Jim McEntire to speak at PABA meeting
Clallam County Commissioner Jim McEntire will be the guest at this Tuesday's meeting of the Port Angeles Business Association. He'll be discussing his newest schemes involving the Opportunity Fund and the Clallam County Economic Development Council.
posted by Tom Harper at 10:31 AM
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Oh good. All the business owners who whine about government taxes and waste can clap and cheer McEntire's latest scheme to waste taxpayer money... again... for these "jobs" that everyone keeps promising but never seems to come up with.
The morons never seems to understand the lower you keep wages and the more you tax the middle class the less people have to spend on whatever worthless trinkets they're selling.
If only these folks would get out, away from Port Angeles, and see what is going on in the rest of the world, they would see how pathetic things are here.
Seriously. All these leaders need to get out of town, frequently. I know it is too much to ask that they STAY away, but, Baby Steps.
Anybody can open their mouths and say all kinds of stuff. We see it here all the time. But as Anon 4:32 points out, years pass by, with all the talk and promises, and we got nothing!
Are we just going to keep on like this?
I'm going to improve this town by leaving it. :-)
There is only one way to fix this town:
Invest in infrastructure, i.e. roads, schools, downtown buildings, & a bypass.
After that move the log storage to the airport, and get rid of Jim.
Fix this town?
Someone wrote in Port o Call that Port Angeles has to decide what it wants to be before it can be prosperous. I think they are right.
As the PDN story today verifies, tourists come out to the Peninsula to hike, kayak, and enjoy the natural beauty of the area. Those with a focus on natural beauty are not going to spend a lot of time in Port Angeles, with the smoke stack dominating the skyline, the log yards, and oil tankers in the harbor.
As that person said, it is like being surprised vegans don't tour slaughterhouses.
So, Port Angeles has to decide what it is going to be. A tourist hub for those already coming by here by the millions every year, focusing on "natural beauty", or keep trying to become some industrial mecca, which still hasn't happened after all these years.
It can't be both.
And, since millions of people have been coming out here for over a hundred years to enjoy the areas' "natural beauty", the choice seems pretty clear.
But, not to everyone.
I think this town would do better by downsizing and stop trying to grow.
Speaking of growing, the overlords make it pretty damn hard to get into business here, they demand too much and make things too expensive.
Just talked to a man that wants property for a pot grow, he said the county folks are assholes. Duh.
I've decided this must be the national headquarters of THE INSANE CHICKS SOCIETY (TICS), maybe they should promote that.
"There is only one way to fix this town: Invest in infrastructure, i.e. roads, schools, downtown buildings, & a bypass."
Yeah good luck with that.
Port Angeles hasn't cared much about fixing things or rebuilding from disaster. All those car lots downtown used to be buildings. There are a lot of reasons why they fell, but none of them were replaced. None.
And presently you can't do anything in this town without people screaming "lipstick on a pig!" Railroad Ave looks like shit. It's embarrassing to welcome tourists to downtown off the Coho or the ODT. So they're fixing it up. The cost is crazy but no one's caring about that. It's just "can't do that, lipstick on a pig!"
A private business can't even paint their building. That old health place on first where someone had the audacity to put in new windows, new lights and plant trees? Why bother, it's right by an empty lot and the town is dying anyway. Lipstick on a pig! Lipstick on a pig!
Seriously, they don't want to make the town look less like shit because they town looks like shit. It's like not mowing your lawn because your windows are dirty.
There are five basic types in Port Angles.
1) Our elected officials who want this town to be miserable so they can funnel more federal grant money here.
2) Business owners who want this place to be miserable so they can keep wages low and cost of living high.
3) People who have given up and want to move.
4) People who have given up and are sticking around because they like being miserable.
5) A very small group of people who genuinely care about this town and want it to improve.
Now, sorry, but do you really think the majority wants to make things better here? I wish it were otherwise but there are too many people who want this town to fall apart, who want widespread unemployment, who want more homelessness here just to advance their own agendas.
Look at the high school. If I were thinking about moving here with kids I'd run away after seeing that thing. It was falling apart when I went there and I'm old. So what do we do? Constantly shoot down any improvements to it. Not just a rebuild but any improvements. I'm surprised this town sprang for the levy. We'll spend a million on the Harborworks pipedream while watching our schools fall apart and empty out.
And that's what Port Angeles is all about.
Well, the truth is, most time it is a small group of people who actually do ANYTHING. Most people just are too busy doing nothing to care.
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