Open Thread for Saturday
If you're a kid in Lincoln Heights and the local library doesn't have the book you need - but the Chatsworth branch does - you can request an inter-branch loan and get the book sent to your local public library. In the never ending world of Mayor Villaraigosa's imposing fees (including a potential city income tax) to pay for his budget nonsense, that kid in Lincoln Heights (and everywhere else) may have to pay $1 per book for the pleasure of borrowing library books (which are supposed to be free).Labels: city income tax, library, library tax, los angeles public libary, mayor antonio villaraigosa
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 4/19/2008 04:30:00 AM
6 Comments:
Jan Perry thinks its more important to ban fast food chains instead of doing something to fix her community.
....Central and Vernon was once L.A.'s answer to the Harlem Renaissance -- never wealthy, but an epicenter of African American culture and minority entrepreneurialism, home to successful black hotels, black restaurants, black music halls where Art Tatum and Charlie Parker played.
It has been a month and a day since a gunman opened fire on two men stepping off a bus at the corner of Central and Vernon avenues. He missed his targets, as far as investigators can determine, but hit eight other people, all innocents. They included five kids, students walking home from George Washington Carver Middle School. Police have charged Billy Ray Hines, 24, with the crime.
I guess the girl in the photo is a UCLA student. I am sure she looks good naked.
So Tony V wants to charge $ for reserving library books?
What other supposedly free (and dwindling) joys in life does he want to charge us for?
Breathing? Sleeping? Laughing? Viewing LA's new trees (oh, forgot he hasn't gotten around to planting those)? The "ride" we get from driving over pot-holes he's not gotten around to filling? The exhiliration we get when gang bullets whizz by our heads?
OUtrageous idea to charge for books to be sent between one branch and another. If they do impose this fee it is likely to wind up as a discrimination case--why are some books available at the Brentwood library but not in Boyle Heights or something like that? What fools. We reward the gang banger illegals and their children with million of dollars in youth programs and punish all the kids that just work hard and keep themselves out of trouble. Are we saying it pays to spray paint graffiti but not to read? fools!!! Good Grief!!
This is like making kids pay to use public parks and schools for Little League and Boy Scouts, the cheapest and most adult-involved ways to keep kids OUT of trouble, so we can pay for Hug-A-Thug programs for illegals who are already associating with gangs.
Every single article on gangs, SP40, gang programs, prisons, failed schools and healthcare system, says the same thing: like Darryl Gates says in the Times 40 on 40, the city MUST do EVERYTHING it can to fight gangs and deporting illegals is a simple place to start. He does NOT want SP40 used to justify keeping gangs here.
Even Riordan says Bratton has made the cops scared to tackle the illegal gangbanger issue.
The current non-Mexican politicians will have to make a decision: buck them and be accused of racism and divisiveness (as Zine even is, with his water-down law) or listen to public opinion and do what they can to save the city before the last of the middle class leaves.
Like I have said elsewhere, City Hall just can't help itself in avoiding any collection of a fee, tax or other charge, no matter the consequence might be to the city's/country's remaining "culture."
Every culture from any other group or country matters more than the one that we have here to start with, according to our L.A. City Council.
Is this in the name of diversity that we degrade and neglect what used to be essential parts of society?
Small example of the trend, City Council a week ago on video had Miss Los Angeles introduced and congratulated by the ever-preening CM, Jose Huizar. She said she stood for "...truth, justice and..." No, it wasn't "the American Way," but, instead, she said, "brotherhood." Makes you miss Superman and the intro's word imbedded in so many of us.
The American Way used to mean working together as a country, and not retaining completely separate identities with little if any desire or plan to assimilate.
Diversity has become a negative function for us.
Latino and L.A. native.
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