PROPERTY ASSESSMENTS: Municipal complicity in Gentrification

 

AS WE FIGHT AGAINST PROPERTY ASSESSMENT INCREASES

When you take the Devil's Advocacy for municipalities, you could say with the implosion of brick-n-mortar non-essential, discretionary income businesses, where would you look?

To people who have the incomes so they do not have to worry about any measly expenses such as taxes and fees. And when you're in a region or local area of scenic possibilities, who would you want? Those with the disposable incomes to afford any expense or treat the expense as a write off deduction or a minor consideration? Or would you want those whose ownership of the land would have not only a near static rare change in the value of the city property roles, as well as NOT being in a position for any dynamic change in property values??

If you chose the former, you are cynically correct and astute to why developments in former single-home residential areas that will be filled with the well-heeled and funded is the preferred. If you're even more cynical, you will understand why your property values increase exponentially from year to year.

The 'Old Town' wants a stable source of revenue. Why not let the well heeled have access and ownership to properties that will better guarantee that on a long-term basis? Or would you cater to the wage workers or retirees with limited resources, who couldn't tolerate or pay for the expenses the city treasurer needs to pay for the services they choose to provide?

Luke Merlin

Hiking and your health

 Trey,

Hope things are well. In fact, it's the components of your health I would like to get your take on it.

Your daily hiking has been an important factor, but in what ways has it been that factor? Is it the length of time each day that has had its accumulative effects. Have those effects have been more physiologically based from the dual effects of dietary support for the hiking, than muscularly/physically based? If physiological, has it been because the body has biochemically adapted to the daily extended hiking stress regimen on your body differently than if you did heavy, intense work-outs in a gym?

SHOWTIMES' March-April's Waco/Waco Aftermath

 SHOWTIMES' March-April's Waco/Waco Aftermath < JobesSatan > 2023-03-05 21:38

Brother-Sistermen, Showtime is running tandem series this month and next, Waco-this month, Waco, Aftermath in April [w/a good cast-obtw, fyi]. Significance is those productions give a sympathetic view of the RW-protagonists, as the latest victims of Govt Whack-a-Mole repression versus any organized martially prepared question and resistance. Without using the tolerated, wink-n-nod to populist terrorist beyond the normal political terrorism to suppress marginal groups of the pre-70's, 'Nam, disillusioning the Beaver Cleaver Generation, especially returning GI's, changed things.

If not staying over seas as total, drop-out ex-Pats, those who came home were counter-cultural drop-outs, nonverbal dissidents-Homeless, Substance addictives, cultural contrarians. Ruby Ridge

to Waco was the spectrum vanguard who no longer desired the conventions of the general American Dream that was typified by the Cleavers and the Nelsons..

Concurrent with Ruby Ridge/Waco was the combined political parties turning to neo-liberal-globalist policies than not only undercut the economic stability of the 'Middle-Class' wages' and quality of life, but was the prologue to the '07-'08 financial cratering by Banks given a free reign, sacrificing the patriotic masses who went off to the latest flag-waving inspired military adventure.

Obama was MORE than the 'elites' latest tool, but a distracting signaling that other ethnic groups were going to-the-head-of-the-line ahead of those who had trustingly bought the narrative that the Shining-City-on-the-Hill was their inheritance. In fact, Middle-Class America found itself cannibalized and cheaply commodified as other marginal groups had been for decades before and still in psychological ghettoes-of-despair and resentment.

What happens that waking up from the dream-of-Oz and being back-in-Kansas is being no better off than a manipulated captive of charlatans/liars in the US version of the Uighurs in Xingjian Province in the CCP-whether what end of the political circumference you exist?

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The inhumanity of these times in this country

 

There are more sociopaths-those who have a venal motive-than psychopaths-those that are randomly wanton about their subjects for abuse.

Many to most will do their sociopathic behavior within the veil of some authorizing authority. This permeates through the culture, from the informal or formal micro-personal engagements to the public display that we hear about or bear witness to.

And its world-wide, precipitating escapes for refuge, whether it be some abstract aesthetic sense of security to a physical shelter from impending or immanent danger. Though we could triage the different relative levels of refuge being sought, it is safe to say that one's psychological state precludes any rational, parsing by a 3rd party. 

 

Nothing changes until the forms of energy in which you  use changes its forms.

And so I speak of this