The $101 Million Migration from Ludington - The Ludington Torch2024-03-28T19:47:32Zhttps://ludingtoncitizen.ning.com/forum/topics/the-101-million-migration-from-ludington?commentId=4689834%3AComment%3A1119980&xg_source=activity&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThe statement of sustainabili…tag:ludingtoncitizen.ning.com,2020-07-23:4689834:Comment:11199802020-07-23T18:07:10.166ZEpictetushttps://ludingtoncitizen.ning.com/profile/Epictetus
<p>The statement of sustainability can be productive, but must revolve around both financial and environmental. If you build out infrastructure (whether "green" or traditional), it can play the role of environmentally focused, but if it does not pay for itself long-term or has a solid financing structure, it is a waste of money. Relying on another entity, tax credit or "rainbows and sunshines" to pay for ongoing expenditures pull the decision making away from yourself which is the antithesis of…</p>
<p>The statement of sustainability can be productive, but must revolve around both financial and environmental. If you build out infrastructure (whether "green" or traditional), it can play the role of environmentally focused, but if it does not pay for itself long-term or has a solid financing structure, it is a waste of money. Relying on another entity, tax credit or "rainbows and sunshines" to pay for ongoing expenditures pull the decision making away from yourself which is the antithesis of liberty.</p> I like your comparison to the…tag:ludingtoncitizen.ning.com,2020-07-23:4689834:Comment:11199732020-07-23T17:19:03.323ZXLFDhttps://ludingtoncitizen.ning.com/profile/TheLudingtonCitizen
<p>I like your comparison to the wind project, because even though it may look at first glance as if the mechanisms behind funding both projects were different, they weren't all that different as the public heavily subsidized both projects (Lake Winds doing it more sneakily. They also are very similar in that their end project will have dubious worth to the general public each project supposedly serves. In less than 20 years, there will be a lot of wind turbines to either tear down or costly…</p>
<p>I like your comparison to the wind project, because even though it may look at first glance as if the mechanisms behind funding both projects were different, they weren't all that different as the public heavily subsidized both projects (Lake Winds doing it more sneakily. They also are very similar in that their end project will have dubious worth to the general public each project supposedly serves. In less than 20 years, there will be a lot of wind turbines to either tear down or costly replace with a ton of public subsidies, in about 30 years the new school will need to be replaced and the figures will likely run into several hundreds of millions of dollars. </p>
<p>'Sustainability' is a term these people throw out as they spend million and millions on folly projects, but they are only sustainable through the inefficient use of the public's wealth, which has its limits.</p> Well done X. There is no shor…tag:ludingtoncitizen.ning.com,2020-07-21:4689834:Comment:11165842020-07-21T02:11:49.982ZWillyhttps://ludingtoncitizen.ning.com/profile/willy
<p>Well done X. There is no shortage of qualified contractors in the Ludington area. This is another example of cronyism and bid rigging and Ludington's local politicians have played along with it. One might ask, why? It may just be the $100,000,000 being sucked from taxpayers pockets with a lot of it going into the pockets of local bad actors who pushed this ill conceived project thru. This is no different than the Consumers wind turbine boondoggle. We were promised that there would be a boat…</p>
<p>Well done X. There is no shortage of qualified contractors in the Ludington area. This is another example of cronyism and bid rigging and Ludington's local politicians have played along with it. One might ask, why? It may just be the $100,000,000 being sucked from taxpayers pockets with a lot of it going into the pockets of local bad actors who pushed this ill conceived project thru. This is no different than the Consumers wind turbine boondoggle. We were promised that there would be a boat load of jobs created in order to build the turbines. That was just a lie. The only local contractors used on the turbines were concrete contractors. The rest came from out of State and much of the material to build the turbines came from out of the Country. Locals are treated like country bumpkins by all the greedy entities trying to get their hands on our money. The citizens who voted for the school project don't know how badly they are getting fleeced by local politicians and outsiders. Every crooked politician is making money off the hard working people of the area.</p>