Hystercal District - Broken City, MI - Just when I thought maybe the people of the Gaza Strip were going to have some money spent on what was really needed I found out that the "Gaza Study Keeper" from the Health Department had no intention on listening to the people. Jill Montgomery Keast took the Master Plan from the Nelson Neighborhood Improvement Association and made her decisions from that. She did the usual of talking to the poor and smiling while all the while her intentions were to follow the same old circle dance with the same old plan. Paint er up and make it look good.........folks will come. How many photo-ops will we see adorning the front page of the press.............. will the people in the pictures be paid volunteers or some youth they find to hold a shovel long enough to take a pic to make it look good..............never to be seen again!!!!!No wait.....this just in........what me worry? A whole new twist, Nelson Neighborhood Improvement Association is bringing in Americorp. That'll fix us. Not just any Americorp worker. We get the good ones. Christian Reformed Church (CRC) is going to cough up the bucks to pay for this. That's right kiddies, no separation of church and state here. Does the circle dance ring a bell?
Our neighborhood associations are suppose to be our voice sanctioned by the city........... looks like our voice is soon to be CRC ........ now what would CRC be doing in the Gaza? Would there be a board member of the neighborhood association behind this? Rumour has it the CRC Americorp worker will be doing another Gaza Strip Study to see what the residents want, they say. What was Jill Montgomery Keast all about then? Who owns the study results? What will the study results result in? My head is spinning..........how many studies does it take? Soon the latest study will be done and more grants will be written for more programs that spend shit loads of our tax dollars on administrative costs to let people of privilege live in the Hysterical homes while the rest of the Gaza simply crumbles.......bang the drum....... maybe that's the masters plan from 12 years ago and someone forgot to turn the page?
I've lived here all my life............ I'm going to give em a free complimentary study so here goes.
Nelson Neighborhood, Muskegon, Michigan.
The Problems
Average income is moot do to lack of employment. Population is unknown. Years of neglect, poorly run programs have left us dealing with crack addictions with the young and old selling it in the streets. Boarded up houses, slum lords with vandalism being one of the leading forms of entertainment. Teenagers with no where to go and nothing to do. A High School that allows students failing to play football and we are graduating young adults not educated well enough to get a job......even if we had jobs to get. Let's not forget the newbies who have come in working at yuppyfication with no consideration to the poor or elderly.
Our yuppa'neers have a total disconnect with a culture in need and work hard at pushing them out. They never consider they have no where else to go and bilk the very same programs set up to help. They control every aspect of this neighborhood with the disconnect from our neighborhood association to almost every agency, city official and police department. They will stoop at nothing to over power. We have a commissioner allowed to use the neighborhood association for personal and political gain.
The Answers
Jobs, youth programs, student academic requirements, police officers who care, end the rule of yuppy's, separation of church and state, stop the grant addicts, revamp the neighborhood associations............. and a new puppy for my grand daughter.
As always.............. drive slow.........smile.........and wave.
3 comments:
Another fucking study? Didn't community service do one a couple of years back?
Check this out from 1973
http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/publications/Abstract.aspx?id=32557
looks like the crc thing isn't going to happen. somebody is raising hell about it. more closed door shit we will never know about. when does this kind of crap stop?
I'm really po'd about all of this. I agree with you Dennis and it looks like a lot of Muskegonites are equally tired of the never ending quests to ignore the core root of problems. This Healthy Nelson grant hellish nightmare is a perfect example of a broken government.
The core group of NNIA in downtown are mainly government employee's or working for some form of non profit in one capacity or another. They just see this as more money to sway towards pet projects. It surely isn't about the people they get the money for. I've seen this happen over and over.
It's about time people stand up to this system. I agree with Mornie that if it is about the unhealthy and poor then that is exactly who should benefit.
Last summer the Master Gardeners came and that was a disaster. They are not on the same page and one would tell us one thing and the next one would tell us something different. This healthy nelson pilot project is set up to have Master gardeners and the Master gardener program itself is falling apart. A lot of the Master G's who have been around for years have left and are forming a new group with another county.
Sarah
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