Poverty Pimps-Part III

The Branding of Fort Wayne -Allen County

Fort Wayne is not an original thinker with growing businesses or it's city. The crooks will not take risks with their own money. So what do they do? They travel to other cities, steal their ideas. Comes back to the city and attempts to manipulate the folks by selling it as a local idea. After that, they shop the idea around to developers who are seeking to make money on developing the needs of the community. And the crooks in the meantime have invested in the land to make money off the developers. The ideas are implanted into the community and the community dies. But the crooks have made their money and moved onto their next pet project.

Room for Dreams--is Fort Wayne message for those wanting to tour or move into the city that has no dreams. But the crooks are willing to take the city's taxpayers money and flop it down on developing new ideas from the new comers. Matter of fact they have land and more lands waiting for these folks arriving on the stream of consciousness to row into the city.

The logo for this consciousness is not even an original, it lacks favor, it's boring. Check out the one for the rivergreen trail ways, same. Got it..no new ideas just ways to recycle the money. This one here is the city's park. Just lighter colors more wavy lines...

And if you pay attention to the blogosphere some of the local young talents expressed they could do better. In other words, the young talents wants to know when is the city going to begin to utilize their own talents instead of going outside. The blogosphere is only a limited sampling of local talents, just imagine those who have talents who are not linked to the blogosphere.

Many of these folks lack the funding to get into the game. But, funding is available for innovative new ideas, but greed keeps the funds out of the pockets of the needy and diverted into the pockets of the greedy. Now some in the blogosphere have banned together to form a community blog. However, the same voices are in this group. This is what happens in the larger community, when other voices are not included. I suggest a reading of Paulo Freire.

If downtown is to truly be developed by the people it would involve those folks who have talents who live in the area. Because these folks don't have the income of those outside of the area, they are not at the table or in the blogosphere. But, if those in the blogosphere understand that the government programs exist to help fund these individual ideas maybe than these folks could come together. It's just simply business. Many of the old heads have been poverty pimps for a long time. One program that can be utilized is the Community Reinvestment Act.

Community Reinvestment Act

If these young cats are so smart in the blogosphere, they could use the CRA to invest in the area. Say for example, the Rialto. This building was given to a nonprofit to rehab in a year. If the group did not rehab the building in the year another group could come in and take the building. Do you think this has happen. Not. Why because the old cats believe in helping their own while hurting the majority.

The nonprofit has the building to claim ownership while waiting on a big investor to purchase the building. Throughout the city, you will find buildings that are given to nonprofits, free. Indiana passed legislation for these same types of deals to go to individuals living in these neighborhoods. But do you think these folks know or even have the capital. That's is where you young cats come in.

Here's another example, Lincoln Life gave their state of the art day care building to a nonprofit that help low-income families. Guess what that beautiful building will be torn down and Martin Luther King Montessori will have to seek a new building. But that should be no problem. Why? Because the nonprofit is receiving a large amount for the building that was given to them. All together Windfall.

Feed the hungry comes in the Community reinvestment Act. The CRA goes beyond a welfare check. It understand that poor people work and have ideas, but lack capital. Instead of warehousing folks into communities with overpriced housing the CRA offer ways to maximize the potential of building assets for poor people.



How do you do that? You have to invest in the community and understand the community's need. Not go in and surgically remove the heart of the community and give back an artificial one that does not work. In other words the artificial one is cosmetic and does not pump the vital resources that support that community !!!

Community Reinvestment Act has several programs that will support the community helping the community not the greedy feeding the greedy.

(1)Community Commitment loans.

(2)Individual Development Accounts

(3)American Dream Demonstration Initiative


Free money to help eradicate the problems rather than being a part of the problem. Ask the hard questions, that is what Rick Stevenson did when he found it appalling that one of the program funded by taxpayers to improve the lives of the poor had them contained in utter despair.

It takes courage and folks will challenge your motivate..but simply Stand. Stand for something...put your money where your mouth is or join the talking head. The government is willing to match your hard earned money. But the city only wants you to attend one of its sit down and listen do nothing forum, no money:

City to hold Forum to Assist Small Businesses
The City of Fort Wayne is hosting a free forum to assist small businesses. The Self Employment and Start Up Business Forum will be held from 9 a.m.-noon Thursday, January 18 in the Omni Room, second floor of the City-County Building, One East Main St.

The event will include instruction[s] on developing business and financial plans, complying with code, zoning and health requirements, and marketing a product or service.

The forum developed through a partnership with representatives from U.S. Small Business Administration, and the local efforts of SCORE, Northeast Indiana Small Business Center, Women’s Enterprise, a program of the Fort Wayne Women’s Bureau, and National City Bank.

This is the photo ops and window dressing to avoid addressing the real problems.

It's targeted toward young cats who talk in their sleep about their dreams. True visionaries know you have to work for change, and outsmart the system. The mantle will not be passed to the young, you must take it and run with it. So is your community supporting your skills or pimping you for your skills? The Mayor Graham Richard is traveling the United States talking about how wired he is when the techies are being co opted by their appointed political leaders in the blogosphere. Now tell me what's up with that?

So when is that meeting for starting a community business?