We came across this cartoon the other day:
We deserve better
Brutus
CRIME DOES NOT PAY! (Yeah Right!)
January 5, 2017
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Wrongheaded
January 4, 2017elrichboy over at El Chuqueno recently posted Now we know who drives the truck.
He wrote:
The City Manager publicly stated recently that the underlying philosophy that guides him (and his style of City management) can be summed up as “first we win, then we listen.
I hope that elrichboy got it wrong.
Wrongheaded
What have we come to when our public servants think that they have the right to first get what they want to happen and then listen to the public?
That approach may make sense sometimes in a military environment when dealing with an enemy, but not with the public that they are supposed to serve.
Adversaries
The city manager is supposed to implement the policies handed down to him by city council. Policy making is above his pay grade.
Winning against the citizens and then eventually listening to them is just wrong.
This is not leadership.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Individual responsibility
January 3, 2017We ran across an interesting passage the other day. The author was writing about the emerging use of corporations to control businesses in the 1860’s:
No other event has had so practical a bearing on our politics and our economic and social life as the advent of the corporate device for owning and manipulating private business. For it links the omnipotence of the State to the limitations of private ownership; it thrusts the interests of private business into every legislature that grants charters or passes regulating acts;
Then he wrote about circumstances that most of us deal with every day:
it diminishes on the other hand, that stimulus to honesty and correct dealing which a private individual discerns to be his greatest asset in trade, for it replaces individual responsibility with group responsibility and scatters ownership among so large a number of persons that sinister manipulation is possible. Samuel P. Orth
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Brutus
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Arena options
January 2, 2017We have to wonder what plan the city has to pick a location for the arena.
City council has backed off the plan to locate the arena in the Duranguito area.
They are talking now about locating the arena at the site of the existing convention center.
If they do tear down the convention center how long will it be before we are asked to approve another bond issue to build another convention center?
Like much of what council does, this plan does not make sense to many of us.
Will council have to back down on this idea?
If they do, where will they place the arena?
Would they actually have the gall to propose tearing down the city buildings that we just remodeled and give the rail road the closing of the crossings that it wants?
Where would they end up putting city hall?
It is hard to escape the feeling that they have a plan but don’t want to spring it on us quite yet.
We deserve better
Brutus
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