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Wednesday, October 03, 2007

TODAY: Another Ramsey 2008 Comp Plan Session. Gordon Gecko, "Greed is Good."



The RAMSEY3 sessions drew better, but crowds for these ending City-sponsored sessions have dwindled to worse than nothingness - primarily those with meat in the fire for their acreage, and the process is totally failing to involve general Ramsey residents who have lived for years in established neighborhoods. They are people with something to lose. They are so tuned out, either by indifference, other time demands, stress and pressures of daily life, or being jaded so frequently in the past that there is no trust in them any longer and they say, "Why bother?"

It is hard to answer - but, Arnie Cox is gone from the scene. James Norman is gone from the scene. The Kuraks and Todd Cook are infrequently sighted. And on the other hand, there was the sewer-water routing cram-down for the gun club. In-laws are not necessarily outlaws --- but from my view the process has been clearly flawed.

Here is a picture of Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gecko in the 1987 film, Wall Street.



Source: Internet Movie Database.

Here is a link to the clip of the "Greed is Good" script segment. It can be viewed or the text read at that link. Taking only a bit of liberty with the script, the key segment is:



Greed is right.

Greed works.

Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

Greed, in all of its forms -- greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of mankind.

And greed -- you mark my words -- will not only save Town Center, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the City of Ramsey.



I post this in honor of Ramsey, Town Center, the north-end landowners showing up in numbers each session, and how things have happened and can be anticipated to be made to happen in the future, by those who have evolved over time a "Done Deal" approach of allowing but ignoring things like this 2008 Comp Plan situation of citizens venting and vetting - to each other not to the council-table decision-makesr.

But "Done Deal" indiference among those of us with other views of what's best will end up being a self-fufilling prophecy. It's cause to SCREAM.

So far it's a clear failure. Show up, please. Change that.