Josh Mandell espouses 'we must have transparency' in government while elections are held constitutionally when the lowest voter turnout occurs. Witness the school board levies in February, in May, in August. All to stymie voter turnout. Yet, democrats decry foul on having some sort of voter id to vote, caused by conservatives. Dems feel the pain of the lower and middle class they espouse, while decrying the need to raise cell phone taxes to 18-25%, in Ohio, its greater than 15%, the gas tax, utility payment tax, and on and on.

Bill and Hillary Clinton make north of 130 Mm in a period less than 10 years, with clear correlation of her using her position as SOS to troll for cash for Bill, and Obama creates racial unrest and hatred to churn the next voter turnout of minorities in 2016. Yest, she leads in the polls. It her turn, one must break the glass ceiling. Baltimore run by a Dem admin since the 1930's, with billions of dollars pumped into it, to no avail. Unemployment high, crime high, and the solution espouses is 'we must give more money to tech education, students, etc.' Sounds comparable to Middletown.

This city and this state and this country, is filled with intellectually challenged individuals that have lost their way, have little moral compass, and have completely checked out of proper functionality. A year ago, Middletown brought on board a new city manager using the dictionary of new century vernacular. Disruptive force, game change, re-imagine, paradigm, right-source, and others in a hip vernacular taken out of the Harvard Business Review articles on GE. What has been accomplished? Levies passed, schools stuck on going nowhere, property values shrinking, and roads still a mess. High taxes on property by the way, does not drive house valuation up, it has the opposite effect. A buyer factors into the financial calculus, the cost of taxes associated with library, schools, income tax, and all that makes Middletown and Butler Cty so ridiculously higher than Warren.

All there is for forward thinking is getting worse and the country losing its eminent position by the end of 2099 if not before. Middletown for decades has simply reflective of what is to come of the state and the country. Always the trendsetter. Greed, ignorance, crony capitalism, and other factors brought it down. All the kings horses and all the kings men, won't be Middletown together again. Nor running the rainy day fund down to 15%, driving property values down with all these levy taxes in a depressed demand market, and so many working on the exit strategy.

At the end of the day, we all are with stupid.  

     

When is City Hall going to require some action on the complettion of the Journal Building?