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the elephant thing:
from Minneapolis Issues Forum at http://www.mnforum.org/pipermail/mpls/2002-October/017867.html
There's an old saying: "When elephants make love, the grass
gets trampled."
Without grass the love-happy elephants will starve.
When politicians, big corporations and institutions that depend
on corporate funding make expansion deals, the neighborhoods get
trampled.
When the politicians, corporations and institutions finish their
expansion plans...after they've built their big boxes and high-flying
fly-ways and "ellipse-abouts" and taxed us to pay for
them ....they might find that the residents and small businesse-owners
who fix up old homes, and make their neighborhoods safe and nice
places to live and work in ....have moved away.
Our elected officials shouldn't expect that people will forever
put up with living in an "urban sacrifice zone" AND pay
high taxes...they'll move to greener pastures....without so many
horny elephants.
Ken Avidor
STRIDE
Minneapolis
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