Mike T, you better be on staff at COW. If you're doing this much of a sales pitch for free you're getting ripped off. The City is being quite open that they don't care what the citizens want. In typical liberal fashion you have to resort to name calling to fake your point. "Investment" and socialist redistribution of wealth are not the same thing. And maybe the Durham citizens didn't dry up, they gave up. I don't think southeastern NCers are as much of a push over. Remember, Monkey Junction successfully fought back the Spendocrats in COW.