Great job, morons!

There's a really big Speedway in Concord. Its been there for a long time. The guy who owns the Speedway didn't want to move it until the officials in Concord, who are in fact complete morons, annoyed him. Being the good Capitalist that he is, the owner of the Speedway threw a tantrum and threatened to move.

But don't worry! The Speedway is staying! For the low low price of 80 MILLION dollars! Hurray! Its really awesome that Concord gets to spend 80 MILLION dollars completely unnecessarily!

Its a little inaccurate though. Because North Carolina is going to pay 20 million. So Concord's bill is only 60 million. I'm sure they've got an extra 60 million dollars around here somewhere.

What can you buy with 60 million dollars? Not much. I mean, you could fully fund the police and fire departments for two years with 60 million dollars. 60 million dollars is almost two years worth of property taxes (property taxes are 36 million a year). Its also almost SIX years of sales taxes. I'm pretty sure we could have built a school or two for 60 MILLION dollars, but lets not be negative! People will love to pay higher taxes because their city officials are morons!


On another note, Charlotte just had 100,000 people ride the light rail the first weekend it was opened. Its almost like Charlotte has itself together. Oh yeah, it does. Maybe I should move from Concord to Charlotte. Oh yeah, I already did.

Morons.