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Ned Depew
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Date Posted: 11:08:21 07/13/05 Wed
In reply to:
Thomas Koulos
's message, "Where is the Foh POT OF GOLD and JOBS???" on 13:24:33 07/12/05 Tue
Tom -
Where are the job? Where is the prosperity? It's all around you. Apparently you can't see the forest for the trees. Columbia County has the lowest unemployment of any rural County in the State - less than half the national unemployment rate. If you can't find a job in Columbia County, you either aren't looking, or you don't have the skills and attitude required to get and hold one - which is only your own fault.
I don't know where you get the idea that the tax base is diminishing. That is simply contrary to the facts. In fact, the tax base in Hudson has increased enormously over the past decade. The red ink you love to talk about is due to profligate, uncontrolled, greedy spending of the taxpayer's money by out-of-control Public Administrations who act like pigs at the trough, and this includes both the HCSD Administration and the Scalera/Grandinetti faction.
These groups have added tens of thousands of dollars to our tax burden by improper use of City assets and out-of control spending. It is not the ordinary citizens of Hudson who have made the decisions that are costing us hundreds of thousands of dollars - it is a small clique that controls this Administration and can still muster enough votes to swing the City Council on some issues. They are the ones who, as you so poetically phrase it, are "the manipulators of the PUBLIC Trust" who advance "the self interests of those seeking to survive on somebody else's time, talents and money," namely, themselves.
Friends of Hudson and other pro-smart-growth groups and individuals have supported such moves as forgiving the debt of L&B in order to keep jobs in the City, and extending the City sewer lines to enable Kaz to build their new plant. Smart, thoughtful people who care about the County's future support a mix of tourism, retail, manufacturing, services, intellectual property, agriculture, residential development and more - all carefully balanced to insure compatability and mutual benefit with little or no negative impact. Smart Growth, Tom, that's the key.
Right now, if a business were to come here, they would have to pay a pretty high wage to attract workers, since most Hudson residents already have decent jobs. That's actually a "problem" in attracting new companies - because we don't have a large, idle workforce, able and willing to work for low wages. That's the price we pay for economic prosperity! But most of us would say it is worth it. Now if we can only get our government under control....
Instead of railing aganst your imaginary foes (the NIMBY visioneries - whoever you think they are), you should be going after the real culprits, those who actually have their hands in Hudson Taxpayers' (not yours, Tom!) pockets right now.
They are the ones who are creating the red ink budgets, by spending as fast as they can, in spite of increasing valuations, without regard for the costs to others. Do the names Scalera, Pierro and Grandinetti mean anything to you? They've feathered their own nests by giving themselves jobs that pay more than twice the City average family income, and those of us who pay taxes in Hudson are paying for it
If you want to know who is responsible for spending Hudson into debt - look no further. So encourage your friends who can vote in Hudson - unlike you - to use their vote in November to change the underhanded, back-room, self-serving way the "people's business" is done in Hudson.
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