Youngstown's bleak future

[Towntalk]

Unfortunately it has become so ingrained in American psyche thanks in no small part to the ACLU and the courts all the way up to the us "supreme"  court, that no politician has the guts to change it. Look at how the "socialist" democrats have been with the borders issue. By 2040 Spanish will be the official language, and people in Mexico will be allowed to vote in our elections even though they haven't stepped one foot out of Mexico, and we'll have the same problems here with large drug cartels running things that they have in Mexico. Who knows, maby the President will be a Mexican drug lord that will toss out the Constituution and make himself president for life.

[AllanY2525]

Mahoning County really needs to step it up with the whole "work for welfare"
thing.  With all the public works stuff the city and county need done and the
shortfall of funds it just makes sense.  There is NO lack of work to be done
on the area's roads, infrastructure, etc.

Force those who are able to get up, come out and work for their welfare benefits.
This would separate those who truly want to work and are struggling to find a
steady job from the do-nothing types.


One thing I am hoping to see with the oil industry and 3-D printing technology
center in the area would be more jobs in advanced plastics manufacturing. Most
plastics are made from derivatives of petroleum and natural gas liquids.

[Towntalk]

  I didn't say that it was a bad thing, just pointed out that the major industry in Youngstown today is welfare, and we all know that the politicians to the man are going to protect their interests by catering to them while, like the leaches that they collectively are draining the blood out of the gainfully employed as witnessed by the $20.00 a plate dinner/fund raisers that they have peddling week old pasta to the foolish people that would go. (By the way you get only one serving of pasta, a slice of bread and perhaps a drink served in a cheap paper cup and maby a wilted lettuce with a dab of cheap salad dressing. If you want a second helping come up with another $20.00 a plate.) BEWARE: At some of these meet and greet fundraisers, there are people who go around picking up plates of half eaten meals, taking them back into the kitchen and scraping them back into the pots.

[Rick Rowlands]

And that is a bad thing how?  Crime rates would drop and productive citizens might feel safe to move back.

[Towntalk]

If all the welfare cheats left town we'd lose about 50% more of our population.

[Rick Rowlands]

A state tried that recently and the welfare rolls magically dropped by 80%!  It weeded out the freeloaders.

[AllanY2525]

If low income government owned housing were closed down, section 8 revoked and housing codes strictly enforced, in 10 years the city will turn itself around as the freeloaders will go elsewhere.   

I agree about the section 8 housing, with the exception of housing for the elderly and those who
are legitimately disabled and unable to work and support themselves. The rest need to find a job
or go elsewhere.

How about having them work for free for the street department or the parks department filling
pot holes, picking up litter, mowing vacant lots, etc?

[Towntalk]

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a snob, just proud of my linage you see. As to the town, I find me in, I care not what it's future is, for I'm ripe of age, and on the downward road, and when darkness finally comes, as come it will, I'll have no need to worry more.

[Towntalk]

I am blessed ... I am fortunate ... I have a chauffer who takes me to where I gotta go. I don't need to ride with common people in common carrier buses. Ain't it great, and ain't it grand?

[jay]

Seniors in Youngstown have access to multiple routes of the WRTA bus system.  They could live here without having to own a car.

[Towntalk]

Move em all to Campbell! Or Boardman! Or Canfield!

[Rick Rowlands]

If low income government owned housing were closed down, section 8 revoked and housing codes strictly enforced, in 10 years the city will turn itself around as the freeloaders will go elsewhere.   

[Towntalk]

My friends, and you are my friends, I admit that I as a 75 ... soon to be 76 year old senior citizen have the patience of a very angry Lioness just looking for any excuse to tear the liver out of anyone that looks crosseyed at me on a good day. I cheerfully also admit that I have absolutely no patience with the blithering con artists that run this city and I make no exceptions. The LAST good government that Youngstown had was in 1950 and it's all been downhill ever since.
Most you you folks are too young to remember the early 1950's and some of you weren't anything more than a dream of things yet to come so I don't expect too very much from you, (no offense), but thanks to all the wonderful educators that I had in what can be considered Youngstown's Public School Systems GOLDEN YEARS coupled with a School Board second to none, and not at all like the trash that is running our schools today, I learned how to seperate the good from the trash. To the person, NONE of today's board are fit to clean out a well used outhouse on the hottest summer day after a good rain shower.

[iwasthere]

seniors do become feisty at bingo games, handicapped pking spaces, and businesses that do not honor their aarp card. these inds can become ugly when they do not rec their ten percent discounts at all retail businesses. I saw these mentioned crimes with my own eyes. the ytown dt police can make their traffic violations quotas every month by giving the ytown dt senior residents for scooters moving violations.

[jay]

If we are heading toward becoming a city of senior citizens, maybe we should embrace that idea and make this city a very favorable senior citizen experience. 

I doubt that senior citizens commit much of the city's crime and probably are not involved with gang activities.  I don't recall ever seeing a Youngstown senior citizen gang fight on YouTube.

Seniors don't play loud music (unless their hearing aids aren't working).

Seniors are the backbone of our city's volunteers.