I have death to look forward to and YOUR TAXING ME TO THE GRAVE…ARE YOU PROUD OF YOURSELF?
GET REAL, Welty you snake in the grass! You and that sneer on your picture you use.
