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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.

 

A Tip or two on answering the phone

You get a telephone call that looks like it could be from someone you know – as it shows the same area code as yours or a number you kinda’ think you remember.

Should you answer the call?

In either case, probably not. These may be folks fishing for your data and information, which they can use against your best interest or attempts to sell you something you may not want, nor need. And despite what the phone manufacturers and companies say, the apps on phones don’t perform as claimed. Privacy, silenced calls, blocked senders, etc., are tied to other apps that do not work properly when these apps are applied.

There’s a reason for it: The phone companies are making a profit on the calls you receive, as well as those you originate.

But if you don’t answer the phone, sometimes, you get fussed at by a friend or a business acquaintance.

There is an answer:

Only answer your phone when the incoming call is from someone in your Contacts list or it has a caller’s name associated with it.

When you receive a call from a name associated with a phone number in your Contact’s list the name and number shows on your phone. It also works this way on all of your outgoing calls when you associate your name with your telephone number. Your name
and number will display to whomever you make a phone call.

Of course, IF you’re making a lot of crank calls yourself, it may not be such a good idea. But it is something, however, that every business seeking additional customers should do.  And people who want to talk with their friends and relatives.

Business firms, medical, financial and professional offices and services spend thousands – sometimes millions – of dollars to get their names (advertising) in front of people. But they fail to take advantage of this relatively free advertising venue, which is a service to their customers and / or clients.

Why?

Or why not? Open your phone, go to Settings, then Phone. and enter your name and number.

In this age of increasing spam, phishing, ransom and malware attacks, you and your clients and customers not only want to know but need to know who is calling them.

Like a growing number of other people, IF you call and I can’t answer at the that time, and you don’t leave a message, I’m not wasting my time to call you back.

The best option for cybersecurity is just don’t cooperate with those firms that don’t want you to know who is calling.

 

Why would anyone want to talk to an unknown person at an unknown telephone number for an unknown reason?

In this digital age, the old bromide that “curiosity is a sign of intelligence” is set aside by the one reminding us that “curiosity killed the cat.”

Since voters allowed elected politicians to exchange the Private Enterprise System for State Capitalism (the partnership between Big Business and Big Government), customers, clients and taxpayers are treated as resources, instead of the firms and government being a resource for the customer or client – or the taxpayer.

 

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  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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