THE 'ZIMMERMAN' EFFECT

The recent 'flap and concern' over the comments made by a consultant/'headhunter' at an SAU 6 BOARD MEETING brings up a problem that is currently plaguing the United States, apart from various forms of litigation. It is the rise of an elite composed of 'professional parasites' that continue to extract and consume wealth from cities, towns, states,institutions of all kinds,etc. in the form of fees and services that used to be based on local control and conditions and such intangibles as 'commonsense'. Panels of experts, whether ranging from tax advisors to health care providers or any other form of consultant/expert deemed necessary through mutual- backslapping groups who rely and insist on such to direct and focus their lives and their pocketbooks or credit cards, are the coming career choice that bureaucracy and government demands. But the real effect of the 'Zimmerman" approach leaves unaswered the question why Claremont,the town that pretends to be a city, continues to be painted as it is in very negative terms.... Putting aside actual perceptual problems in viewing Claremont through lack of rose-colored glasses or of a rosy halo hovering over the area, it indicates the actual real estate problems not only of Claremont but the entire country as well. Nor should we admit the problems, financial, social, political, economic that all forms of government, local,country, state or national experience and will continue to experiences as the agricultural capacity to produce food and the industrial capacity to produce tangible goods are diminished increasingly in terms of the world market or the rise of other nations once thought to be 'third-world' or undeveloped or developing since many have concluded the United States is on the way to joining them.... Claremont's problemsare a microcosm of the macrocosmic ones of this nation and since most locals,even those who should know such things, continue to ignore such in their daily lives,we can expect little or no solutions that will dispell any of these problems. This does not mean that well-intentioned persons will not come forward to offer 'comfort and solace' to the suffering area or to propose various plans and schemes to alleviate the stress, strain,aches and pains of a basically faltering series of systems that consultants, experts, managers,advisors and administrators,etc. have disrupted over the years. Claremont,'The Heart of the Twin-State Valley', despite its 'diseased' condition as diagnosed by the Zimmerman Effect, will survive in some way, long after all those responsible for the ill-health of Claremont have departed the area in some form,whether rode out on a rail or in a casket or a limosine on their own volitions and new influx of 'flatlanders' come in to 'upgrade and revitalize' everything-adding, by the way, to 'the Gene Pool' which led to the flap and concern in the first place, and this may possibly and probably happen quite literally....