| You're right there is no one golden ticket but you've got to start with one and you've got to commit to the cause. No half ass efforts. As Master Yoda says "Do or do not, there is no try."
IBugsy is right. We are setting on a gold mine of history and doing nothing but making excuses as to why we shouldn't mine it. I look at dodge and I see a town waiting to explode on the world market for tourism. I read boards from around the world of people just looking for a place like dodge to visit, yet we set back and call ourselves the little town that couldn't.
When I go by downtown dodge it saddens me to see such a waste. I can still remember the old original buildings pre-parking lot and it conjures up scenes of old Luke McGlue passing out them fancy cigars to the towns folk and that poor easterner running around town trying to catch him.
Nobody says it's going to be easy or cheap or even a guaranteed success, but look at what we've become and see we've reached critical mass. We've become a low-skilled magnet. What big business in their right mind would want to move here? Other than a few more Payday Loans? Most people I know can't wait to get the hell out of dodge or at least get their kids the hell out of dodge.
It doesn't need to be this way.
Am I missing the whole idea of the Why No Dodge project? Was this really a tax collected to buy the locals new toys? We had a nice track that apparently the locals thought was built for them. Anyway I guess they only voted on it because they thought it was for them. Now we have the nicest dirt track within oh... 25 miles anyway. Hey that was fun for all of 2 seasons. Money well spent once again. The best idea I've seen so far was to put a roof on it fill it with water and call it our Events Center/Water Park.
What we need is to stop all these people trying to get their hands in the till and get back to the plan. To tell the world WHY NOT DODGE
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