Comments for RE: Commissioners Wanted at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 8 out of 8 comments http://www.theind.com Thu, 23 May 2013 16:56:10 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/re/6203-re-commissioners-wanted#comment-7616 I believe it will play out just as Walter has stated, and i know that Ragin Cajun is blessed with great insight and panorama vision. " My love for lafayette and Acadiana may be equaled by few or by many , who knows", But, this i am certain about, no-one cares more than i, for the well-being of this area........ Yes, it is very obvious that the surrounding municipalities are growing, and prospering, mainly due to the fact that the Inner-City & Parish Administrators were too busy with promoting the inner area of the Parish without making every effort to increase the city by incorporating the outer land mass, especially the Broussard area, Youngsville nay, that minicipality is landlocked and isolated from the mainstream, so the chance of any major businesses settling in Youngsville, other than the usual small convenience store/strip-mall, such as the small locally owned boutique/shops........The hope for a large taxbase will never materialize for this municipality, never will it enjoy the benefit of business growth as will the city of Broussard. Carencro, has no idea of the Golden Goose that has wandered into its area, with its close proximity to I-49 and I-10, and all the area available for outerward growth to the northwest & northeast, the future is very promising for Carencro, actually its future should mirror Broussard's present...........Oh, well...Small men think small. - Exentialist Homme Sun, 16 May 2010 13:16:42 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6203-re-commissioners-wanted#comment-7611 I agree with Walter that true consolidation is just not gonna happen-sorry Oak. I also agree with N. Shotgun, that Durel's abrasive bullshit is a big part of the problem, too. There's been way too little cooperation from the city, and it's now coming home to roost. So I guess that leaves us with more of the same, and the parish and smaller towns finally gaining enough population to start pulling the levers and controlling the council. Given their fiscal restraint, that might not be a bad thing. - ragin_cajun Sat, 15 May 2010 14:31:48 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6203-re-commissioners-wanted#comment-7599 MR.OAK,I have mediated on your suggestion and train of thought,and how i see it is, its a dead-end trip........I'll explain, if our Lafayette Parish President, had used foresight and brought the surrounding municipalities into the fold, rather than heeding his crony's greedy self-indulging, interest ya-ya'ing, and maybe if he had displayed a little wisdom, and shared some of the, " Golden Goose Eggs, those *Eggs being the explosive growth of Lafayette and allowed and/or promoted the well-being of the parish rather than plying the settling of every business in the inner Lafayette area, then maybe the surrounding municipalties would be more co-operative, to his offerings, but when Joey and his troupe of business-goons, walk the edge to insure all revenue capital remains "near at hand" for THEE and THOU, and last, the city of Lafayette, and leaving the surrounding municipalties, to scrape the dregs, and nothing but dregs. Well hell, sooner or later the small municipalties, wise up and learn, that Joey and his pals are concerned only with the well-being of the "CITY OF LAFAYETTE. " What small men don't realize is that the core is only as strong as the protective outer mass"! Lafayette cannot grow, and that is because of the blind leadership by, those people who were elected to bring prosperity to the parish. Lafayette now finds, it has greedily isolated itself from the rest of the parish by building a moat around itself, its called "Selfishness", and by the most, "ASININE, ELITIST, DIRECTIVELY-DEPRECIATIVE, DEMEANING, BELITTLING, ATTITUDE," any leader could possibilty show towards his constituients ! Thats, how. I see it OAK !!! - Northsidian Shotgun Thu, 13 May 2010 22:46:00 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6203-re-commissioners-wanted#comment-7597 Unempirical Observer, you get my drift, son ? If you can't see the forest, you're standing too close to it. Now that is how i see you, and where you are coming from........... - Northsidian Shotgun Thu, 13 May 2010 21:41:27 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6203-re-commissioners-wanted#comment-7586 UNEMPIRICAL OBSERVER ! It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential, is invisible to the eye. Nowdays, everyone has been around the block, but there are those that went around the block when it was a gravel road, before pavement, time causes subtle changes, it is the same scene with different bit players vying for the same alpo bits............ - NORTHSIDIAN MAN Thu, 13 May 2010 16:06:41 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6203-re-commissioners-wanted#comment-7573 At the least the reader/commentators to articles on this website aren't like some of the goons on the daily rag's site that copy and paste the same "corrupt, communist dictatve gubmint" rants everyday to every topic under the sun. What a hoot, it's good for a laugh though! Northsider, I still can't decipher you sometimes...who's the money hawking grubber you talking about in that comment? - Unempirical Observer Thu, 13 May 2010 08:27:29 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6203-re-commissioners-wanted#comment-7570 Ay OAK, have you lost your mind ? You want to turn Joey,the Gnome and the Green-Amblan Man, " loose with the parish vault key. We need to give you a drug screen test......... - Northsidian Shotgun Wed, 12 May 2010 22:11:01 +0100 http://www.theind.com/re/6203-re-commissioners-wanted#comment-7558 It's either all or none as I see it. If we are to be governed by a parish form of gov't., then let it be the only governig body in Laf. Parish, and do away with all mayors and aldermens from the small towns in Laf. parish. All resources be put in one pot and distributed on an as need basis, without this tax going to this community and that tax to another and as far as annexiation, we all become Laf. Parish. One fire dep't, one police dep't. one maintaince dep't. etc. If not then lets go back to our city form of government and let the little communities fend for themselves. - Larry "Oak" Aucoin Wed, 12 May 2010 10:11:51 +0100