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 To sum up: Alexandria City can't have it both ways when it comes down to city resident's pockets: if they are threatened fiscally they will voice their opinion loudly-perhaps not this year but the clock is ticking here. Drip. Drip. Then again, maybe Alexandria City is becoming a one Party run Democratic City of the rich and the not so rich![/quote]
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Ugh, and you are exactly the City residents I was talking about. You ruined the City by voting year after year for Democrats and killing yourself patting yourself on the back for being such a good little white liberal and supporting all the ton of social service/welfare programs in the City but now you can't afford to be a white liberal Democrat anymore and still live in the City because City housing and services is only for the very rich or the very poor. [/i]
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You don't know a thing about me other than that I voted democrat in a very democratic town. Our City isn't ruined, but my honest and vocal assessment is that our public schools remain substandard. Not many of my fellow Democrats are willing to admit that. I'm not a "good little white liberal" supporting tons of social services: I'm actually a right-leaning Democrat fiscal conservative favoring  cuts in expenditures/debt before new expenditures and raising taxes. Nor do I support the concept of Alexandria City being "sanctuary city" as I said above, especially given our growing world terrorism. [b]I do support physical and financial help to Alexandria City kids here: our family helps buy uniforms and equipment purchases and have driven students who need special rides back and forth from sport and band events. We believe in putting our money where our mouth is outside of Alexandria City government social services. [/b]As to housing, it favors no political persuasion, Republican or Democrat alike. Due to City rising taxes, I am in great favor of affordable housing for the middle class in Alexandria City so residents, including myself and our family, may continue to live here in the City we spent our decades. [/quote]

See and that's where we differ. I don't support those programs as I think the City already provides too much support and makes the families dependent on the City and freebies.  It's really sad that the city hosts free backpacks, free school supplies, free dinner, free hair cuts, free uniforms each and every August.  Each year a new freebie is added. That should tell you that these people in public housing can't even afford the basics.  Of course, they don't have to afford them because suckers like you think their parents don't have the money for band or uniforms. Yes, their parents have the money because all their other needs are taken care of -housing,  food, utilities, etc from social services and their disposable income they want to use on fun stuff not boring stuff like paying for after school activities for kids or band uniforms.  If you actually got to know those diversity families you love so much you would find this out.

Look at public housing.  lots of generational families - many have been there for 20 + years and aren't going anywhere because the city will continue to prop them up. [/quote]

PP here: you missed where I said we chose direct support to several students who played with our kids in sports and band. I totally agree Alexandria City promotes generational dependency on itself. Take that up with City Council yourself and see how far you get with their current blinders on: we now have two Councilmen who sit together on the dais as the African American spokesman corner. I find that appalling: Councilmen and women are suppose to represent ALL Alexandria constituents equally, not be in one corner. Why not just admit we are a Ward City Council then in function? Because that's what these Councilmen are doing in their representation and were not elected to do by City Council design.

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