{"id":229,"date":"2011-08-15T15:57:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T15:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=229"},"modified":"2011-08-15T15:57:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T15:57:15","slug":"more-takers-taking-from-the-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"More Takers taking from the Makers"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nTo the Fort Smith City Mayor & the City Directors:                August 14, 2011<\/p>\n

The city of Fort Smith, Arkansas\u00e2\u20ac\u201da puny 10 yr. 6% growth rate, a C-\/D+ on its Economic Report Card, involved in any number of non-governmental pursuits stifling the taxpayers and the city itself, e.g. Food Tax issue, the Marshall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Museum, West End, Ben Geren Park additions, Convention Center, and in all likelihood any number of downtown involvements.  All of this coupled to the incremental shuttering of what was once the shining flagship of Fort Smith\u00e2\u20ac\u201dWhirlpool, Inc.<\/p>\n

Enter the pseudo academic expansionist Chancellor Paul Beran of the Univ. of Ark. Fort Smith with another very expensive cockeyed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153vision\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.  Reference the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mallalieu Center for Academic Excellence\u00e2\u20ac\u009d described as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Church of Reason serving the intellectual leaders of the next generation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, so says Beran.  Could Chancellor Beran define for us\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6what is a church of reason & who are the intellectual leaders of the next generation?  Are we to believe that will be the case when his project\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s partakers are the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153at risk\u00e2\u20ac\u009d dropouts, illegals, ne\u00e2\u20ac\u2122er do wells, incorrigibles? Beran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s initial \u00e2\u20ac\u0153vision\u00e2\u20ac\u009d inculcates a plaza and a library to begin with.  Initially the city, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s us, will spend $300,000 for the church demolition which will result in the creation of a ninth street fa\u00c3\u00a7ade.  Ultimately \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The vision\u00e2\u20ac\u009d if allowed to come to fruition, would create another notorious private\/public partnership\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhich is more government expansion with the government as the CEO.<\/p>\n

The question now, in view of the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s miserable Economic Report Card, puny growth rate, the tepid state of the economy, why in heaven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name would the mayor and Directors even consider such an outlandish scheme? <\/p>\n

It is not in the purview of city government to restore decaying churches, that is for the church\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s congregation and\/or whoever has an interest in said structure.  This again is another example of a bureaucrat, in this case Chancellor Paul Beran, to run economically roughshod over taxpaying citizens.  The UAFS is overfunded and Beran has plenty of work to do to create UAFS as a Center of Academic Excellence.  Regarding his numerous state, national & global travelling, it would be appropriate for him to land and closely examine the spending habits of UAFS, e.g. small example, advertising UAFS on electronic billboards within the city & primetime spots on television. <\/p>\n

Another case of the Takers planning to take more from the Makers.
\n                                    August 15, 2011
\nDenouement:  
\nThe Fort Smith city government can beneficently be described as incompetent and inept. Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Times Record reports that Marshal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Museum Director Jim Dunn is back at the trough for another 100K.   For What?   Another \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pie in the sky vision\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the museum was billed as a PRIVATE undertaking.  At this point it appears the only cash for this project has come from the taxpayers.  Recall that in early 2010 Richard Griffin, Ken Pyle, Jim Dunn & other mischief makers went to Miami to sack up something called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153New Market Tax Credits\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6a taxpayer subsidized government program being roundly abused. Is this what Griffin is using to subsidize his new Garrison Ave. liquor store?<\/p>\n

What was Dunn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reason for accompanying Griffin to Miami?  Who paid for his trip?  <\/p>\n

The F.S. city government has no business plan and these two items listed in this piece make the leaders of this city sound as if they auditioned for Circus, Circus. <\/p>\n

What in the world is going on inside the city government?  Please, get back to the proper role of government and get these Takers off our backs.<\/p>\n

Joe McCutchen
\nwww.fortsmithtruth.com<\/a>  
\narkansasfreedom.net<\/a>  
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