As far as I know, the City has never given Irvin a dime of taxpayer money, and look at all the shit he’s done in the last three or four years. Here are some excerpts:
His building facing south at the corner of East Fourth and Briggs Street will include 12,000 square feet of finished space. Irvin said he is seeking users for the building, including those interested in operating an eatery.
Irvin is particularly excited about the strip construction, which may become the home to future law offices and medical care providers. Irvin said he is looking for five different users for the facility.
His last big project in Lampasas was construction of the Marketplace shopping center off U.S. Highway 281 along Sulphur Creek. Irvin believes the new strip center will be even more attractive, and working on the Fourth Street projects simultaneously will be more cost-effective.
So, just to recap:
LEDC – will have spent over $7.1 million and 22 years on their “business park” project. They are currently paying Stacey Ybarra $85,000 PLUS bennies to try and find tenants for the park. Number of businesses in park since this fiasco started 22 years ago? Zero.
“Mighty” Mike Irvin – spends his OWN money over the last four years or so and has already created spaces for MANY businesses.
Many thanks to Mike Irvin for being a shining light of the entrepreneurial spirit and strong example of free-market capitalism!!
Take a good look kids…this is where being a socialist bum for 32 years gets you: alone on Valentine’s Day posting a pathetic virtue signal as you pump your poisoned, ‘vaccine’-tainted blood into the public blood supply.
Netroots Nation is a commie convention attended by traitorous scumbags like Ilhan Omarand Bernie Sanders
Must be tough to find a girlfriend or wife when you live in mom’s upstairs bedroom. Most 32-year-olds are well into their careers and starting families. They are making good money and can take care of themselves. They pay their own rent, buy their own insurance and contribute to society as a productive worker.
Commies are red, socialists too
When it comes to the real world, they haven’t a clue
Now where have I seen those colors on his t-shirt before?? They look very familiar.
Oh right….
Ironically, Comrade Clayton was born the exact same year the USSR fell – which was yet ANOTHER example that socialism cannot work and ALWAYS ends in misery and mass death. But here we are 32 years later, with this dumb kid thinking “well, THIS time it’ll work! We’ll just call it “DEMOCRATIC socialism”! I blame his parents for this. They allowed, nay, encouraged their commie son to follow this path and they enable it to this day by shielding him from the real world in their upstairs bedroom.
We can NEVER rest until every commie scumbag is run out of the Great Republic of Texas.
Just a few weeks after a massive conference in Stockholm where top doctors warned about the dangers of the mRNA shots, news is coming out that Sweden has thrown away almost 8.5 million doses of the covid shots.
That means that around 1/5th of all covid vaccines Sweden bought has been destroyed. The cost to the taxpayer of buying in these shots only to be thrown away was a whopping $144 million. That is money that went straight down the drain because the state bought something that people do not want.
And they even admit that the reason they have been forced to throw away all these doses is because people do not want them anymore. The people are sick and tired of these dangerous garbage shots.
It seems like maybe people have woken up and realized that the “conspiracy theorists” were right.
These shots aren’t traditional vaccines. They are a brand new gene therapy technology that has no long term safety data. Every single person that took the shots, they were the test subjects. We have no idea what happens to them in the next 5 or 10 years.
Shocker. The black mass shooters are always kept very quiet. I’m surprised I see ANY black mass shooters because libshits keep insisting there aren’t any at all. Ever. It’s only straight, white males who are a pox on America, according to retards like Clayton Tucker…
This is why libshits are so ignorant and misinformed about everything from useless masks to useless vaccines to the “global warming” scam. They listen to CNN and that’s it. Total mindless parrots repeating what that one channel tells them.
Another prediction comes true…Cathy “Pork Chop” Kuehne is definitely running for mayor – as is Herb Pearce.
This is a no-brainer. Let’s look at pros and cons:
Kuehne:
Lost her mind during the Covid “pandemic” and became a Covid Cult loon – meaning she is incapable of doing basic cost/benefit analysis.
Has supported every single big-ticket waste of money project that was put in front of her (Old City Hall renovation, Hostess House debacle, Business Pork project) – “even if it costs a bit more” (her words). Has never worked in the private sector. Cannot write or spell at a fifth-grade level.
Pearce:
Did NOT lose mind during Covid, as far as I could see. Has a man brain – which means he is likely to be more logical and rational than a female. Don’t shoot the messenger, but that is a scientific fact. Millions of years of evolution made it that way, not me. Don’t bother showing me some study you dug up from HuffPost either. All you have to do is look at the top geniuses of all time. Newton, Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman, Maxwell, Tesla, DaVinci, Edison. All men.
Look at the top 100 chess players in the world. All men.
[If it is any consolation, ladies, we also have more retards and criminals at the low end of the Bell Curve. Like, 12 times more. Which is why the prisons are filled with 93% stupid males.]
Now granted, there are SOME guys running around today with female brains in their skulls, like Bruce Haywood and Clayton Tucker and any other “man” who is a rabid liberal. This makes them fall for hysterical nonsense like “global warming”, using pinwheels for electricity and socialism. These poor saps are to be pitied and never elevated to any positions of power. I don’t think Pearce is in that group, but I’m pretty sure Kuehne is.
Unfortunately, I think Kuehne has her sights set on being mayor someday. That cannot happen. She is part of the Talbert Faction of Cronies. This includes Misti Talbert (now wreaking financial havoc at the LEDC), TJ Monroe (current mayor), and Chuck “The Vampire” Williamson (who has his strings pulled by Monroe). It is an incestuous group that has squandered incredible sums of money over the last 6 or 8 years.
All remnants of the Talbert Faction of Cronies need to be pushed out of the Lampasas political body like a large bowel movement and flushed down the toilet. We need more council members who have actually lived in the real world and run a REAL small business. Zac Morris and Herb Pearce were a good start.
Wow.…and that doesn’t include the fat bennies either (roughly $30,000 if history is any guide). Total cost to the taxpayer? Over $115,000
I’m pretty sure that’s MORE than Mandy Walsh made [page 96] AFTER she had been here five years already AND went to school for more training to get a bunch of letters after her name.
It’s also very fat consideringthere isn’t really any objective way to know if she is “doing a good job” at “directing the development” here!
I mean, if the guy who fixes water mains or downed power lines fucks up, you’ll know about it pretty fast when the line explodes again or the power doesn’t work. That guy is also called out of his nice warm bed plenty of times to fix those messes in shitty weather or the middle of the night.
Something tells me Stacey won’t have to do any of that for HER $85,000 – which is probably TWICE the money that poor guy who does REAL work makes!
But when it comes to the Nerf job of “Economic Development Director”? Oh yeah – let’s shoot for six figures for someone who has NEVER held that position before! Sounds like a good idea!
I’d respond to THAT by saying: “maybe we don’t need anyone to “direct” our economic development in the first place. Let the free market do the job”.
Ah…sweet victory! Trousdale FINALLY faced reality and jacked his offered wage in Houston from $13/hr (which I said would never do the trick) up to $15/hr (which is getting closer, but still behind the curve).
Finally, Joe bit the tit and raised his offer from $13 to $15 yesterday! Lampasshole for the win!
I find it hilarious that Wal-Mart (which we already have here) is paying MORE than PhoLicious (who the LEDC tried to lure into their Business Pork with subsidies). Wal-Mart has a lot more than one position at the store, too.
Just more proof that the LEDC is utterly incapable of seeing economic reality and accepting that their Business Pork will NEVER have any kind of ROI. It was all just a colossal waste of taxpayers’ money.
P.S. I’m not saying I’m a genius who can see the future a year down the road, but I’m not NOT saying that either. Here is what I said almost a YEAR ago about why PhoLicious wasn’t a viable Business Pork prospect:
#3 They don’t really employ anyone right now. I think it’s just the two of them doing everything themselves. Maybe have another body or two at $15/hr to put the kits together, but we are not talking a huge amount of jobs here. Certainly not enough to justify $7.1 million dollars in land, roads, electricity, water, etc that the Business Pork has committed to.
So now the story is that it’s no big deal that Biden let a Chinese spy balloon float across the entire U.S. without shooting it down because the same thing happened under Trump? LOL. Does anybody believe that shit?
Why didn’t we hear about it then? Well, there was an “awareness gap” of course! If that story is true (it isn’t) then a bunch of people need to be brought up on treason charges and executed – because that is REAL treason, not the fake treason the J6 Committee seems obsessed with.
You don’t keep shit like that from the Commander in Chief, whether you like him or not.
People often ask how being Woke hurts the military, and the answer is that it soaks up time and resources that would be spent on addressing real problems like “domain awareness gaps.”
If I train for 10 hours a day to kill you and you train for five hours a day to kill me but use the other five hours to gay the place up and learn about braiding hair, you’re gonna die when we finally meet.
Time is finite.
An absolute pussy in a mask AND visor inspires mockery – not respect.
How does he arrive at this number? Well, he pulls it out of his ass, of course. Oh, and he “used to be a teacher and struggled to make ends meet”, so whatever he tells us is gospel and cannot be questioned…because WE unwashed masses are not teachers.
This may shock you to hear, but I am 100% fine with this plan. However, there are going to be a few strings attached:
#1 – Teachers will now work a full year, just like the rest of us. This “summers off” bullshit is an anachronistic holdover from 150 years ago when kids were needed in the fields because most of the population were farmers. That is no longer the case, so school will now be full time. We can break the year into 4 quarters, and you can get a week break between those quarters, but that’s it.
There is no reason to have $20 million dollar facilities sitting unused for 1/4 of the year.
#2 – Taxpayers will not pay one penny more for this plan – EVER. You will get the money a few different ways:
#2a – You will get rid of the dead wood paper pushers called “administration”. Over the last 30 or 40 years, “administrators” have grown roughly FIVE TIMES faster than the student population. If anything, there should be FAR LESS paper pushers today than there were in the 1970s, thanks to the Internet and computers making each worker more efficient.
I have told this story many times on here, but our little grade school (1st through 8th) had 30 students per classroom for 240 students. We had ONE secretary with her mimeograph machine and ONE principal. That was it. Don’t tell me it can’t be done.
#2c – All the superintendents and assistant superintendents will be paid the same as teachers. If teachers are the most important people, then guys like “Doctor” Chane Rascoe who teaches ZERO kids will not make $170,000 plus bennies anymore. He will make $70,000 also. Don’t like it? Quit.
#3 – Class size will be 30 students…and they will all sit in desks facing forward. From my first day of 1st grade (1976) all the way to my last day of high school (1988) we sat at DESKS, and there were 30 of us. None of this “collaborative learning” with tables horseshit – that is for kindergarteners. My teachers easily handled 30 students because there was discipline. That needs to be brought back.
#4 – There will be cameras in every room live-streaming classes for any parent to look in on at any time. If you are paid $70,000 by the taxpayers, you are accountable to the taxpayers. Don’t like it? Quit. Which brings us to #5…
#5 – Stop crying to get rid of standardized testing. If you want the “big bucks”, there is going to be accountability. That means standardized testing to see if you are doing your jobs correctly. Don’t like it? Quit. Speaking of crying…
#6 – No more crying about “we spend time out of class grading papers and making lesson plans”. Guess what? PLENTY of other professions take work home and deal with bullshit after hours. It’s called life. Grow up and get used to it.
#7 – Shitty teachers will be fired asap. If you are dangling $70,000 out there, you are going to get some smart people in there who wouldn’t otherwise be there. That means there won’t be room for shitty teachers anymore, so be careful what you wish for.
For instance, I’d give Cathy “Pork Chop” Kuehne her walking papers the moment I saw her make THREE basic grammar errors on a public Facebook post. If you are too dumb to know how to pluralize “STORY”, then you shouldn’t be teaching. Bye bye. No crying about it either.
#8 – Not a single goddamned smart phone allowed anywhere near a class. If I had my way, they’d be banned until you are 18 years old anyways. Maybe we put two free pay phones out at the front of the school and you can call mommy from those if you absolutely have to. We got by in school without smart phones – these kids can too.
#9 – In the interest of discipline being brought back, we are going to be a LOT faster to expel the troublemakers. No more endless detentions and suspensions. Schools are spending about $12,000 per year for you to be there. If you don’t appreciate it and keep causing problems for the kids who DO want to be there, you’ll be expelled permanently a lot faster than you are now. Then you can go out in the real world and work at Wal-Mart or dig ditches. But the days of giving kids 15 chances are over. Teachers don’t need that shit.
Well, that’s about it! You teachers still want that $70,000 per year salary?? The ball is in your court!
