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Title
How Dare You Be Poor And Homeless In Davenport Iowa You Inferior Subhuman Lowlife You
Artist
Gary Eklund Mr Dodo B Bird
Medium
Mixed Media - Sign
Description
Downtown davenport sign.
Photo just east of the building housing the davenport chamber of commerce .......
facing a public park in front of davenport iowa's 10 million dollars 20 million dollars 50 million dollars 100 gazillion dollars taxpayer financed BRIDGE TO NOWHERE. Actually it was a bridge designed to funnel pedestrians to the gambling boat on the mississippi in case the Mississippi River flooded again like it did back in 1993 but since the "family friendly" gambling boat is now the land based casino on the northern sprawl not long ago farmland the bridge is now officially THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE it always was.
For the tax money they spent on a bridge for casino they could have built and literally given away probably at least 400 and more $50,000 houses. But of course to the people spending tax money that would have been/would be a "waste of money!"
In the last year alone the city and the local overfunded. Wastefull anti housing anti environment pro extreme extreme extreme wage inequality school district and a local college and a so called not for profit gymnasium organization alone have destroyed tens millions of dollars of perfectly good buildings that people could and should be living in, maybe over 100 million dollars of perfectly good buildings people could be living in. It is my sincere belief from close up observation for years that the leaders of these organizations literally have hatred and contempt for the working poor and people without homes and a real belief in their own superiority.
They would rather throw money and perfectly good buildings away to fill the landfill than allow people they consider inferior to have a place to live.
They literally want them all to leave town and never come back. Now hitchhike to oklahoma cause you aint wanted here.
(in another odd twist in this city the city uses tax authority to collect tax monies from everyone to give to chamber of commerce department. The taxpayers paid tax money to renovate the privately owned former downtown department store whose private ownership (a member of Chamber Of Commerce of course) gets all the financial profits). The city pays I think the $10,000 PLUS per month high ranking whitest employees to attend and actively participate in chamber planning and partisan politicking....and then the chamber endorses mayoral and alderpersons for elections and the chamber campaigns and spends money for the most prowhite proherititory millionaires and pro rich bankers etc after the endorsed candidates win the people they endorsed vote to give more city tax money and resources and highly paid staff time to the chamber of commerce.
Even if I shared all thier views am I the only one who sees this as something that should be illegal if it's not already.
I know we already give nonessential white college educated completely and totally nonessential city workers expensive city purchased city vehicles with city purchased
gasoline for city employees to drive home to former Sundown Town Bettendorf and elsewhere where it is not so dark if you know what I mean.........the city government believes these people should not have to drive thier own vehicles and gasoline when the city can just make that a free fringe benefits for being white college educated and a city employee WHEN THE CITY CAN JUST MAKE THAT FREE CITY CAR AND "FREE" GASOLINE OIL CHANGES NEW TIRES AND ALL AUTO REPAIRS TOO A "FREE" FRINGE BENEFIT FOR BEING A WHITE COLLEGE EDUCATED CITYGOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE!....
do we also pay for thier country club membership too?.....maybe this is PERFECTLY LEGAL MAYBE MAYBE NOT........I hope us attorney general or Iowa at general or some GOOD GOVERNMENT GROUPS will look into the proprietary of this. Real World example.....cityI is spending gazillions of tax dollars to change long time one ways into 2 ways even though most people oppose it........to many people this I'll scratch your back with our money and the money the city gave us and you scratch my back with a lot more of that tax money...your highest paid staff assigned to us......iowa legislation.....if this is legal please make it illegal......now excuse me while I climb down off this soapbox..
FOLLOWING IS A COMPLETELY MADE UP QUOTE THAT I IMAGINE ALL THE $10,000 AND $15,000 AND $20,000 AND $30,000 A MONTH PLUS CITY EMPLOYEES SAYING........ how dare he criticize our free cars and gasoline ?....we're white enough to pass the city's one drop test, we went to college , we got government jobs......it's hard to live on $10,000 a month. It's all those fat lazy minimum wage workers we all hate....why don't he complain about them?
Why don't he hitchhike to Oklahoma already where they all belong or just freeze to death sleeping outside in the below zero Iowa winter like we had planned?
ATTENTION US AND ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WHOLE WORLD OLD FASHIONED PAPER NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES EDITORS AND PUBLISERS. I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THIS PHOTO AND SOME VERSION OF THIS DESCRIPTION (ALONG WITH DIRECTIONS TO MY WEB SITE) PUBLISHED ON THE EDITORIAL PAGE AS PHOTO AND WRITTEN EDITORIAL......ALL MY OTHER WORKS ARE AVAILUABLE FOR PUBLICATION...... PLEASE CONTACT LICENSING OR CONTACT ME HERE.I HAVE A LONG TIME NO COLLEGE DEGREES DECADES OF FULL TIME PLUS POVERTY WAGE WORK PERSPECTIVE NOT OFTEN SEEN IN PRINT. ISSUED RAISED IN THIS SPECIFIC PIECE APPLY ALL AROUND THIS US AND PROBABLY AROUND THE WORLD.
(last note in an unbelievable move the city is about to spend 25 million ish dollars more or less city state evrn state Arts Council money on what I think is a new tax financed boat ramp into the mississippi river so rich people can come back from wintering in Florida Arizona Hawaii and Texas and ""the islands" etc. and be able to drive thier luxury boat to the river. After intentionally destroying 1000s of people's housing homeless people can pay extra sales and other taxes on food water clothes etc in order to fund a rich peoples playground. And not one single penny of tax money that would do anything good for minimum wage workers or the intentionally increased large growing homeless population.)
In fantasy iowa they say something like "if you build it they will come" in real life iowa they are thinking if we buy up and demolish the homes and apartments these inferior people are living in maybe they will all go just go away ......but come back in the daylight to do all our minimum wage work that college educated "professional" government employees would see as "beneath" them.)
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Barbie Corbett-Newmin 1 Day Ago
Punta Gorda, FL - United States
Those window reflections are absloutly attractive.
Gary Eklund Mr Dodo b bird 19 Days Ago
Davenport, IA - United States
Barbie, thank you for pointing out the misspelling...that is hilarious....maybe they special ordered that sign with it misspelled or maybe the dollar store signs were misspelled? Embarrassed to admit I never noticed.....everytime I look at this I end up looking at the reflections in the window.
Barbie Corbett-Newmin 23 Days Ago
Punta Gorda, FL - United States
It's sad that they cannot even spell "absolutely" correctly.
Punta Gorda, FL - United States
Spectacular How Dare You Be Poor and Homeless… composition, lighting, shading, excellent colors and artwork! Congratulations on your very deserving features! F/L
Davenport, IA - United States
Thank you so much. Looking again I have to say I'm happy with how the reflections in the window turned out. Thanks for your kind comments.
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