Archive for December 28th, 2006
Jimmy Griffin is seriously considering a run for County Executive. Griffin says he has many ideas to save the County money, “saving money is saving nickels and dimes.”
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Michele lists a number of things on her blog that people can do to help better our city. Most of them are great ideas but fail to address the cause of the problems. The Buffalo area suffers from extremely high taxation and a lack of quality jobs. Dig a bit deeper and you will find that the root cause is the government. The answer to the problem is to change the size and scope of government so that private resources are available to accomplish the improvements we so desperately need. Keep reading if you are interested in a permanent solution.
Making Buffalo attractive for private investment will yield the capital necessary to accomplish Michele’s goals. We don’t need more government economic development plans, we need less. The government plans fail because there is no risk of capital. The government does not go broke when the plans fail, it just raises taxes and continues to exacerbate the problem it set out to fix. Government caters to special interests because it is a way to gain votes. Private development cares only about one thing - SUCCESS!
If you are interested in becoming a part of the solution there is an opportunity for you and for all of us. A new Political Action Committee is being formed. The PAC, as of yet unnamed, will be pro-development, pro-jobs and pro-tax reduction. The purpose of the PAC will be to elect candidates to public office who are sympathetic to the ideas advanced by Free Buffalo. This includes freeing us from big government, political machines and special interests. The result would be freeing up private capital needed to make the necessary changes that will spur growth and improvement for all.
The organizing meeting of the new PAC will be Wednesday, Jan. 3, at 7pm at Bia Irish Deli, 5601 Main St., Williamsville.
If you would like to participate please reply by email. If you have any questions, you may address them in this thread on Speak Up Western New York’s Community Forum.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
-Mohandas Gandhi
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Buffalo Niagara International Airport passed a milestone Wednesday when its 5 millionth passenger of the year walked through the terminal.
In a community often noted for its failures - a bridge that can’t get built, a waterfront not developed, silver-bullet development schemes that shoot blanks - that milestone marked a significant success story.
It wasn’t long ago that the new Buffalo terminal, which opened on Nov. 3, 1997, wasn’t projected to attract 5 million passengers a year until 2020.
“We often talk as a community about the things we do wrong. The airport and the airport service objectives everyone wanted 10-plus years ago is one of the things we’ve done right,” said Andrew J. Rudnick, president of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership.
What is not mentioned is that the NFTA had an operating loss of $116,379,000 that is largely covered by taxpayers’ money. The Buffalo Niagara International Airport had an operating loss of $988,000 for 2005-06
Makes you wonder what a private, for-profit entity could accomplish.
Source: Buffalo News - 5 millionth passenger makes airport’s year
“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
