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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What a waste of NG. Are they landscaping around Union Station like they are elsewhere around DC?[/quote]

What's wrong with landscaping?[/quote]

Well, uprooting National Guard troops from their families and sending them to another state to use a leaf blower to clear a plaza doesn't seem like a good use of their time.  Hiring local landscapers would be more cost effective and less disruptive to our troops.[/quote]

Its pretty obvious the city and Union Station have gotten much nicer over the last month+ Its instructive that you've been reduced to carping about gardening.

Meanwhile, murder is down bigly, and I don't even see people jumping fare-gates anymore. The whole city just feels nicer. Its amazing what happens when law and order gets more than just lip-service.[/quote]

It’s not pretty obvious. Union Station has been much better for a while.

-  signed actual Capitol Hill resident [/quote] 
And here we have someone that doesn’t think the $600 hammer can pound nails…[/quote]

Yes, we don't want our government's money wasted and misused, nor do we want our autonomy as a city compromised.  Is this surprising to anyone?  It shouldn't be.[/quote]

To your first point, we live in a city where we give billionaires billions in tax dollars for sporting stadiums, and in a nation that spends trillions invading little desert nations. A million per day to save dozens of lives and make the city livable seems like a downright bargain in comparison.

As for you second point, actually we do want our city's autonomy compromised. The city demonstrates over and over again that it is not capable of running a government at the 101 level. Given the long and successful history of appointed mayors and the Control Board, sticking with this failed experiment in home rule is foolish. [/quote]

You are an idiot. The reason we got home rule was because the appointed mayors were terrible. Please bless us with your great knowledge of what is so terrible about DC. Do we have crime? Sure, all cities do. We also have an amazing art scene, restaurants and educated people. Our population increases every year. So what is it not capable of running? [/quote]

Walter E Washington was terrible and the city made him the first elected mayor after he let the city burn. We also name stuff after him still.

In fact our population hasn’t recovered from his first term while the metro area has nearly tripled in size.

Are you under the impression that the DC government runs the arts and restaurant scenes and creates an educated population? There is basically no one in this city that can be called educated that was educated by DC (DCPS+UDC).

And if you think DC crime is acceptable it’s probably because you’ve never traveled to a real world-city or even a mid-sized capital like Oslo.[/quote]

Gosh I've been to London and Paris and I think DC is safer than either.  But maybe they're not real capital cities?  Or maybe you just meant Oslo is whiter?  Not sure what you meant.[/quote]
DC has something like 10x the murder rate of those cities. So something is off with your perception.[/quote]

And the US has something like ten times the murder rate of those countries.  The gun issue is nationwide, and worse in red states.[/quote]

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