Comments on Advance Indiana™: Outrage: Ballard Giving Recovered Abatement Funds To ICVA

And this isn't something he's trying to hi...

2010-01-13T20:23:20.431-05:00

And this isn't something he's trying to hide. He openly promoted giving $3.5 milllion to ICVA during the State of the City speech.

Also $1.5 million to IDEInc, but I'm not familiar with them.

I do not recall ever hearing anyone being called a...

2010-01-13T19:57:38.990-05:00

I do not recall ever hearing anyone being called a piker before, so I looked up its many definitions, and, sure enough, Mayor Ballard fits everyone of them, to our immense disadvantage. What next from him?

This kind of stuff will never stop until the peopl...

2010-01-13T19:25:29.035-05:00

This kind of stuff will never stop until the people rise up en masse. Until people understand that government can not create jobs; all it can do is create processes and procedures that can be and are easily undermined by the cult of personality, lies, deception, and graft.

Then they also want us to believe that somehow, against all logic, the government has created a viable "industry," despite it being soley funded by taxation. The claim of viability is largely based on the fact that significant sales tax revenues are generated (without providing any actual data). Those of us who are not believers are supposedly fools who can't see the obvious downtown wonderland created by our brilliant leaders of a our heavily indebted city. Yet, they continue to scratch their heads wondering why our infrastructure is in a shambles. It is shameful, yet they have no shame.

The IEDC is the entity that has footed the bill fo...

2010-01-13T14:16:05.019-05:00

The IEDC is the entity that has footed the bill for Ballard's international junkets. One of the reasons he wants the IEDC to get more money is so they can fund more junkets for him and his wife. People who work on his staff say that his economic development folks have never suggested any of his foreign travels. He picks places he and Winnie want to take a vacation and then tells the staff to make up an excuse for taking a trade mission trip there. The guy is the biggest piker we've ever had in the mayor's office.

I hope whatever school district this plant was in,...

2010-01-13T11:11:07.872-05:00

I hope whatever school district this plant was in, will protest at the top of their lungs.

Brookville Rd and Ritter Ave - I believe that is IPS.

That money really should be split among the taxing...

2010-01-13T09:45:49.761-05:00

That money really should be split among the taxing units according to the usual property tax distribution formula. Ballard's folks have found yet another loop-hole in the abatement laws that apparently allows them to keep what isn't their's to keep.

I hope whatever school district this plant was in, will protest at the top of their lungs.

"Ballard" isn't doing a thing. The p...

2010-01-13T09:13:15.700-05:00

"Ballard" isn't doing a thing. The puppet-masters are the ones running the City.