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I feel the need to inform you that if you read the article below, you must take it very light heartily. Mainly because while I maybe the publisher of this Tidbits paper, I'm not a journalist. If I even thought I was and wrote regular articles I would not have a publication as I would not have regular readers. So the following topic is of my own opinion, I hope you can appreciate what I have wrote because I feel the need for public awareness that history should not be forgotten. Most of us seem good at learning from our own mistakes, but many do not seem to learn by others mistakes. As a Tidbits publisher, I receive great content which most people seem to really enjoy and that is what makes this publication so great! Tidbits Media Inc. in Montgomery, Alabama supports over 300 Tidbit publishers around the country and since we do not need to independently hire staff writers, I'm not able to farm what's on my mind to a staff reporter. So I will take my best stab at what's on my mind and hope for the best. Its going to be hard since it seems that what I will be writing about can be construed as political, however I'm not trying to poke at one political party or the other here, I'm just wondering why some decisions are made. In the late fourth century, the Western Roman Empire crumbled after a nearly 500-year run as the world’s greatest superpower. Historians have blamed the collapse on hundreds of different factors ranging from military failures and crippling taxation to natural disasters and even climate change. Still others argue that the Roman Empire didn’t really fall in 476 A.D., since its eastern half continued for another thousand years in the form of the Byzantine Empire. While just how— and when—the Empire fell remains a subject of ongoing debate, certain theories have emerged as the most popular explanations for Western Rome’s decline and disintegration. 1. Invasions by Barbarian tribes 2. Economic troubles and overreliance on slave labor 3. The rise of the Eastern Empire 4. Overexpansion and military overspending 5. Government corruption and political instability 6. The arrival of the Huns and the migration of the Barbarian tribes 7. Christianity and the loss of traditional values 8. Weakening of the Roman legions

Since my days in school I have watched many so-called documentaries and read many books and related articles about the fall of other societies. I mentioned so-called documentaries as I'm quite a skeptic when it comes to someone who can only give their interpretation to events. However, I do feel that after considering many various accounts a person can come to some reasonable conclusions. So the conclusion to the fall of the Roman Empire seems to be that all roads lead to anarchy. Noted above with 1-8, most governments have eventually failed, whether it's been a tribal, dictatorship, fascism ruling family, communism, monarchy, socialism, or any other of the many forms of ruling governments that exist or have in the past. So now comes some of my ponderous questions with our local and federal government here in the United States. Please skip this part if it could offend your way of thinking and continue with the other pages only. Racism, it does exist and we need it to stop or we can never allow this country to heal from our own civil war. We are all human and bleed the same blood. I was sixteen and at a flea market in Tennessee and someone that was probably thirtyish made the comment to me that I was a Yankee. At sixteen I didn't even understand what that really meant other I was from the North. At eighteen I entered an all black bar in the south by myself and I think I may have a slight understanding what a black person may feel in an all

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white surrounding. I was not treated badly but was informed that it would be best if I were to leave. When people are not treated fairly due to their race it can be a major problem not just for the individual but our society as a whole. Treaties were not made to be broken but white settlers and early entrepreneurs often times did not follow what their political powers at the time agreed too. Native Americans were often treated with hate regardless of their own individual intensions. In today's times it is often said that laws are to be broken. Even non-laws but programs are often broken just for political and or financial gain. Take for example, our Coralville water reservoir. I grew up on a lake and still own a boat and canoe. So I love water sports and the tranquility water can offer for our relaxation. So for those that enjoy the benefits of the reservoir as it is today, please don't call me an complain about this next part. After the 2008 flood I did some research of my own and found that in 1938 Congress passed a flood control act requesting the Army Corps of Engineers to control flooding on navigable rivers across the country. After a few years, the Army Corps of Engineers developed a plan to accomplish this by controlling the flow of water from tributary rivers. They determined that the best approach for many of these rivers would be to construct a flood control water reservoir. Each reservoir was only designed for flood control and not recreation. The concept was to hold back water as necessary and slow release the water when possible allowing the reservoir not to hold any water during the winter months. The time frame to construct this project was less than 10 years. By the time this and other reservoirs were completed, congress revised their plans and set minimum water levels for the Army Corps of Engineers to maintain for water recreation. Well, the Army Corps of Engineers are very smart and realized that they no longer could properly control flooding of the navigable rivers. Therefore why continue to build more reservoirs if the current ones could not contain all the excess water during the summer months. The Army Corps of Engineers seemed to know that someday water would need to be released in excess of desired amounts and possible overflow past the spillways. In 2010, the Nashville flood should have been prevented by not allowing the reservoir there to keep water year round as they also have a flood control only reservoir. That reservoir was not designed

for recreation either as stated on the Corps web site. We the people (Tax Payers) have allowed congress to allocate money to build very expensive flood control only structures. But we the people have allowed for these flood only structures to not be properly used. Thus causing we the people to allow our government to spend billions of dollars to rebuild what was destroyed by floods and could have been prevented. Federal tax money is being spent all the time when all along we should have been protected by proper flood control that the Army Corps of Engineers spent tax money to devise a great plan to prevent these problems. The reservoirs were not meant to save cities like Coralville and Iowa City. But with good sound planning, that was the spin off benefit for protecting the Mississippi from flooding. However, the Army Corps of Engineers would need to build additional reservoirs along hundreds of other rivers across the country in order to complete their 1938 flood protection goal of navigable rivers. As I understand it, the Army Corps of Engineers had planned to put a reservoir upstream of Waterloo. The Cedar River will never flood Cedar Rapids with only localized heavy rain. High waters from upstream need to be present before Cedar Rapids could ever have another major flood. If a water reservoir was built north of Waterloo, then all communities and farm land could be protected from flooding downstream. (Considering that the reservoir was only used for flood protection or if it would be designed as a dual purpose reservoir with recreation water levels figured into the original plans). Then all of our worries and planning would be resolved and we could concentrate on other issues to better our way of life. In fact with better control of river water levels, plans for river walks and other recreation along the rivers could flourish since flooding would no longer need to be considered for these types of projects. The city of Cedar Rapids sent out a weekly flyer after the 2008 flood. I’m working from memory as I don’t have that flyer at hand now. But it listed various flood measures they were considering. The number one item they listed that would protect the city by 100% was a water reservoir. Keep in mind this was shortly after the 2008 flood and they obviously knew of the flooding that was below the Coralville water reservoir. Now they stated in the flyer that they will need to take ten years to plan what to do. However as stated above, the Coralville reservoir took Continued Page 15

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less than ten years to construct and now they stated that a reservoir would take too long to build. They also stated that a reservoir would be too costly to build. I strongly disagree with this statement since the payer is the Federal Government and the Federal Government is the one who will be paying for most of the sound projects along the Cedar River. I’m sure that the cost of a single water reservoir would not exceed what both Waterloo and Cedar Rapids planners have in mind. However, Cedar Rapids planners are probably only considering that they want Federal money spent in this town and not somewhere else. This would be very short sighted of people as a reservoir would protect all communities, including those that will never see any separate flood control measures installed around them. Next on the flyer they had several different projects, and if all were completed (Levies, flood walls, neighbourhoods let to flood etc..) they stated that they would prevent future floods by 70%. What is wrong with this concept? Why would anyone even consider anything less than 100% protection when it is possible to achieve? Moving levies and building high flood walls will only cause flood waters to flow around them further upstream. The sheer volume of water that came through our communities during the 2008 flood was so great that it is hard to fathom the height needed to protect the communities, but yet could be held back by a reservoir. I have sent my comments to many politicians, but only one has ever responded. He has some good ideas about establishing wet lands and other areas to temporally flood, however when a single project could be all that is needed, why spend all the time, energy and tax money to reinvent a flood plan? Anarchy within our government. I'm not necessarily against the legalization of Marijuana but I strongly disagree with how some states have gone about their legalization practices. States that want to legalize marijuana or allow anything within their state that our Federal government has laws against should be going about this differently. States should be requesting the federal government to allow them to make their own interpretations of such rulings. But currently the federal government seems to be ignoring their adoption of these state laws even though the federal government could step in at anytime and begin making arrests. This is the same problem we have with our immigration policies. We would not need any boarder walls and our boarder security could be reduced greatly if the current laws were just enforced. Our dilemma now is that these laws have been ignored so often over the last several decades that now this has become a very sensitive issue along with how to actually enforce the current laws. I'm not against immigration as that is what made up this land. If the first settlers were denied entry by the Native Americans I probably would never have been born. Obviously, I would not have been born in the USA if this had happened. To me this is not a discrimination issue either, but it sure

seems to be focused that way. I have many and 2014, Cedar Rapids cited more than 160,000 motorists for speeding on the Hispanic friends, in fact I even sold a house on contract for deed to a family who interstate through town, including 16,537 from Minnesota. are Native Mexicans. Keep in mind that That rate of 8,000 a month is well a large number of immigrants to the USA above the roughly 6,000 speeding citations are not from Mexico, so we have people law officers in Hennepin and Ramsey from all around the world trying to enter counties issue each month in Minnesota. our country. That is why our country is so great because we have such a wide variety Minnesota is one of 38 states that doesn’t allow speed cameras. Minneapolis tried of peoples heritage and views. red-light cameras in 2005 and 2006, but Look back at the list of eight the state Supreme Court ruled the city had reasons why the fall of the Roman empire happened. I'm trying to reflect on no authority to install them. The speed those eight points as to the direction of our cameras, two north of the curve and two to the south, are owned and operated by current problems seems to be heading. Gatso USA on the city’s behalf. The firm Political corruption exists and gets $25 from every $75 fine. The cameras among our society figures we should be snap a picture of any vehicle traveling looking up too. Besides several of our forty at least 12 miles per hour over the speed four presidents lying to the country, we limit and capture license plate data. The have had more then our share of other owner is then sent a citation. politicians being corrupt. Al Capone is not Car rental companies get a lot of the father of corrupt politicians as they mail from the city of Cedar Rapids. An were around prior to his birth. But he sure Enterprise Holdings center in Tulsa, had a monopoly with politicians and civil Okla., received nearly 4,000 citations servants; such as local law enforcement. in the 20 months from January 2013 to Just listen in to a news channel and you August 2014. Officials at Enterprise, will hear about some political figure being investigated or convicted of a crime. Besides which also owns the Alamo and National rental brands, declined to comment. politicians, people of faith seem to have had many problems with their own leaders. Cedar Rapids yields about $3 million which assigns it to the police department, This would be way to sensitive for me to and amounts to 14 percent of the agency’s even write anything more about this topic. fiscal 2015 budget. So lets just jump in and start The city’s rationale for the cameras bashing our local government now! I'd sure is that the S-curve can be dangerous, like to know how much money was spent especially for unfamiliar drivers going too to pay off the owners of the slot machines fast. Accidents and injuries have been less when Cedar Rapids had to request the common since the cameras went up and machines to be removed. Wouldn't it be there have been no deaths, data shows. nice if politicians who make bad decisions Three people were killed in crashes on such as allowing the machines to be the stretch in 2008 and 2009, compared to installed only to be told to remove them none in 2012 and 2013. they themselves would have to pay the According to Iowa DOT's Steve repercussion costs? Gent, the DOT has implemented many Now Cedar Rapids city officials safety improvements during this period to have been told multiple times by the state reduce accidents. He cites that the Cedar government to remove the cameras. Kind Rapids Mayor is claiming the reduced of like Ronald Reagan telling Gorbachev number of crashes has been from speed "to tear down that wall." Who in their cameras while Steve figures it should be right mind would have allowed such a the other way around. The DOT, after a controversial program to be installed on review of all traffic cameras in the state, the road ways. There are 13 states that in March ordered Cedar Rapids to remove have banned the total use of any camera two of the four sets of cameras and move use for vehicle citations while only 12 the other two. states use them. So the majority of other Is it anarchy that the Mayor ignores states just don’t use camera enforcement the state law? Maybe everyone who is and therefore have not taken the issue up in the state house. What is the real reason issued a citation should ignore the city. that the city does not remove the cameras? Is it really that they feel they are reducing Russ Swart, publisher accidents or is it that the city may need to References: www.history.com pay some hefty fees to cancel the contract www.startribune.com they have signed with the company that controls them? Cedar Rapids has become the : Rick By Struve ultimate speed trap in the Midwest. Ever since installing hidden cameras on the Our speed cameras are interstate that runs through it, Iowa’s not cash machines! second-largest city has been sending out tickets at an unprecedented rate, including to prove it, all profits to thousands of Minnesotans. will go to charity! Iowa is the only state where cities post speed cameras on interstates, and no Iowa town has embraced photo enforcement of its expressway speed limit as wholeheartedly as Cedar Rapids, no! No! a city of 128,000 halfway between the STOP! Twin Cities and St. Louis. But the system is under fire from Iowa transportation officials, who question the safety rationale behind it. 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