tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703678386777639691.post7699943456846519422..comments2023-06-03T08:36:39.012-07:00Comments on Tim "The Liar" Leavitt Watch: The baseball scum from yesterday swung by, and admitted he's a gambling addict. The cowardly refusal to meet is noted.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703678386777639691.post-75771316453267374592011-05-18T11:44:00.928-07:002011-05-18T11:44:00.928-07:00I would challenge everyone involved in this highly...I would challenge everyone involved in this highly charged argument to consider what is positive to the community as a whole. Let's put aside the name calling and engage in civil discourse. This issue, public investment into a public entity, to benefit what is elementally a private sector entity, to then generate sufficient secondary benefit is in fact the crux of the issue at hand. Simply, the existence of said entity will in turn generate advantages to the public, i.e., a public good. While public/government expenditures on items such as a baseball stadium may directly benefit the direct consumer of that stadium, the team using it, there are other benefits, direct and indirect, which play to the public good, namely stadium employees, vendors, neighboring businesses. The item of debate, then, is whether the public expenditure will provide enough public good, and benefit enough entities, that the return on the expenditure is a positive benefit to the community as a whole. The related challenge is that public good cannot by nature be measured solely in dollars; but also by public safety, satisfaction, and sense of community worth. Urani in Hazel Dell.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com