2000-10-04 - 09:32 MDT

October 4, 2000

Under Siege

It was better for me that I didn't try to post an entry yesterday morning, there would have been wrecked engines, curled rails and tumbled Pullmans scattered all over the area.

The usual thing, the feared seldom happens but often something worse. We haven't heard a shoe drop and have our fingers crossed.

We met with the apartment complex property manager and showed her the paper work which would have made us unable to pay the rent and unable to move. We had lived with the cost of living upwards move, the Social Security Cost of Living increase was pretty well covering that. Seems that there had been a gross error and that we will stay at the rate we have been paying. That shoe was stopped in mid flight !

It was near midnight when I started posting an entry. It took me that long to glide to earth from Cloud Nine,

Our big worry is the upward spiral of raised rents here in the Denver area. Now there is a choice on the election ballot to limit growth here.

A loaded, double ended shotgun aimed in both directions, with Mr. Average Guy and family standing to lose, either way. It is obvious to me that with limited growth -- where are the influx of people going to live, and how high will the rents skyrocket ? The influx of people doesn't keep up with the need business has for more employees now -- there is still a shortage of workers here despite downsizing of some businesses and consequent layoffs. It is more than made up for by the growing of some of the other business endeavors astronomical shooting up.

And like Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof," in his puzzlement sings "On The Other Hand," if growth is not limited, there goes our available water (precious in this dry area) and what is there, will cost the public more. Our arteries and freeways cannot keep up now with the need, freeways are bumper to bumper now and semi-gridlock is quite apparent in the morning and afternoon rushes, it is bad enough through the day on the arteries. Water, roads, fuel -- the major heating and power generating fuel here is natural gas and its consumption is staggering. There will have to be the increased administrative, emergency, and regulating duties and, such as fire, police, hospitals and doctors -- the list is almost endless.

So here do we sit, damned it we do and condemed if we don't.

I wonder just how soon outlying areas, just outside the growth limits will have a housing boom ? And business boom ? I think not very long.

I can no longer drink, it used to be that I could solve all the world's problems after an evening of drinking. But now I it is plain to see, we are under siege . . . . .

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