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FactGuy
writes:

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

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

Here are
some facts for you:

 Elections have been won in Middletown because those who have
been in power have increased bureaucracy and intimidate them if they don’t vote
the way they are told. You have MMF that is an illegal political action
committee and has worked to manipulate elections. You have firemen (an
estimated 80% of whom live out of the city) putting on their identifying shirts
and going door to door at election time with a biased message to vote for the
cities agenda instead of working just to get out the vote. They do so to
guarantee their paychecks and pensions. This provides the city with an
enormous, unfair (and probably illegal) voting machine that otherwise couldn’t
be afforded even by the city. The Seniors are intimidated by the threat of lack
of funding if they don’t vote the cities agenda. The school Board also follows
the pattern to vote the city agenda and get school employees to vote their
salaries 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 where
the votes come from to win the elections.  Elections in Middletown are not won by
candidates honestly. This is the audience the city has defined to win
elections.

Because
Middletown has been without organization, purpose, structure, discipline, and
an objective, nothing in Middletown has been accomplished of significance to
turn the city around. 

There
has been no intelligence, credibility, and ability to communicate. Thus, If
there is no credibility, others have no desire to be associated with the city
and without a message and ability to communicate effectively, you have created
confusion.  This is probably the
underlying cause of citizen apathy.

You
state, “Knowledge is power. Power is control. Control is guidance. Guidance is
leadership.”  Well, power and control have
been 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 for
personal interests and pet projects and not for the betterment of the entire
city.

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

The city
needs a clear plan for its future. It must quit being so short sighted and must
enlarge the vision for the future. Downtown is not enough! It needs a plan with
the 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 economic
development. Providing jobs and transparency in our finances must be paramount.
 As a beginning point I offer the
following for consideration:

President
Obama has designated 8.1 Billion dollars to return manufacturing back to the
United States. Our great Governor John Kasich has designated 800 million
dollars for manufacturing for the State of Ohio. 

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

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

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

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

If
nothing else, we can imitate what West Chester, Mason, Monroe, Springboro,
Hamilton and Fairfield are doing. This city belongs to all of its taxpaying
citizens and not just to the few who are self serving. We need public servants who
are interested in serving others. 

The voices
on this forum have a clear understanding of where we are and where we need to
go. We should be thankful for their commitment and continued concerns.
Paul Nagy