Referendum Defeat Shows RDA Opposition by All NWI Citizens

Now everyone knows that the RDA was a fraud.  Everyone one the board was on there to steal the money from the citizens of NWI and turn it over to their favorite consultant or other Democratic operative, i.e. politicians.  There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that the RDA has done or will do that will have ANY positive consequence for the economy of NWI.

Referendum defeat steels RDA opposition.

The RDA has been taking millions of dollars out of the pockets of the citizens of Gary, Hammond, and East Chicago.  Let us not forget Lake County also as a whole.  In addition, it has taken millions from Porter County.  All of this has been of no value to any of the citizens, only to the thieves named to the RDA by the Lake County Democratic charlatans.

What does the citizens of Gary, Hammond, and East Chicago have to do with building a railroad to Lowell and Valparaiso?  This is taking money from those who are in need and giving it to the usual thieves of Lake County.  This is being done to the tune of $3.5 million each year, from each community.  What is the economic benefit to the citizens of those communities?  NONE!!!

It is time to remove for malfeasance, incompetency, and general ethical incompetence all the politicians and appointed officials involved with the RDA and RTA.  No one wants them and they are of no use to anyone and have not been since they were created four years ago.

It was all a political trade off with the downstate Republicans as a way for the local Democrats, i.e. Tom McDermott, Jr., to steal more money from the citizens.  It is time to end this charade by voting against all the incumbents now in office.

Comments

[Maurice Eisenstein]

See my reply to Joe Semento at the top.

[mmeisens]

your point is well taken.  The problem is that the intellectual and political classes of Lake County want to keep on pick-pocketing money from the citizens of Porter County (and Lake County too.)   There is nothing absolutely nothing that the RDA has done that is worth the money they have stolen.
In the mean time, they have taken millions of dollars out of cities, towns, and counties that really need the money.  Let us not forget the taxpayers whose money is being lost.

Prof. Maurice Moshe Eisenstein, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science
Purdue University Calumet
Department of History and Political Science
Hammond, Indiana 46323
University email: [email protected]
(219) 989-2688
 

"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work." - Peter F. Drucker

[Joe Semento]

Listen, it is becoming painfully obvious that a majority of Porter county taxpayers do not want the RDA,RBA,RTA, and do not want to pay for them either!
Compare it to a cancer patient's therapy.
The therapy makes them throw up,weak, and interfears with daily routines, it may or may not cure the cancer. The percentages of success are told to the patient in the beginning with glowing enthusiasm. The fact is if it doesn't kill you, it may make you stronger. After the insurance money runs out and if you are alive and if you want to live, and if indeed it extended your time on earth,was it worth it to the patient,or the relatives, or the entity that prescribed it? It is a personal decision I guess, generally influenced by relatives who do not have to go thru the vomiting and pain of the cure! Sounds like the R D A (Relatives not Doing Any paying)to me!

[daltonsbriefs]

An interesting point Professor, I was wondering during the whole debate in Porter County earlier in the year when the residents of Lake County would note that the RDA is a really good deal for Porter County but not as much for Lake.