Immigration and Indiana

Unless you are a Native American the odds are you are or are a decedent of an immigrant and in many cases not because they wanted to flee to America. My parents came because if they stayed in their homeland a man by the name of Hitler would have had them murdered. In the 1700’s and earlier they came for religious freedom. We just had Thanksgiving with its roots in immigrants who came because of religious persecution.

 In the early 1800’s the Germans who were escaping economic problems and seeking political freedom and the great waves of Irish they came due to poverty and famine. By the late 1800’s we have Chinese, Japanese, and other Asian’s coming for freedom of religion and work.  In the 1930’s Jews who were under a death warrant from Hitler and early 1940’s if they could escape.  After WWII many people from a war torn Europe. In the 1980’s one third of the immigrants were Asian and Hispanics made up another 50% due to economic conditions and once again war. The primary reasons over the years have been religion, poverty  and war.

We are a nation of immigrants, our forefathers came not because they wanted to leave their homeland but in most cases they had too. So when our Governor puts up a barricade to three immigrants he is forgetting the millions of people who were immigrants who have built this great nation. He is forgetting his forefathers I am certain they too were immigrants. 

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Governor Pence I think you need to take a trip to New York Harbor and out to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. You seem to have forgotten.

Why as a Republican you should vote for Greg Purvis.

We have a major problem in the City of Fishers and a run away government with no checks and balances caused it. The City government is 100% Republican, now some Republicans would say that is great. But you would change your mind if you start looking under the rocks. Well actually you can’t anymore since the city took all the rocks away and planted apartment houses, parking garages and office buildings were we used to have a very nice lawn with 100-year-old trees. OK I am a Boy Scout and a tree hugger. But start digging and you find they helped build these with TAX dollars that will never be paid back.

And now they same city leaders are calling for a tax increase. So to all you Republicans that are against tax increases you have been stabbed in the back.

Next have you driven on 116^th St at 5pm lately. When you add 100’s of apartments you add 100’s of cars. You know I guess they didn’t see that coming.  Solution add an exit at 106^th St. But wait all that vacant land at 106^th St will get office buildings etc and back to the traffic jams. You see no real planning is in effect, just doing and just doing what the developers want not what the citizens want. The developers fund the election of these few people so they are 100% beholding to them. Now I heard they are working on a comprehensive plan for the city. The problem is they are working the plan, none of you are working the plan. They “plan” on telling you what the “Plan” is when it is done, you have no choice. You have no say.  What you are seeing is special interest groups running your city. Is that what you want? I doubt it.

OK they are all Republican special interest groups and they are looking out for us. Think again. They are looking out for the developer’s bottom line. Why because they have to run in elections and the developers fund their campaigns. Tax benefits, projects all aimed at helping out their friends. OK now back to why you should vote for Greg next week. First of all he would be only one vote on the council and they will ignore him 99% of the time. What they can’t ignore is the back door deals, he will know all about them and therefore you the general public will know. What they can’t ignore are the secret deals. What they can’t ignore are the city contracts given to their buddies. What they can’t ignore is violation of law to serve their own purpose.

I would feel the same way if the City government was 100% Democrat. 100% of any government by one party does not work, does not give us good government. So next week be smart and vote for Greg Purvis.

Right vs. Left in Fishers

NO, no, no not politics. Right vs left in politics would be several pages long and no one would win.

This is about today on 116^th street. Just before the I-69 overpass going west was a sign “left lane closed” so I watch as cars and trucks maneuvered to the right lane and as soon as you went over the crest on the I-69 bridge in a large suv or truck you could see actually the right lane was blocked but small cars had no idea why the big cars all of a sudden were moving to the right until all of a sudden they were upon flashing lights.

Then it turned out just up the block the right lane was blocked again and after about another block the right lane was blocked again.

So my question is where was the road blocked in the left lane. I didn’t drive as far as Carmel and maybe it was blocked in Carmel.  I have no clue and by the way neither do the sign guys in Fishers.

Fishers new 106 Street I-69 Exit????

Indiana DOT wants feedback on a plan to add an interchange at 106 St and I-69 with the claim it will reduce congestion on I-69.

OK – here is why it will not work; the City of Fishers government is its on worst enemy on this project. Look at what they have done at 116th, they are building apartments faster than the cars can exit I-69 or drive through the downtown. Just sit in front of the downtown at 5pm and watch the 116th crawl. If they add an interchange based on what the city is now doing it is a just a matter of a short while before they are going to have a massive jam at the new intersection of 106th. You see as soon as it goes in the vacant land next to the interchange will become a massive construction project and in no time that interchange will be overloaded.

The real problem is no real planning is going on unless it is to the benefit of a few developers, you know the guys who pump money into the election campaigns of the Mayor and some of the City Council members. I have heard Fishers is working on a master plan, to bad it is a top down plan. You see most cities doing a master plan start at the bottom with ordinary citizens and ask them what they want, what they expect. From what I understand the Mayor is going to TELL us the plan. Sorry but Mr. Mayor you work for the people of the community and from what I have seen so far you think the people don’t matter one bit. Of course the Mayor wants us to all believe the site of a parking garage when we exit I-69 is a beautiful site.  Sorry it looks pretty bad. The beautiful lawn in front of City Hall with 100-year-old trees now looks like a big city reject project. Sorry what you call progress I call blight.

Maybe Mr. Mayor and City Council you started acting like elected representatives of the people instead of the developers.Its not INDOT that needs feedback it is the City Government.

Indy Star Let it Out

The Indy Star's let it out is one of the only reasons I still buy this rag. They sure zoom in on the real topics in Indy.

For example this one is the best of the month without any question.

"Fishers does not need a brewery, or another fresh grocery, and especially not another physical therapy place or sandwich shop...Fishers needs some real restaurants."

I guess space limits did not let this author add nail saloons, dry cleaners, strip malls. In the mean time they build the dumb apartments on the City Hall lawn and what opens a pizza shop. So if you want a real Italian meal - better get out of the City of Fishers. Good Mexican - You have to go the Indy, good Chinese you have to go to Carmel.

Oh forgive me Nickel Plate according to everyone you do have the best tenderloin in the region, but than again you are a bar and not a restaurant.

Time to fix the BMV - and rid it of corrpution. An Easy Fix!

BMV – how to solve the problem – the easy way.

Our BMV is full of errors and will continue to be as long as the state continues to allow it to operate the way it does.

Ask anyone to tell you how much license plates for their car costs and almost 100% of the people have no clue. As someone in Ohio how much it costs and the odds are they know because it has been about $35. per passenger vehicle for years and years (actually $34.50). Not the dumb Indiana tax on the perceive value of the car.

Oh no but then the state can’t overcharge for plates. Why do anything the easy way? They want the total confusion so they can continue to play their games. While the citizens continue to be raked over the coals.

So if you want to fix BMV start by getting rid of the things that can lead to abuse. Streamline the fees to something that is set and not forever changing every year.  

New Rumor on a new State Fish

The jellyfish has been around for 650 million years and has no brain. I heard that Governor Pence is think about having the jellyfish declared the state fish as it truly represents him and his party for long lasting. Please no one tell him it has no brain.