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thousands of new manufacturing jobs online with more to come unfortunately it s nowhere near enough as amtrak remains clogged expensive and often unusable with derailments and equipment failures bridges in much of the country continue to rust and rot school buildings need retrofitting new buildings need to be built and local transit systems are in a near permanent crisis all these problems are stuffed with the potential for jobs they require a ton of industrial materials to be manufactured and assembled these jobs could be manned by union labor and provide family sustaining wages and because they provide income that is because they are productive investments they will have a far greater social effect than simply subsidizing consumption put another way the left must make the case for making things there is a reason why socialists have always been so obsessed with production right now the left approaches crises like inflation in a surprisingly laissez faire way the assumption being that the government has no means to do anything about prices what do you think posted in are you revolted enough yet election 2024 indexed life with dogs politics president donald john trump sarah glidden video no comments 22 january 2025 from 11 september 2018 0557 by jeff hess posted in video no comments 18 april 2023 bibb and roynane gift packaging riches to haslams 1435 by roldo bartimole who sez we need a massive land bridge from the mall to the lakefront steve litt there is one of the biggest corrupt schemes in the works to provide an easy access to lakefront land this rivals the chagrin highlands dealing in dirty politics mayor justin bibb has legislation ready to create another body that escapes the public scrutiny required and allows elected officials to hide off in the dark it s the north coast development authority we can expect all the openness and honesty we get from the gateway economic development corp total pr only bibb and county executive chris roynane are aboard with the guidance of the greater cleveland partnership the shadow government that propels public investment that propels private interests can the cleveland and gund foundations be far behind council president blaine griffin is all for it and brings along a mostly pliant city council first in line will be tennessee oligarchs dee and jimmy haslam owners of the browns the relish taking over the entire lakefront for private development downtown councilman kerry mccormack is already all for it it never seems to change you know how well this has been greased not only from litt s typical glowing words but the state of ohio as i m writing has proposed 62 million toward the land bridge and the pd reported noted that the state pols couldn t say who proposed this little gift will someone check the haslam s political contribution it is so typical of our cleveland politicians they bend so easily with no seemingly even somewhat reasonable reason the lakefront dealing quickly with the help of the pd and litt is put on the front burner it is something that must be done now quickly don t look so no one takes a clear eye view and asks why i ve been reading a book by matthew desmond poverty by america not poverty in america but by and he makes a very strong case that nationally our government rewards the wealthy and burdens the poor he makes the case that we reward the rich at the expense of the poor the rush to serve the haslams is a perfect example of how it works on the local level forget the real needs of the community serve the desires of the oligarch interlopers this has been going on for as long some 55 years as i ve been reporting here this will rival the chagrin highlands as corrupting deal making the haslams also want a renewed browns football stadium the stadium deal shows how generous the city and its politicians are to these homegrown oligarchs cleveland charges the haslams 250 000 a year rent the city of cleveland must pay the property taxes on the stadium land we have to remember that our retired officials mayor michael white and county commissioner tim hagan went to columbus where with republican legislators in command relieved all from paying any property tax on the structures the county now doesn t even list the property value for the public to determine how much of a gift giving it is annually however the city of cleveland which charges 250 000 in rent pays this year 796 202 08 in property taxes on the land now what landlord do you know that charges one third of what is paid for only property taxes oh yes the game is rigged as of this year the three sports facilities worth at least 100 million each have paid no property taxes for 26 years it would be a tidy sum if the county listed the value of the exempted facilities i d know however you can bet that the figure is close to or more than a half billion dollars in property taxes not paid for 26 years and growing and worse the taxes to pay for them are regressive sales taxes and worse still the promoters white and hagan most prominent in promos pictured happy children who were to enjoy the benefits of the property taxes the pols in 1990 promised no tax abatement but they dishonestly went for tax exemption this is exactly how we get poverty by our elected officials posted in are you revolted enough yet roldo bartimole 13 comments 20 december 2021 alice cooper jackknife johnny 1978 0300 by jeff hess while writing this morning i m listening to alice cooper s album from the inside when the record was released on 17 november 1978 we had only been back in san diego for 110 days and i would not buy the album until the following march when by best bud stg2 duane weaver and i would attend the concert i still have the concert t shirt from that i ll be cremated in from that show the song that made me stop and write this post was jackknife johnny while i am technically a vietnam veteran saigon fell while i was still in gunner s mate a school in great lakes illinois i was never in country i came as close as i ever wanted to the hellhole that was vietnam on that cruise when we rescued a boatload of refugees fleeing that country i served with many men who were there and i ve come to see first hand the damage done by that political cluster fuck in conversations at the veteran s administration facilities here in cleveland since my discharge in 1986 we have endured to more such abominations in iraq and afghanistan and seemed poised to repeat the mistakes fueled by american exceptionalism in ukraine make no mistake when it comes to war there are no democrats or republicans there is only the loyal members of our pro war pro business party and president joseph robinette biden may yet have his war will we never learn posted in in the navy president joseph robinette biden and vice president kamala devi harris 3 comments 19 december 2021 one hundred thirty seven bullets two dead 0300 by jeff hess so yesterday roldo bartimole emailed me i watched 137 bullets on netflix it was very good have you seen it i looked back and i did write about the killing of timothy russell and marissa williams by cleveland police if you have the energy maybe you could repeat the 2015 piece with an opening blurb have a good holiday roldo i haven t seen the documentary we don t subscribe to netflix but i m as familiar with the events of 29 november 2012 as any clevelander and while i don t believe that this documentary will alter police culture in cleveland i can understand that this is yet another important step in a too long process how long longer that i know but for me the story begins in cleveland in 1968 with the glenville shootout i was 12 then and pretty much clueless living in rural southeastern ohio i wouldn t learn about the events of 23 24 july of that year for another 53 years when i began my readin roldo project and read volume 1 number 22 of roldo s point of viəw perhaps the election of incoming cleveland mayor justin bibb and his appointment of deputy chief wayne drummond as his interim chief of police will mark a new beginning or more likely the continuation of just more of the same old bullshit no justice no peace is not a meaningless chant posted in are you revolted enough yet cleveland point of view politics readin roldo roldo bartimole 7 comments 24 november 2021 jimmy bupkis renacci make ohio like florida 0300 by jeff hess this nightmare showed up in my email inbox this morning i read jimmy s political biography last year and for about 30 seconds i thought i had the man wrong there is a reason the phrase florida man has become a laugh line do we really to go there bonus no 1 how anti abortion advocates are pushing local bans city by small city bonus no 2 seven doctors contract covid after attending florida anti vaccine summit bonus no 3 i have plenty of common sense i just choose to ignore it posted in bill watterson calvin and hobbes election 2022 james bupkis renacci ohio 2 comments 23 november 2021 thoughts for this year s thanksgiving table 0800 by jeff hess from jamesleo on this morning s daily kos every shelf was stacked and prices didn t appear much different from last year as if all this talk about shortages and inflation were talk in this isle i had the unexpected encounter with a trump supporter she was in her cart amazed at the selection as i was picking green chiles for the dressing wow i can t believe this place she said yes i seldom go anyplace else everything is available and the prices are reasonable i mentioned that things may be improving nationally and even gasoline was starting to go down oh don t start me she replied this president is ruining this county how so i asked shutting down the damn pipelines and going to opec i told her the pipelines were for canadian oil to be refined and going to china and it had little effect on oil prices that s not true she said the conversation continued she was upset with the truckers situation and the truckers were being taken advantage she supported the teamsters and the right to organize she hated big pharma and believe we should negotiate prices for medicines while she supported the pipelines she believed the native americans were being screwed what was i missing for years i thought of her and her believers as the enemy now i was confused we wished each other a happy thanksgiving and a good day what s the messaging what are we missing bernie sanders says we should talk to everybody especially those who don t agree wit us i know i have been a bubble in my college town new paltz ny i most associate and socialize with people who believe what i believe in with people of the same social economic background the same education we like that person see her as the other i wish there was a way to change i see clips where bernie is in west virginia in areas where trump received 70 of the vote talking about medicaid for all and the right to be part of a union and no one disagrees with him i am totally convinced we are doing something wrong in our messaging and engaging i wish i had an answer we shouldn t assume the messaging we get from our chosen news source is what everyone actually believes as a wise woman once told me if you know one person with x then you know one person with x generalizations are rarely helpful enjoy your thanksgiving table bonus no 1 things to be thankful for posted in are you revolted enough yet politics tom tomorrow this modern world no comments 30 october 2021 this is our two one party political system 0800 by jeff hess democrats and republicans are the front for the pro war pro business party posted in are you revolted enough yet politics pro business pro war party ted rall 2 comments 22 october 2021 past still keeps repeating itself here 1700 by roldo bartimole editor s note maybe 15 years ago at one of our monthly blogger meetups someone who had lived in cleveland all his life berated me for talking about roldo bartimole the blogger s position was that roldo was a broken record who kept bitching about all the money going to cleveland s three sports franchises and my friend was sick and tired of the tirade he was right and he was wrong roldo began writing his point of viəw in 1968 and he kept at it for 50 years the names and numbers changed but the central message the one that infuriated my blogger friend didn t clevelanders and by proximity those of us living in cuyahoga county were regularly getting fucked in the ass by the wealthy who demanded that we forever repeat please sir may i have another happy holidays cleveland the ass fucking and the vital need for roldo s work continues this piece originally appeared on 27 april 2017 we don t pay attention to the past so we repeat it to our disgrace and heavy cost the latest quicken arena deal 282 million in all repeats the mistake of feeding the beast further it opened a new source of tax revenue ignoring the voted sin tax receipts as of the end of march the sin tax has produced 3 742 748 30 this year but finally in this mayoral election year there is push back real resentment to this latest money grab and a political climate of despair fed by crime unemployment and the usual array of social problems among so many here but there is push back six then five councilmen balked at new taxation after more than 27 years of the same old same of seeking more public revenue for private desires citizen groups the greater cleveland congregation the cuyahoga county progressive caucus afscme ohio council 8 and the amalgamated transit union local 268 will have to collect more than 6 000 valid signatures to overcome what their representatives in cleveland city council and cuyahoga county council voted to give billionaire dan gilbert a mortgage lender a casino czar and a greedy pro sports owner this money snatch has been going on since 1990 cleveland corporate and legal leaders have been pushing for extremely heavy public subsidies for wealthy sports owners they make matters worse by exempting property taxes 100 percent in the hundreds of millions of dollars first they promised schools tens of millions of dollars annually yet it turned out they have been stealing tax revenue mainly from the cleveland schools see also below extra public costs since 1992 and going to 2023 for old bonds the new take begins from the city and county in 2024 these exploiters have been backed by a subservient bought news media led by the plain dealer which in the past actually used gateway symbols on articles pushing these deals and now strongly supports the gifts with misleading editorials news and weak columnists who deflect blame instead of dispensing shame it s been going on a long costly time and will continue unless the petition drive succeeds we have spent well beyond a billion scarce public dollars on the gateway sports complex and i am not just quoting my figures but those cited by cleveland magazine the plain dealer has never tried to assess the costs of the sports sponges the weak new pd has poor leadership at the top here s what cleveland maga...