Posted on 08/14/2005 6:08:10 AM PDT by Shawndell Green
Picturing you outside a Texas City Refinery leading the orientation of new hires:
"I love the smell of petroleum in the morning! It smells like... victory!"
I did. I did. To The Middle of Nowhere! I love it here!
Style and fashion are much overrated.
My heart is in Texas, and always will be. There is NO place on earth that has people like Texans. From El Paso, to Houston, they are the best people on earth.
That smell is Pasadena drifting into Houston.
In Plano, adjacent to Dallas, I saw road crews out on Sunday morning cleaning the major intersections of all the trash that collects along the curbs. They were even washing the orange and white construction barrels. That is one clean city.
Overall, I love the people of TX and the downside is worth the upside.
Houston eats out more. Yeah, right. Sonic drivein, etc.
The King of Detroit, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, has run up $210,000 on the city’s credit card to feed, clothe and travel with his royal entourage.
The report by the Detroit Free Press tells that his royal highness gorged on king crab, lobster and steaks at various luminary restaurants in New York and Washington DC.
King Kwame’s spokesman insisted that meals and drinks accounted for only 10% of the credit charges, or a mere $21,000 or so for various happy meals and bubbly drinks. A total of 78 charges were for meals. Most of the cash went for travel expenses - super duper first class, we assume.
Although Detroit is $230 million in the hole, King Kilpatrick insisted that travel to various other locations was necessary to attract business to the kingdom.
Former Mayor Dennis Archer said the city had no money for such nonsense as entertaining bigwigs. Archer said he paid for meals out of his own pocket or used campaign money.
King Kilpatrick, who’s the only city employee that rates a credit card, expects to lay off 754 city serf employees to meet the city’s cash shortfall. He also hopes to convince unions to take a 10 percent pay cut, as well as change health benefits. It’s not known if he’ll throw in a doggie bag.
Meanwhile, Kilpatrick is asking for recommendations on four star restaurants in LA, Paris and London.
When the city's pop falls to 300,000 & nobody gives a rat's tail how they vote or what they think, there is going to be a real serious opportunity to make a killing in real estate there.
Born and raised in Fort Worth. Does that say anything? Tee...Heee...
We're still in negotiations on that.
Dallas - The City that can even when it wants to!
Maybe in 50 years or so. Yes, the city is still declining but it has been stabilized. All the middle class has virtually left Detroit, leaving the underclass to live there.
I remember in the 80's when I was in the minority as a native Texan in Houston and it seemed as if everyone I met came from Michigan. Heck, my best friend is a transplant from Detroit!
Dallas - the city whose NFL team lost to Houston's in the Texans' very first ever NFL game ever. ;-)
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