The City that Outsourced Everything

[Ed W]

I did watch the video, Guido, and they did indeed say that.  We have no way to know if it's true, however, and we're both aware that what people believe is often at odds with reality. 

We know that individuals, communities, and even states put more into the common pot than they receive.  That's a given.  Historically, this is nothing new.  Nor is it new for a community to figuratively wall itself off from its neighbors. 

The new part, though, is the spread of this kind of information through the internet, and the opportunity it offers to see that similar ideas and similar efforts in our own area receive the ridicule and opposition they deserve.  Another way to consider it is to think about how this sparks debate...and that's always a good thing.

[Red Arrow]

I did watch the video, Guido, and they did indeed say that.  We have no way to know if it's true, however, and we're both aware that what people believe is often at odds with reality. 

Kind of like the way we in the Tulsa area complain that OKC area gets more in funding than we do.

[nathanm]

If you watched the video, one of reasons they did this was because their tax money was not returning to them--to the point where their infrastructure was hurting. I guess the "rich" don't get any of the "common good" thingy, though; right?

There's a big counterexample right in our own back yard. Or would that be the front yard?

[guido911]

Another way to consider it is to think about how this sparks debate...and that's always a good thing.

No one can honestly argue with that, which is what this forum IMO is all about.