Posted 9 months ago by parischamber

private-public opportunities are not allowed taxpayers

When private money is taken to spent on a public-private purpose, the private-public partnership is the epitome` of socialism. An example being the planned development in Paris, Texas, by the partnership of the 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 a 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 increased 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.

There’s no accountability.

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. As its candidate in 1920, he received almost one million votes, 6% of the total.

In 2020, with the private-public State Capitalism partnership of Big Business and Big Government in full force, slightly over 50% of American voters cast 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 the 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 – socialism – is wrong, whether in Paris or Austin Texas, or Nutland DC.

Or, any nation.

Dissent

Posted 10 months ago by parischamber

dissent

Some people don’t like those who dissent from their ideas on how some things are done. They especially don’t like dissent by the Paris Texas Chamber of Commerce.

Since January 6, 2024, we’ve had two emails telling us that those in charge of “the way things are done” don’t like us.

We don’t care. We don’t trust people without a sense of humor or who cannot or are unwilling to think.

People who don’t have good ideas always throw rocks at people who do. It makes them feel better.

But there’s no growth or progress without intelligent dissent.

Dissent brings transition, changing that swirl of information within our minds, separating and streamlining and bringing clarity to that jumble of conflicting thoughts and emotions.

Without dissent there would never be a horse race or a football game. (My horse can beat your horse; my team can beat your team, etc.)

Unfortunately, the emotionally-disturbed and mentally-deranged disguise “dissent” and, like spoiled children, angrily use it to get their own way; going on a crying spree or a temper tantrum. But that’s not dissent, it’s destructive behavior, which should never be tolerated by adults.

Those eager or willing to preserve the status quo use dissent as an example of something undesired or harmful.

Ideas, however, should always be welcomed as not all ideas have the same value. Where people have a choice bad ideas eventually die – as shown by quick fads, styles, and no-taste that come and go. A good idea, one of an enduring value, however, will stand the test of time – and the challenge of dissent.

An endless variety of thieves – ranging from purse-snatchers, to those who steal from friends, private homes, businesses, banks, or even the tax from the Widow’s mite ( to give to the rich) – act on a bad idea.

Facing all this dishonesty is the great idea of dissent summed up in four little words: “You shall not steal.”

But we will have government do it for us . . .

And we have a government fighting to preserve a status quo while actively ignoring the idea that “Good fences make good neighbors.” And if you dissent from government policies, you are an extremist or domestic terrorists.

There must be dissent.

Without dissent, how do we know the value of what we’re doing? What are the yardsticks we’re using to measure the benefits of some idea?

Sooner or later, all ideas need challenging.

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A Public Information (BS) Officer

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A Public Information (BS) Officer?

Posted 10 months ago by parischamber

the paris texas city manager tells us the city is adding a Public Information (BS) Officer to the staff.

Paris needs a public information officer like a stray dog needs more fleas.

While two years of weeds were still standing in some places and a new crop growing all over town, the City of Paris grew an assistant city manager and a deputy city manger to help the city manager to grow more government.

As the Paris Texas Chamber of Commerce previously asked, What did Paris need most, weeds cut or a larger city administration?”

Can anyone explain to local taxpayers why the city’s government is growing when the U. S. Census show that Paris has been losing population since 2000?

In the last two years alone, the city budget grew in excess of seven percent (at 3.5% compounded each year) which, in ten years, will add an estimated 40-percent to the taxpayer’s cost of government.

Over the last 2-years, have city services gotten 7% better? Were 7% of the city streets improved? Older neighborhoods improved 7%? Net jobs increased 7%? Have family net incomes across the board increased by 7%? In-city population increased by 7%?

Paris has been, and is, told a lot of things. Some are true; most are not. An example being, “No new taxes.” (Tax rates, like appraisals, can go down or up or stay the same. When appraised values go up, and rates stay the same, you still pay more. The increase is a new tax.)

Appraisals are guesstimates on market value, and when the guess is not correct, it’s wrong. A property’s actual value is only determined by its sold price, which has little to do with appraisal guesstimates.

Adding two new assistant city managers have certainly increased the city’s administrative costs over 7% — and we’re now adding a Public Information (or BS) Officer, who will spend 30–percent of their time telling us how things are going good in Paris, 33.5-percent covering up for city managers and assistants and council members, 66.5–percent in liaison (politicking) with friends to get their stories straight, and 90-percent of the time hoping some of us believe (him, her, or whatever alphabet they prefer).

The weeds keep standing, litter continues its decorating of streets, cars and other vehicles are parked in front yards, junk is in open view, and Paris increases the city budget to assure an administrative control overload.

It is in development and implementation of policies that encourage private business investments in local families and neighborhoods, which keep the economic gates open to equal economic opportunity, are how communities are more likely to achieve success.

Government is like tying one end of a 100-foot rope around your neck and the other end to an 18-wheeler leaving a Kerrville, Texas, truck stop on its way to El Paso – 490 miles and 7 hours and 30 minutes away on Interstate 10. The first 200-feet are not so bad.