SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org
- Current Life Chapter Title
- Something Smells Terrible
- More Seriously
- Fighting the long defeat
I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives.
I'm a #Dad of several from toddler to teen, #Husband, #Christian, #Anglican, Unaffiliated #conservatarian, Software #Developer, #Coloradan, Reader of paper #books, Card and BoardGamer, #tea drinker, solving problems and helping millions escape extreme poverty as a #Salesforce #Architect at an amazing nonprofit.
Joined Aug 2018
To protect #democracy we must not let people vote for him. This is not voter suppression because people can still vote for candidates not yet removed from the ballot, and is not election interference because there will still be an election... Between candidates our four #Colorado justices approve.
Met the new mayor of #Denver #Colorado this week at a townhall about his plan to solve outdoor deaths among the unhoused/homeless by using tax dollars to buy hotels and build tiny homes.
Because...if they die by overdose, murder, suicide under a roof, those outside death numbers go down. The stats look great, people feel great. But this doesn't make the deaths less tragic. It just removes them from sight so we can better ignore these people.
He said there will be comprehensive mental health and addiction services, but already the city is not doing what it's funded because they can't fill job positions.
Three underlying causes of homelessness: cost of living, mental health issues, addiction.
Cost of living here in Denver continues to go up because of state and city policies. Property taxes just went up hundreds of dollars per month. Our trash service taxes got spent elsewhere so now we are required to pay a monthly fee for it too. Government policy has increased the cost of utilities.
Government pandemic response escalated a lot of mental health issues and caused a lot of other problems.
Denver and Colorado keep legalizing more drugs, making our city a mecca for some seeking these. Denver benefits on the tax revenue.
The list goes on. Government policy is a major factor of all the causes of homelessness. But government benefits, so they won't fix the problem.
Best the can offer: once your taxes force you out of your home and you go crazy, they'll provide you clean needles at a converted hotel so you can escape until you kill yourself.
It feels machiavellian... Government policies will come to save the day from the problem caused by the same government.
I hope I'm wrong and hope good comes from this. But color me skeptical.
#Colorado plans to send more migrants to New York
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https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/03/colorado-migrants-new-york-00076115
Colorado cost of living and government
With record high increases to the cost of living already before inflation, the government pushes it higher still.
In January, #Denver will start charging FEES for trash pickup in addition to the taxes that have always paid for it. The price of eggs just more than doubled due to new #Colorado regulations. Denver and other localities charge government fees for shipping bags to shop at brick and mortar stores, and the state charges fees to the citizen for every delivery from Amazon or anywhere else. Some homes that burnt down last year north of Denver can't be rebuilt due to regulations that make houses cost way more to rebuild because of regulatory requirements, more than insurance policies cover.
I wonder how much of the cost of living increase that has made Colorado unaffordable for the next generation is directly relatable to these Nickle and Diming policies that continue to take more and more of the people's earnings to disappear into the budget.
Some cost of living is certainly because we have amazing geography and limited space. But when it feels like a new policy to take money from my family is implemented every day, it makes me wonder if most of this cost is unnecessary and the financial strain is directly tied back to politicians messing up our state rather than our state drawing a crowd for being awesome.
(For those outside of Colorado, these are all "fees" because if they call them a tax they have to be voter approved. When they want more of our money and they know the citizens don't want it, they can just call it a fee and no consent is necessary.)
I drove down to Highlands Ranch to get my hair cut today to get out of maskville here in #Denver #Colorado. A sign on the door said they trust their customers to make their own decisions.
The barbers may have all been masked, but not all employees, and customers were mixed.
Shocking idea, trusting people to make their own decisions.
I'll be giving my spending money to Douglas and Broomfield counties when I can and as long as they have pro choice policies about masks.
#Colorado Governor Polis Launches Bold Signage Plan to Crack Down on Riots
https://rockymountainoyster.com/governor-polis-launches-bold-signage-plan-to-crack-down-on-riots/
" May the odds be ever in your favor,” governor Polis stated, alluding to the fictional Hunger Game series, in which the government manipulates the public to live in fear and cowardice. #Polis continues to push the fear and cowardice narrative, apparently thinking that The Hunger Games is a handbook for authoritarian leaders.
Rep.-Elect Lauren #Boebert Holds 'Turkey Funeral' With 30 Guests On Thanksgiving
“In #Colorado, Thanksgiving is limited to 10 people, but funerals are limited to 30," Rep.-elect Lauren Boebert said.
Just got a push message to my phone from the state government. Effective immediately, the State of #Colorado is being renamed the State of Fear.
Dierenbach: State's reaction to #COVID is killing Coloradans
COVID is nature in one of its most brutal forms. Our reaction to COVID is mankind in one of our most irrational forms.
#Colorado suing for peaceful #protest (but one whose perspective the gov disagrees with).
"Did I say 5,500+? I meant 174! Or as
@PatrickForCO
said tonight: "MOSTLY 174!"
https://mobile.twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/1301034080075563008
Was informed by a staff member of a #church in southwest #Denver metro that #colorado churches are being shut down by the government after their services were unknowingly monitored by government visitors who say they aren't following #COVID-19 restrictions closely enough so must shutter their doors.
- Current Life Chapter Title
- Something Smells Terrible
- More Seriously
- Fighting the long defeat
I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives.
I'm a #Dad of several from toddler to teen, #Husband, #Christian, #Anglican, Unaffiliated #conservatarian, Software #Developer, #Coloradan, Reader of paper #books, Card and BoardGamer, #tea drinker, solving problems and helping millions escape extreme poverty as a #Salesforce #Architect at an amazing nonprofit.
Joined Aug 2018
