Stockton is to blame for its own financial woes
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Posted: Thursday, July 5, 2012 12:00 am
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Updated: 6:18 am, Thu Jul 5, 2012.
Stockton is to blame for its own financial woes
The cash cow has gone dry; no more gold and silver from the willing teats. The old gal has lost her luster and her charms have succumbed to time and entropy — wear and tear, bad decisions, poor choice. She played the harlot and sowed the wind; her shame is her glory — ours, too.
Save the sorrow and excuses, the blame is her own. She sold herself out. She made her own bed. She picked her lovers. The vulgar old trollop wallowed and fornicated with users and abusers — gigolos and panderers — but they've all move on. They don't live here anymore.
The willful slattern did what she did on your dime and mine. She refused to hear and heed. She wouldn't listen, so everyone else pays the price — except, of course, for her pimps and paramours who've skipped town with our money and our self respect.
But on the lighter side, and in counting our blessings, only one out of five of us live at or below the poverty line. We've only twice topped Forbes Magazine's list of most miserable cities. We're second in the state only to Oakland for violent crime. Our unemployment rate is only 16 percent, with personal bankruptcies and foreclosures the highest in the nation. We can pray for these stats to decrease.
But best of all, we can all be proud that the first phase of the three-phase Delta Water Supply Project (DWSP) is on line for a mere cost "over-run" of only $100 million, and a total cost of only $220 million with two more phases to go. Also, we can look forward to some added panache in our sparse downtown with a new $273 million courthouse.
Certainly, we reap what we sow. When we plow wickedness, we reap iniquity. We are warned, "Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman is awake in vain." The essence of all social crisis is immorality.
William Van Amber Fields
Morada
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Thursday, July 5, 2012 12:00 am.
Updated: 6:18 am.
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daniel hutchins posted at 9:37 pm on Mon, Jul 9, 2012.
One good way to stay out of bankruptcy, at least temporarily, would be to accept a $1 Million contract to maintain the ball park for all games for the next 20 years. The amortized income is $700 per baseball game, less expenses for park maintenance; but, this deal won't go sour until a future date, and nobody will know at this present time.
Darrell Baumbach posted at 3:37 pm on Sat, Jul 7, 2012.
as normal Mr Schmidt, bizarre and low rent [sad]
Steve Schmidt posted at 2:55 pm on Sat, Jul 7, 2012.
DB, were those your "willing teats" that WVAF was salivating over?
Kinky stuff!
Darrell Baumbach posted at 1:30 pm on Sat, Jul 7, 2012.
I agree Trista, it was poetic as well as thought provoking.
Steve Schmidt posted at 9:13 am on Sat, Jul 7, 2012.
It was only very recently that I realized that WVAF was engaging in performance art. Once you realize that the man is a sadist, his poetry makes perfect sense. The pain is not in the verse itself but rather in the suffering the listener experiences as it is read to him or her.
Its sick but its also brilliant!
trista aquino posted at 11:48 pm on Fri, Jul 6, 2012.
I thought it was very poetic. Poetry in a Spike Lee type of way, where the view is from Marianis or Pilgrim st but whatever- I liked it!
Kevin Paglia posted at 11:06 am on Thu, Jul 5, 2012.
I'm with you Steve. WVAF seems just a little to "excited" at the very real suffering and desperation of people. I wonder if he realizes MANY of the people he is rejoicing in the suffering of are good, hard working people? Probably not, I suspect after all the letters he has written that unless you are willing to let innocent people suffer to prove your "holiness" then you are not holy enough for the Grand Judge WVAF!
Steve Schmidt posted at 5:22 am on Thu, Jul 5, 2012.
Between the "willing golden teats", the "gigolos" and the "fornicators" this may well be WVAF's magnum opus in the field of weird old guy erotica but I have to say that the whole letter leaves me feeling a little creeped out.