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Title: Government Failed To Repair These Roads, So A Group Of Anarchists Did It Themselves
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Activist Post
URL Source: http://www.activistpost.com/2015/09 ... unteers-did-it-themselves.html
Published: Sep 6, 2015
Author: John Vibes
Post Date: 2015-09-06 06:15:23 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 1007
Comments: 8
By John Vibes One of the main things that people usually bring up in defense of government is the idea that without the government there would not be any roads, or that the roads would somehow fall into disrepair. Well, it is not hard to tell these days that the infrastructure is falling apart, even with taxation at an all-time high. The government still isn’t able to properly maintain roads and bridges. In one Michigan community, people took these matters into their own hands instead of sitting around and waiting for the failed government to do it. Residents of Hamtramck, Michigan, a community in the heart of Detroit, recently started an effort to fill in potholes and repair roads themselves. The effort is staffed by volunteers and paid for by donations that are collected from a “GoFundMe” page. Everyone who lives in or has been through Hamtramck recently knows how much help our roads need. The city is doing what they can with the major roads but, unfortunately, does not have funding to fix a lot of the potholes in the residential streets. That’s where we come in. We have already started our project with money from our own pockets using a cold patch on a block of Lumpkin which now looks and feels more like a proper street rather than the surface of the moon. Are you tired of dodging craters on your route? Then consider helping us out, any donation you can make would be appreciated and used solely to fund materials needed for patching. The fundraiser is closing in on its goal of $5,000 and significant progress has been made repairing local roads. In the most recent session, a group of over 35 volunteers joined together to repair roads in a number of different Hamtramck communities. While we are on the subject of roads, there was a perfect example of this very situation that occurred a few years back on Hawaii’s Kauai Island, when private citizens performed $4 million road repair job for free in 8 days. When a need arises in a community, people naturally come together and take care of what needs to be done; they don’t need someone forcing them to do it. John Vibes writes for True Activist and is an author, researcher and investigative journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture and the drug war.
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#3. To: Deckard (#0)
This is great! With the citizens doing the road repairs themselves, that frees up city budget money to pay for the bloated pensions of city workers who retire at 55 with 90% of their salary.
If the states invested employee contributions in mutual funds AND didn't steal from those funds to increase more welfare without raising taxes... you'd find that most pensions would run self sufficient.
Chicago just raised property taxes half a billion dollars because of exactly that. In the past, they spent future pension contributions on current welfare programs and now the bill has come due. Moody's Investors Service downgraded Chicago's credit rating to junk status. Chicago teachers are the highest paid in the nation at $71,000. Many public sector employees in Chicago are retiring at age 48 with lifetime pensions of more than $75k. THAT'S the problem. That was the problem in Detroit.
I managed to average 80,000... and now receive 40,000 a year for a lifetime...at 49. As bad as NY is, they never stole from the pension funds. It's solid today... and not the reason NY is fucked.
The incestuous relationship between public sector unions and government has got to go. Inflated salaries, benefits and pensions are destroying states and cities. First, no more unions. Second, no more pensions. Set up a 401k like the rest of us. Third, you retire at 66, just like the rest of us. Fourth, your salary is commensurate with your experience and raises are based only on YOUR performance. Like the rest of us. Fifth, if you don't do your job, you're fired. Just like the rest of us. Whenever any city ends up privatizing some service (garbage collection, for example), that's what the employees get. And they're f**king glad to get it.
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#4. To: misterwhite (#3)
#6. To: GrandIsland (#4)
"If the states invested employee contributions in mutual funds AND didn't steal from those funds to increase more welfare without raising taxes..."
#7. To: misterwhite (#6)
Chicago teachers are the highest paid in the nation at $71,000. Many public sector employees in Chicago are retiring at age 48 with lifetime pensions of more than $75k.
#8. To: GrandIsland (#7)
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