Called It #Why

90 day plan, called it.

Ted Wheeler and the city failed in their ninety day plan again, all of us are not shocked. I am not shocked, you are not shocked, the violence is still not going down, businesses are still leaving and those remaining cant stay open. Let me dust off something. If you believed it as well please enjoy the following.

You were right, I was right , we were all right. This is not a 90 day fix thing its a fix in decades now because the people in charge of Portland have been unable to do their jobs. Generally, I like to be some what calm. I mean I just did some writing about Slamball. The management of Portland simply put has not been able to make changes where it needs to. Someone can not tell me with everything going on that the city has not been able to do everything they needed to with the resources they have. More buildings are going in collections, News for Reasonable People on Youtube is actually a really good source if you need someone in the Portland area.

When people have to deal with such failures there is only the people in charge to blame and while other time there has been some hope of dealing things in a respectful manner there is something to be said that when such failures are so well known that people outside of the country know of the problems in the city. My home is such a failure that people across oceans know we are badly run. Stuff like this

It should not be normal and this person does it every day seeing different parts of the city that has been overrun in squalor. People who should be punished are walking the streets much like the Japanese consulate who had been attacked by one of the idiots in Portland. People who want to exchange information and knowledge get attacked, if that was not a perfect snapshot of the city, then I wouldn’t know what it was. The problem is now bleeding out into the areas around the city where it seems like there is more coming around form more sexual assault in Beaverton.

https://katu.com/news/local/beaverton-area-man-convicted-on-sexual-abuse-charges-oregon-young-victims-cares-northwest-washington-county-district-attorneys-office

I have a question. When people do not feel the police can help them, when will people start trying to handle business themselves. Remember all the crimes being reported, they are not reported if someone just pulls a gun out and tried to handle business on their own. The 90 day plan is not going to work, because things are so bad that you need to be ready to fight at times. I carry a knife on me whenever I have to go out, and if its in a bad spot there is a way where my longest blade can sit in my bag and still be in reach. 90 day plans are not going to work, the state cannot save the city from five people who fail so hard and are trying to make it so there are twelve city commissioners. You could have a hundred and if they are of the same level the only thing that would differ is how many being paid.

Mike Schmidt is so bad he should be arrested and that is a post for tomorrow because I had a good vibe today and this had to go and ruin it.

Back After Semester Finals and Sickness

It has been a couple weeks. I am still alive. Although a lot has happened. First, finals always tends to be something that takes extra energy from me and I have done well in my classes, and that makes me happy. There has been some health issues that took some time of course, when your body runs on caffeine and spite sometimes you need to recharge every so often. That or the nerve damage gets the better of me sometimes.

The city is still a shit show, and while I can tell you how, there are others who do it better then me just look up on twitter PDXReal1 does a lot of good work showing how things are, People4Portland on twitter and now it seems more and more that people are getting the word out that we do have a problem in the city. So people are knowing, but now we have to make some impact, and that is been something that I have mused for the past few weeks.

Portland business journal recently had a survey of businesses where no one, I am sorry “99% do not feel supported by the city’s elected officials.” Damning by any count when almost every business believes they are not being supported by the city. That means you could go and throw a rock in the air and the sidewalk it lands on you got almost 100% chance that the business closest to it thinks they got no help from the city. Not like anything has been done to change that, Measure 110 has gone a major calamity because the government has not been fast enough to get the support out there. ( Big shocker, it is almost like someone called it.)

The city is in rough shape and the state is worse, but you know what sometimes it just takes a spark, a chance to get things rolling in the right direction. While the more well known businesses are running away from the city there is a chance to make it better, and if you can survive in the harshest conditions then it should be able to survive in friendlier conditions. It may be looked at as a bit of trying to find the sunshine in the dark clouds, but there is something to be looked at when bad things happen. One can always look at it more as a challenge to be overcome. Just seems honestly, that there are a lot more challenges then times of smooth sailing. These times will test those of the city I love, because there is a lot that seems to be wrong.

Try and stay healthy and hopefully I don’t need to do this again this week. I am sick as a dog.

Stay Strong.