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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Fix The Freaking Roads



Lets discuss the number one problem that concerns Palm Bay tax payers. Its not the home break ins or the crime rates, Its not the new money sucking red light cameras or even our rapidly declining property values. The number one problem of concern is the same damn problem plaguing this city since I took up residence here twenty five years ago.. ROADS!
Politician after politician has been elected to office in Palm Bay on the promise of fixing the roads. Since the GDC days it has been roads. You newer residents have no idea of how bad it used to be. Let me tell you it was a whole hell of a lot worse way back then . I know you plunked down your hard earned money to buy a house here and live the dream and you have seen that dream lose half it's value or more and still you have to drive on shitty roads that will destroy your car. I feel your pain we were there and believe me it was a whole lot worse.
The City is to blame with the continued growth with no real plan just greedy fingers wanting a piece of the tax pie. The roads did get better for a while only because the tax payers of Palm Bay who at that time probably numbered half of what the population is today voted ourselves a huge tax increase. We bit the bullet and paid the highest millage rate in the County. We did get our roads fixed but we paid for it. It was a fair deal and not everything that was promised was paved but a whole lot of roads were paved.
The blame for today's problems falls directly at the feet of our current mayor Mazziotti and the city leaders such as our sub par City Manager Feldman. This has been the result of poor managing and just plain and simple shitty planning. During the past decade or so of boom times here in Palm Bay, houses were popping up like mushrooms all over the city from one corner to the other. There was no road plan what so ever to fix the roads. I guess at the rate things were going our wonderful city government figured every house in Palm Bay was going to be worth a million dollars and tax money was going to keep pouring in. The City had no problems pouring tax dollars into the Bayside area. All roads leading into BaySide were spruced up and paved by the city in order to attract even more growth to the Bayside area and to attract golfers to the failing Majors "world class" golf course. The tax payers will eventually be financially responsible for all 18 holes.
The Mayor Mr. Mazziotti has been involved in Palm Bay City Government in one position or another for about 20 + years so you can say this has been on his watch.
There was a time when Mr. Mazziotti had the City's best interest at heart, But as what happens to so many who chose government as their career he has changed and lost his way. I watch him up there at the meetings now and the there is barely a spark left in him. I think he is just hanging in there to finagle some kind of pension.
Our City leaders keep trying to grow the City by annexing more land . They can not even manage or provide the basic services the residents deserve. They have failed in a big way to maintain or even improve what we already have while always dreaming big dreams of baseball stadiums and Emerald cities paying thousands for this study or that study. Its been over twenty years and that belt way is still just a dream.
Their plan to fix our roads was thrust upon us this year in the form of a huge tax increase. A vote on a referendum on roads with an economic growth plan thrown in for good measure that was going to create jobs. The City leaders plastered the town with signs especially in the areas where the roads were the worse. They tried to tell us if we did not vote for this plan Palm Bay would just about cease to exist. They tried to ram it through like the President rammed his failed stimulus package through trying to scare everyone. Our referendum failed on that election day as it should have because it smelled really bad it was full of bullshit. There was no value for OUR money. It contained an irresponsible bond issue that was a bad deal for the taxpayers and there was also the fairy tale claims about all of the jobs that were to be created. Bullshit!
What is needed is a Road plan which is fair and responsible and concern only roads. None of this economic crap. Just Roads and it should be for a set period of time and again only roads . No pretty median strips with nice landscaping and sprinkler systems JUST ROADS!Built by contractors that bid competitively and by our own public works crews. Now if you came to us with something fair and straight forward with out all of the other bullshit tacked on and it gave us value for our dollars it might be able to pass.
Our City Government seems incapable of making something like this happen. I doubt very seriously if any of them from the Mayor on down have a clue No one seems to get it except maybe for council woman Isnardi she seems to be the only one. That does not give us much hope. Maybe its time to clean house and throw the bums out City Manager Feldman needs to be shown the door with out some golden parachute hanging out of his back pocket.
Get a plan together. If it is fair and gives us the value for our money and will improve our quality of life by fixing our roads and only the roads the taxpayers just might be a bit more willing to fork over their hard earned cash into the Palm Bay money pit. We all know our roads suck and we are sick of it.

38 comments:

  1. I gots mine so the hell with the rest of you

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  2. The road situation is a tough one. The bonds that were to finance the last vote were for 30 years the roads would last what maybe 15-20. I heard they tried to charge the land owners by assessments years ago and that did not work. Where did all the money go that the city collected during the past 7 or 8 years when things were cranking? Anyone have an idea how we can get these streets paved?

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  3. You said us the city work crews to fix the roads. Drive Americana and see what a good job that was. Anything the city does is Half A....

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  4. The image of the mayor/joke of Palm bay leads me to believe he is related to barney frank.

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  5. In defense of the Public Works dept, Americana is in the beginning stages of being repaved...it is not done.

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  6. you all think palm bay is soo bad are crazy. You guys do not have to worry about getting shot at night or none of that. Have you ever lived in ny or in the hood in fl or anywhere else? Didn't think so. So stop acting like pb is so bad and it sucks palm bay is for poor people STOP crying about it and make more money and you wont have to live there dumb assses.

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  7. SpongeBob said.... Oh well palm bay is palm bay get use to it or move.

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  8. to the dolt from new york. Hey douche bag, This ain't new york shit head. and we don't take to your yankee ass being here.

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  9. Fucking assholes from New York and New Jersey, Ohio and Michigan, PA and Mass. are the ones who have fucked this state up. Why dont you stay up there with your high taxes and liberal politicians and your cities full of scum and welfare recips and housing projects. You fucked up your own state and you move south then you want to fuck up our state by making it more like the one you left "home". Go back home. It's ok for your parents to come down here and die. You can visit and check out Disney when you visit but then go home back to your northeast paradise. Assholes!

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  10. Mr. Yankee...Who you calling a dolt? Ya'll just hating becuase Yankees won the world series again boo hoo. And another thing you all talk so much shit but when a goon is in your face with a gun I bet you will put your tail between your legs and run. You don't know what it's like to be a goon. And who said I was on welfare???? You stupid ass republicans like to judge anyone who makes less money than you. And you guys are falling apart slowly. One by one... Stop crying go get laid dirty south people who are crying becuase you all are poor ....

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  11. And J.D you are a pussy ass bitch. Say some shit outside of work to my face I'll show you a real goon.

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  12. people who were born here and are at least 35 years old know exactly what I mean. And where do you work Mr. Anonymous ? I will show you what a good ole southern ass whipping is all about you NY goon.

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  13. Scott...get your ass off the computer and come back to bed and pleasure me! I know you got 3 more hours left on your Cialis pill! Score on me like the Patriots can never do! Screw me like only a Massachusett Democrat can do it baby!

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  14. Mrs. Yankee says.......Well we all know Dawn didn't write that. Who would put themselves out there like that nobody.... And Scott L. Why the fuck would you write that about your wife joke or not? Are you fucking stupid no one has said anything about you and Amy ... Yes you know who I am talking about did you tell your wife about her? I am done keeping my silence about that bitch. I seen you with her the other day. Lets all degrade our wifes. And as for all this stupid posting shit isn't this about the fucking roads? Blow me. Oh and please do NOT talk about my new yorker husband like that alright. Please do not make me use this new york attitude on you okay thank you ps who won the world series thank you agian

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  15. First of all..my husband already told me about Amy. As I am sure you know we are swingers so it worked out great for me! Scott can't really handle two of us but he was content to watch anyway. Go Patriots

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  16. If you want a Peyton Place blog please go some where else. this shit is getting out of control

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  17. First of all, who gives a shit about who won the world series? Second of all, I wish all you northern assholes would go back home. Third of all remember down here unlike your northeastern shit pits, the people down here are allowed to carry to protect themselves!

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  18. Yeah carry to protect themselves.... I'm just vigilant the day some brainless starts popping caps with his "piece" in a walmart or something just because he feels frustrated that his wife dumped him for the black man with the high pay job. Another protection "piece" gone bad... Seriously have any gun owner ever heard of the definition of a cop? Let em do their job, you pay taxes for it anyway not just to give you a speeding ticket.


    anyway... this feels like small town big hell lol

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  19. sure you go right ahead and depend on the police to protect your ass.

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  20. Yeah I take that back, I'll get me a .50 desert eagle and blow off some brains with my jew cannon instead of using 911. The world will be a better place. Turn this into the wild west now.

    Happy? infact I don't like your tone of "your ass" so I'll protect my self "paints the wall with his brain"

    Anyway sarcasm off, nick nice site and good points but your readers are always so out of topic..... It kinda makes me ask myself if it's even worth the bother to take them serious and not mistake em for ignorant hippies.

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  21. So now people like to joke around About the joke with the white guy shooting up walmart. Ummm.... I am a black male and do you know how many white females check me out and want my friends and I very pretty white females and high class females. White women love Black men we have it all and yes us black men do have good paying jobs and you know it. You must still be mad about whos running our country. Now you are just being ignorant yourself. And you guys want to get mad over it. And say all these ignorant thing's about black men or white women going with black men but it's the truth and comments and jokes like that are just so stupid. Honestly people Look how many women are with different races now . Cracks me up men want to hate and make jokes but who are the white females going with..... Colored Men haha so go on and hate. But you know it is true. I could be cocky and say us colored men are the best in bed and know what we are doing and are big and thick but I wont . Because that's not why all women love us men. Maybe they just happen to meet. And yes I agree on the gun law everyone should own one. Shoot someone breaking in your house before calling 911. Oh and when you see a white male go crazy on someone becuase he finds out his women left him for a colored man think about me:) From a black male.

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  23. Oh and when you see a white male go crazy on someone becuase he finds out his women left him for a colored man think about me:) From a black male.

    your so stupid your funny.

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  24. you all just hate becuase yankees won world series. from a yorker

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  25. This my last time on this stupid blog I just want to say GOOOOOOOOOOOO YANKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES from Mr. Yankee FROM the brooklyn

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  26. hey mr shit head jew yorker! Fuck off your kind is the reason this state turned into a shit hole. Oh by the way your yank keys SUCK! too much yanking will make you stuid. but you already knew that. Right.

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  27. I agree you got em big and thick, it's a typical animal trait. Only thing you miss is an actual brain instead of black men only colleges(oh the irony or "racism") that give you free diplomas. Oh and that "colored president" was put there because 97% of blacks and some black cock loving whites went to vote for him by a few % more than McCain. How many voted last time anyway 70 million? so that means only 40 million wanted Hussein Obama, out of 300 million in this country. Btw I'm not sure if you actually read the news but, we're fucked more than before and your precious "colored president" is doing Bush's policies and raising your taxes more, the only change was a black president with a arab/atheist background instead of another white man.

    No matter what bs you type back, I just spit the truth in your face so I'm quite happy.

    Btw women fuck anything these days, from a piece fo plastic to their dogs, wouldn't surprise me them fucking a gorilla too like some do. No I'm not a racist, but that won't stop me from telling the truth in your face instead of asskissing you like you'd like me to.

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  28. Fuckin A right! Any white whore who fucks a niggers deserves what ever she gets. Nigger fuckers!

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  29. Wow.... That comment sounds like they didn't even graduate high school. Why is a white woman who has intercourse with a black male a whore? Listen to yourself they are just a diff color dumbass. Honestly listening to all these hate comments makes me not even want a white racist male. And for the comment above by don't you say Some women not all women. This is UNITED states remember that. But that comment right above me just sounds like a white male who never even graduated high school and is living in the streets white trash if you ask me.

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  30. Haha.... Do you men actually read what you guys write?? Many men do not care what color your ex was or who you use to be with. Just you hardcore white racist men do. And for the comment above :( Btw women fuck anything these days, from a piece of plastic to their dogs, wouldn't surprise me them fucking a gorilla too like some do.)Are you kidding me your so stupid yourself. Men will just about fuck anything from animals to crack whores off of US1 even if they are married we can tell who that one is. Damn I sure hope you racist old men don't have daughters or sons and raise them to be like this and brain wash them and fuck them up too. Almost 2010 people things are different. You hardcore racist can just die un happy and be mad at the world because nobody listens to you people everybody is going to be with whoever makes them fucking happy. Instead of judging everyone why don't you worry about your own lives and maybe you would be happier. Not ALL colored men are bad why don't you stop and talk with one and see. And if you had some kind of brains you would see this was a blog about fixing roads. To the comment above me amen thank you. And one more thing.... To the people who say they like a person who is black white or Hispanic just not the rest but only certain people no you are a damn hypocrite who can't admit it. If you are racist and hate blacks or whites whatever color it may be then you are racist you cannot like certain people so stop being a hypocrite you either like the race or you don’t. You’re racist or your not. Simple as that. And to be racist how does it feel to always hate on a certain race??? I never understood it how do you live??? What something happened and you were dying... And a black or Hispanic or white paramedic or just a Radom person came and tried to safe your life. Would you allow him or her too? Or no because he or she is white black or Hispanic. Or would you just say let me lay here and die. Honestly think how some of you sound. I just don't understand how some of you can be so close minded. Maybe some of you got picked on in the past or have a lot of in secures I don't know. Even if a person killed someone you loved okay what if someone your own race killed that person you going to hate your own kind???? We are all human we all bleed the same blood. And another thing for a parent to raise there kids since young and tell them who they should be with or date is ridiculous. All it does it mess the child up in the long run and what if they do find someone they love out of your standards you going to disown them? Give me a freaking break. At least I can say my daughter or son will never have to be afraid to tell me anything. And I am happy. As for the rest of you people who live your lives hateful have fun because nobody cares about you guys.

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  31. And nobody can judge anybody but God. And all you judgemental,hateful people out there have fun on judgement day.:)

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  32. Couldn't have said it better myself...AMEN

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  33. And this is the shit country I live in? Racist blacks that want everyone to asskiss them, extremly racist whites who hate any1 who isnt white, blind people that want to change to worse saying its "omg its 2010 peoplz! open y00 mindz"
    Eventually things like gay marriage and gay child adoption will be allowed(becuz omg iz 2010 peoplez! morality is oldz omg omg!) and many other things, if you dont fuck a black man then you're a racist, you don't agree with a black man, you're still a racist, you want to protect your country from coca crossing your borders, omg you're still an anti mexican racist! Oh wait what if you say the truth? nah yer still a racist sorry.

    Is all I see just extremist in every side? Guess tomorrow I'm booking for Australia. No racism issues/whitehaters/dominant blacks. probably the same old grudge of "fuck you northeners/ blow me easterns" type of thing but at least is not out of hand like here.
    Nicest part of it all, I won't have to worry about this fucked up shithole country I gave my life to. I regret wasting my late youth in Iraq fighting for you buncha shitheads, getting shot at while you were getting a rainbow of colorful cocks up yer holes.

    I'll leave you people with the same everyday race bullshit. Enjoy your black cocks and white power racist shit. You people are hopeless.


    ~and yes the roads are bad, and will be for ever since it looks hopeless. No need to plant weed since it even pops out of the middle of the road freely. This place even has free pools everywhere! all the flooded potholes when it rains.

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  34. well you shouldn't have enlisted in the Mil then dumbass. You all know what you are getting yourseleves into. So stop bitching about it you signed up and had to do your job deal with it. If you don't ever want to fight in a war don't enlist in the military . Though I wouldn't be surpised if we all had a draft in a few years.

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  35. Yes the roads need to be fixed but looks like on my street they are getting there. They are not that bad anymore.

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  36. I like big butts and I can not lie

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