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tommy permalink | categories: bayshore, citizens, environment, other stuff, paying rent, tampaby tommy @ 8:01 am
On the heels of the well-to-do Cheval residents up in arms about the neighborhod wall, now comes some well-to-do Bayshore residents with their own protest.
Previously we had well-to-do Harbour Island residents complaining about downtown traffic, and well-to-do Avila residents complaining about wildlife. What’s next?
Tags: bayshore, citizens, environment, other stuff, paying rent, tampa
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August 2nd, 2006 at 9:19 am
Damn generator! Get off my lawn!
August 2nd, 2006 at 9:43 am
Is there a reason rich people aren’t allowed to complain? One would assume they’ve worked really hard to have things the way they want them.
August 2nd, 2006 at 10:02 am
Unless they inherited their wealth, in which case spoiled children turn into spoiled adults. See it all the time around here.
August 2nd, 2006 at 12:04 pm
I don’t think it is the being rich part that irritates people (ok, I mean me), it is the sense of entitlement that leads them to demand the city pay to move a nessesary generator because they find it un-attractive. And once the vegetation grows in and the workers are gone people will forget about it anyway.
August 2nd, 2006 at 12:43 pm
In their defense, at least these folks are trying to show how their point of view affects people other than themselves. Noise reduction in Cheval affects Cheval residents; beautification on Bayshore affects everyone who commutes or exercises there.
That said, putting the generator in front of the mayor’s house is stupid, and saying that’s where it should go just makes you and your cause petty and childish. I don’t suppose they’d be too happy about not having a generator there at all, the next time the power goes out and the entire neighborhood floods and the seawall collapses because there’s no power to pump the water out… of course, if this happens the mayor’s lawn will be high and dry because the generator will be right there providing power to whatever pumping system she feels like installing. Then this guy will be complaining about fraud waste and abuse or some such.
It’s not that rich people shouldn’t be allowed to try to make things the way they want them to be. It’s when they don’t recognize the reason behind the way things are, and make childish comments, thereby demonstrating a lack of concern, that problems arise.
And, too, rich people may have worked hard and deserve to make things the way they want–else why bother having money in the first place–but that doesn’t mean they have the right to force other people to pay to make them happy. It means they have the money to do so themselves.
August 2nd, 2006 at 1:30 pm
One would assume they’ve worked really hard to have things the way they want them.
I don’t know anyone who worked hard for their wealth. Their grandfathers, yes.
August 2nd, 2006 at 4:27 pm
Funny how the Egypt Lake residents don’t get commended for wanting to beautify their area.
August 2nd, 2006 at 9:06 pm
well they are on a lake right
August 3rd, 2006 at 12:41 pm
With the exception of “they have the money to do so themselves,” the rest of this sounds like middle-class sniping.
How else do you propose things work? Seriously. On a broad scale, this is the interplay of American economics and civics, and we haven’t come up with a better system for hundreds of years.
I get the point, but minor injustices are just that.