Besides the smiling faces at a native massacre committed by the United States Army and Federal Government, it would at least be a nice gesture to label who the Tribal leaders are. They are easy to identify, they are NOT smiling.
Dislike it intensely when people use the words “I had a conversation with”, “We will have conversations”
and the words “We have a “relationship” or “we have a good working relationship”
“We are having or plan to have conversations etc.”
All the years we participated in public service when people used those words it usually meant someone was going to get shafted [in a non-physical way of course] very badly.
In other words someone was going to “use someone” to get what they want.
What words can we use in your opinion can be said to mean the same as “conversation and relationship” without the negative connotation of those words????
Please let me know asap so I can substitute other, better, more positive words to replace conversation and relationship” in my vocabulary and ask others to do the same..
On the brighter side enjoyed good Chislic at Freeman Chislic Festival today. What a wonderful event!!!!
Also, briefly interrupted Congressman “Half Dusty” Johnson’s campaigning tactics twice today.
Had the opportunity to give him a hard time today about his bill to fast-track the CO2 pipelines while he and his staffer were lining people up for photo ops
[in a cordial way of course…….]
and then again questioned his votes to cut funding to public education and public broadcasting
[in a cordial way of course…….]
right after he got done serving beer at the Firemen’s Beer booth
at the Freeman Chislic festival today in Freeman.
Half Dusty truly has become a smooth false prophet, sad to say……………….
My cartoonist friend, Jackie Dusseau Beilke, created these in AI and has posted them on several different social media sites. Let’s just say, Dusty ain’t happy.
The other day I heard Dusty Johnson talking about this issue, so I decided to email him the other day with my ideas;
Dusty,
I heard you talking the other day about the struggles with affordable housing in South Dakota.
We are in a crisis mode in Sioux Falls. I’m afraid the combination of developer and contractor handouts to build has caused this situation, plenty of businesses coming, not enough people to work those jobs. I’m afraid Amazon will have to build an RV Park/Campground to house the workers, because there will be no other place for them to live.
While we can’t go back in time, this all happened because we used taxpayer resources to incentivize the developers and contractors instead of the workers and housing buyers. We can do differently moving forward though. We need to end the welfare to big out of state businesses who pay below living wage salaries and start using Federal, State, County, and City programs to fix up our core neighborhoods where the affordable housing exists if the buyers are incentivized. We can do this through low interest or no interest loans, property tax rebates, fixing up infrastructure, etc. I call it starting from the bottom up. It also would prop up local contractors and businesses to fix up these homes. It also helps fight crime and neglect and it would be great for transferring slumlord neglected rental housing to first time homebuyers to fix up.
Trickle down has never worked, in fact it is proof that it has created this crisis. Instead we need to prop up residents to create more density in Sioux Falls and clean up these neighborhoods.
I know you are a Republican and may this agree with some of my suggestions, but the opposite just hasn’t worked, and never will. I told the planning commission and city council all these TIFS, tax rebates and breaks to big business and developers is just like pouring gasoline on a fire. We don’t have the workers, and even if they move here, we don’t have the housing. If we don’t do things completely opposite of what we have been doing, in five to ten years Sioux Falls is going to be a crime ridden dump.
Thanks for listening.
Scott L. Ehrisman
I figured since no one at city hall or in the state legislature is doing much about it except suggesting prisoners in Springfield work harder at building Governor houses, I would suggest to Dusty what is really going on here, is that we are failing, miserably, because of the bullcrap theory that if we give the rich developers and contractors at the top, somehow magically it would trickle down to us and solve our affordable housing issues. We also have to find a way to control rents in Sioux Falls and stop realtors from falsely inflating home prices in Sioux Falls. The value of my home changed very little over 17 years, usually 0-2% each year and then within two years it jumped up over 25%. Give me a break.
l3wis