Left In Lowell

Recently, I blogged “YouTube is Better Than facebook,” in which I criticize facebook cheerleading practices and lauded C.Murphy for setting the standard, so far, for homespun YT campaign videos.

Well, almost immediately, the MacDonald campaign answered with a video: Who’s Listening Lowell The feedback I heard was lukewarm. So, effectively, the bar was not encroached upon. The soundtrack locked that in tight. Personally, I don’t buy into the Taxachusetts victim whimper. My sense of community goodness stretches day in and day out, not just when a hurricane, flood or tornado sweeps through. I lend a hand, when and where I can. My taxes help hold up the safety net that, frankly, we all should find comfort in knowing is there.

Things are tough, but how tough, really? There, normally, are long lines inside the local coffee shops. Wouldn’t torrid economic stress dry up the purchase of such frivilous conveniences? No one is knocking on my door asking if I need my roof done. (Which I do.) But, there seems to be a consensus that we are hurting. Maybe there are those that seek, for the purpose of this City Council race, to co-opt Phil Gramm’s weird observation:

“We have sort of become a nation of whiners. You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline,” said the former Texas senator. “You’ve heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession.”

Is John MacDonald echoing Phil Gramm’s erroneous views in his latest YouTube campaign video?:
Lowell: City Council should always remember the faces that are impacted when property taxes and fees are increased in these tough economic times.

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