Dear Marcy;
Why get depressed that was the GOOD NEWS!!! 
Ron Getty - SF Libertarian
Hostis res Publica
Morte ai Tiranni
Dum Spiro, Pugno
Dear Ron,
I know! There is worse!!! Today I received an announcement from a
speakers' group I belong to, inviting members to a dinner at the
studio of an artist, who had "won" a studio from the City as "an
artist in residence." But that is not all! The dinner is not at the
new studio, but at her "old" studio where she works. How much do you
want to bet the artist is renting the new studio We the People just
gave her! So where do we, leaders of this great Libertarian Party,
get the energy to fight this stuff. Beats me!
Still Depressed
Dear Marcy;
Why get depressed that was the GOOD NEWS!!!
Ron Getty - SF Libertarian
Hostis res Publica
Morte ai Tiranni
Dum Spiro, Pugno________________________________
From: Amarcy D. Berry <amarcyb@...>
To: lpsf-activists@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2009 9:56:22 PM
Subject: [lpsf-activists] Re: Special SF Tax Election June 2Dear Ron,
With the statistics you gave, now I am *really* depressed!
Marcy
>
> Dear Marcy;
>
> Unfortunately the low-income assistance program is really about the
people in the bureaucracy making a living off the low-income
assistance program. If low-income people actually got straight pass
through they'd be pretty well darn off.
>
> ie: the $70 million spent to help people get hired at jobs got some
3,700 hired at mainly minimum wage jobs mostly part-time. It would
have been better to simply pass through the amount and each person
helped would have gotten $19,000 in income without the bureacracy. But
then all those City employees would have had nothing to do.
>
> Or worse the homeless problem whcih still manages to come up with
10,000 homeless each year despite the literal $100's of million spent
over the years. It seems people from outisde of SF came here for the
benefits which goes all the way back to former Art Agnos and his
homeless camping out in Civic Center Plaza while waiting for the
benfits. And ever since then the homeless who get off being homeless
are replaced by homeless coming here to be homeless for the handouts.
>
> Ron Getty - SF Libertarian
> Hostis res Publica
> Morte ai Tiranni
> Dum Spiro, Pugno
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Amarcy D. Berry <amarcyb@>
> To: lpsf-activists@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2009 9:49:15 AM
> Subject: [lpsf-activists] Re: Special SF Tax Election June 2
>
> Thank you for the post, Ron. I see in the article that the Mayor is
> against the tax increases, and in favor of spending reduction and
> budget reform. As one of the City's ATM machines, I better get busy
> finding some time to write LTE's praising the Mayor and slamming the
> Supes, in an effort to encourage the Mayor to head off this silliness.
>
> As an aside, my unrealistic dream is to one day find the time and
> energy to do some research on the unbelievable waste of taxpayers'
> funds that goes on in the City's low-income assistance programs. If
> those programs were exposed and reformed the City would probably be
> swimming in money.
>
> Marcy
>
> --- In lpsf-activists@yahoogroups.com, Ron Getty <tradergroupe@>
wrote:
> >
> > Dear Starchild;
> >
> > Yep - but we won't have a clue about what the actual ballot measures
> will be until the final vote on March 3. And I am certain if a dozen
> or two trial balloons are put up that based on pure cynicism the supes
> won't vote on which FINAL tax measures will be on the ballot AND their
> wording until the literal last minute at 5:00 pm on Wednesday March 3.
> >
> > The elimnation of paid ballot arguments is a provision written into
> the original emergency legislation previously enacted some time back.
> The argument being when you do have paid ballot measures you have to
> allow time for rebuttal paid arguments and with a special emergency
> election there isn't the time to allow for all those paid arguments
> and their rebuttals. Unh Hunh.
> >
> > Right now it is difficult to even guess what the final tax meaures
> will be and most importantly how they will be worded and if they will
> have sunset clauses in them.
> >
> > I will be following the developments along with all the other people
> who are most likely to most heavily impacted - San Francisco Small
> Businesses - the Supervisors ATM's of choice for tax increases.
> >
> > Ron Getty - SF Libertarian
> > Hostis res Publica
> > Morte ai Tiranni
> > Dum Spiro, Pugno
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Starchild <sfdreamer@>
> > To: LPSF Activist List <lpsf-activists@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2009 9:41:36 PM
> > Subject: [lpsf-activists] Re: Special SF Tax Election June 2
> >
> > Ron,
> >
> > I read that also (that paid ballot arguments won't be allowed).
> I'll
> > bet they'd love to eliminate those arguments altogether, and
> > disallowing them in a special election is a trial balloon toward
> > doing so. It will make getting selected to write the free
opposition
> > arguments all the more important. Let's try to make sure we file
some
> > and don't miss the deadline.
> >
> > Love & Liberty,
> > ((( starchild )))
> >
> >
> >
> > > Dear All;
> > >
> > > Look for a special election on June 2 in SF for new tax
measures.