IS IT TRUE April 6, 2012
IS IT TRUE that the offices of the City of Evansville are closed today so we expect that we will have less comments than in the past because the comment machine from the Civic Center has been operating at full speed again during the last month?
IS IT TRUE that our search for licensees for the Langson Energy device that Earthcare Energy will supposedly be building in the old Whirlpool building is yielding lots of answers?…that we have learned of six licensees and have been is some sort of contact with those that have working phones?…that there is what would qualify as nearly absolute agreement among the distributors on several things?…that every distributor that we have spoken with is aware that there have been no sales or shipments of the Langson device to date?…that every distributor that we have spoken with is under the impression that the Langson devices will be manufactured in Carson City, NV by Langson Energy?…that every distributor that we have spoken with is of the opinion that the only prototype to have been tested is the one in the youtube video that is shown operating at a top end pressure of only 70 psi?…that every distributor that we have spoken with is aware that gas transmission lines are pressurized at up to 1,750 psi which by engineering standards is a very different world than the low relative pressure of 70 psi?…that all off the distributors that we have spoken with are optimistic that these issues will be overcome and that they will be installing many units?…that the lead time estimates from the dealerships that we have spoken to are all about 6 months?
IS IT TRUE that these substantially equal opinions sort of question the statements that were made before the Evansville City Council about “the DOD wants to see us installing these Langson devices within 2 months†and “the nuclear plant situation in New York will get us Billions of dollars in businessâ€?…that the questions asked by City Councilman John Friend and the City County Observer of Debbie Dewey the president of GAGE need to be answered and answered soon so that the people of Evansville will really know how the loan application was VETTED?…that if this deal turns into a little Evansville version of the Obama Administration’s Solyndra debacle that the people who recommended it and voted for it will need some cover as this will not be forgotten?…that the Evansville Redevelopment Commission of 2007 – 2011 can vouch for that?
IS IT TRUE that amidst all of the official good economic news on the jobs front that two big players, namely Yahoo and PPG have announced about 4,000 layoffs?…that gasoline in Evansville has now topped $4 per gallon on average?…that the average Evansville wage earner with a 20 gallon gas tank now has to work a full 8 hour day to earn enough money after taxes to fill that tank?…that the price of food, utilities, and clothing are also seeing increases this year?…that of course the “official†government inflation rate will not show this because it excludes food and energy, the only two things that we all actually have to purchase?
Didn’t Obama promise to do something about the gas speculators who he blamed for high gas prices?
amd I’m still disappointed in Doc for voting for this hornswoggle, I expected it from Messy and the Beaver, but I thought Doc was smarter than that
I agree. I really thought Doc Adams would have voted against it, but the other two don’t really surprise me. I wonder what Connie will get out of this deal? Another contract?
Missy and Weaver didn’t even give a reason for voting yes. I guess Missy did what Queen Connie told her to do and Weaver wanted to prove he could keep Missy happy.
Absolutely…just ask Al Lindsey what happens when you cross a Mosby.
Cry me a river
Ah…must be a Mosby…
What’s new?
What did you really expect? Leading the worlds only super power is a far cry from collecting signatures for a HUD grant at the poorest public housing development in Chicago.
When he was a Senator he should have been a little more concerned about the fact that Chicago, the largest city in his home state, had a per capita debt of over $2000. Daley got out because the city is going south after 22 years of his regime and will soon have to declare bankruptcy unless Rahm can cut a deal with his buddy in the White House.
With a track record like that, what the hell ever made this guy believe that he had any of the skills needed to be president? All of these major cities that are teetering on the verge of bankruptcy have one thing in common: they have all long been under the control of tax and spend democrats.
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And that would include Evansville, which is one boondoggle away from financial ruin.
I really believe that boondoggle has already taken place.
By far, the largest feeder at the trough they call “the local property tax base” is the Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation.
In June of 2007 EVSC hired a new superintendent. About that same time a handful of the largest investment firms on Wall Street were beginning to panic as their “mortgage backed securities” investments became so toxic that even Uncle Sam could not revive them.
So, keep in mind that it is the local property tax base from which the dollars are taken to pay for the bonds that school corporation sell through their “school building Corporations”.
In 2007 there was already sufficient evidence in the national economy that real estate foreclosures were putting pressure on local governments. California was a prime example at that point in time.
The new school superintendent , Dr. Vincent Bertram, without even having had the time to do a proper study of the needs of his new charge, takes this most inappropriate time to launch into one of the largest bricks and mortar school building programs in the local school corporations history.
To this we might add two other significant factors that were known at that time: 1.) Evansville had been losing population since the 1950s. 2.) There was talk, at that time, going on at the state level of allowing the issuing of “vouchers” to students in poorly performing schools.
Dr. Bertram was successful, with the help of many of those who had a financial interest in seeing this come to fruition, in getting his building program passed with probably the worst timing imaginable.
The population, and thus the tax base, continues to decline. Student enrollment continues to decline through the decline in the local population and the use of vouchers. Property foreclosures are still at record levels.
Dr. Bertram has moved on to greener pastures, and to that all I can say is: ah Vincent, we hardly knew thee.
By the way, there were cooler heads who made a very valiant effort to stop this “boondoggle”. They realized at that time, as you do now, that Evansville was just “one boondoggle away from financial ruin”.
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