Rainbow crosswalk: Was it worth the price tag? ($196,000)

Actually it only represents those who view perversion as a sacrament.

 

The important information that you don't have, or aren't providing, is how much does a crosswalk like that normally cost?

 

Are you suggesting that painting an all white stripe is the same as a multi colored stripe as far as labor time?

 

It's better than have money disappear into politician's pockets. At least taxpayers can see what they got for their money.

 

I am suggesting the cost of the paint difference was probably nominal. Labor costs, government or otherwise, can more or less be treated as a fixed expense. If these workers weren't painting this intersection, they would have been painting another one and and if the police hadn't been there directing traffic, they would have been off sitting under a tree griping about their job, so the but-for labor costs savings would have largely been zero dollars and zero cents, leaving it a mater of the costs of the edging, and paint.

 

LOL!

It's "refracted" light, not "reflected" light.

She must be a lib/prog college educated person.

 

ahh, so painting or whatever a crosswalk for $196,000 to celebrate the act of gay-sex was a good use of tapayer money? Atlanta must have no other issues to deal with; good for them

 

So to quote a defender (not necessarily you) of the military renting a space in Trump Tower at ongoing cost of $130,000 per month plus the additional cost of staff and admin) to protect Trump who has yet to stay one night in the hotel, what is $196,000 compared to the total national budget!

 

So you're comparing protecting the POTUS with having rainbow colored sidewalks?

 

And what does that have to do with a rainbow sidewalk? I'm pretty sure that district was bringing in "gobs" of money before the sidewalk was painted. It was total waste of taxpayer money. Like another poster said wonder how many homeless folks could be fed with that money ?

 

I'm not comparing anything just putting it out there. But one obvious difference is that the POTUS has not spent one night in the hotel so that several million dollars being spent renting that space and cost of personnel and admin has contributed nothing to the protection of the POTUS plus the fact that these personnel are not there to protect the POTUS as these people are from the Pentagon, not SS (made a mistake in previous post), that $196,000 sidewalk is being used. I've already written my views on this sidewalk

 

Religion is a choice. Homosexuality is not. That being said, I can't understand the cost.

 

So, pissing off a few righties for 196k is ok rather than feed the homeless with that money is ok? I thought you lefties loved the poor, isn't that why your policies make so many?

 

Yes you are. For future reference. COMPARE:
verb (used with object), compared, comparing.
1.
to examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc.) in order to note similarities and differences:
to compare two pieces of cloth; to compare the governments of two nations.
2.
to consider or describe as similar; liken: “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?”.
3.
Grammar. to form or display the degrees of comparison of (an adjective or adverb).

 

You'd do more time than OJ.

 

Perhaps you should actually read my post that is the subject instead of posting the "bleedin obvious": quote "what is $196,000 compared to the total national budget!" in context! So point out where in post 58 I was comparing the cost of this sidewalk with the cost of renting the space in Trump Tower?

 

Post 61 IS a comparison and that is the post I quoted.

 

So is there some sort of time machine in this forum? Loisiana75 was able to reply to a post that I hadn't yet posted? Wow, I never believed they existed until now. Perhaps you should go to a dark room and contemplate

 

Um...It's a painted crosswalk. It is almost the exact same thing except for the colors they painted it.

So I think the beef is the colors and what they mean.

There are lots of things that are wastes of money.

How many homeless people could be fed if citys didn't build ornate public buildings? How many could be fed if they didn't spend millions building parks or train systems?

It sounds like people are simply using the appeal to emotion to argue that this is a waste of money. I don't understand why it is only a waste not when they paint crosswalks but when they paint them with a rainbow.

It seems like it's more of an objection to what they stand for than the use of money to paint them.

Nobody gave half a **** about the half dozen intersections painted in midtown Houston.

Or the intersections paved with bricks.

So I don't believe it's about the money, clearly it isn't for you. You didn't even understand the connection of another painted crosswalk.

So don't try to disguise this as giving a s*** about homeless people. I find that profoundly dishonest.

 

Again, is ATL so flush with taxpayer dollars that they can drop $196,000 on a sidewalk in order to celebrate a specific sex act?

 

to object to this simply because it's a waste of taxpayer money is one thing but nobody seems to objective out any other project that decorates any other intersection.

It isn't about the money we know what it's about some people just don't want to admit it for fear of being called names.I

 

It's every bit about the money. If a pride organization had did this as a donation ,no one would care. The fact that the city spent taxpayers dollars to celebrate the sexual preference of 3% of the population is a waste of money.

Maybe no one balked at the Houston crosswalks because they didn't spend almost $200K on it.

This is everything to do with the cost.

 

No it's really about beautifying the city like they do when they paint any intersection with team mascots or historical things or they beautifier Park build a statue or a monument.

Funny how it's never a waste of money until it's anything to do with gay people.

Why don't you object for the real reason. It's because you don't like the idea of a city being okay with gay people. It's okay to have an opinion and people will call you names for it. I won't, but then again I have my own opinions. And I don't know why it would matter that people call you names.

 

A mascot or historical things would represent the city's people, not 3% of it's population. Most people would have a problem with that amount of taxpayer funds being spent to make a crosswalk colorful. Stop trying to tell everyone who has a problem with this, what YOU think their motive is. That's one reason so many would stay hush about this, if they even hint at the wasteful spending, they are immediately labeled as homophobic by people like you.

Want to paint a crosswalk, it should cost no more than 10K.

 

Since it is heterosexuality that is so vital and necessary shouldn't THAT be what we make note of and celebrate and encourage and support?