tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094922047296526858.post6999862873385467175..comments2024-02-13T18:15:00.083-05:00Comments on TRIADWATCH: Socializing losses? The GN&R Editorial Board and Taft Wireback on High Point RoadTriadwatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01470318773895235030noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094922047296526858.post-416783348413815152010-07-18T22:07:19.280-04:002010-07-18T22:07:19.280-04:00fec said these are old nails which need to be stru...fec said these are old nails which need to be struck, that is why we need to remind everyone of what has happened in past, absolutely<br /><br /> Bubba, wait till the downtown project wants local government to approve a tax payer funded parking deck.Triadwatchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01470318773895235030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094922047296526858.post-48416393191339418302010-07-18T18:18:04.618-04:002010-07-18T18:18:04.618-04:00"Revitalizing" the High Point Rd. corrid..."Revitalizing" the High Point Rd. corridor is probably just a distraction to draw attention away from the potential disaster of the downtown hotel project if the funding mechanism is approved.bubbahttp://bubbanear.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094922047296526858.post-51275529205569607112010-07-18T17:17:24.619-04:002010-07-18T17:17:24.619-04:00HP Road is a victim of growth in NW GSO. Wealthy ...HP Road is a victim of growth in NW GSO. Wealthy people do not choose to live near HP Road and therefore do not patronize the businesses.<br /><br />It is good that the N&R laments the problem, but there may not be a solution. Pouring your childrens' money into it doesn't seem like the answer.<br /><br />We will use the aquatic center to break the teeth of its proponents. However, it makes some sense to anchor public revitalization efforts at the coliseum. As Robbie said, we must go with our strengths.<br /><br />Matt Brown is a martinet. Unfortunately, the ability is apparently part of his contract.<br /><br />And the N&R colludes. These are old nails which need to be struck frequently.<br /><br />The threat to RUCO is monstrous. We know there is a deeper story and it will be told if Vaughan's opposition continues.<br /><br />Your strategy seems right to me: fight the pork, defend what works and shine a light on vested interests.<br /><br />Sadly, the voters remain apathetically ignorant, greatly reducing the impact of your message. Fortunately, the N&R isn't the only paper and your message is affecting all of them.Fechttp://fecundstench.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094922047296526858.post-52644273240235554382010-07-18T12:46:00.804-04:002010-07-18T12:46:00.804-04:00Is the Greensboro News and Record Editorial Board ...Is the Greensboro News and Record Editorial Board saying it’s OK for community leaders to lie to the public?<br /><br /><br />"Editorial: Time to move ahead<br /><br />…Yes, some voters feel they were duped into approving the original $12 million earmarked for the project in a 2008 parks and recreation bond package.<br /><br />…And yes, a concept that began as public/private partnership several years ago somehow has evolved into an almost entirely public venture.<br /><br />…Michael G. Curran, president of the privately built Triangle Aquatic Center in Cary…questioned its estimated $14 million annual economic impact.<br /><br />“I’d be surprised if you did half that amount,” he said in an interview.<br /><br />The Triangle facility generates $5.3 million in economic impact from 35 events annually.<br /><br />As for operating costs, Curran also offered words of caution. “There’s just a lot of things in a business plan you just don’t think about,” he said.<br /><br />“I am surprised at what’s being built in Greensboro, and what is being presented,” Curran said of the estimated operating budget of $652,000.<br /><br />“It makes no sense to me the numbers I’m seeing projected and what we’ve done here. I just don’t see them being met.”"<br /><br />Greensboro News and Record Editorial Board <br />Sunday, December 20, 2009Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094922047296526858.post-41465708345518428262010-07-18T12:42:27.808-04:002010-07-18T12:42:27.808-04:00How many tickets does $90,000 buy?
Must be discou...How many tickets does $90,000 buy?<br /><br />Must be discounted.<br /><br />Maybe $180,000 worth for $90,000 on paper.<br /><br />Seems kind of hypocrytical.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094922047296526858.post-2815065052982236012010-07-18T12:40:48.720-04:002010-07-18T12:40:48.720-04:00"Fascism...is a radical and authoritarian nat..."Fascism...is a radical and authoritarian nationalist political ideology.<br /><br />Fascists seek to organize a nation according to corporatist perspectives, values, and systems, including the political system and the economy.<br /><br />Fascism presents itself as a solution to the perceived benefits and disadvantages of conservatism by advocating state-controlled modernization that promotes orderly change while resisting the dangers to order in society of pluralism and independent initiative.<br /><br />Paxton wrote that fascism is:<br /><br />a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood...working in uneasy, but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties...<br /><br />...The Nazis initially attempted to form a corporatist economic system like that of Fascist Italy, creating the National Socialist Institute for Corporatism in May 1933, which included many major economists who argued that corporatism was consistent with National Socialism..."<br /><br />WikipediaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094922047296526858.post-9958151296940705332010-07-18T12:27:38.102-04:002010-07-18T12:27:38.102-04:00"Propaganda is a form of communication that i..."Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position.<br /><br />As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda. Propaganda can be used as a form of political warfare."<br /><br />WikipediaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com