Below is an email I just pushed to some people that like to help others. In Kansas, most of us that are alive, are well aware of urban poverty. This Immokalee situation in Collier County, Florida is interesting because this is rural poverty unlike any I have ever seen. Within this county is the rich and the poor-hence, the dichotomy. Naturally, the government in Florida is similar to Kansas. A bunch of political rhetoric by individuals only concerned about their own economic well-being instead of human beings. Governments are failing us. Broadly.
Instead of government for the people, in America, it is government for the goverment and the all the political yahoos greased by the corruption. Maybe in America, all we have left are a few that are intent on getting all of our money. It seems once again, we need to remind these yahoos we are taking over. We are in charge, not them.
Email distributed to several key individuals (names omitted to protect their privacy) below:
Sunday, March 21, 2010,
I am just doing some basic research on the demographics of Immokalee. I find this article interesting:
http://www.ciw-online.org/2003_New_Yorker_Article_on_CIW_4-03.pdf
It would appear there are competing interests in your community are focused on economic production in agriculture and gaming operations than they are regarding human life. I remain suspect whenever economic concerns take precedent over human life.
Collier county officials seem indifferent to this situation. And even worse, are frankly trying to give me misinformation telling me on March 18, no standing water in the levees. Which is just the exact opposite. So clearly, Collier County knows and wants to be just like a proverbial ostrich.
The Naples News Editor, Mr. Lewis lied to me as well. He promised to publish Op Ed in the Naples News and then did not. Which tells me he would have published the op ed if I had promoted the economic development of Immokalee. I find the economic development of Immokalee being the biggest concern to be nothing more than perpetuating the slave trade, deplorable living conditions for the economic well-being of a few privileged individuals taking advantage of the migrant farm workers.
How deplorable. When it comes to a grade of those only focused on tourism and the economic engine, most of you get a grade of a big fat F. Failure to be a decent and moral human being. Most of your theories related to economic development is called Reagan Voodoo Economics.
Make the rich richer, so the poor can get the table scraps of poverty so rampant, I suspect as the Chicago Tribune writer wrote, this town is more than likely, one of the biggest slave trade centers in America. Last night, I met an individual that informed me he had in fact, sold a slave himself here in Bonita. Now is that not special.
I do not think anyone in Collier is going to be receiving any Nobel Peace prizes here in the near future. The people of Collier County have left no options other than forcing me to contact key officials both in Washington DC, Kansas City and other areas that actually care about human life rather than economic prosperity of a few deriving their self-interest in the midst of some of the worst poverty I have ever witnessed in America.
Linda, give me a call this week. 1-239-676-9843. This is far worse than anything I saw in California.
This is a great place for you to visit. Bring Rudy and Roger with you. I also probably should contact Janet Murgilia over at La Raza. I am assuming both of you are already aware of this situation-this prompted me to write the Solution to Pollution-the Dichotomy of Immokelee. I would appreciate a following on this situation and some assistance here.
Advise ASAP.
Sincerely yours, Thomas E. Scherer, Candidate, United States Congress
from Estero, Florida.
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
A Florida Op_Ed: The solution to pollution-the dichotomy of Immokalee (FL)
Ok, you folks in Kansas overly concerned about almost everything. Just be grateful you do not live in Immokalee, Florida. This city is unlike anywhere I have ever seen in Kansas. And is more like being in a 3rd world city of the worst kind.
So be grateful today, you live in Kansas instead of deplorable poverty like a bunch of immigrant farm workers. These farm workers are paid less than a penny per pound to pick fruit or vegatables in back breaking labor. Onlhy to return to deplorable homes and strarving children in a two-room shack costing 600 a month or more to rent.
So just try to imagine you or one of your family having to pick 240 pounds of fruit or vegtables in some farm or grove. Just so you can make a whopping two dollars and forty cents for all that labor. If that were me, I would probably make about 50 cents an hour and feel like I was a slave.
Therefore, be grateful for what you have. Do not take it for granted,ever. These people in Immokalee are not worried about national health care--they want food to feed their starving familes. And some of them cannot afford basic housing and lives in tents. They ride bicyles to work. They go to churches in the area for food, when there is none.
SOLUTION TO THE POLLUTION-THE DICHOTOMY OF IMMOKALEE
There are always solutions. There will always be dichotomies. Then, there will be individuals like myself that like to find solutions to some of the dichotomies I see. I was recently invited to go visit Immokalee, Florida by the Florida ADA coordinator.
I always like to visit deplorable areas in Florida that can use some help from someone like me. It was very hard to drive and walk down these various city streets and look the migrant farm workers straight in the eye. I saw what appeared to me to be what a city in some 3rd world country looked like. I actually have seen some of the more deplorable 3rd world cities. Like Tijuana Mexico and parts of Naples Italy. But never in the United States, had I visited an area that could use the experience of someone like me, as Immokalee. So, help I will give.
Now most corporations that make lots of money like a casino typically give back a really small percentage of their revenue to their local communities. I am certain for PR purposes, a small percentage of the gaming revenue in fact, goes to whatever the gaming casino wants done; especially around the casino property.
But, I never like to allow a gaming industry PR department to cherry pick how and what to give back to the community where it is located without indexing their revenues. As well as telling us how much on a percentage basis of total revenues they give back to the community of Immokalee.
Therefore, one possible solution to the pollution in Immokalee is for the Florida legislature to pass a statute setting the percentage of revenues that this casino gives back to Immokalee. But also by statute, let the citizens of Immokalee determine for themselves what needs funded and to what projects them deem needed; instead of merely allowing the casino to decide for them.
I suggest 10% of all revenues go back to a general fund for the community leaders of Immokalee for the benefit of the public relations department of the Seminole Indian Casino. That would be the start of a solution to the pollution in this city.
The good news to this solution, which I hope many of you will join in supporting, is so you the taxpayer do not have to use your money in taxes to fund the solution to the pollution.
Ts, electronic signature, written on this the 17th day of March, 2010.
So be grateful today, you live in Kansas instead of deplorable poverty like a bunch of immigrant farm workers. These farm workers are paid less than a penny per pound to pick fruit or vegatables in back breaking labor. Onlhy to return to deplorable homes and strarving children in a two-room shack costing 600 a month or more to rent.
So just try to imagine you or one of your family having to pick 240 pounds of fruit or vegtables in some farm or grove. Just so you can make a whopping two dollars and forty cents for all that labor. If that were me, I would probably make about 50 cents an hour and feel like I was a slave.
Therefore, be grateful for what you have. Do not take it for granted,ever. These people in Immokalee are not worried about national health care--they want food to feed their starving familes. And some of them cannot afford basic housing and lives in tents. They ride bicyles to work. They go to churches in the area for food, when there is none.
SOLUTION TO THE POLLUTION-THE DICHOTOMY OF IMMOKALEE
There are always solutions. There will always be dichotomies. Then, there will be individuals like myself that like to find solutions to some of the dichotomies I see. I was recently invited to go visit Immokalee, Florida by the Florida ADA coordinator.
I always like to visit deplorable areas in Florida that can use some help from someone like me. It was very hard to drive and walk down these various city streets and look the migrant farm workers straight in the eye. I saw what appeared to me to be what a city in some 3rd world country looked like. I actually have seen some of the more deplorable 3rd world cities. Like Tijuana Mexico and parts of Naples Italy. But never in the United States, had I visited an area that could use the experience of someone like me, as Immokalee. So, help I will give.
Now most corporations that make lots of money like a casino typically give back a really small percentage of their revenue to their local communities. I am certain for PR purposes, a small percentage of the gaming revenue in fact, goes to whatever the gaming casino wants done; especially around the casino property.
But, I never like to allow a gaming industry PR department to cherry pick how and what to give back to the community where it is located without indexing their revenues. As well as telling us how much on a percentage basis of total revenues they give back to the community of Immokalee.
Therefore, one possible solution to the pollution in Immokalee is for the Florida legislature to pass a statute setting the percentage of revenues that this casino gives back to Immokalee. But also by statute, let the citizens of Immokalee determine for themselves what needs funded and to what projects them deem needed; instead of merely allowing the casino to decide for them.
I suggest 10% of all revenues go back to a general fund for the community leaders of Immokalee for the benefit of the public relations department of the Seminole Indian Casino. That would be the start of a solution to the pollution in this city.
The good news to this solution, which I hope many of you will join in supporting, is so you the taxpayer do not have to use your money in taxes to fund the solution to the pollution.
Ts, electronic signature, written on this the 17th day of March, 2010.
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