Why Middletown's Income level is so low

A major reason income levels are so low other than lack of good jobs, is the fact that City Leaders have turned Middletown into the Poverty and low income center of Butler County.

Can anyone tell me why the movers and shakers that have been here, like I have, since the 50's are remaining silent on this? How could a person who has lived here through the good times, not be outraged at the city's operation today? We are literally watching a city be destroyed right before our eyes by "outsiders" who don't seem to give a damn, and some of the "born and raised" boomers are sitting silent on this. Don't you boomers care enough any more to even develop a whimper of anger? Let's kick these newcomer "ruiners of a city" out on their collective as....--- behinds. They have no hometown feelings/ownership for this city and could care less what they leave behind. What I don't understand is a guy like Marconi. Here's a guy who was born and raised here and has seen the better times. Yet, he is part of the same group of people who is taking his hometown apart and he is perfectly content to play along. I don't understand why he isn't angry about this. Why aren't you raising he-- about this Marconi? Same with Armbruster. This town has provided an opportunity to run his florist business for over 60 years. Why isn't he outraged (between naps) about what this town is turning into?

City leaders and Council are willing to trash the town with low income/HUD/ Section 8 for the government funds used as their revenue. Apparently, trashing the town and making it into a welfare, hand-out Appalachian catastrophy is easier than trying to get their revenue from decent paying jobs for the citizens. The leaders are so incredibly lazy, too ignorant, or just plain refuse to create revenue like a normal town would do using company and payroll taxes. They've driven all the revenue producing companies out of town and now have no choice but to get their revenue from government handouts. All should go including the city manager and the deadwood in the city building.

While we're developing a recall list by 2010, can we also petition that the replacement Council fire the city manager as well? I suspect that the way to get rid of a city manager is through Council, correct? How about the Planning/Econ. Dev. Directors while we're at it?

In other words Middeltown is a "welfare" city,surviving on the handouts of big government.

accuro- your statement- "its a beast use to the diet of the glory days"-accuro, to me, the glory days were when there were plenty of decent jobs to choose from. If you were an adult, you had a choice of jobs to provide your family with a rather decent lifestyle. If you were a college kid home for the summer, you could find a job to pay the tuition. If you were in high school, you could find a summer job that made it worth your while. There was pride in home ownership and when you picked up the Journal and read it, there was some actual intelligent, competent people making intelligent decisions about the city. Even the Journal was well prepared back then. Progress was made with boulevards being built, parks being maintained, pools open and funded, people shopping in the many choices provided, the downtown actually had choices and there was a reason to go down there, the town had a "friendlier" attitude about it and there seemed to be more cooperation between citizen and government back then. The people running the show now don't seem to offer any of these visions- on the contrary- they represent the opposite of open dialogue and progress. The character of the city leaders has changed. When more hometown people were running it, there seemed to be more interest taken by them to grow the town and offer people a decent place to live. Now- we have none of that. Since the 70's we have been on a constant downhill slide. There has not been a school board nor a Council that has had the quality and caring that produced the progress of the 60's. It's almost as if the quality of the people to choose from went down when we lost that "hometown flavor" in candidates to run the city.

Hermes how do you have an item in the Budget go from about $2,000,000.00 to $11,000,000.00 in 7-8 years and not go.......hmmmmmmmmmm, that is Councils excuse, they didn't go hmmmmmmmmm.

wasteful wrote: Hermes how do you have an item in the Budget go from about $2,000,000.00 to $11,000,000.00 in 7-8 years and not go.......hmmmmmmmmmm, that is Councils excuse, they didn't go hmmmmmmmmm.