Filming Returns. So does Uncompensated Individual Subsidy.

Filming has returned to my neighborhood and, with it, a reminder about the subsidies.
The filming was supposed to be yesterday with an arterial street blocked for nine hours.
The subsidy thing is that while the state’s subsidy to film companies is something with which I disagree, the matter has been well discussed and is in place. What remains mostly not considered is the subsidy through disruption of individual daily activity imposed by, in this case, closing of the street which will affect several thousand people.
If a street is closed, drivers must go around. That takes time, creating a loss of productivity, consumption of more gasoline and more. The element of surprise adds annoyance.
If I got paid for my inconvenience, say, $100 as a flat fee, I might not care. For now I continue to wonder why I am supposed to be inconvenienced without objection to help a private business.

Movie Folks Are Organized

A meeting started at 4 p.m. this afternoon to discuss the movie kickback, the subsidy that rebates spending on movie production to the people making the movie. The meeting was at the theater in the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque's South Valley.
I got there about 3:40 and breezed in. The theater was about two-thirds full. Someone was telling the audience to get into their seats because no standees were going to be allowed. I chatted with a few of the good guys on the issue—Rep. Dennis Kintigh and Rep. Janice Arnold-Jones—and left. By that time the line in front the registration desk, the desk I had ignored, was to the end of the hall and wrapped halfway back down the hall to the entry door.
My guess is that nearly all were pro-kickback. But then if your job depended on the government and if the political balance of power had shifted away from you (with the election of Susana Martinez as governor), you too would be out in force. I'm on one pro-kickback list serve. The anguish in the emails at the slightest threat is something to behold. These messages fortunately go into a spam file, but I look at them occasionally anyway. That's entertainment.