Sunday, April 4, 2010

Stream of Consciousness... Nose Dive... Sorry for the Caps but OMG... Iyiyi... Let's Get Serious

Back from a place where the streets are clean, the tourism business is booming, people are kind and respectful of one another, policemen ride a regular beat on bycycles and scooters [and are friendly / helpful to the populus and the tourists] and...

It was right here in the USA.

How about that?

What is UP Kingston?

Before I had nothing except growing up in the country and an old, old trip to CA to compare the local status with...

But now I can tell you for sure, for sure...

Something is seriously wrong with the state that the City of Kingston is in... and reading in the "Daily Freeman" upon my return that the Kings Inn (This is not a direct quote) is down as a "historical landmark" of some sort - with the mention of "art deco" worth...

OMG...!

TIP:  Take down the rusted dinasaur on the way into (and out of...) Kingston and put up a "Welcome to Kingston" / "Please Come Back Soon!" sign painted with BRIGHT HAPPY COLORS...

Get some of the crap OFF the "historical landmark" (or whatever the proper term is) list...

File for a city bankruptcy as has been suggested by some seemingly bright folks around here...

And let some folks (people that surely know more than I do about research, analysis, budgets, business, success and futuristic profitable thinking) come to KNY to sort things out!

The waterfront... 

Great potential.

Flowers and trees and tourism... 

Great potential.

Historical landmarks...

Sure. 

A few are good and necessary...

Just like not-for-profits.

BUT YOU CAN'T KEEP A CITY ALIVE ON THE PAST..

OR ON THE BACKS OF THE POOR...

I once heard it remarked that social services serve as the "economic engine" of this City...

Well guess what?

That approach does NOT appear to be working.

In fact, it strikes me as a bad sad joke...

That isn't even fit for a clown.

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