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Dog Walker

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Re: Jacksonville Excluded From Funded Transit List
« Reply #60 on: February 11, 2010, 11:17:58 AM »
Quote from: urbaknight on February 10, 2010, 09:42:39 PM
No offence to you Southerners, but I think that we need to elect city leaders who are not from here. Yankees know how to build cities. Just look at New York, Boston, Philadelphia and even Baltimore, just to name a few! Let's get some of them in our city council, and an actual city will rise from these ashes we call, Downtown Jacksonville.

And Detroit, Cleveland, Kansas City, Newark, Rochester and other such successful and thriving places.
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Lunican

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Re: Jacksonville Excluded From Funded Transit List
« Reply #61 on: February 11, 2010, 11:21:06 AM »
To be fair, Jacksonville had built a great city, but then it all got torn down.


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Re: Jacksonville Excluded From Funded Transit List
« Reply #62 on: February 11, 2010, 11:22:13 AM »
actually Kansas City is on the way back up (our Chamber just visited there for ideas)....and Newark is making great strides under Mayor Booker.
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Re: Jacksonville Excluded From Funded Transit List
« Reply #63 on: February 11, 2010, 11:23:27 AM »
Let's just fudge some numbers on the census inquiry... we'll show Jax has double in population and needs funds for transportation and education immediately!
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Re: Jacksonville Excluded From Funded Transit List
« Reply #64 on: February 11, 2010, 11:39:18 AM »
What is stupid about the census is that people get offended by what is on the form, then bitch about city services or lack of. Hmm, if you would jsut fill out the damn form, then maybe we'd get our fair share or everything, doesn't seem that hard. These are usually the same people saying that it infringes on their privacy.
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Re: Jacksonville Excluded From Funded Transit List
« Reply #65 on: February 11, 2010, 11:52:02 AM »
Quote from: stephendare on February 11, 2010, 11:35:48 AM
Quote from: Shwaz on February 11, 2010, 11:23:27 AM
Let's just fudge some numbers on the census inquiry... we'll show Jax has double in population and needs funds for transportation and education immediately!

Funny you say that, Schwaz.  Every other city fights and squabbles with the Feds over the census counts.  The census bureau invariably undercounts the number of people.  Jacksonville could care less that we are undercounted, and we always end up getting less than our fair share of consideration from the tax money we send to washington as a result.

This doesn't surprise me at all.
Quote from: reednavy on February 11, 2010, 11:39:18 AM
What is stupid about the census is that people get offended by what is on the form, then bitch about city services or lack of. Hmm, if you would jsut fill out the damn form, then maybe we'd get our fair share or everything, doesn't seem that hard. These are usually the same people saying that it infringes on their privacy.

I could definitely see parts of Jax as candidates for census worker shootings...
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Re: Jacksonville Excluded From Funded Transit List
« Reply #66 on: February 11, 2010, 04:57:49 PM »
If anyone thinks the census is intrusive on your privacy then they have never been audited by the IRS!  LOL!
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