Chief-Ironhorse74's Blog

I just got back from the Seattle area. That is where I was born and raised. When I moved away from there,a lot of the area looked like the inner city of Kansas City. A lot of the areas inner-city was in ruins! No businesses wanted to go near downtown Tacoma,Seattle,Everett. The area was ruled by gridlock,and nothing got done! Much like the modern day Kansas City.

You all can fool yourselves all you want. But I have seen,what tax-dollars,can do for major improvements for an entire metro area! And until the tax-payers,of the Kansas City area,opens up their pocket books,nothing is going to get done in Kansas City! Businesses will continue to move out of the area,and so will the people. Mayor Funkhouser has great ideas for improving Kansas City,and they seem to fall on the deaf ears of the City Council. The entire council caters to their own specific little groups,and special interests,thus creating wasted tax dollars,paying these baffoons for their terms in office! And until they are voted out of office,ALL OF THEM!!! Gridlock will continue!

Up in the Seattle area,they have a retractable roof for Safeco Field(Mariners stadium) Paid for....by tax dollars!!! Right afterwards,they got Wrestlemania 19,an All-Star Game(How many years has it been since that has been here?) And they are always in the front running for a Superbowl bid going to Qwest Field! But football is another story!!! All of this made possible....by tax dollars!!! What did we vote for? Renovations for Arrowhead and Kauffman Stadiums?!! And foolishly voted down the rolling roof!!! Good Bye Superbowl,Wrestlemania,and any other event that would've made money and created jobs in Kansas City!!! This is why all of the jobs are over in Kansas!

The job market is thriving in the Seattle area! You can see,with your own eyes,what cooperation can do! Crime is at an alltime low there,and it's safe to walk in areas that you couldn't walk in 20 years ago! Tax dollars and cooperation! Old buildings are torn down or renovated there.....Kansas City government and society keeps them around,like an old nagging Mother-In-Law!!!

You can say that there have been improvements here and there, but they are micro-scopic by comparrison! Coming back to Kansas City,was like being forced to step into a time machine,against my will,and go back 20 years! Kansas City is lightyears behind the rest of the country! It's about as backwards as the airport!!!

Save your,"Well then leave! Don't let the door hit you on the BLEEP when you go!" Trust me,I already have one foot out the door!

Seattle:Job market thriving

Kansas City:Dried up and scarce!

And I've also seen what a rail system can do for a city,too!!! It's a major tourist attraction there! Wow!!! Imagine that!!!

What I have listed,is only a fraction of what I saw up there! My heart sank,when the wheels of the plane touched down. The guy next to me,asked me why I was shaking my head. I told him,"I just came back to Khaos City,Mo.

And That's The Bottom Line!!!

~~~Chief Ironhorse~~~