CM PRESS # 520

MORE ON ISRAEL KILLING UNARMED PROTESTERS

Israel risks international condemnation if this keeps up. 

Think U.S. civil rights marches or Gandhi in India.  The dilemma for Israel is what do you do if people just come without weapons and start walking into your country en masse?

You can keep shooting them, but eventually the world will be filled with revulsion for you for shooting unarmed people.

And, if you let them walk into your country, given their numbers, your country will soon no longer be your country at all.
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FINLAND USING COLOR CODED ID CARDS

Bright blue for native born citizens, brown for foreign nationals, purple for minors.  Lets the police quickly ID who is who.

Bright blue cards allow the bearer to travel throughout Europe without a passport, brown cards don't allow such travel.
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BIRMINGHAM  (ENGLAND) CITY COUNCIL TO OUTSOURCE JOBS TO INDIA
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POPE CALLS ON EUROPEANS TO MARRY AND HAVE CHILDREN

Make more like yourself and expand or you are one of nature's unfit.  This applies to all life.
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A CITY CAN'T STAND STILL--WE'RE IN A  RIVER OF TIME

Many of those who are arguing against outsourcing some services are saying that Costa Mesa has the money to pay employees and we should just use money that we are planning on using for fixing and improving the city's infrastructure for salaries and pensions.

We think this is a mistake. We think Costa Mesa's municipal government is still bloated.

It's time that we started making major improvements in Costa Mesa.  It's time we stopped being the ugly sister of Newport Beach and became the great city that we should be, given our location and other factors.

As we improve our city's look, we'll attract more upwardly mobile people here who will be contributing citizens and who will start moving us away from being Newport's skid row up on the hill.
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ISRAELI FORCES KILL PEACEFUL AND UNARMED PROTESTERS NEAR GOLAN
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CHARITIES COME TO FEED ON YOUR MONEY THIS TUESDAY AT THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING

At Tuesday's City Council meeting, the Council will be asked to give approximately $ 184,348 of your money to charities in the city.

This money is about 15% of the the money that is returned to the City, in varying amounts, each year by HUD.  It is not fed money.  It is your money. It is from your taxes.

The money is supposed to be used in low income areas (like the Westside) to help improve cities.

As part of the deal, cities may, but are not required to, take the aforementioned 15% of the total amount  of money received from HUD and give it to charities instead of putting it into infrastructure.

Under many previous lefty city councils, Costa Mesa has, in fact, given this money to charities.

The CM PRESS says this money should all be used for infrastructure repairs and none of it should go to charities.

Here's something to consider as your juices of compassion start flowing.  When you as an individual give money to charities, you can take a tax deduction, however, when a city such as  Costa Mesa gives money to charities there is no such benefit.  The money is gone and it goes down a black hole.

The CM PRESS says let the charities raise money from those who want to give to them and who want the tax deductions and let's have the City of Costa Mesa use our money for tangible things that we can all see as we drive around our city:  repaired streets and parks, etc.

And, don't forget, some of the charity bosses are taking this money and using it for their salaries.  Some make a couple of hundred thousand bucks a year for their "compassion."
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