CM PRESS # 524

GUSHY ARTICLE ON THE SOUP KITCHEN ON W. 19TH STREET

Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy doesn't it? The main commercial street on the Westside has a free soup kitchen to serve homeless people.

In other cities, charities such as this are on skid row streets, not the main commercial street.

Say you own an upscale restaurant chain or a retail store and you want a heavily trafficked street to open a new location.  Would you want to open your business near a free soup kitchen?

Perhaps you want to buy a home for your family.  Would you want to be near a free soup kitchen?
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COMMENTS ON THE HOMELESS GUY WHO HIT THE 3-YEAR-OLD IN LIONS PARK

Be sure to read the comments after the article from madmomto1.  This is what our residents who live on the Westside have to put up with.

Folks, we're going to lose good residents if we don't fix the Westside. Who wants to live in the crap they have to take all the time?

C'mon City Council it's time to be decisive.  Fix the Westside!  Do it now. Stop screwing around with bandaids and get the place on par with the rest of the city.

Here's the real problem for you City Council--the city has a charity machine in place that makes money off illegal aliens, homeless people, parolees, drug addicts and others in need of charity services.  And, the charity machine constantly gets praised by the swells for being compassionate.

Here's the other thing, City Council, you keep giving our money to the charities.  Isn't it time you started pulling cogs out of the charity machine by not giving them our money and by getting them out of the Westside?

Isn't it time you cut City government even more down to size so we have money to buy up and tear down gang buildings?

Also, instead of having code enforcement harassing a woman because her 30 year old hedge is no longer in code, how about having them start checking all the codes on the charities on the Westside?

NOTE TO MADMOMTO1:  IF YOU READ THIS, SEND US YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION IN THE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW. WE WON'T PUBLISH IT OR NAME YOU BUT WE MAY BE ABLE TO PUT YOU IN CONTACT WITH SOME IMPROVERS WHO MAY BE ABLE TO HELP.
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ALA. GOV.SIGNS NATION'S TOUGHEST IMMIGRATION LAW
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BARBARA VENEZIA COLUMN ON CM TAXPAYER ASSOCIATION

[That's not a photo of Venezia. We use it because Venezia has channeled Luci's hair dye.]

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HMMMM...LET'S TRY IT AS A FABLE

City A noticed there were a few hungry pigeons in the city, so it spent tax payer money to feed them. 

The next year there were even more hungry pigeons in City A so the city spent more tax payer money on them. And, this continued. 

Soon, City A had to hire more City employees to clean up after the pigeons. The government grew and grew and it no longer had money to fix streets or parks or make the city nicer because all its money was going to employees involved in one way or another with the pigeons. Stable citizens moved away.

City B, right next door to City A, also noticed there were a few hungry pigeons in City B.

However, City B  refused to spend any tax payer money on feeding them. 

Soon, the hungry pigeons in City B flew to City A.

You see, the pigeons had figured out that City A was full of bird brains and suckers who could be counted on to give them free food while screwing the stable citizens of the city.

And, the pigeons could always count on the usual "compassionate" people in City A to mouth the usual cliches about City A being a compassionate city and they could count on the local newspaper to publish gushy articles about their compassion.
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LIVE FREE OR DIE

Click on the map linked to above to see which states have the most individual freedom and which have the least.

Spoiler:  New Hampshire's state slogan is Live Free or Die.

California came in 48th least free.  New York is at the bottom of the barrel at number 50.
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POLICE RESTRUCTURING CHATTER

Be sure to read the comments from the presumed out of town cops who are posting comments after the above linked Daily Pilot article on police restructuring and the meeting held with cops about the restructuring.

One presumed cop commenter avers that CEO Tom Hatch repeatedly told cops at the meeting that the City Council doesn't trust City employees.

We weren't at the meeting so we don't know what Mr. Hatch actually said, but we doubt he said what that commenter claims he said in the way the commenter wants it to sound.

Nevertheless, our guess is that the City Councilmembers--being ordinary citizens of Costa Mesa--probably share a growing distrust in some employees given the way some of them have been acting during these difficult times.

And,  what about citizen attitudes toward the cops?  Many citizens tell us that they don't trust or have confidence in the department and want to see changes.

Once trust is broken, it's difficult to regain it. 

Hopefully, the CMPD will do what is necessary to rid itself of the few bad cops who many believe are the real problem over there and replace them with professionals.
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