Please correct "Maudlin" to "Mauldin" where appearing.
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From: "Walter Waddell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history"
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Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 6:01 PM
Subject: 06161742Z13 Re: 06150018Z13 Re: Why does Virginia, alone among
states, require that its cities be discrete municipal entities from its
counties (aka Independent Cities)?
> Dear Mr. Kilby,
>
> I believe my post was wholly in context with the original statement in a
> post by another and certainly didn't ask anything as John Maudlin's quote
> did not ask anything: "Austerity is a consequence; not a punishment" but
> begins the process of uncovering the multitude of "why's" rather than
> "pinning" blame.
>
> Regards, Ray
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig Kilby" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 4:01 AM
> Subject: Re: 06150018Z13 Re: Why does Virginia, alone among states,
> require that its cities be discrete municipal entities from its counties
> (aka Independent Cities)?
>
>
> An easier way to put this is that people vote with their feet. Mr.
> Waddell needs to recognize that people are always looking for greener
> pastures. When an urban environment become untenuous, people move
> elsewhere. The question he needs to ask is why urban environments become
> unattractive for its inhabitants. Some cities grow, some die. Keeping them
> alive on life support is not sustainable. Some are able to ressurect, some
> blow away with the dust. The American landscape is littered with ghost
> towns.
>
> Craig Kilby
>
> On Jun 14, 2013, at 7:27 PM, Walter Waddell wrote:
>
>> "The entire system is responsible for many of Virginia woes, since
>> counties have no responsibility for the 20th-century issues that confront
>> a
>> neighboring city (urban poor, local transportation, crumbling school
>> systems
>> etc)."
>> -------------------------------------
>> There are many other factors such as administration and economic
>> structural re-formation that add much more complexity to the the
>> "20th-century issues" than the statement indicts.
>> "Austerity is a consequence; not a punishment." - John Maudlin
>>
>> Very Respectfully,
>> Ray
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