Don't let the door hit you on the way out

 I saw news post in Nextdoor "Oakland-level embarrassed: Former mayor warns dangers of losing Spurs."  I was going to add my comment: "Go Spurs Go!  And don't let the door hit you on the way out."

But comments were already full of similar comments and no more were accepted.

American cities are classless and clueless.  From time immemorial, good cities have invested in the arts to improve their citizens and their quality of life.

Instead, in American cities, and San Antonio in particular, we blow billions of taxpayer money (that ends up in the pockets of wealthy owners, developers, and millionaire players) in pointless activities that have no beneficial effect on people's minds or bodies, stuff them full of cancer causing junk food, spoil their sleep and study time, etc.  If anything "positive" comes from this, it's pure tribalism, and that's not positive at all.  We'd be better off with gambling halls and racetracks, which at least develop a kind of numerical literacy. 

Also here in San Antonio we starve the arts, like the former San Antonio Symphony, and likewise it's successor San Antonio Philharmonic which have to pay their own way for awful facilities in awful parts of town with awful parking whose cost accrues to nearby churches.  (Actually, the parking was fine when they were at First Baptist, but now that they are at the Masonic Temple, parking is in the terrible First Presbyterian lot.)

The last Mayor, Ron Nirenberg, who let the San Antonio Symphony fail, and then refused to provide subsidies for it's successor Philharmonic, is forever seared in my mind as one of the worst.  When he was first running, he promised incredible things like mass transit, instead all we got was more billionaire developer giveaways and the initiation of Project Marvel.  No mayor was more in the pocket of developers, which is the pocket all of them are in.