It just gets more and more ridiculous.
Not content to blow $4,200 on joining another useless organization (Grand Central Texas Economic Development Corporation) – it looks like they are actually going to let Ybarra (and very likely some other hangers-on) travel to ATLANTA for the GCTEDC Conference!
Guess we have to add this to the massive list of expensive and useless conferences that the LEDC has blown tens of thousands of dollars on over the years.
First of all, these things have proven useless over the last 20 years as NONE of them have produced any tangible benefits.
Secondly – and most importantly – WHY in the hell would you have this thing in ATLANTA, GEORGIA?!?
The GCTEDC is busy telling the world how awesome Central Texas is, and you all go and travel to ATLANTA to spend your money there?! Makes zero sense.
Atlanta is a shithole. What can that city possibly have to teach them about “economic development”? If you don’t believe me, go ahead and have some dinner/drinks in the Buckhead area after the sun goes down. Twenty years ago, Buckhead was a very nice and swanky area. Now it is overrun by hoods, thugs and scumbags.
Wait, lemme guess – the moron in charge of finding a city for this thing wanted to make sure it was “diverse” enough for everyone? Absolutely outrageous.
This organization (which the LEDC now belongs to after a $4,200 donation) decides to take their convention money to ATLANTA instead of any of the dozens of nice cities/towns/hotels in the Central Texas area? Not to mention now you all need to buy airfare to travel there instead of getting in your car for 90 minutes to travel to Waco or Belton.
Fucking morons.