MineEvolved
04-04-2018, 06:32 PM
Ever hear of a website/app called nextdoor? It's a forum catering to clusters of neighborhood residents. I tried it out today, to see if they actually talked about things like rampaging niggers in their midst. Sadly, I didn't see much but the usual liberal coddling about addicts, vacant housing rehabilitation, signage, pit bulls, etc...yet, they all lament and whine about the 'condition' of the neighborhoods...so I decided to sign up and contribute. Here's my opener/introductory post (obviously targeted to a different audience):
I'm a little late to the conversation, apologies. I've lived in Dayton for 50 years, and in my neighborhood for about 16 now. My wife and I are homeowners, and every day, I am filled with disgust at what these once very solidly middle-class neighborhoods have become.
I get on here to look around, I read some of the posts from others, lamenting the current state of affairs in Dayton. Strangely enough, what I don't see is anyone actually putting their fingers on the pulse of the problem. There are several, and before you read any further, a word of caution: Many people won't LIKE what I'm going to say. In a nutshell, (and I'll use PC/leftist approved codewords here, out of consideration for the 'sensitive') the problems are:
City leadership (or lack of it), prostitution, the opioid epidemic (I won't call it a drug problem, because it's gone way past that), transient welfare families, most of whom haven't any idea how to manage the cleanliness of their own front yards, let alone something 50 feet further away, as evidenced by the MOUNDS OF GARBAGE found everywhere, particularly in the alleys and streets. And finally, all the questionable night-time activity up and down Main Street, and the neighborhoods around it. Which is a surprise, seeing as there is nothing to do along Main Street in the evening that any reasonable person would call 'traditional'.
But, let's back up and have look at a few of these things. I'll start with what we should be starting with, since it's the living, beating heart of all-things-wrong in this city (and nation), and the single largest contributing factor to all the other problems: Entitlement spending, or welfare. When we prop someone up almost endlessly, when we continually reward a person for their poor life choices (indeed, generations of people), neighborhoods like these are what we get.
Many (not all, but many) of the livable homes along our street are rented out under section 8 guidelines these days, with absentee owners who take NO responsibility, nor held liable, for how their properties are used. As TAX PAYING homeowners, my wife and I have no say in how this process unfolds. The house right next door to me has been rented out 8-9 times in the last 10 years. No one asks me if it's ok if it becomes a drug house with 5 pit bulls out back, barking all night long and fighting each other. (I've been the cause of this house being raided in the past.) No one asks me if it's ok if the residents have BBQ porch parties until 1-2 am, with complete disregard for their neighbors' needs for such inconvenient things as sleep. No one asks me if I might object to my cars being broken into, or my garage, by the 'guests and cousins' of the people living there. No one asks me if I'd mind cleaning up their unmanaged filth that blows into my yard, into the alley, the street, the sewers... As transient residents, they have no 'skin in the game'. They move in, they exist, generally without any noticeable purpose, they move out, often after being evicted, and on the way out, the property is often gutted for copper and other items to be sold for a few bucks at the scrapyard, and the cycle begins again, after more money is thrown away rehabbing the property for the next bunch that will come along and destroy it. Transient residents, and their visitors (and additional, unapproved live-ins), will do 1000-3000 dollars damage to a car while breaking into it, to steal something worth maybe 100 bucks. Homeless transients will break into vacant homes and light fires on the carpet and fill the house with human waste, because there's no running water for the toilets. So, not only do they burn, they give off a wonderful aroma while doing so. I have SEEN all of this with my own eyes.
I could go ON AND ON about this issue, but I think the reader by now must get the point. Let's move on the next major issue this city faces: Completely feckless leadership. All of you DO realize that a couple short years ago, our mayor was on TV, clamoring to become a 'sanctuary' city? Quite willing to take in a population whose political, religious, and cultural beliefs are so radically different from our own, as to be actually dangerous to human life? Don't believe me? Read up on what's happening in western Europe right now, as a direct result of current immigrant/refugee migration policy. Make a friend in Germany, or France, or Sweden (where rapes and assaults are at an all time historic high), and ask them what they think about this city's ideas of relocating middle eastern 'refugees', still living in the 14th century, here to Dayton. Good ol' Nan Whaley wanted to bring that cultural enrichment to all of you. And even today, the lemmings are still singing her praises. Her, and the liberal, swinging-door judges that infest this city, are the FIRST things that have to go, if any of you living in these neighborhoods EVER want to see the recovery you all clamor for.
Want to know why the houses you'd like to see torn down aren't being torn down? I'm just guessing here, but it may have something to with the fact that as the population declines, (and is replaced with a population who don't pay taxes), tax receipts decline. As tax receipts decline, less money is available for demolition. (and to my view, money that IS available right now, either from property taxes or federal grants, is being spent on Narcan for these idiot opioid addicts) Because of that, these blights on the landscape still stand. I have one that burned out the better part of 8-9 years ago, just down the street from me. Couple our sorry leadership with a local judiciary who won't prosecute many offenders on a bet, and this is where we are. They also have NO problem sticking all of the recently released sex offenders in our midst. Blaming police response? That's laughable. Cops can't be everywhere at once, and they do a thankless job as it is. Also, it's worth mentioning that their manpower is one half to one third of what it was a generation ago. (those darned property taxes again)
Which leads us, quite naturally, to the question of crime in our midst. Honestly, does anyone reading this have trouble connecting the dots to the two issues I've gone on about above? Cause and effect? Poor, ineffective leadership, coupled with a legal system that has almost completely abdicated its responsibility to its citizens? Entitlement spending, which historically does not bring the best, brightest, sensible, unviolent, productive members of our society to the table? None of that factors into the question of rising and violent crime coming into our neighborhoods? Prostitutes walk past my house daily, as do drug mules, lookouts, and those simply looking for a 'soft target' to burglarize or accost. I go to bed nightly to the sound of gunfire in the not-too-far-off distance. Private, fenced property is used everyday as a pathway from one street, through someone's yard, through an alley, through someone else's yard, to the next street over, with complete and total disregard for the rights and considerations of those property owners. Women (5 of them, last time I checked) are found DEAD and dumped in empty lots recently, and the neighborhoods barely raise a fuss. But, let's have a march for peace, or hold a rally for the dead, to make ourselves feel better about the fact that it wasn't one of us. We've been engaged in nonsense solutions like this for about 30 years now, do any of you feel all warm and fuzzy about the 'progress' being made by such exercises in futility?
All of this can be a bit overwhelming, I'll admit. It's not everyday that people in general are called out for their heinous lack of courage to address issues in any meaningful way. I know I can't do it, as much as I desire to. Right now I'm just one guy, screaming into the wind. Until other people stand up and take a more active and STERN position about the condition of their communities, nothing will change. As I stated earlier, things that can be done by civilians are things no one wants to clamor about. Mostly because they're ever so afraid of being called a name, like intolerant, or racist, or God forbid, a republican. If anyone is actually interested in doing something meaningful, you might start with:
Vote for quality leadership. And, stop pulling the damned Democrat lever! Get rid of this mayor, this city council, this local judiciary. Get people installed that will DO THE JOB. That's not going to be your typical democrat, those who want to enlarge and enhance the 'victim' classes, or grow entitlement spending. In all fairness, we might only still have Nan Whaley as our fearless leader because she ran UNOPPOSED, which means no one else apparently cares enough about our city to throw their name in the hat. Had I known, I might have actually considered it.
Demand (loudly, publicly) that these blighted, destroyed homes be torn down, or rehabbed and sold to prospective *homeowners*. That restores the tax base. That makes residents have 'skin in the game'. That encourages economic development. That reduces the number of HUD hovels (I like to call them HUDvels) in our midst. Demand that local laws be passed that hold absentee homeowners (and their designated property management companies) renting out to section 8 be held liable for the actions of their tenants. Demand that they be held liable for being a primary cause of the appraised value of YOUR property going through the floor.
Demand (loudly, publicly) the discontinuation of the use of multiple doses of Narcan on opioid addicts. This is a harsh one, but ask yourselves: HOW many times must the taxpayer (the ones paying for the cost of the Narcan doses) keep saving the lives of people who seem bound and determined to kill themselves? Once I can understand, I'm not above the idea of a second chance for anyone, but I personally know cops who have had to go to the same addicts on the same day, to snap them out of a second (even third) overdose. How long should we consider that pattern of 'saving people from themselves' reasonable?
Demand (loudly, publicly) constant harrassment and interdiction of prostitutes and other individuals along Main street, particularly at night. A constant message being sent: "You are not welcome to ply your trade here, and bad things are going to happen if you continue trying to". Work with the cops, demand and support the creation of a police team whose entire job is interdiction of people who are obviously engaged in criminal or suspicious activity. (For the record, I am fully approving of both profiling and stop-and-frisk, I don't give a damn WHO it offends. At some point, common sense has to prevail.)
Demand (loudly, publicly) that the judiciary stop taking the easy way out, along with prosecutors looking to pad their conviction rates through the plea-bargain process, and start exercising their judicial muscle towards sentencing a multiple offender to MAXIMUM allowable prison time, rather than minimum. If the jails are overcrowded as a result, well gee, we seem to have a lot of vacant property in this city that could be converted to house convicts.
Additionally, (and frankly, this might be the most important item on this list) demand (loudly, publicly) that the local MEDIA start reporting crime with an eye towards accuracy and degree. People might begin to wake up to the threats they face if they got anything resembling an accurate picture of just how bad these neighborhoods, and their city, have become. In short, demand that they stop whitewashing the news, and do their jobs without the clearly partisan leftist tilt they give major news stories. IMHO, they can start by discontinuing interviews with Nan.
The above items are things you can actually accomplish, with a little effort. I suppose we could talk about 'JOBS', but then again, if you had millions of dollars to bring industry to this area, would you do it? The people who had the millions to invest have largely bailed. They've all gone elsewhere. GM Truck and Bus, Delphi, Cooper Tire, NCR (I still chuckle when I remember they actually thought Atlanta, Georgia was somehow a better choice than here, would could go wrong with that plan?), Mead, endless numbers of small businesses that were supporting the major players who left. Downtown Dayton has become a collection of antique shoppes and coffee bars, those powerhouses of large scale employment opportunities. Pillbox flats and apartments abound, and are built at a steady pace. Just the other day, the one remaining gem of Downtown Dayton, the Schuster Center, received an advanced tutorial in cultural enrichment, when Mike Epps and his comedy crew came to town. Now, we'll need a SWAT presence to enjoy a show and a night out on the town, I guess. If we didn't have WPAFB, we'd be in even more trouble than we are now, economically speaking. On the plus side, we have a number of fine educational institutions, whose offerings include things like 'Feminist Studies' degrees. That's sure to bring employers running.
Finally, before any of you who might be offended by my observations gets it into your heads to start typing out furious replies, let me save you the trouble. I couldn't care less. I've had my fill of watching the destruction of my home, my city, and my country by the whining, self-entitled victim classes, and the politicians who pander to them, who largely create problems they then have no interest in helping to solve. I'm only here to give a little badly-needed perspective to the concerns of others being expressed here. I live here too, and my opinion is just as valid, if not more so in some instances, as anyone else's, and I won't be shamed, shouted over, or otherwise emasculated over expressing that opinion. You'll also be kind enough to recognize that I have worked diligently to avoid references to things like race and gender in my little rant here. I can find worthless, morally corrupt, thoughtless people in any demographic or position in society, rich or poor. What we have (or don't have), or things like skin color, isn't supposed to be the determining factor in WHO we are. When you embrace and celebrate those who take whatever they can, and give nothing back, well, that's why your neighborhoods look the way they do. Have a nice MLK day.
I am currently awaiting replies... :lol
I'm a little late to the conversation, apologies. I've lived in Dayton for 50 years, and in my neighborhood for about 16 now. My wife and I are homeowners, and every day, I am filled with disgust at what these once very solidly middle-class neighborhoods have become.
I get on here to look around, I read some of the posts from others, lamenting the current state of affairs in Dayton. Strangely enough, what I don't see is anyone actually putting their fingers on the pulse of the problem. There are several, and before you read any further, a word of caution: Many people won't LIKE what I'm going to say. In a nutshell, (and I'll use PC/leftist approved codewords here, out of consideration for the 'sensitive') the problems are:
City leadership (or lack of it), prostitution, the opioid epidemic (I won't call it a drug problem, because it's gone way past that), transient welfare families, most of whom haven't any idea how to manage the cleanliness of their own front yards, let alone something 50 feet further away, as evidenced by the MOUNDS OF GARBAGE found everywhere, particularly in the alleys and streets. And finally, all the questionable night-time activity up and down Main Street, and the neighborhoods around it. Which is a surprise, seeing as there is nothing to do along Main Street in the evening that any reasonable person would call 'traditional'.
But, let's back up and have look at a few of these things. I'll start with what we should be starting with, since it's the living, beating heart of all-things-wrong in this city (and nation), and the single largest contributing factor to all the other problems: Entitlement spending, or welfare. When we prop someone up almost endlessly, when we continually reward a person for their poor life choices (indeed, generations of people), neighborhoods like these are what we get.
Many (not all, but many) of the livable homes along our street are rented out under section 8 guidelines these days, with absentee owners who take NO responsibility, nor held liable, for how their properties are used. As TAX PAYING homeowners, my wife and I have no say in how this process unfolds. The house right next door to me has been rented out 8-9 times in the last 10 years. No one asks me if it's ok if it becomes a drug house with 5 pit bulls out back, barking all night long and fighting each other. (I've been the cause of this house being raided in the past.) No one asks me if it's ok if the residents have BBQ porch parties until 1-2 am, with complete disregard for their neighbors' needs for such inconvenient things as sleep. No one asks me if I might object to my cars being broken into, or my garage, by the 'guests and cousins' of the people living there. No one asks me if I'd mind cleaning up their unmanaged filth that blows into my yard, into the alley, the street, the sewers... As transient residents, they have no 'skin in the game'. They move in, they exist, generally without any noticeable purpose, they move out, often after being evicted, and on the way out, the property is often gutted for copper and other items to be sold for a few bucks at the scrapyard, and the cycle begins again, after more money is thrown away rehabbing the property for the next bunch that will come along and destroy it. Transient residents, and their visitors (and additional, unapproved live-ins), will do 1000-3000 dollars damage to a car while breaking into it, to steal something worth maybe 100 bucks. Homeless transients will break into vacant homes and light fires on the carpet and fill the house with human waste, because there's no running water for the toilets. So, not only do they burn, they give off a wonderful aroma while doing so. I have SEEN all of this with my own eyes.
I could go ON AND ON about this issue, but I think the reader by now must get the point. Let's move on the next major issue this city faces: Completely feckless leadership. All of you DO realize that a couple short years ago, our mayor was on TV, clamoring to become a 'sanctuary' city? Quite willing to take in a population whose political, religious, and cultural beliefs are so radically different from our own, as to be actually dangerous to human life? Don't believe me? Read up on what's happening in western Europe right now, as a direct result of current immigrant/refugee migration policy. Make a friend in Germany, or France, or Sweden (where rapes and assaults are at an all time historic high), and ask them what they think about this city's ideas of relocating middle eastern 'refugees', still living in the 14th century, here to Dayton. Good ol' Nan Whaley wanted to bring that cultural enrichment to all of you. And even today, the lemmings are still singing her praises. Her, and the liberal, swinging-door judges that infest this city, are the FIRST things that have to go, if any of you living in these neighborhoods EVER want to see the recovery you all clamor for.
Want to know why the houses you'd like to see torn down aren't being torn down? I'm just guessing here, but it may have something to with the fact that as the population declines, (and is replaced with a population who don't pay taxes), tax receipts decline. As tax receipts decline, less money is available for demolition. (and to my view, money that IS available right now, either from property taxes or federal grants, is being spent on Narcan for these idiot opioid addicts) Because of that, these blights on the landscape still stand. I have one that burned out the better part of 8-9 years ago, just down the street from me. Couple our sorry leadership with a local judiciary who won't prosecute many offenders on a bet, and this is where we are. They also have NO problem sticking all of the recently released sex offenders in our midst. Blaming police response? That's laughable. Cops can't be everywhere at once, and they do a thankless job as it is. Also, it's worth mentioning that their manpower is one half to one third of what it was a generation ago. (those darned property taxes again)
Which leads us, quite naturally, to the question of crime in our midst. Honestly, does anyone reading this have trouble connecting the dots to the two issues I've gone on about above? Cause and effect? Poor, ineffective leadership, coupled with a legal system that has almost completely abdicated its responsibility to its citizens? Entitlement spending, which historically does not bring the best, brightest, sensible, unviolent, productive members of our society to the table? None of that factors into the question of rising and violent crime coming into our neighborhoods? Prostitutes walk past my house daily, as do drug mules, lookouts, and those simply looking for a 'soft target' to burglarize or accost. I go to bed nightly to the sound of gunfire in the not-too-far-off distance. Private, fenced property is used everyday as a pathway from one street, through someone's yard, through an alley, through someone else's yard, to the next street over, with complete and total disregard for the rights and considerations of those property owners. Women (5 of them, last time I checked) are found DEAD and dumped in empty lots recently, and the neighborhoods barely raise a fuss. But, let's have a march for peace, or hold a rally for the dead, to make ourselves feel better about the fact that it wasn't one of us. We've been engaged in nonsense solutions like this for about 30 years now, do any of you feel all warm and fuzzy about the 'progress' being made by such exercises in futility?
All of this can be a bit overwhelming, I'll admit. It's not everyday that people in general are called out for their heinous lack of courage to address issues in any meaningful way. I know I can't do it, as much as I desire to. Right now I'm just one guy, screaming into the wind. Until other people stand up and take a more active and STERN position about the condition of their communities, nothing will change. As I stated earlier, things that can be done by civilians are things no one wants to clamor about. Mostly because they're ever so afraid of being called a name, like intolerant, or racist, or God forbid, a republican. If anyone is actually interested in doing something meaningful, you might start with:
Vote for quality leadership. And, stop pulling the damned Democrat lever! Get rid of this mayor, this city council, this local judiciary. Get people installed that will DO THE JOB. That's not going to be your typical democrat, those who want to enlarge and enhance the 'victim' classes, or grow entitlement spending. In all fairness, we might only still have Nan Whaley as our fearless leader because she ran UNOPPOSED, which means no one else apparently cares enough about our city to throw their name in the hat. Had I known, I might have actually considered it.
Demand (loudly, publicly) that these blighted, destroyed homes be torn down, or rehabbed and sold to prospective *homeowners*. That restores the tax base. That makes residents have 'skin in the game'. That encourages economic development. That reduces the number of HUD hovels (I like to call them HUDvels) in our midst. Demand that local laws be passed that hold absentee homeowners (and their designated property management companies) renting out to section 8 be held liable for the actions of their tenants. Demand that they be held liable for being a primary cause of the appraised value of YOUR property going through the floor.
Demand (loudly, publicly) the discontinuation of the use of multiple doses of Narcan on opioid addicts. This is a harsh one, but ask yourselves: HOW many times must the taxpayer (the ones paying for the cost of the Narcan doses) keep saving the lives of people who seem bound and determined to kill themselves? Once I can understand, I'm not above the idea of a second chance for anyone, but I personally know cops who have had to go to the same addicts on the same day, to snap them out of a second (even third) overdose. How long should we consider that pattern of 'saving people from themselves' reasonable?
Demand (loudly, publicly) constant harrassment and interdiction of prostitutes and other individuals along Main street, particularly at night. A constant message being sent: "You are not welcome to ply your trade here, and bad things are going to happen if you continue trying to". Work with the cops, demand and support the creation of a police team whose entire job is interdiction of people who are obviously engaged in criminal or suspicious activity. (For the record, I am fully approving of both profiling and stop-and-frisk, I don't give a damn WHO it offends. At some point, common sense has to prevail.)
Demand (loudly, publicly) that the judiciary stop taking the easy way out, along with prosecutors looking to pad their conviction rates through the plea-bargain process, and start exercising their judicial muscle towards sentencing a multiple offender to MAXIMUM allowable prison time, rather than minimum. If the jails are overcrowded as a result, well gee, we seem to have a lot of vacant property in this city that could be converted to house convicts.
Additionally, (and frankly, this might be the most important item on this list) demand (loudly, publicly) that the local MEDIA start reporting crime with an eye towards accuracy and degree. People might begin to wake up to the threats they face if they got anything resembling an accurate picture of just how bad these neighborhoods, and their city, have become. In short, demand that they stop whitewashing the news, and do their jobs without the clearly partisan leftist tilt they give major news stories. IMHO, they can start by discontinuing interviews with Nan.
The above items are things you can actually accomplish, with a little effort. I suppose we could talk about 'JOBS', but then again, if you had millions of dollars to bring industry to this area, would you do it? The people who had the millions to invest have largely bailed. They've all gone elsewhere. GM Truck and Bus, Delphi, Cooper Tire, NCR (I still chuckle when I remember they actually thought Atlanta, Georgia was somehow a better choice than here, would could go wrong with that plan?), Mead, endless numbers of small businesses that were supporting the major players who left. Downtown Dayton has become a collection of antique shoppes and coffee bars, those powerhouses of large scale employment opportunities. Pillbox flats and apartments abound, and are built at a steady pace. Just the other day, the one remaining gem of Downtown Dayton, the Schuster Center, received an advanced tutorial in cultural enrichment, when Mike Epps and his comedy crew came to town. Now, we'll need a SWAT presence to enjoy a show and a night out on the town, I guess. If we didn't have WPAFB, we'd be in even more trouble than we are now, economically speaking. On the plus side, we have a number of fine educational institutions, whose offerings include things like 'Feminist Studies' degrees. That's sure to bring employers running.
Finally, before any of you who might be offended by my observations gets it into your heads to start typing out furious replies, let me save you the trouble. I couldn't care less. I've had my fill of watching the destruction of my home, my city, and my country by the whining, self-entitled victim classes, and the politicians who pander to them, who largely create problems they then have no interest in helping to solve. I'm only here to give a little badly-needed perspective to the concerns of others being expressed here. I live here too, and my opinion is just as valid, if not more so in some instances, as anyone else's, and I won't be shamed, shouted over, or otherwise emasculated over expressing that opinion. You'll also be kind enough to recognize that I have worked diligently to avoid references to things like race and gender in my little rant here. I can find worthless, morally corrupt, thoughtless people in any demographic or position in society, rich or poor. What we have (or don't have), or things like skin color, isn't supposed to be the determining factor in WHO we are. When you embrace and celebrate those who take whatever they can, and give nothing back, well, that's why your neighborhoods look the way they do. Have a nice MLK day.
I am currently awaiting replies... :lol