[StBernard] Fines

[Westley Annis]

Jer,
 
good foder for rabal rousing, but I believe off point, but by the way
government has been fined and cited for violations from EPA and other
regulatory agencies in the past.  these ordinances are not new- other than
the fine amendment and even fines for non-compliance has been in place in
the past but levied differently.  This sounds too much like a rather
defeatist approach- if he is not doing the right thing then I am not going
to either- the dichotomy of anarchy or dictatorship doesn't fit for me on
either end.
 
I could certainly make as many arguments against enforcing anything at this
point and in the short run make people feel much better as a band aid and in
the long run contribute to a lack of permanent recovery for the parish.  I
believe it is one of the situations in life that the whole is greater than
the sum of its parts.
 
Good luck and God Bless,
Craig
 
 
-----Original Message-----
Let's put the fines on the other foot (so to speak). If the parish was
"deliquent" in picking up trash, cutting public property, cleaning public
property and disorderly in its own right, would we be as blameful in our
right to clean properties? How many times has it fined itself for neglect?
If parish government can use the "blame gamed" or can use its excuse that
they are in a financial rut to do so, why wouldn't individuals use the
similar explanation that they too, are indeed in dire straights and find
that keeping up with demands a hardship in their right?

Everyone's seen trash from the parish standpoint of view. 

Since when is the parish above the law of cleanliness and safety? If there
was a public outcry for neighbor to blame neighbor for cleaning up its act,
perhaps setting a good example would be mature and a prerequisite to model
how it should be done. If an individual is fined $100 a day, why shouldn't
the government pay 10 times that amount to the EPA, FEDS, and back to
individuals to help them get their houses gutted, property cleanup, etc.
That's fair, isn't it?

==jer--