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“Want to…”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), the 26th President of the USA, was talking about want to in stating that “We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.”

 

“Want to” … yearning … raises a lot of questions.

We begin life with want to and it seems we end life yearning for someone or something.

Yearning never quits.

When it comes to “want to”, you look at our leadership’s (or citizen’s) ability to adapt, evolve, lead with forward thought around a vision or a concept or a cohesive strategy, etc., and Paris mostly resemble Sears or Blockbuster video.

We cannot even agree on what historic restoration is or a vision or concept of what the Plaza and downtown area should be or a plan or platform that offers a cohesive concept of Paris, that will or would rebuild Paris as the North Star of Texas or as the Star of the Red River Valley.

It appears that we’ve even settled for a lack of “want to”…? Our want to seems to have packed up and gone . . .

. . . We just want to get higher, which is appreciated by Toco and Sun Valley.

Think not? Then, how long has it been since we lost the “want to” to pick up trash and stop the littering?

WHY can’t we stop it…? Shouldn’t we want to … ?

Paris is our home. People who litter crap in our kitchens and living rooms and bedrooms (and theirs). Are they really who we want as citizens?

They‘re the idiots our present policies are encouraging.

In some places, the litter almost makes it hard to see the weeds, which brings up another question: WHY are in-city weeds, that have not been cut or mowed for over 5-years, allowed to exist?  Ordinances exist that (supposedly) control in-city weeds and grasses, as well as junk, storage buildings, parking in front yards, etc., to help “Keep Paris Beautiful.” But when it comes to enforcement, the “want to” must be hiding in one of the dusty Master Plans at City Hall. 

Before we can Keep Paris Beautiful we need to Make Paris Beautiful.  (Yes, the Paris Chamber realizes that the ‘want to’ seems to be lacking, but it sure needs done.)

Is it want to or a lack of it?

A developer will gladly jump on a project that seems profitable. If a project appears unprofitable, they won’t do it. If they demand money to do it, they’re admitting it likely will not be profitable but they’re hoping that there’s a sucker somewhere.

So, WHY is the city’s leadership giving the public’s tax dollars to developers who likely believe a project will not be successful or profitable? Maybe Paris should change the city’s name to Suckerville?

And why are the City of Paris and the PEDC giving tax money from some citizens, who are barely able to make economic ends meet, to industries that have money and assets of their own?

That surpasses want to; it’s stupidity.

Why not establish a program that exchanges building materials for “sweat equity” by those with lower-incomes who have the “want to” and the ability to improve their own property (instead of giving their tax dollars to private firms that have money)?

Want to or –

– is this community damaged goods by not wanting to do the right things in favor of wanting “my pocketbook first.” Or, as some claim, Paris is full of people who are too soft-hearted to “hurt people’s feelings…” Or, as others claim, “They don’t want to…”

More likely, for waaay too many years, the leadership majority operated with the same idea: That every dollar circulating in Paris belongs to them. There’s no other logical reason why Paris has so many deteriorated neighborhoods.

They forgot – and we forget – that we’re all mutts; not a show dog among us.

Paris people are not who you think they are

They are not who they think they are

They are who they think you think they are

They will browbeat you until you think you are

who they think you are

You do not want to be who they think you are

Or be who they think they are.

 

When you’re dead, you don’t know you’re dead.
The pain is felt by others .

The same thing happens when you’re stupid.
-Unknown

 

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A private-public partnership is the epitome` of democratic socialism. It’s a fancy Excuse for the illogical use of public money for a private purpose.

Private-Public Partnerships are the fertilizer that grows government control. And when government’s tentacles are spread throughout every department, agencies and office, when it becomes an accepted — even when hated — national way of life,  there’s nothing democratic about it: Its just socialism-in-the-raw.

YOUR energy, your labor, talent, ideas, imagination; your private money; your ability to improve economic opportunities for your family; and your personal freedom is taken to be given to a private entity for its private purpose.  Behind all the rose-colored glasses, the half-truths, selected facts, and the deliberate lies — all the Happy Talk — democratic socialism is the path to a socialistic totalitarian government. 

How much of what is yours are they entitled to?  And if a little bit of it won’t hurt you, neither will cancer. (Until its too late.)

A small scale example is the planned development in Paris, Texas, by the partnership of Dallas-based Javelin Investment Group and the Paris Housing Authority.

Council members approved an eight-acre site for a multi-story 60-unit apartment for Section 8 families and private-pay clients by the group and the housing authority. By using this as an excuse, in its desire to show “progress”, the council also approved granting commercial and residential tax abatement on the 19-acre block owned by the private investors.

Go down to City Hall and declare your intention not to pay your property taxes for seven or ten years.

Javelin is in the business to make money.

The city is forcing taxpayers to give it to them.

The Paris Texas Chamber realizes that the nation is well on its way to socialism, but what brain freeze dreamed this nonsense up?

Why will the city provide private developers opportunities it will not allow taxpayers who have paid the bills for years? Instead, over just the last two years, it increase the budget over 7-percent (roughly $5 million), dumping the responsibility for it on in-city residents.

There’s nothing fair or balanced – or even intelligent – about what Paris is doing; its merely a scheme to benefit the few by stiffing the majority; and cover the resulting manure pit with Happy Talk.

Socialist Eugene V. Debs made a great-sounding speech in Girard, Kansas, in 1908, which became his public platform: “When we are in partnership and have stopped clutching each other’s throats, when we have stopped enslaving each other, we will stand together, hands clasped, and be friends. We will be comrades, we will be brothers, and we will begin the march to the grandest civilization the human race has ever known.”

Dream on, brother, dream on!!! But someone must make decisions. Debs never could agree on who that someone should be … he ran for president five times.

In his first race, in 1900, Debs was the candidate of the Social Democratic Party, which led to the formation of the Socialist Party. In 1920, as its candidate, he received almost one million votes, 6% of the total.

In 2020, slightly over 50% of American voters case ballots to increase the role of government.

 

Since 1900, millions of people who, voluntarily or non-voluntarily, entered a promised “democratic socialism” partnership have been killed by their government. The dead surpassed 30-million in China; 6-million plus in Germany; an estimated 12 to 15 million in Russia. Cambodia killed killed half its citizens. Other countries have slaughter hundreds of hundred thousands. And millions of people today live in human misery and enslavement under the same generic dream – the “democratic socialism” – of Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, and Indo-China and Mid-East nations, and others, that seek control of resources and the means of production.

And there’s no accountability . . .

There’s not even an apology.

In recent years, both major parties have gradually endorsed many of the ideas Debs advocated. Its why the nation is absolutely divided – and $34-trillion in debt.

So what does this have to do with Paris Texas?

Suckers always believe that government can manage or guarantee happiness. But if we can’t do it for ourselves, how can those in government do it for us?

What Paris is doing reflects a wide range of misinterpretations of sound community and economic development, and a serious lack of a common knowledge of socialism’s devious and complicated evolution, and how it operates in practice across the political spectrum.

Those encouraging socialism are mentally-ill people who should never be in leadership positions.

Government favoritism – democratic socialism – is wrong, whether in Paris or Austin Texas, or Nutland DC.

Or, any nation. 

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