Mayoral/Council Election...What's the Worst That Could Happen?

[rybert]

Originally Posted by mortimer

Please define "overdoes."

Are the trails too wide for you?
Do they inconvenience you?
Does it bother you that people utilize them and enjoy them?

Why would you possibly care if someone opens a health food store?

ABQ government is not building and opening health food
stores any more than they open Burger King restaurants.

There is that short section of the Pennsylvania Bike Lane that is WAY too luxurious.

[mortimer]

Originally Posted by Billygoat the Kid

... people in office seem to have never taken a basic economics class.
Look what happens when you CUT taxes. ...
Our film incentives are a perfect example.

The film industry incentives are not an example of cutting taxes.
It is an example of taking tax money away from one group and
giving it to another group to make it look like jobs are being
created out of thin air for the benefit of the citizens.

What isn't reported or studied is the effect on other businesses
who also hire and fire workers in New Mexico who are doing less
hiring and more firing because of the additional cost of supporting
another industry.

Originally Posted by Billygoat the Kid

... I don't think we will ever run out of water.
And there is new technology out there that can make water out of thin air.
Not that I don't encourage conservation, because I certainly do.

The technology is not that new. It happens any time air meets a surface
with a temperature lower than the dew point.

We will never run out of water like we will never run out of oil or land.
You just run out of [ the item ] at [ the price you want ]. Currently,
residents pay something like $3 for 1,000 gallons of pure, clean water
delivered to their home so they can waste it on their lawn.

Water supplied out of "thin air" would cost more than that as correctly
observed by rybert with his "energy" comment.

If people would need to pay $20 for 1,000 gallons ( by way of example )
because the supply of water at $3 has been used up, then conservation
wouild take care of itself.

[Cathy4017]

The film industry incentives are not an example of cutting taxes.
It is an example of taking tax money away from one group and
giving it to another group to make it look like jobs are being
created out of thin air for the benefit of the citizens.

What isn't reported or studied is the effect on other businesses
who also hire and fire workers in New Mexico who are doing less
hiring and more firing because of the additional cost of supporting
another industry.

EXACTLY. I could not agree more.

[ABQConvict]

I'm all for fattening up kids, not exercising on bicycles, and smoking. Mainly because that keeps healthcare as expensive and inaccessible as possible.

I should note that I am going into the heath insurance industry.


Actually, in reference to the 'overdone' bike paths and health-food stores, I, like desertsun, am opposed to them because bike paths give us options and healthfood stores are a product of capitalistic entrepreneurship. Two things that, as a red commie, I oppose.


ABQConvict

[desert sun]

Originally Posted by mortimer

Please define "overdoes."

Are the trails too wide for you?
Do they inconvenience you?
Does it bother you that people utilize them and enjoy them?

Why would you possibly care if someone opens a health food store?

ABQ government is not building and opening health food
stores any more than they open Burger King restaurants.

the trails are too wide for me, and in some cases they have taken a lane away and added a bike lane, or they didnt build the street wide enough cause they wanted to put in a bike lane.

I care if they open a health food store cause....... the city is filled with them, just like Walgreens,Starbucks, and Wal-Marts, exactly how many more of these do we need.

and why all of a sudden a craze for organic or health food in the past few years, I've never seen people all crazed over it like they are now days, when I lived in Portales and Farmington no one cared. I never knew native New Mexicans to be all hormone/sodium conscious.


why dont they just throw bike paths off in the desert and people can ride all they want out there, then they dont have to watch for cars, Im sure most people dont bike to work when they live in the burbs and on the WS with not much businesses nearby.

[berncohomes]

I agree there are too many Walmarts, maybe one too many Starbucks who have taken way too much of my money, that's why I bought this woot woot (link only applicable until 11pm today)

[ABQConvict]

Originally Posted by desert sun

I care if they open a health food store [...], exactly how many more of these do we need.

As many as the market demands. Or do you think it is the governments role to establish limits on free-enterprise?


ABQConvict

[desert sun]

Originally Posted by ABQConvict

As many as the market demands. Or do you think it is the governments role to establish limits on free-enterprise?


ABQConvict

of course not, just saying