The Downfall of a Great Little Town.

 The Downfall of a Small Town

Beyond Belief? It probably is!

No Proof? It's a fairy tale regardless that you Want to believe

Some things just don’t add up.

If you know someone in their late 20s who drives a gravel truck6 months of the year, spends the winters in exotic places, drives a new car every year and lives in a three bedroom house on a landscape acreage the smart thing to do is get as far away from that person as possible. Otherwise, when he is arrested for drug trafficking you could conceivable wind up in a cell right long side of him.

When you go into buy a car at the local Chrysler dealer and the junior salesman who invites you into his office starts telling you everyone in town likes him you MIGHT not get up and walk out but you should be thinking about it. He’s either lying or delusional. If he then says the product he represents is better than any other comparable auto, he’s delusional. If he says no other competitor can match his price then he’s a liar. In either case, you might as well leave.

But Hay, if you think you can be a greater sleaze-ball than him, go ahead and make the deal. Best of luck.

Let’s say you’re looking for a new house and there’s a new subdivision an agent has suggested. You find some people are saying that subdivision has some problems because last year was so very wet resulting in some foundation problems for all builds at that time. But your agent tells you that particular house you’re looking at was built during the only three dry weeks of the previous year.

That is a fairy tale. Get out of there!

Let’s say that same agent is running for mayor in your small town. He’s been in the community for more than a decade but no one remembers exactly when he arrived. Everyone does know that he’s been involved in several building and real-estate projects in the time he’s been around What is it, a decade or maybe two? He’s been very successful but everyone else in the business has either gone broke or left the area. He has other projects on the board and obviously, a real community builder.

And now he’s running for mayor, even though he has no background as an elected official.

But isn’t that what we need? A real businessman? He should be able to take the provincial grants and actually do something with them!

This real-estate agent, we’ll call him Karl, has some competition in this mayoral race. One is the town’s financial officer who has lived there is entire life, is 35 and worked in the town offices for 15 years. He’s also a member of the local Lions and Rotary. We’ll call him Gordon.

The third candidate is actually the most interesting contender to the public. He is popular with everyone and those who don’t know him know of him. He has been on town council for twenty years, is forty-five, considered the right hand of the previous retiring mayor and is a member of the Rotary, Elks and Freemasons. We’ll give this candidate the name Jack and explain that he owns the local meat processing plant, a local retail outlet and has meat supply contracts for outlets in a fifty-mile radius.

His little town has a history of slow but steady growth. A consistent record of infrastructure improvement, beautification through parks and rec and excellent recreation facilities, all the product of good management and a caring, united civic system.

Suddenly, in the months before the town election it is revealed that Jack is being sued by a female employee for parental support. Apparently, he has offspring that we don’t know about.

“Well, no, maybe only one.”

“Well, no, it’s just what we’ve all heard.”

“Have you heard about Gordon? They say there was grant money to pave that main street into the industrial area and anyone can see that wasn’t done.  

“You’ll notice Gordon and his family moved into that new hose. He’s gonna regret that; those houses in that sub-division all have foundation problems”

“Well, sure, I guess it would be alright if you could get it for free and sell your old house.”

That is exactly how a well-managed town can be destroyed. By believing the fairy tales about good people, good managers and community supporters and first allowing them to be destroyed. By believing lies from grifters, con-artists and frauds and ignoring their crimes because it’s embarrassing to realize you’ve been manipulated by a sleaze-ball.

Is this a fairy tale? It certainly is but it could be a positive fairy tale unlike the fairy tales about previous town councilors or any official who HAS ALREADY PROVEN HIS OR HER WORTH, MORALITY AND INTEGRITTY.

There is a great deal of talk about what needs to be done to save our societies. Rescind restrictive laws, make new laws, enforce existing laws, much more stringent penalties for breaking existing laws. None of these will make much of a difference without first demanding integrity.

If integrity exists, progress can be achieved.

Without integrity, chaos and destruction WILL ensue

First, establish integrity.

Second, realize that integrity and the people with it are the bases of everything that matters.

David M. McGowan

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