FactGuywrites:

“Ittakes much more to become organized and define a purpose than to follow thepath of anger. Without organization, purpose, structure, discipline, and anobjective, nothing can be accomplished. Of greater importance, is intelligence,credibility, and an ability to communicate. If there is no credibility, othershave no desire to be associated with an individual nor group, Without a messageand ability to communicate effectively, you create confusion. Without purpose,there is no desire to achieve, to overcome, to change, to succeed. Without anability to define the audience and who votes in elections, you are wasting yourtime. The reason we win is you have never found nor maintained anything butanger associated with minority status. Knowledge is power. Power is control.Control is guidance. Guidance is leadership. “   

Factguyyou are loose with the facts and distort facts as it is convenient for you todo so in avoiding all of the things that are said to you by all of those whohave responded to you in this forum.

Here aresome facts for you:

 Elections have been won in Middletown because those who havebeen in power have increased bureaucracy and intimidate them if they don’t votethe way they are told. You have MMF that is an illegal political actioncommittee and has worked to manipulate elections. You have firemen (anestimated 80% of whom live out of the city) putting on their identifying shirtsand going door to door at election time with a biased message to vote for thecities agenda instead of working just to get out the vote. They do so toguarantee their paychecks and pensions. This provides the city with anenormous, unfair (and probably illegal) voting machine that otherwise couldn’tbe afforded even by the city. The Seniors are intimidated by the threat of lackof funding if they don’t vote the cities agenda. The school Board also followsthe pattern to vote the city agenda and get school employees to vote theirsalaries instead of what is right and good and fair for the citizens of the city.Nepotism also has assured votes. Look at our police department. This is wherethe votes come from to win the elections.  Elections in Middletown are not won bycandidates honestly. This is the audience the city has defined to winelections.

BecauseMiddletown has been without organization, purpose, structure, discipline, andan objective, nothing in Middletown has been accomplished of significance toturn the city around.

Therehas been no intelligence, credibility, and ability to communicate. Thus, Ifthere is no credibility, others have no desire to be associated with the cityand without a message and ability to communicate effectively, you have createdconfusion.  This is probably theunderlying cause of citizen apathy.

Youstate, “Knowledge is power. Power is control. Control is guidance. Guidance isleadership.”  Well, power and control havebeen the main elements in Middletown city government for a long time.  Yet, the city has not turned around or prospered.Why is that? It is because the power and control has been misused and abused forpersonal interests and pet projects and not for the betterment of the entirecity.

The cityhas no clear vision or plan for its future. The 20 year plan is nebulous atbest and so are the other plans including Adkins current plan which citycouncil has failed to share with its citizenry. But then they always act insecrecy and transparency is not one of their practices.

The cityneeds a clear plan for its future. It must quit being so short sighted and mustenlarge the vision for the future. Downtown is not enough! It needs a plan withthe specific purpose of turning the city around. The plan must be specific,with a clear time line of accomplishment, specific steps for financing it and an emphasis on public safety, infrastructure and economicdevelopment. Providing jobs and transparency in our finances must be paramount. As a beginning point I offer thefollowing for consideration:

PresidentObama has designated 8.1 Billion dollars to return manufacturing back to theUnited States. Our great Governor John Kasich has designated 800 milliondollars for manufacturing for the State of Ohio.

We canget those in the fields of  Education,health, technology, lite/clean manufacturing to come here.

We needto enlarge our vision and stop the petty, stinking thinking.

It lookslike our Chamber of Commerce has got a new, active, positive and practical approach toour business needs and we should use them and encourage them to continue on.

There aresome things right about Middletown but not due to our present administration.

Ifnothing else, we can imitate what West Chester, Mason, Monroe, Springboro,Hamilton and Fairfield are doing. This city belongs to all of its taxpayingcitizens and not just to the few who are self serving. We need public servants whoare interested in serving others.

The voiceson this forum have a clear understanding of where we are and where we need togo. We should be thankful for their commitment and continued concerns.

Paul Nagy