Perhaps , you've noticed a theme in my articles or maybe it is simply a theme amongst the corporate thieves and their publicly elected counterparts. The theme: bailouts, corporate welfare, our tax dollars, being used against us and our environment, all while CEO's line their pockets with our hard earned cash.
Now this time it's the proposed waterfront stadium in St. Petersburg. They want over $450 million of tax payer dollars to build a private business that will produce profits for its owners-not the taxpayers who have been asked to foot the bill. And you can guess what's next; they will destroy the environment with their plan to dredge and fill the bay to make more room for their monstrosity. Their proposed ball field will destroy seagrass beds right near a freshwater spring and affect endangered manatee as well as dolphin.
This article appears in Apr 29 – May 5, 2009.