Jbrown

What is it with Portland’s city leaders? Honestly, why do they think it’s necessary to frivolously spend all of our money?

So now they want to MOVE the streetcar that they pushed for so hard. Well the new Oregon Sustainability Center, a $100m, 13 floor project just wouldn’t be complete without a street car. OF COURSE! Why didn’t I think of that?

May I draw your minds to the OHSU aerial tram that was ridiculously over budget? I think we can safely assume that the $4m estimate to move the tracks of the street car will seem like bargain discount price once they’ve had their way of completing the completely unneeded project.

10 ways the city can put $4m to better use:

Contribute $4m to the broke Portland Public School District
Pave some of the UNPAVED streets in SE Portland
Stir up some jobs for the homeless people on W Burnside
Feed the homeless people on W Burnside
House the homeless families of Portland
Feed the NOT homeless, unemployed families of Portland
Help families survive the winter by offsetting their energy costs so they don’t freeze to death
Fix the Sellwood Bridge that is getting ready to fall into the Willamette
Clean-up the Willamette
Repave streets that ACTUALLY need it

If you haven’t noticed, this really pissed me off. Why must we employed people drag ourselves to work EVERY day so that our leaders can piss away our tax money?

If this pisses you off too, send Commissioner Dan Saltzman an email. I sent mine from portlandonline.com. I received an auto reply from dan@ci.portland.or.us, feel free to try that one, in fact, try both.

The only way this kind of frivolous spending will change, is if we stand-up to be heard. So with that regard, PISS AND MOAN away! (my favorite pastime).

Read the whole story at KGW.com.