A bizarrely garbled post.
No Rec centers are "set to close." The Mayor's plans are quite clear on
that point. Closures of icerinks and pools have been scheduled, but
Nutter and Rec Commissioner Susan Slawson are leaving every Rec center open.
When Rec centers were "reviewed and found to have serious problems,"
Nutter's actual response was to vow to restore a capital-projects budget
to Rec. Across every branch of City government, capital-project
exemptions are specifically exempted from Nutter's emergency budget.
This is a striking and significant characteristic of his thinking.
Whenever governments (or businesses) run into a bad budget patch, their
first impulse is to put off construction or repairs. This has been going
on, in fact, more often than not since the 1970s.
Rather like Obama -- but earlier -- Nutter has been insistent this
gambit is exhausted as of 2008. After a while, things fall apart and
need to be replaced or rebuilt. If you fail, you don't save money, you
just lose more money in the next budget cycles.
-- Tony West
Yes! This was exactly the way the library and rec centers were set to close.
The recession seems to be for Nutter buddies what 9/11 was for the Iraq war.
For example, the 10 year tax abatement to transfer tax revenues to corporate developers
is sacrosanct. But ending forever, the most important public spaces is to be swallowed
whole without consideration. With Nutter's indignation, the people are supposed to
blindly trust the administration when they use invalid comparisons (to cities designed
for cars with funded school libraries) to justify the closings while they say "end
of discussion."
A clue: When the Rec centers were reviewed and found to have serious problems, Nutter's response was to start closing them.
He needs a Department of Homeland Corporate Buddies.
Glenn
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