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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There tends to be a bigger focus on legislating through the social justice angle, rather than improving conditions in the county through jobs, education, and economic policy.

The county is ignoring the latter and focused heavily in many cases on social justice.

Some of you are focusing and blaming your grievances on minorities and non-whites and telling on yourselves. The problem is not that we have a diverse county. This should actually be embraced. The country officials need to do a better job of balancing creating an environment welcoming to everyone with real policies that bring jobs, improve education, improve our economy, and improve housing.

We are not going to solve this by creating the most social justice county in the country. There needs to be substance on top of this.  [/quote]

I agree with you 100%.

If you really care about improving the lives of our diverse population, do things that would actually tangibly improve their lives. I'm not AGAINST the social justice legislation per se - I mean sure, let's not discriminate based on hairstyles - but let's also not kid ourselves that legislating away discrimination is going to solve all of our problems.

Also - I'm no Republican, I don't think tax cuts across the board are what stimulates business growth. Don't shoot me, but I agree with what a lot of Marc Elrich SAYS he's going to do, like talk to business owners and find out what's hindering them and benchmarking business practices with Fairfax. He's talked a good game about improving the permitting process, which would be fantastic. But this means nothing until talk turns to action.

I don't think you really have to sacrifice liberal values to become more business friendly. I don't think we have to allow wanton pesticide use, keep mass-producing plastic straws and styrofoam and have a race to the bottom paying low wages. I do think getting rid of the burdensome red tape would do wonders for business - and yes, this might upset some of your middle-manager government worker friends. [/quote]

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