BREAKING. Lets see if the media covers this: Thank you to council member Ryan Heck for having the courage to say what needed to be said: Attention City Leaders of Baton Rouge (and John Delgado): Here’s some US Census data for you to hang your hat on. In 1970, there were 285,167 total people in EBRP. In 2010, we counted 440,171. That’s a nice increase rate! Broken down into children ages 5-17, there were 78,963 in 1970 and 74,158 in 2010. WAIT! How can that be? Maybe we’re having less children? Yeah, that’s a reasonable assumption. But now look at the same data for Livingston and Ascension for the same periods. Livingston had 36,511 people and 10,929 kids in 1970. That number is now 128,026 total people and 25,658 kids. Ascension is very similar with 37,086 total people and 11,593 kids in 1970. In 2010, 107,215 total with 22,361 kids. Ask yourselves. Maybe they’ve got something in the water over there? Maybe there’s something romantic about those areas that we don’t have? The answer is right in front of us. The kids of BR now live outside this parish. Why? Mom and Pop moved because they have better public schools. Period. Ask any person who moves out there. I ask people everyday where they are from originally. Cops, firemen, pipefitters, welders, operators at Exxon, engineers, architects, nurses… Why’d they move? They all say the same thing. Schools. It’s a one word answer that cannot be denied. You’re destroying the middle class in this parish, and continue to do so at a breakneck pace. A great deal of them now reside in Ascension and Livingston Parish. Thank heavens for Baker, Central and Zachary. Without them, we’d surely be lost. But that’s right, you fought them too when they tried to create their own school system. Day by day, people pack up and head out of this town to seek a quality public education for their kids, because let’s face it… Not everyone gets a free lunch over here in regular people land. They have to pay for theirs and yours. Mom and Pop don’t get a TIF courtesy of the power elite who wave checks at the Metro Council. Mom and Pop are just trying to pay the house note and private school tuition for their 3 kids. They don’t get waivers, exemptions, or property tax abatements courtesy of specially designed programs for the affluent and powerful. Government is supposed to be the lobbyist for Mom and Pop, but we ain’t been doing the job so well. The secret is out. The game is exposed. Too many people now realize that this town is run by a small group of elite businessmen who have teamed up with the Poverty Pimps that control votes with an endless supply of 5 dollar bills and even more empty promises. I’m not kidding. Look at the memberships of these entities. Its all the same people. They just create another acronym, here and there, in the guise of a non-profit. As if! I hope you are all real proud of this moment. This moment, where you are choosing to take an action that will negate the legal rights of thousands of residents to vote their conscious on whether or not they are to become a new city in this parish. You may well stop this petition, but there will be others. Here’s what you fail to realize: This movement CANNOT be stopped. It’s a natural response to the years and years of failed government here in EBR – not specifically this administration, but the governments of the past 100 years. If you successfully stop this petition, you’ve only just postponed the inevitable. -- Ryan Heck thehayride/2014/05/theres-a-real-problem-with-the-mall-of-louisiana-annexation/
Posted on: Tue, 06 May 2014 15:26:26 +0000
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