THE BETTER MAYOR: JIM HAHN OR ANTONIO VILLAGROSA
WHO DID A BETTER JOB OF RUNNING LOS ANGELES:Jim Hahn and Antonio Villagrosa each had an issue that defined their campaigns when they last ran against each for mayor of Los Angeles. Hahn's main proposal to rebuild Lax cost him the election and the test of time has proven that he was wrong and the people who opposed the airport expansion were right.
Villagrosa made a ton of promises to voters like better traffic control an improved transportation system and the planting of more trees. He kept few if any of those promises.
Los Angeles obviously was cleaner and better managed when Hahn was mayor. However expanding the airport and spending billions to fight terroism would have been a waste of money. The collapse of the American ecnomomy has changed the priorites of the city. Most people are way now concerned abut surving financially rather then fighting terrorism. Hahn's plan for the airport would have been useless in todays world.
What voters didnt know at the time was that both men where finaced and controlled by the big construction companies and real estate developers. It was impossibe for voters to know that Villagrosa would allow the real estate developers to raid the cities pension fund and use the money for very sepeculative development projects. That money is now lost and gone forever and was never meant to be invested that way. Taxes must now go up to make up for those loses.
This means the average citizen will take an even bigger beating from the Villagrosa administration. Parking and traffic tickets will go up and be issured even more frequently. Villagrosa has a new tactic of declearing street cleaning on short notice like over night and then towing all the cars parked on the street. It works. It raises revenue.
Even though Hahn was wrong about the airport Los Angeles would have been better off had he won the election.
THE DETROIT TIMES TRADING RECOMENDATIONS ARE GOLDEN:They are never wrong. We should have a trade in a couple of days watch closely.
BILL CLINTON EASILY RANKS IN THE TOP TEN OR FIFTEEN OF GREAT U.S.PRESIDENTS
Villagrosa made a ton of promises to voters like better traffic control an improved transportation system and the planting of more trees. He kept few if any of those promises.
Los Angeles obviously was cleaner and better managed when Hahn was mayor. However expanding the airport and spending billions to fight terroism would have been a waste of money. The collapse of the American ecnomomy has changed the priorites of the city. Most people are way now concerned abut surving financially rather then fighting terrorism. Hahn's plan for the airport would have been useless in todays world.
What voters didnt know at the time was that both men where finaced and controlled by the big construction companies and real estate developers. It was impossibe for voters to know that Villagrosa would allow the real estate developers to raid the cities pension fund and use the money for very sepeculative development projects. That money is now lost and gone forever and was never meant to be invested that way. Taxes must now go up to make up for those loses.
This means the average citizen will take an even bigger beating from the Villagrosa administration. Parking and traffic tickets will go up and be issured even more frequently. Villagrosa has a new tactic of declearing street cleaning on short notice like over night and then towing all the cars parked on the street. It works. It raises revenue.
Even though Hahn was wrong about the airport Los Angeles would have been better off had he won the election.
THE DETROIT TIMES TRADING RECOMENDATIONS ARE GOLDEN:They are never wrong. We should have a trade in a couple of days watch closely.
BILL CLINTON EASILY RANKS IN THE TOP TEN OR FIFTEEN OF GREAT U.S.PRESIDENTS
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