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Old 11-15-2009, 10:24 PM
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Default Re: OKC Public Safety Already Has a Permanent Funding Source From Sales Tax

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Originally Posted by hipsterdoofus View Post
I like how a park is "vital" compared to police and fire services. Seriously? Some people on here seem to have completely lost perspective. I don't claim to know the whole story with the police and fire stuff, but you are sure buying what the mayor is selling when you think that the city will dry up and blow away without MAPS 3.
It's not going to dry up and blow away, but do you really think Oklahoma City is anywhere near where it could be, or should be if we want to be taken seriously as a major city? Can you not look at the massive changes MAPS created and think that MAPS 3 has the potential to do the same? As I've said, we're so far behind some of the other cities we want to emulate that if we stop improving things, we risk staying as far behind or falling farther behind. I want to catch up, and that takes action. What amuses me is that we keep seeing all this "rich people" paranoia, and yet, if we as a city don't improve ourself, we have to sit back and expect those "rich people" to do it for us. Rich people don't put in streetcars or mass transit or build public parks (except for Larry Nichols, to whom I am incredibly grateful, but who is the exception rather than the rule), they don't build sidewalks or bike trails. We need to be proactive as a city and as citizens, and work to make this a better place in which to live, to remove that "backwater" and "dustbowl" image we've got, to make this a vibrant, progressive city.
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