Pensions Are Outdated

No additional,or new taxes will solve this very complicated problem.Pensions must be outlawed in the future if the city is holding them. Jacksonville has the resources and ability to pay these contracted pensions, for now. The leadership finds it far easier to place the burden on taxpayers, once again, then reign in ridiculous expenditures for studies, stop the hemorrhaging practice for excusing non-profits from paying taxes, and allowing churches to amass fortunes in wealth from tax-exempt lands. Speaking to the argument that the churches do so much for free to help our community, I'd like to see in black and white numbers how the "good deeds" are actually translating into dollar for dollar giving. In other words, if a church owns land worth 10 million dollars, then let me see ten million dollars worth of receipts going to house the poor, save our environment, or other such accounting for their privilege of not paying the public back for their exempt property status. And that's just the beginning.Instead of keeping old buildings up to code so they can be re-sold, the city has ignored,bulldozed, and lost taxes on prime properties. Personal residences have been allowed to deteriorate without enforcing building code violations. All you need to do is go to the permitting site online and see for yourself which buildings and residences have been neglected. A roof lasts just so long, especially in this climate.Air-conditioners last an average of seven years.Hot water heaters must be replaced on a regular basis.Instead our Council argues over whether or not chickens can be in residential neighborhoods,rock music must be banned because it disturbs a handful of religious maniacs on the river, or slips legislation through without public knowledge that is selling 136 million gallons of our river water a day to Central Florida. We seem to be more interested in killers like Dunn, or running a marathon than getting wormy-Golums out of our city politics, especially the Council. Our D.A. is a prime example.Why in this world are we throwing more money at another Dunn trial? He will die in prison.He deserves it.
Back to the pension problem. I just cannot get excited about people that rely on anybody but themselves for retirement benefits. I did it myself, but also paid attention in school,worked my way through school, and chose a profession that would make me money. I have had a number of careers, not just one. I never expected a free handout from my family, friends, or god. My destiny has been my own. People do not want to work, and love quick,painless fixes until they discover there are no such things out there.
The lack of health care has resulted in 26,000 deaths.This is just one cite among hundreds on the internet. Any church in town paying for health coverage for a poor person? I bet they pay for retreats on a regular basis.
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Home/Daily-Reports/2012/June/21/mortalit...

Dunn andd Zimmerman

I know of no law, I am speaking of the "stand your ground", that isn't misused. Dunn was a murderer, and Zimmerman a vigilante. Cory chose to go after 1st degree murder, instead of second degree murder. Her big torture device hung shiny around her neck. Dunn will go to prison for 75 years with no chance of parole. That's pretty much the end of Dunn. The media chose to exploit, and give air time to the point of nausea to Dunn and Zimmerman. There were so many other issues during those weeks that took were truly newsworthy. Our media, and poor leadership of the D.A. caused a mistrial, and the taxpayers will pay for it.Still people want to kill Dunn twice.
Small minds will see this as racist.Last Saturday on the stretch between University to Phillips Highway along Old St.Augustine Road, the black churches which dot the area, were and have been packed. Megaphones blared with slurs, and the music coming out of cars was turned up full force.So what? The "what" I speak of is that once religion solved problems, now it simply creates them. Killing,disrespect,power,force, and greed come from our church members.The Bible is a heinous collection of rabid stories that rival Grimm(the fairy tale book not the TV show). They came from people who wondered where the sun slept at night.Goodness,respect,integrity,honor,faith and honesty come from within. Churches have become the meetings out of the Sunshine. They tell their members how to vote, and are strategy sessions, not prayer groups.They are the daytime Sunday nightclubs for hook-ups.They are clubs for the poor. They advocate violence, and are the mafia.That has always been their history, and continues today. They are about war not peace as they always have been.

Vitti Announces Separation of the Sexes in Education

Hamas requires the separation of the sexes when it allows women to be educated.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/04/201342101959704457.html
Orthodox Judaism requires the separation of the sexes in prayer, and many ceremonial, and secretive rituals for both men and women.
Wood County,West Virginia requires the separation of the sexes and there are blatant differences in the quality of education for women.
http://forcechange.com/30911/stop-gender-segregation-at-public-school/
This is a huge step backwards for Duval County, steeped in religious overtones, disaggregation attitudes, and is costly. There is absolutely no reason for this 19th century approach to education, when a higher education wasn't suitable for women, or minorities.
http://www.chesapeake.edu/library/EDU_101/eduhist_19thC.asp
http://www.units.muohio.edu/mcguffeymuseum/student_exhibits/site/oxford%...
http://www.chesapeake.edu/library/EDU_101/eduhist_19thC.asp
You have to be against this "wolf-in-sheeps-clothing" approach to public education.This is yet another way to keep women subservient, and a door open to persecute races.
Vitti is dangerous, and his Republican ultra religious cronies a threat to our freedom.Education will soon be for the haves,while laying the foundation for denying education to all.