Typical Good Ole' Boy Move
To all concerned citizens, pro and con a Live Animal Market aka "Meet your Meat": I fought hard to get elected and I took an oath to protect the citizens of the First Ward of Lackawanna because I have watched and learned from first hand experience the lies and broken promises of lame, wimpy,and spineless elected officials at all levels of government. For the past 20 years Lackawanna City politicians have brought/tried to bring into our neighborhood the following list of businesses:
*Hazmat * Safety Clean * Tire-Burning Plant
*Infectious Medical Waste Treatment Plant * Porno Shop
*A Garbage Burning Plant * Bakery Salvage
*A second Infectious Medical Waste Treatment Plant
*An 8 acre Compost/Organic Matter Waste Site
* A Slaughter House---Live Animal Market/Butcher
Out of the 10 waste/undesirable related businesses only 5 are here, the Citizens had to rise up and fight city hall to stop the rest from locating here. WHY? ALL typical good ole' boy moves.
Some of you think that we are dirty/industrial/ghetto on our side of the bridge so anything is better than nothing and this is all we can get so take it and shut-up. That we should welcome these businesses no other community allows in and consider ourselves lucky I suppose.
We who live here disagree and want a nice livable mix of business and homes, like the hotel and coffee business so we can all breathe and get along. NOT 1 of you in favor of the businesses we know are not a good fit for our First Ward live near them! Why not put the live animal market in Abbott Road Plaza? We will be happy for you getting the slaughter house where they kill animals and sweep their poo by you and by your houses, OK? Or maybe we will all move out of the 1st Ward and come live in houses in the other wards. Then the boys can fill the whole 1st ward with porno shops and throw the dead animal carcasses in the tumbler in an infectious medical waste plant that was planned to go in behind Mulberry's!
WE live here---WE have a right to be told about business plans for our neighborhood, the same as you would expect in yours. OK. And the money the city gets in taxes---what do you who say oh, but we need the money to.....where do you think it goes?buys? I will tell you where---HUGE SALARIES and MEGA-OVERTIME for city workers, cops-fire and DPW. Not in the playgrounds, streets,sidewalks where it should. The proff is in the pudding. I am watching ch2 about the swine flu, how about 70% of diseases come from live animals. Monkeypox anyone? Malaria--Bird Flu,SARS? Come out to Lackawanna, drive down Ridge Road,hold your nose past the slaughter house and hurry over the bridge to our national shrine at OLV. We can compromise, just put the animal killing part far away from homes. I have it on the Council agenda for Monday September 14,2009 at 6:30.