After reading the reports from Mesa, Arizona, I decided to file my own report on my town, Silver City, New Mexico.
It appears that corruption, especially of Government is wide spread and not exclusive to any area of the country.
Here in this small town, the good ole boys control everything from construction, to businesses, to real estate.
The town officials are all related in some way to someone else either in business or in another city posistion.
The economy is taking a nose dive now, mainly due to the stupidity of our founding fathers that became dependent on mining as a source of all income.
Now that Phelps Dodge has chosen to go elsewhere, mainly some where that they can pay slave wages, the town is imploding.
Our corrupt county officials ripped off the tax payers over the past three years to the tune of two million dollars to rennovate an old supermarket building to house county offices.
Cost overruns, mainly due to improper handling of funds, and down right stealing have nearly bankrupted the county.
The first alternative was for the crooks to sell our county owned hospital to bail us out.
Thank God enough public outcry made them at least postpone that idea.
As for the rest, our sewer system is so old and deteriorated that raw sewage runs under the downtown streets.
Our city water system was found to contain fecal matter in it only a month ago.
Our water ways are filled with trash of all kinds, including dead animals and construction debris.
Our main street was completely destroyed less than a hundred years ago by a flood caused mainly by stupidity and lack of environmental concerns.
We have no code enforcement here so much of the town resembles a third world nation, old cars, houses falling down and out and out trash every where.
New homes are quickly being built by construction scammers with out regard to any quality standards.
No soil compaction is required, nor is it done so regardless of how much you pay for a house, it will start settling severely in a very short period of time.
When this happens, don't expect any one in the real estate business to help you, they are part of the problem.
They turn thier heads and continue to sell the overpriced, inferior properties to any willing sucker and blame them for not getting an engineering report before buying.
The police are about as useful as hall monitors in a grade school.
Because they only make $7 an hour, we get the bottom of the barrel, most being under the age of 25 so they are more interested in stopping teen aged girls for minor traffic violations than they are addressing the serious drug problem, vandalism and theft in the downtown area, and speeding through the streets day and night.
Recently more business have closed downtown, and the greedy landlords increase the rents by 25 to 30%.
They don't seem to realize that one of the reasons for the business failures to date are partially because of the outrageous rents they already pay.
The town is a wanna be art community, and those opposed to growth say they don't want it to become another Santa Fe.
Not likely to happen. We have nothing even close to what they do!!!
If you read the hype and the pretty, glossy magazine about Silver City, you would get the impression that it is a dream come true, a real retirement mecca, fact is it is a dirty, corrupt town full of opportunistic slime bags that will rob you blind.
If your Idea of shopping is Walmart, and Albertsons.
Your choice of food is Mexican, Mexican, or over priced wanna be big city food, then this is the place for you.
If you enjoy driving two or three hours to find any decent stores, then you will definately love it here.
If fast food trash bags, beer bottles and cans strewn everywhere appeals to you, come on down.
If you like loud rap music being blasted from cruising cars, and wanna be gang bangers cussing at everyone on the street while you walk in the downtown area. Yep Silver City has it all.
As for me, I'm out of here.
I spent the last seven years of my life trying to make a difference here and have seen that no one really cares to change things, at least not any one that can really make a difference.
So don't be fooled by the media hype about this town, it isn't what it appears to be.
This place is moraly, spiritually, and financially bankrupt.
Don't have your heart and soul broken by Silver City, New Mexico.
Edward
silver city, New Mexico
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