Blasting With Boyles
OPINION
Are we becoming not Jonestown but Johnstown? Most people remember the sadness of Jim Jones in Guyana, force feeding Kool Aid. It was the sad people who moved with him from San Francisco, and later, of course, gunshots rang out. Som
eone shoots Jim Jones.
You can almost hear those same gunshots every
night on the 16th Street Mall. Our city is in decline. And you would have to be a fool not to recognize it.
So, when the well-known substance rolls downhill, it always rolls down on you. Here’s a headline that we never see with Kyle Clark’s Channel 9 News. Denver has been ranked among the worst run cities in the United States by a WalletHub study. Interestingly enough for those of you keeping score at home, San Francisco won the award of being the worst run city in America. Guess who we’re closing in on?
The Mile High City is in the bottom 10 and San Francisco is ranked last.
We’ve always quoted Barry McGuire’s classic song The Eve of Destruction. As Barry tells you, “Look around you boy, it’s bound to scare you, boy.”
The quality of city services has been cut. The Mayor, remember he promised he was going to put an end to homelessness in four years. One of the great laws of economics is if you want more of something subsidize it. Jim Jones “Junior” has cut large chunks out of all department budgets due to the influx of the people he likes to call newcomers. And actually visualized housewives standing in the middle of Broadway like the brave Chinese man in Tiananmen Square to stop illegal immigrants being removed from the city.
Immigration spending by the city was expected to reach $90 million by the end of the year. As it turns out, the city is on track to spend $155 million up to and including December of 2024 — $65 million more than Johnston previously said it would cost.
What does the future look like? US News and World Report said it looks at the data on America’s 150 most populous metro areas that includes cost of living, job markets, crime rates, public education, and much more. The rankings that US News and World Report used were from census, the FBI, and Department of Labor. The best place to live is Green Bay, Wisconsin. Denver ranked high in the survey in a quite different category. Denver is listed as the 15th most dangerous place to live in our country, 16th most expensive place to live. Since 2020 when Denver was number 2 overall in the list of best places to live, we have dropped to 55th.
These are all trends heading in the wrong direction.
The Denver Gazette reported that three years ago Boulder and Denver took the number one and two spots. Boulder is now number four, Colorado Springs is number 9. Fort Collins is number 23. And Denver has tumbled close to the bottom.
So as Lenin asks, what is to be done? The impossible needs to be done. The Democrats and Republicans alike must look at our city and fear what the next five, 10, or 20 years will bring. We all have children and grandchildren, what are we leaving them?
We’re not going to get better with people like this Mayor, and members of the City Council who voted for heroin injection sites.
Honestly folks the future of Denver, Colorado, is bleak. When is the last time you went downtown? Took your kids to see Christmas lights? Or better yet, got yourself a concealed permit. This isn’t funny. The future is not bright, and we have to pull together and keep the lunatics away from elected office.
Mark my words, there will come a time…
— Peter Boyles
