Sioux Falls City Council received an ear full during Public Input about our wonderful city economics.
Learn about the excellent employment opportunities available to those excluded from the ivory towers of the Best Little City in America.
Listen to the wonderful childcare programs Sioux Falls has to offer the least amongst us.
This should be required viewing by all. Do something positive about it, don’t just make fancy speeches at press conferences. Get real jobs in South Dakota for the real people.
Positions like Mayor of Sioux Falls, Governor of South Dakota, and more have the ability to change the economic landscape for the people struggling at the bottom of the economic ladder.
We don’t need more fast food jobs, drug mule jobs, prostitution or clerking in a Walmart to grow the South Dakota economy. We need stepping stone jobs to train the young to become productive in holding the ladders the wealthy stand on.
Our society cannot continue to strip the dreams of a parent to pass on a better life for the kids. We don’t need more playgrounds for the wealthy, subsidized for the wealthy and allowed access to the privileged.
When will our self-serving City administration, State government leaders and Federal officeholders realize they are setting America for a big fail by ignoring the economically struggling people of the hidden Sioux Falls economy.
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Well said. If this is a top ten city, why do most citizens work 2 jobs & live paycheck to paycheck? The city budget is 5 times more than the county. The county stays broke because they don’t have enough money for social services & welfare. The city blows 6 figures so the mayor’s wife can play tennis indoors. The mayor has no conscience. All these indoor sports temples and soon a 5 star hotel. Private business doesn’t want to be here because they can’t compete with the nontaxable subsidized city. They’d love to provide good jobs and will now that neighboring suburbs have proven themselves not to be antitrust and (indeed) democracys.
The guys in prison stripes must be there to pick up litter from the torn up council minutes. Were they all falsely imprisoned for civil disobedience protests?
Yep sure is the City’s fault that people are poor. I think we should all give half of what we make to them and split everything we own equally among us. Since most of us apparently work 2 jobs and are barely getting by it might take us a while to pick everyone up out of the gutter but maybe if we all get that 3rd job we can get it done. It’s that evil Republican Mayor Mike that is holding us all down.
I see you’re still buying into the whole “better yourself”/stepping stone jobs talking points propagated by those same wealthy folks you ostensibly hate. No “jobs” program will work here.
Bologna. The USA is the developed country where one has the LEAST likelihood of being able to “rise up”.
Raise the minimum wage to a living wage. Increase taxes on those most able to afford them. (I know – it’s a frikkin’ sacrilege to say something like that in SD – even you “liberals” have become dedicated protectors of the wealthy and corporate non-tax-contribution schemes). Eliminate the cap on SS/Medicare contributions. Those are the real solutions. Grow a pair.
I agree with you Ruf.
Warren, first off, unless you were being sarcastic, Triple-M is a Democrat. In name only.
Talked to a guy the other day who went to a fundraising party at the Mayor’s house, and he announced to crowd “You are my base.” I guess the room was full of wealthy bankers and developers, mostly Republicans.
I don’t think Rich was passing any blame, he was just saying it all of responsibility to make our community better. I don’t know about you, but it bothers me a little bit that we are spending $180 million (probably cost us close to $350 million over the next 10 years) on an entertainment facility while the poor in our community are selling their bodies so they can put a roof over their heads.
I won’t expect Sioux Falls Warren Buffet to understand what it’s like to try and live on $10-12 an hour, but
I’m thinking the real Warren Buffet probably has more compassion and does get it!
Most people I know who are making $20,000-24,000 a year are not asking for a handout from you SF Warren Buffet, they just need a living wage!
Warren needs a friend. Someone who will listen to his B.S.
I don’t think I saw anything in the piece telling him to give up anything he thinks he has.
What the piece points out the self-serving nature of our governments needs to be redirected to help make opportunities for those who don’t have a silver spoon in their mouths at birth.
ruf makes good points about pay but it goes much further. There must be an attitude to leadership to make fundamental changes happen.
Warren needs a friend because a bunch of us are pissed at what he decided to read into Rich’s talk.
what was MMM raising funds for?