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To: Road Walker who wrote (494163)	7/10/2009 5:39:40 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571985

Yup. The park is a failure but not the property tax cuts. They are a roaring success. What's getting cut is what makes our local communities a nice place to live. Parks, transportation, roads, attractive landscaping, schools, libraries, community gatherings, police and fire services... all this stuff that makes our every day life nice and keeps our property values high. And all to keep the 'gated community crowd' happy. That's how it starts. First the 'frills' go....then they start cutting into muscle and you start to experience 3 hour waits at the DMV or bridge repairs are put off indefinitely or a road expansion that is badly needed is put on the bottom of the list. And then there are the things normally you wouldn't think about: one day I was driving on the Hollywood Freeway stuck in stop and go traffic when I realized the median had not been cleaned of garbage in ages. When I first got to LA, they cleaned the freeway medians and shoulders of trash every spring and fall. That stopped at some point. Afterward, periodically, they would bring road crews out from the prisons to do some cleaning but it was never consistently done again. Its those little things that can make a difference after a while. 3rd world stuff coming... a huge disparity between 'regular folks' and the rich. It's the hallmark of economic failure. Yup. Gated communities become a lot more popular.