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If you were Mayor...
Submitted by Dan U-A on Thu, 07/21/2005 - 1:33pm.
A question for our readers, contributors, etc:
Let's say you were the Mayor of Philadelphia, or the Governor of PA. If you had one executive order that you could use to create any law or policy that you want, what would it be? Would it address a specific focus like education or the environment? Would you instead try and do something related to how Government functions?
You are the Mayor. What would you do?
Mine
I guess I should give mine: I would go the governance route, and institute full public finacing of all local and state elections.
There are a few "transformative" isses that I could think of, such as fully, equally funded schools. That said, I think with publicly funded elections, our slate of candidates will broaden and improve, and we can have a much greater ability to use organizing to make real changes.
hmmm
Well, obviously TrekMedic's comment was inane and simply a Repubo-facist attempt to get "progressives'" goat. I won't miss comments that are focused on attacking other people rather than furthering discussion. But I don't quite get your response. How, exactly do you define "inflammatory?" Will this particular commmet get "deleted at will?"
One more thing
I'm a bit confused for another reason. You indicate that this blog is "not a debating society." Does that mean that you don't appreciate posting comments as a form of debate on issues? That doesn't seem consistent with what I've seen on this blog in the past.
Guvna
The first thing I would do if I could pass any laws would be to un-gerrymander our Congressional Districts. Second, I would follow Dan's lead with education and take it a step farther, increasing the public fincancing for the State and Community College systems, and espescially in the areas of technology and science, in an attempt to make PA one of the best states for high-tech compaines to move to.
mmmmmpppphhhhhh
That was the sound of me vomiting in my mouth at your response.
read the mission of the blog
See it? It says this site is for Young Philly Progressives. This is not a Philadelphia debating society, nor is it the letters page of the Daily News.
Everyone is more than entitled to their opinion. Everyone is not entitled to posting it on here. From now on, I will just delete inflammatory comments at will.
actually, no
Touché -- I should have been more precise.
Although I disagree with eliminating the wage tax, I would hope debating that issue would be a worthy goal of this blog; my sense was that TrekMedic's comments were meant to be inflammatory (as Dan rightly indicated), rather than further discussion. The inane Repubo-facist comment of dubious intent was "this neo-Socialist BS the Dems have been shoving down our throats won't work." And the following comment: "Budget cuts to compensate would come out of the 'feed, clothe and babysit the children of irresponsible parents' fund" also seemed more intended to get a reaction than raise a serious point.
Do you disagree? If I want exposure to inflammatory liberal-bashing, I can just turn on Rush. It does seem that people interested in that kind of interaction have other arenas, and shouldn't post on this site. I have enjoyed reading well-reasoned comments on this site from folks of various political stripes, and hope to continue doing so.
First of all, I was responding
First of all, I was responding to this comment: Budget cuts to compensate would come out of the "feed, clothe and babysit the children of irresponsible parents" fund. Let the local Red Cross, Salvation Army, Catholic Charities, and Episcopalion Diocese take over that expense.
Things like that are inflammatory, and are not welcome on this blog. OK? As I said, from now on they will be deleted as fast as I see them.
You have plenty of right to say all you want, but again, this is not some bland public forum. This is a site aimed at young, progressive Philadelphians. If you don't like it, you can always stop reading. Period.