Guest Editorial • Saginaw Responds to Abandoned Lots

Saginaw Responds to Abandoned Lots by Selling Green Space

By Lola Sakowski

Lately I have noticed so many acres of land up for sale. Initially, a wave of optimism. I think to myself that this is good, this will help the economy, this will help Saginaw. Then another thought bombards me: but what about all of the other vacant residential and industrial lots splattered across the city? These are opportunities. The blueprint is there, the rough draft is ready to be edited and written, without the extra effort of drilling, excavating, and ripping up more land.

It makes one wonder: How come agricultural spaces are now being targeted and placed up for sale, over the many unused residential and industrial lots?  Since utilizing existing unused residential and industrial spaces is nonsensical, development undertakes an innovative approach and utilizes the fields.

But green space is even more charming and easy on the eyes than an empty parking lot and desolate area, so why not finish what we’ve started? Integrity of a city, beauty, and business aren’t the only concerns to consider. Green areas hold value when it comes to environmental longevity. They pack a punch in terms of counterbalancing the polluting effects of economical hunger. We know that trees act as a filter for carbon dioxide, and help sustain life. As long as we need to breathe clean air, protecting green space as much as we can is a viable and inexpensive option.

Not to mention, mental health professionals across the board are inclined to agree that spending time in nature or even looking at natural areas is helpful for increasing the capacity for good feeling emotions and coping with stress. The National Library of Medicine shares that “public green spaces were officially designated in the 19th century, informed by a belief that they might provide mental health benefits.”

Greenspace refers to environmental areas, including nature reserves, wilderness environments, urban parks, and would likely even extend to the patches of land, farm, and grass that we pass on the way to work. Nature is a cost-effective means to improving well-being; protecting environmental spaces is a strategy for reducing stress, anxiety, and depression. Yet, these existing areas are being targeted for development over the already abundant options provided.

My desire is to see Saginaw continue to protect green spaces where it can, and utilize the abandoned sites and derelict commercial spaces before it resorts to bulldozing more local land.

Prioritize the existing lots that have been left unused for ages before selling additional acres.

Give Us Back Our Money

by Elizabeth Nickson

Every person in your family or community living on nuts and bolts and berries has had his life stolen by the bureaucratic blob. And, we are going to get it all back.

Essentially, the entire town of Washington, D.C. has been stealing. The anomalies are those who are not stealing. $4.7 trillion, almost impossible to trace, represents two-thirds of the annual U.S. budget.  And if it’s happening in the United States, it is happening everywhere: France, Canada, the U.K., Germany, where budgetary processes are probably even more opaque than those of the U.S.

I used to think of people who worked for the government with a kind of veiled contempt or, in a more benign mood, compassion. I thought of them as ‘pity jobs’ for people  without initiative, or as jobs paying off campaigners, functioning as a warehouse for the barely competent.

In my own dealings with them, I found them punitive and extractive, papering me with demands to spend more and more money to hire more and more of their pet contractors in order to get approval. In my working life, looking at the results of their involvement in America’s rural areas, I hated them for the hell they visited on people unable to fight back.  They forced bad science on good people, and refused to see reason. They ruined forests, water courses, fisheries, and township after township turned to dustbowl status. The misery in rural sitting rooms in every state in the U.S. was palpable, long lasting; as the green Blob ruined families for generations. 

But I did not think of them as being embroiled in a theft so large as to be unparalleled in world history. The level of the theft dawning on everyone not living off the public purse is creating a commensurate level of anger that is very powerful. People who live straightened lives, the poorly pensioned, those living off the laughable social security stipend, those waiting for health care, those whose children can’t even dream of an education, of college, of a six-figure salary which is now subsistence in the ruined cities. Those facing cancer treatment because of the vaccine, and those don’t have excess funds, with their families, despairing, hurting, broke.

This isn’t going to go away. It affects everyone. Not addressing this financial negligence and misappropriation down to its deepest level will lead to nothing less than a tax revolt, a national strike, or a revolution Those living on social security should have five times the pension they currently do.

Because the mainstream legacy media has been propagandized to the tune of $2.1 million for the New York Times and $100,000 subscriptions to POLITICO, no one sane believes anything any legacy newspaper or television or media says anymore. They hid the theft. They did not report on it. No one trusts a thing they say.

DOGE will fire up the citizens of every country, and they all will demand their “fu#(#@g money back.” In every country. Every single country, this will grow and grow and grow. Within five years, ten at the outside, the entire world will be a different place. And as DOGE moves into the departments of Defense, State, the IRS, Health, and Education, the revelations of theft from the upper middle classes will change the world.

Ninety percent of media in Ukraine is funded by the American taxpayer. Why would you believe anything you read from them? Equally, you will note in the DOGE records, the number of climate related grants, to places like the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Why? What do they do? Well, I’ll tell you what they do, they go round with power points scaring the pants off commodity investors and forcing them into wasteful green ‘programs’, which do absolutely nothing for the “climate”. I’d bet billions are wasted that way.

DOGE in an initial look found that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid wasted $100 billion in 2023. They found that figure within a day. Where did that money go? To whom? Unknowable since 2/3 of the budget - $4.7 trillion - has no tracing. Thousands upon thousands of cases of vanishing money.

This is my point: the whole culture, the entirety of the psychological space we walk around in, was manufactured and forced upon us using our money. The reason the ‘media’ failed is not because of digital, it’s because everything it produces is untrue garbage. Every time it took a government grant it lost more readership, because it played to the government. And as time went on, its content bore no relation to any lived reality beyond the subsidized.

Here’s my question - What if it was all to hide the grand scale theft? What if this theft, the trillions a year flowing out to who the hell knows, was the entire purpose of the National Security State? Yes, these grants, the billions spent by USAID were designed to assemble armies of dissidents, across the globe, to protect U.S. interests. Thousands of activists paid to agitate against any government going against the aims of the National Security State.  The purpose wasn’t “aid”, it was to make life in every country contentious, angry, divided against itself, and to guarantee that whenever the CIA wanted, tens of thousands would pour onto the streets to protest. It was rent-a-riot money. It was to put CIA/globalist puppets in charge.

The money was also used to quash any legitimate protest by populists angry about globalist policies of migration, eternal war, censorship, over-regulation and energy draw-down because of “climate”. We beat them. Not one more red cent goes out. And, we are going to get our money back. All of it.