Mr. Mayor!

[Lynds]

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2010/01/28/costello.oh.middle.america.cnn
here's the video they where at ballbusters (aka Gavos)

[Youngstownshrimp]

Our competitive edge will continue to erode when we allow the public sector to go on with obstructing innovation.  And as this beast grows, more and more brainwashed bodies will follow and build up their strength.  We are fools if we think we can holdback the private sector from leaving our shores as they are embraced by third world hungry mouths because they have no foodcard and HUD subsidies. 

But Alas, no democracy can live without the private sector to fund HUD.  HUD will just run out of money and ignore Youngstown.

[Rick Rowlands]

Actions do NOT speak louder than words on the coasts?  Perhaps thats part of the reason both coasts are disconnected from reality.

[AllanY2525]

It's ALL about jobs at this point - jobs, jobs , j - o - b - s.


What I would like to see President Obama do, is to start in-sourcing some
jobs that have been sent overseas, by making it prohibitively expensive
for the major culprits who have been out-sourcing them, to continue to do so.

Out-sourcing jobs made them richer, while making us all poorer.  Time to stop
rewarding Wall Street - and start looking out for the little people, on Main Street.

Every time an American job is out-sourced to another country, it permanently
reduces the national tax base... and in a time of record deficits, our government
can ill-afford the continuous exodus of what used to be good paying American
jobs.

We need to reduce our trade deficit - A.S.A.P. - it's killing us as a nation.  We
need to find ways to produce goods right here in the USA, and export them to
everywhere else - at a competitive price.  Good old American ingenuity
is not dead and gone - lets use our best and brightest to beat the competition
at their own game.

[ytowner]

THANK YOU!

[Towntalk]

Here's the transcript:

CHETRY: And the president's first state of the union signaled a new priority for 2010, creating jobs. He was reaching out to the middle class in last night's speech. So did he make a connection? Carol Costello went to Youngstown, Ohio, to watch people watching the president.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

CAROL COSTELLO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Jim Krakowski's (ph) bar was packed for a Wednesday night, the crowd, middle class Democrats and independents gathered here to knock a few back while they watched the president try to reach out to them.

OBAMA: I have never been more hopeful about America's future than tonight.

(APPLAUSE)

COSTELLO: It was a good try, but --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He is having a dream.

COSTELLO: His skepticism isn't surprising. Youngstown, Ohio, hasn't seen signs the recession is easing. One-third of the people here live below the poverty level.

OBAMA: I never suggested that change would be easy or that I could do it alone.

COSTELLO: It's something people here understand, but distrust in government at all levels runs deep, even with some Democrats.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They should be embarrassed, the Democrats and Republicans, they should be embarrassed what they are doing to us now.

COSTELLO: In an attempt to ease that kind of anger, the president offered populist proposals, like tax credits for childcare and a cap on student loan programs. His most popular idea here, though, using money paid back by bailed out Wall Street banks to help small businesses.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think he means it, but can he get it done?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It seems as if he was trying to put a lot of sugar on a lot of things.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It just seemed like he was jumping around a lot of things and just trying to appease everybody.

COSTELLO: Still, others felt the president showed the kind of resolve they heard during his run for president, especially when he called for an end to partisanship.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The civil war is over with. We don't need another one between the Democrats and Republicans.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: Keep in mind, Kiran, Youngstown is a heavily Democratic city -- 70 percent voted for Obama in 2008. They wanted to see the old Obama back, and they did think that President Obama had the right tone. They like him personally.

But did he reach out to the middle class and convince them that he was now fighting for them? They like to think so, but as they say here in the Midwest, action speaks louder than words. They want details and they want jobs, they don't want ideas.

CHETRY: So people you talked to are a little bit skeptical, and you said they want action. So what do they want to see him do?

COSTELLO: What they would like to see him do is come down to Washington and bring a bag of money and save some of the businesses that are going out of businesses. They want their own bailout.

They know that's not going to happen, but they want President Obama to somehow create jobs. They want the federal government's help in doing that. They heard some ideas in the speech last night, but time will tell, as they say.

CHETRY: All right, Carol, Costello for us this morning. Thank you so much.

[Towntalk]

Youngstown spotlighted on CNN:

CNN had a crew here for State of the Union coverage and used the old Paramount Theater as a backdrop even though there were other sites they could have used.

Tear that building down NOW Mr. Mayor!  It's a blight we don't need or want!

When the transcript becomes available, I'll post it here.

They also showed a run down house and a beer garden.