Blasting with Boyles: OPINION
As the new year begins, I want to see the terms and conditions before I sign up. So, I thought we could begin our new year with a prayer.
The enablers.
Johnston be thy name.
Thy kingdom be off limits to rational thought.
If thy will be done as it is in Vancouver and Frisco then….
Give us this day our daily heroin fix.
Never mind how much we trespass and cost the taxpayer,
And forgive us for everything that we do while intoxicated, high, and living on the street.
Forgive us for what we break and how much we steal.
Lead us not into more insanity.
Please rid us of all the enablers.
Please deliver us from Denver City Council.
For Denver is no longer the beautiful kingdom and power and once glory that we knew.
For in the now and forever of Johnston’s, Hancock’s, and Hickenlooper’s occupation, it’s far clearer and clearer that instead of “Amen” it’s “Sad men.”
The late great Bob Cote who ran Step 13 always believed that a census of homeless people was like herding cats. But just for the sense of illustration of what’s been allowed to happen, the given number in 2016 for homeless people was 5,728. 2023 sees a 58% increase in the homeless population. The general population of Denver grew 5% in that same period.
Monthly payments of $50 to $1000 dollars a month are being given to the unhoused. There are arguments on percentage of increase just in 2023 of the unhoused. One argument I read says we increased 32%, another claimed 44% increase. On average that’s 122 times faster than Denver’s growth.
Under solutions it’s very simple, sobriety and work.
Housing these people, giving them medical care, responding to their “needs,” feeding them, it flies in the face of any rational thought of stopping this horrible disease that’s ripping the city apart.
Just when you thought you couldn’t have a worse mayor than Hancock, now we have this one, Mike Johnston, who I believe is simply running for governor, and our Governor is simply running for president.
Everybody moves up one. What did Tiny Tim say this time of year? We have an enormous problem than cannot be solved by these people.
— Peter Boyles