HOW THE CITY COUNCIL USES YOUR MONEY TO HELP SUSPECTED ILLEGAL ALIENS HELP SUPERMARKETS MAKE MORE MONEY!
We imagine...
"Hello, Costa Mesa City Council? This is XYZ Supermarket and we wanted to remind you that at your next meeting on June 19, we're asking that you renew the shopping cart pick-up service for our, ah, suspected undocumented customers.
"Yes, that's right. We want you to spend $ 4,000 per month (that's $ 48,000 per year, Ms. Dixon) of your taxpayers' money so our customers can take our shopping carts full of groceries back to the slums with them.
"As in the past, our customers will then leave our shopping carts in the alleys and on the sidewalks so you can pick them up. Thank you. Please don't damage our carts, or we may sue you. Thank you for this great service that helps us make much more money.
"What's that? Oh, sure, we could have carts like Smart & Final on 19th Street or even like the 99 Cents store on Harbor that can't be removed from the parking lot, but if we did that, our customers wouldn't buy as many groceries.
"Thanks for this tax payer subsidy, suckers."
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Yes, it's true, the above shopping cart pick-up item really is on the City Council's agenda for June 19. Go and watch as the Council bends over and grabs their ankles to keep spending your money to help supermarkets that won't be good neighbors and suspected illegal aliens that shouldn't even be in the country. (Ever wonder why suspected illegal aliens feel so comfortable in Costa Mesa?)
And, please, dear readers, don't tell the CM PRESS that you think this is money well spent because you'd rather have the carts picked up instead of being all over our streets.
Who ever told you that the only two choices are to pay through the nose or have abandoned shopping carts?
There is a third choice: Have the Supermarkets use carts that can't be removed from their parking lots. This isn't brain surgery. As mentioned above, Smart & Final on 19th Street and the 99 Cents store on Harbor are already doing this.
Taxpayers shouldn't be subsidizing the markets so they can sell more groceries or offering a cart valet service to shoppers. The friggin' City isn't in the grocery business! Good grief!#$&*@#
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MORE OF INTEREST ON THE CITY COUNCIL'S AGENDA FOR 6/19
Live-Work & Lofts on Baker Street
The Council will consider a screening request from a developer who wants to build a four-story mixed-use development at 845 Baker Street (right near the Shark Club). The preliminary plan is to have 9 live/work units on the ground floor that open on Baker Street and 22 residential lofts up above.
The CM PRESS's call to the developer for additional details was not returned as of press time.
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Letter to President Bush about Immigration
The City Council will also consider whether to send a letter to President Bush outlining the City's position on Federal immigration reform.
The last time the City Council sent such a letter was about two years ago. At that time, four members of the Council agreed to send the letter, but Katrina Foley said she'd send her own letter. As far as we know, she's never sent that letter. Probably a slow writer.
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