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Date Posted: Monday, February17, 10:28:am
Author: Wishful thinking
Subject: Re: Are we Really this BAD
In reply to: Always negative waves 's message, "Re: Are we Really this BAD" on Sunday, February16, 10:55:pm

Man, you are an intelligent and well informed individual. I'm a long time resident, and Newburgh is truly being gentrified. It has pros and cons. First pro, liberty street corridor from Broadway to spring St, has changed for the better. People wouldn't be caught dead walking that route at night about 10years ago. Now it's a bustling area. Con, with the addition and influx of new businesses, a certain sense of belonging to the original community has been lost. But the people who have been displaced if you will, had no money or power to change it's environment. You spoke about how the fed creates Fiat money, and how the rising costs of healthcare, pensions and etc, have risen and it's become a trend for communities to merge. But the poor of this city and many others, do not know or even care of these things due to the socioeconomic standing they are in. No one cares about stocks or the federal reserve when they can't afford to eat. So I guess I am saying this, a group of people have moved into this community, probably like yourself, who are informed and can see what is happening in the world. But a lot of native Newburgh residents do not have that foresight. I'm not calling them ignorant, but let's say uniformed. This area was built on poverty, from urban renewal to now, and even before that. Check out the white papers documentary. And as far as the Brooklyn gentrification growth, it won't equate due to being in the five borroughs sorrounding Manhattan. But how many NYC transplants have come here, because it's cheaper than overpriced NYC. The people here can't compete with the purchasing power that the transplants posses. That in itself is all that is needed to displaced
those who were used for years to get grants and be used for poverty prosperity. So to me, there will always be a divide here, and in the world, the haves and have nots. The wealth gap has widened globally, and communally. So in closing, the train has come to Newburgh, and those of us who do not have tickets, are not going for the ride.

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