How Would You Spend $22.5MM?
Paul Wolf had a great post up today about Community Development Block Grant monies and how they should be spent. He asked a simple question, “How would you spend it?”
Well, Geek and I spent some time kicking around how we would spend it, but we just kept coming back around to imagining how other local politicians and community leaders would spend grant money or tax rebates if they could. Here’s what we came up with:
We’ll give it to poor people and tax, err, institute a fee on it with a stamp - Eliot Spitzer
Give it directly to the poor, but don’t let them spend it on tobacco, lottery, or anything fun - Sam Hoyt
Give it to the people and track where and when they spend it - Byron Brown/Steve Casey
Not know how much you have to give them: Satish Mohan
I’d loan it to my brother - H. McCarthy Gipson
Hemp necklaces and mandannas for everyone! - Newell Nussbaumer
I’m opposed to giving these checks out, wait, hold on…this was my idea? Damn - Antoine Thompson
Audit it - Mark Poloncarz
Shove it down the throats of neighborhood activists - Brian Higgins
Figure out if there’s a more efficient way to distribute the checks via Six Sigma troubleshooting - Chris Collins
Put the money in a box and scream insults at it - Dale Volker
Double the payments and add in coffee breaks for everyone - Tim Kennedy
Use it to pay rent on an empty house in Kenmore - Michelle Iannello
Take the money home and sleep on the floor next to it – Mike Cole
Surround yourself with kids at the announcement - Tom Reynolds
Huh? I must have missed the meeting about giving out checks. - Mike Ranzenhofer
Ask my Mother what I should do - Ed Rath III
File a lawsuit to block the distribution of checks until an alternative can be researched and put up a billboard announcing it - The Waterfront Coalition
Lap dances for me and Victor! - Joel Giambra
Give the whole sum to Smokin’ Joe Anderson - Vince Anello
Whadda you got?
Buffalo Expat Says:January 24th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Give it to New York City
Pauldub Says:January 24th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
I won’t take it until you give me more - Phil Rumore
hank Says:January 24th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
How about just spreading it around on the bed, get butt-ball nekked and just jump on and roll around on it for awhile? That’s what the rednecks do down in this here part of North Carolina, son!
Mike Miller Says:January 24th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
We could bring in hundreds, if not thousands of dollars of new revenue if we invested this money on selling advertising space on garbage totes and parking meters - Joe Golombek & Tony Masiello
Mike In WNY Says:January 24th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Divide the money using a pro rata basis for all the people who paid taxes in Buffalo. They can use the money to stimulate the economy
steve Says:January 24th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
“However you spend it, I could have done it better.” — Buffalo Pundit ;->
Christopher Smith Says:January 24th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Steve wins this thread.
Derek J. Punaro Says:January 24th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Make a documentary about the slowly decomposing money, while all the local politicians spend 20 years arguing and debating about how exactly to spend it. - Marc Odien and Michele Johnson
Bob Says:January 24th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
I’d settle up on the Police Contract. That would take up about 5 million. Then I’d get the other City workers under contract. Then I’d get rid of the Control Board.
Timothy Domst Says:January 24th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
I’m going to buy a car for my son to drive in the demolition derby and hide the purchase in the funds for housing demolition.
Timothy Domst Says:January 24th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
I’m going to buy a car for my son to drive in the demolition derby and hide the purchase in the funds for housing demolition. - Byron Brown
Mark Says:January 24th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
newell is a community leader??! oh dear god…
TheRover Says:January 24th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Let’s buy back Fulton St. That’ll screw up the Senecas plans. - Anti Casino Coalition
Red Says:January 24th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
A 47 year contract for Andrew Peters. - Larry Quinn
Buffalo, Buffalo Says:January 25th, 2008 at 12:06 am
I am going to give the money to the city Buffalo to demolish down those two houses I abandoned on the East side,Not!- Chris Collins
Mike Walsh Says:January 25th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Use it to fund new government job positions for my relatives, friends and political supporters-Anonymous
How Would You Spend $22.5MM? Says:January 25th, 2008 at 9:59 am
[…] How Would You Spend $22.5MM? Surround yourself with kids at the announcement - Tom Reynolds. Huh? I must have missed the meeting about giving out checks. - Mike Ranzenhofer. Ask my Mother what I should do - Ed Rath III. File a lawsuit to block the distribution of … […]
Dan Says:January 25th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Whatever’s done with the money, it’s spent in a manner that is more genuine, authentic, and real than how trendy, yuppified, and plastic places like Charlotte, Phoenix and Williamsville would spend it. — Buffalo Rising
They’d probably spend it on those people on the East Side, who would probably waste it on bling and Cadillacs — WGRZ feedback
Can we have that money in Morgan dollars, please? By the way, we’re not going to spend it, but rather preserve it for future generations to appreciate. — Tim Tielman
More apparatus for da hall der. GO BILLS! — some guy living off of George Urban Boulevard.