What can be done to make Harrison Square successful?
I can answer that question with one word – perseverance. What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. We can choose to listen to the naysayers (JBK) that live their lives by tearing ideas down, or we can ignore them and persevere, never looking back at the gloom and doom mentality so many in this city seem to possess.
TED CURRENT Fort Wayne
Thanks Ted. Exactly.
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Amen.
Wow, you guys must be pretty special! If your minds can conceive, believe, and achieve, then I guess that TIF district wasn't needed after all.
Bob, your campaign yard signs were pretty special too!
Thanks! I was thinking of using them in the Bob Barr '08 campaign.
Maybe it can succeed if enough people stop hoping for it to fail. In case nobody's been paying attention, there is a giant hole downtown with concrete and steel poured in it!! There is no turning back now - failure is not an option, or else it WILL become the boondoggle the naysayers hope for. And they are complaining about taxpayer subsidies now..... It will only be worse, MUCH WORSE, if they are right. I didn't realize the power of human pride.... they won't hope to be wrong, despite the consequences.
Is hoping that it fails all that it takes for it to fail? Perhaps I could get a job working for the CIA. I could just sit here and hope that some important project in Pyongyang or Tehran fails. Through the power of negative vibes, I could so severely damage the economies of rival nations that they would simply collapse like the Soviets did.
As I said on the LPAC blog before: I do not hope it fails, nor do I hope it succeeds. Hope implies the outcome is in doubt. This will fail, no matter how much I support or oppose it.
Sure it has created some jobs in the short term, but the massive amount of debt the city has acquired has already put a strain on on its budget. The state capped property taxes, so now the city has to cut costs to make ends meet.
So the damage has been done, whether you acknowledge it or not, whether people are aware of it or not. All I can do is make people aware of the damage. What they do with that info is up to them.
And you wonder why you didn't get any votes?
"This will fail, no matter how much I support or oppose it."
That may be the most idiotic statement I've ever heard. If everyone goes out and buys a ticket to a game (support), then it will be a success.
You could use that statement in your attempts to support Bob Barr.
And here, I was afraid that once the locals ran the new downtown library into the ground and once they killed Ft. Wayne Community Schools, they wouldn't have anything else to bitch about. Phew, that was close!
Since I don't go to baseball games, the only purpose that buying a ticket would serve would be to transfer money out of my pocket and into Hardball Capital's. If by "support", you mean "money", then the project already has my "support" by way of my property taxes.
Yes, Robert- Support, in most cases, means money. As in, support your local businesses or restaurants.
When I say support, I don't expect you to go downtown and go cheer on the construction workers.
I don't know if you are trying to be funny or difficult, but seriously?
Also, I urge you to look at the funding for this project - I haven't seen "Robert Ender's property" under funding.
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