I'm worried to death for this town. I'm going to fight for it. You?

To me it seems insane that the crew, and even the passengers, didn't realize that they were headed toward near certain disaster. No moon? No binoculars to the lookouts? Come see so there were no waves bouncing off of the icebergs to make them more visible. Normal speed. Known ice field.

Obviously it didn't seem insane. Although we don't know that for sure. Imagine on this luxurious wonderful environment, it was a boat, we're cortez, that someone raised the concern? Do you think anyone will listen to? We know what happened next.

I've been the guy on that boat that noticed that something crazy was going on, all of my life. When I could make people money, they listened. It's a thousand times harder when I can't make people money but share the same vision, we're headed for an iceberg. Maybe that's not a good idea.

I am worried to death for this town. And no one tells me I'm wrong.

I'm going to go door to door to try and wake this city up. I've got until April 7th.

I don't care about City council. It is structured so that it can't do anything. Seven bosses? 7 Pilots of an airplane?!?! 

What I do care about is citizens in this town waking up and taking it back from whoever the hell is running it into the ground, whatever clubs and powers are behind the scenes putting these puppets on the city council. They sure as hell aren't looking out for our best interests.

The folks on Council seem like nice amiable folks. Their job seems to be to sit there and rubber stamp whatever the powers that be want done.

That doesn't pay the bills of this city. Our Industries have been going down, they're going to go faster in a down economy with a hostile Federal government. By monetizing people in poverty instead of helping them out of it, they've dug us into a hole that studies say is unrecoverable.

Starting this late I don't know how much of our future we can save. But I'm not sitting and watching this city go down without a fight. Are you?

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The following is only the most recent of times I've brought up the subject, and ask them for the courtesy of a reply. There has been no reply. This was the 5th presentation by me in person as I recall, and there have been numerous emails all asking for a reply. Crickets.

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The way I figure it, if the city were in the situation they were proud of, our future looked bright, they would gladly have made a reply. What do you think?

What needs to be done? There's no rocket science here. What do you do when you want to travel across country to a destination you haven't been to before? You sit down and plan. You find the best options, you study. Then you use the plan and modify it as you go if you need to. It isn't rocket science. We aren't doing it. It is written in the 10-year plan that we are obligated to, but we don't.

And when you plan to go across country on a road trip, do you look for other people that have done it? Do you listen to people that have done it and try and find the best route? Guess what? There are people, there are cities and communities, that for decades have been working to dig themselves toward Prosperity out of poverty. Blueprints, Road maps, testimonies, best practices. I need a city council that helps hold us all to the highest standards. Do you?

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All available in our library. Apparently the library is too far a walk for the current people on City council. I suppose no matter what happens to Cortez they figure they'll be fine. That's not okay with me.

I want to see a city council that is fighting aggressively for the future of everyone in this city. And I don't see a city council that is fighting for anyone in the city. They may be. I don't see it. I don't see anyone saying they are.

By every objective measure this city is in Desperate financial trouble. No one seems to be facing it. No one seems to care. We need the opposite. We need captains of this city in those chairs fighting to see as far out ahead as we can, formulate the best plans we possibly can, and hold ourselves accountable to those plans.

I want to see a region that has become a community, as maybe Minneapolis has. Where everyone, every strata and faction in our region, is thriving and prosperous.

This is what my life has been devoted to, and will continue to be devoted to, until my last breath. If you think those are goals you like, and I can be more effective if you put me on City council, have at it. If not, I'll be working on it anyway.

What I don't want, what I'll be working against with my last breath, is a region for the few, and jail, booking reports, prison, concentration camp, for the rest. And this is our current forecast. It is what will happen unless we decide it's not going to, and we build a better alternative, as dozens and hundreds of communities around the country have been doing, and are doing.

That has left its, me and mine, my safety, my comfort, for the opposite world, the joyful world of our safety, our well-being, our humanity.

The world that understands, if not in words, that the least of these are the canaries in our coal mine. More than that, they are part of us.

Minneapolis miraculously responded to the terrorism raining down on them and moved to the life of thriving prosperity. No?

It rarely happens, but it did in Minneapolis it appears.

Even rarer, seemingly species impossible, is seeing the impending disaster and proactively addressing it, even before the worst hits.

Dwight Eisenhower famously said, plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

I want to see a region 3 years from now, that started today to fiercely Grapple with the fact that three major industries, our tax base, are in Rapid decline, 60% of the school children are in material poverty. That our local economy according to research is beyond recovery, 35% of our fellow residents in poverty, or retired. The economic base to support a healthy Community is going, going, gone.

I can't resist the joy of attacking these realities, every breath, every day, for the meaning of it, for the joy of it.

I live in horror of the material disasters ahead of us. Not just those just mentioned. Realistically 20% national unemployment by the end of this decade thanks in part to the grim reaper we call AI, the likelihood of a national depression unfolding now.

I live there. But I don't live in horror of my personal future which I suspect to be materially very unpleasant. Why? Because I grapple with the future every breath, to figure out how I might help another Soul here or there have a better life. I don't do this to distract myself from the horror. But it is a complete distraction from the horror, except as I must look at what's going on to inform my service.