Wilmington Should be Shut Down and Return to Pig Farming!

Miami Valley Representatives Prepare For $825B Battle - News Story - WHIO Dayton

Republican Rep. Michael Turner, a former mayor of Dayton, said he remains undecided on the President's stimulus plan. Turner said he's concerned the $825 billion might not trickle down into a city like Wilmington, which is suffering massive job losses in the wake of DHL's shutdown. Turner told WHIOTV.COM, "In this stimlulus package, there isn't an opportunity for the president to direct funds to some of the hardest hit areas."

I have a plan to save the City of Dayton's Schools and stimulate the housing sector. Forgive all of the mortgages for Wilmington homes, close them down and move everyone to Dayton. Simple! Why put off the inevitable? The houses is Wilmington can be taken down, moved or recycled into insulation; which will provide a great number of jobs for the Miami Valley.

Do you ever wonder why Ohio and Dayton continue to be the hardest hit areas? Poor leadership, elected by the uneducated because WHIO and the Dayton Daily News do not do there jobs.

Dayton Daily News says "Keep Digging"

Dayton Daily News does not see any reason to change course, what goes down must go up! I do not subscribe to this Laissez faire attitude anymore than Ben and Paul. The "free market" acolytes have certainly been bailing, with your tax days, pretty hard to keep Business As Usual afloat. America deserves it's plight as there are only two soothing responses for the people - the military and the markets.

America has squandered its wealth on large, poorly built houses sprawling over farmland, while it has sent its treasure of fine young men and wealth to the deserts and the mountains. I say when you are in a hole, stop digging.

What Dayton and America has to face is "an about face" or admitting we were wrong. Can that happen? It does not seem so, we seem to be waiting for.... cue Sarah She looked in my eyes and said, 'Yes, I think I will see Jesus come back to earth in my lifetime.'"

OY VEY - Is this what America has come to? Nothing but a consolidated effort of reaching out to our enemies and reconfiguring America back to an electrified rail, with less sprawl, will allow us to avoid falling back to a third world country. The automobile and globalization are dead, so we should invest in our region and forget the worlds problem. If Jesus is coming back, he will not need any help from Sarah and John.

One storm would've been plenty this week, but now there's a financial crisis

Auto companies and manufacturers have been at the heart of U.S. economic problems in recent years. Therefore the Miami Valley has been hit particularly hard. Problems in the financial industry are not as directly focused on southwest Ohio, but they reach Ohio directly through big banks and insurance companies. The region's pre-existing condition makes it especially vulnerable.

And yet, financial analysts seem to agree that when the markets go down, they ultimately go up. Maybe that's another way the Wall Street situation and the Ohio situations intersect.

Does Anyone Admit They Are Wrong? Is it Our Achilles Heal?

The data builds, but our stubborn nature will allow us to rationalize any situation because we refuse to admit we are wrong?

The peak oil culture wars - How the World Works - Salon.com

Partisan conservatives pooh-pooh peak oil (and human-caused climate change) because they think that to concede that these challenges are real and must be confronted is to acknowledge that greed is not always good, and that free market capitalism must be restrained, or at least tinkered with substantially. Peak oil and climate change are fronts in the culture wars, and to some conservatives, watching the price of oil rise as the Arctic ice melts, it might feel like being in Germany at the close of World War II, with the Russians advancing on one front while U.S.-led forces come from the other. The propositions that cheap oil is running out and the world is getting hotter -- as a result of our own activities -- threaten a whole way of life. The very idea that dirty Gaia-worshipping hippies might be right is absolute anathema.

Do You Feel It Yet?

Is your budget impacted by Energy Costs?
Is your life not what You Thought?
While it may be New to You.
There are things you Can Do!
As All is not LOST!

Interesting Merger Study Gets Sprung During Spring Break - Cville and Washington Township to Merge?

The sky is falling as the decisions of the Township and Centerville are considering coming together, but why? The audience was worked up and it appeared that Kingseed and Young wanted it done, but it was only a meeting for a study. The study should be done, but what are the real reasons.

Presenter: Odds do not favor merger

Washington Twp. Trustee Lee Snyder said the expansion of Social Row Road is estimated at $17 million and improvements to Clyo Road are estimated at $15 to $20 million.

The study said it would cost more for police services in a merger, but it didn't calculate the full cost, said Tom Zobrist, Washington Twp. fiscal officer. To keep the city's current 1.7 ratio of officers per 1,000 residents, the merged entity would need twice as many new officers. If the city's current cost per officer is $137,166, the estimated cost for a merged department would be more than $12 million, he said. Police services cost about $2.97 million for the township and $5.76 million for the city in 2006, he said.

Centerville Mayor Mark Kingseed said a merger would help make sure revenue sources are there so residents "would not have to rely on the county for handouts. It would allow this community to be in control of its own destiny," he said. "The thing that concerns me is that the burden of property taxes is going to get worse and worse," he said. "The property tax burden is just going to crush people."

Oregon District Tonight - Excellent Art, Music and Belly Dancing

Stop down in the Oregon district and checkout the happenings at the Color of Energy. There will be Belly Dancing, music at the Paccia, Painting and maybe some handicapping for the Florida Derby. It is a beautiful night: Come on Down. Here is the Calender of Events.

The Color of Energy: A Mike Elsass Gallery

Caravan Workshops

Is This Logic Ironic To You?

I love parsing newspaper editorials and there is no better
place than Dayton Ohio to evaluate weasel wording.
Ohioans spend a great deal of their money at casinos in neighboring states, but
still retain enough hypocrisy to keep any revenue from gambling in
Ohio and the latest attempt by the Indians appears to be dead, but you have to
love rationale common sense of the DDN editorial staff in justifying a
Bush decision, which goes like this:



Because Americans drove the Shawnees out of Ohio more than a hundred years ago
and Ohioans vote, that justifies keeping the Indian Casinos out. I mean this
type of reasoning got the US
into Iraq
and allows Americans to justify killing other people for their resources. So
how about this reasoning - Iraqis, Iranians and Saudi Arabians obviously do not
understand how to use the oil wisely and the US voted; so we are justified to
drive them out and take what is rightfully ours.



Our
view: Feds get it right about Indian casinos

So long as the law allowing for Indian casinos really does
result in a significant number of Indian casinos — so long as it's not a dead
letter — there's just something commonsensical about a regulation saying that a
casino's location ought to have some connection with a tribe's residence for
the last century. Let the big decisions about gambling in Ohio be made essentially by Ohioans.

I think it is funny that Ohio,
and therefore Ohioans, is an Indian Word.