Important headlines for February 1st
Bottom Line: These are stories you don't want to miss and my hot takes on them...
Hot Take: I don't even like soccer but I'm a huge fan of what Beckham has done, how he's conducted himself in the process and how he's planning to pay for the stadium. In an age in which tax payers are routinely fleeced to pay for the stadiums of sports teams (something folks in Miami know all too well with the raping and pillaging of tax payers for Marlins Park), you couldn't ask for more than what he's done putting this together. He personally paid $25 million for the MLS franchise and he's privately financing the stadium the team will play in. The stadium's location, in Overtown - near the aforementioned Marlins Park, will butt up against existing public housing. That's where the upset with some is coming from...
So as the Herald's piece put out notices were placed on doors of potentially impacted residents for a community meeting on the project (although the Herald suggested like they looked like eviction notices for added drama/negativity I suppose). As it turns out some aren't happy about the project. That's not a shock. But here's the thing. It's public housing. And that's where I'm forced to be direct. If your fellow citizens are paying for the roof over your head and they want a stadium...they should get a stadium. If you want greater control over where you live seek to end government assistance. Government housing isn't meant to be your dream home. It's meant to be a safety net to provide a roof over your head. Anything else I say will won't be received well by snowflakes (if they haven't already melted) so I'll stop there.
Hot Take: That line from the official (there were four others) Democratic response has gotten a lot of play in the media over the past day. Quick observation before I get down to business. In the face of President Trump's State of the Union speech - if that's what you're hanging onto - Joe Kennedy using a platitude? Wow, the DNC and their media buddies are more screwed than I knew. So now for business time (not Flight of the Concords business time).
I hate to break the news but...you can't help someone who won't help themselves. Platitudes like that are only thrown around by someone who's never actually been in the trenches actually trying to help people. I love this country and I love my life but my greatest frustrations have been on this very topic. I genuinely want people to want a better life and to work to attain it. It's the American Dream and it's alive and well. The most frustrating thing many encounter is wanting a better life for others more than they want it for themselves. It's sad, it's frustrating, at times heartbreaking but it's true. We have safety nets in place to pay for housing, food, healthcare, education, transportation, smart phones, etc. and still it's not enough? BS. Frankly it's far too much which is why too many have been conditioned to think they're entitled. Government is the obstacle of success. Not the creator of it. Btw, how many people realized there was another Kennedy in Congress?
Until tomorrow...