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YOUNGSTOWN 
Posted on: May 10, 2009
By Stan
A position of leadership does have its rewards but it also carries responsibility. Yes, this does entail more than managing the spending of your salary. The safety of those who you purport to lead is a major priority. Services to achieve that goal must be maintained. Paying for those services does require that jobs be available to generate cash for that purpose.
Generating jobs is an ongoing process that requires constant attention. An atmosphere must be maintained that makes doing business pleasurable. Unhappy businesses leave and go where they are welcome. In todays economy jobs have a very high value. You cannot afford to lose any.
Using available resources to the max should be considered to create new industries. We deal with many countries around the world and those contacts can be used to facilitate trade. Idle hands can be put to use manufacturing goods for export. Lets put an abundance of pride and prosperity back into Youngstown.
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A city without viable and effective leadership goes nowhere fast. The job situation is changing for the worse. The unemployed are using their idle time to create a third world atmosphere that anyone with an aptitude for thinking would not be proud of.
The process of restoring Youngstown should start with restoring civilized behavior within the city. Criminal activity must be stopped. Those bringing drugs into the city must be stopped. Street dealers can't sell if they don't have a supply. Addicts who commit crime to support their habit will then be able to be rehabilitated when the supply of drugs has dried up.
crime stopping isn't the first answer. As a matter of fact, that issue works itself out. most crime in youngstown is not moral-crime ( like rape, beating an old lady over the head for nothing, child molestation. etc) but it is mostly economic crime, such as drug selling, robbery, theft etc..(I have a police scanner and I also research this, and scholastically contemplate it, if you will)...and most violent crime stems from it.
You give people something to do, and there is incentive
to not involve oneself with crime, and in most cases you wont have to or will be less tempted to do economic crime, cuz it wont be worth the risk.
You'll NEVER get rid of crime, and sad to say, that no matter how well off some area is, people always have and always will want to be high. You stop the supply of drugs in an area where there are very few other economic options (and no matter the moral issue or high ground one takes, that conscientiousness does NOT matter when a bill comes in and is 4 months overdue, or because the balance is so high you can only pay a certain amount each month since a tire blew on the car which is the bread and butter in being transportation)...a person does not instantly become a scoundrel by making a criminal decision, or as you love to say "dirtbag", and doesn't necessarily indicate a "worthless monster" and highly immoral person.
But really, the crime thing? seriously? The reason I'm NOT voting for Mayor Williams again. Dallas and Ft Worth has plenty crime (killing every day SOMEWHERE in the DFW metro) yet the standard of living and job opps are so high, it's almost impossible to NOT have a job, and a decent one at least down there...
your solution here is highly simplistic and really achieves nothing...wow a drug free and violent free Ytown? There's plenty of places like that with virtually no good economy.
I meant that comment for Stan, and not the writer with whom I agree with and echo 100%, 100%, and might I say 100% !!!!!!
I will rush vote Mayor Williams out. The "church people's" and the "scared-people's" mayor.
ah shnapp, that WAS Stan as the author, haha!!
SO I agree with the blog, but not the sub-post.
To develop wealth without curtailing crime only provides a fertile environment for criminals to take advantage of . They will attempt to destroy what society tries to build . Crime nust be curtailed before society can flourish .
Stan,
I agree with you on ths one. We need to bring the Gmen back in from the 1920's to clean out the criminals in Youngstown. If it means death to the criminal so be it. These drug deals and the other support systems that they have has not helped the area out one bit.. Look what is going on with Mexico the past couple of months. What we need is the GMEN to clean house. They got the mafia under control and now it is dead to the area for good. (FBI issue July edition) I am sure they control the drugs in the area too. I feel that they have the right to shot if they are shoot at. Even if the ALCU has a problem with it then we need to send them down to Mexico for a week or so. The police are the law and the law has to be respected.. If they do not have repect then no one fears the law..
Robert Neville