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Keep in mind that this is for the city proper, not the metro as a whole. While these cities have seen better days, the metros themselves are actually not as bad as people think they are. Albany is a city on that list that is a great example. Hartford is another.
here we are near end Oct in 2012 and Buffalo is on the RISE! Dead no more my friends, dead no more. Buffalo always had marvelous essence and depth of character and cool - from HOT jazz to hip attitudes towards others i.e. very friendly folks and always helpful....open hearted. The city was once super sophisticcated and wealthy and it has wonderful base upon which to build its inevitable and fast moving REVIVAL to become one of the best smaller sized cities in the nation! Toronto folks will soon be hustling down to Buffalo for more than the expansive selection of good clothing at good prices - they will be coming for entertainment especially hip cool clubs, good restaurants and a lot of ambiance that Toronto really lacked back before ITS resurgence and never really captured the true "city" suavity that Buffalo had and still has and Montreal naturally possesses. Anyway watch out World, here comes dear old Buffalo once more on the prowl as a great city to be once more.
good grief, The unions just threw all their support to Obama since the election..they're coming back! Or at least allying themselves to Obamabiggovernment cause you know it's all about jobs jobs jobs not fiscal cliff-hangers. Hold your breath for the next four years fella..and get yourself some Obamamoney!
^^snore. Right, it's not two wars. It's not an exploded economy because of credit default swaps, derivatives trading and unregulated banking. Nope, it's dem yoo-nions that are destroying the country. You should turn up your hearing aid because I don't think you are getting the full effect of AM930.
good grief, The unions just threw all their support to Obama since the election..they're coming back! Or at least allying themselves to Obamabiggovernment cause you know it's all about jobs jobs jobs not fiscal cliff-hangers. Hold your breath for the next four years fella..and get yourself some Obamamoney!
You would think that the fact that hysterical worst case scenarios for the last four years that these droolers have been screaming about didn't happen would shut them up. But they can't be embarrassed.
To paraphrase Dr. Manhattan "a pointless list, based on easily skewed statistical number crunching that ignores empirical experience, is as nourishing to the intellect as a photo of oxygen is to the lungs."
These "list" things are always absurd. One day we are the worst this or that, the next we are on the "best places to raise a family" list. It's all in what statistics you choose to use and how you choose to skew them. For instance, when we made the top whatever dangerous cities list it only included cities over 250k, a number we barely fall into. If you were to do a real list of all cities regardless of size we would rank much lower. It also doesn't take into account patterns of crime within the area itself, which vary widely 'hood to 'hood and even block to block. It's easy for someone who has never lived here and doesn't have intimate knowledge of the realities of life in Buffalo, especially across a broad spectrum, to make black and white assumptions based on some numbers on a piece of paper. People should stop wasting their time writing this crap and concern themselves with the real issues in our country, like poverty, education, the upper class controlling/owning basically everything, or the fact that our media, industry and government are all holding hands and tap dancing on us.
It's just like other Upstate cities in that the labor laws, unions, and taxes have conspired to prevent even modest, long-term economic growth.
Stop blaming "labor" and "Unions". If it wasn't for these greedy corporations that pay little in taxes, hiding their profits overseas, along with the jobs they took would stop being so greedy, looking for any free ride they can get, live up to their responsibility where they originally came from, there wouldn't be such a huge problem.
Stop blaming "labor" and "Unions". If it wasn't for these greedy corporations that pay little in taxes, hiding their profits overseas, along with the jobs they took would stop being so greedy, looking for any free ride they can get, live up to their responsibility where they originally came from, there wouldn't be such a huge problem.
This is exactly the type of thinking that has hobbled Buffalo and is damaging the country.
For some reason people feel entitled to property earned by others and are intent on extracting a pound of flesh from the Rich or from companies for the privilege of operating in the community - nevermind that these corporations and wealthy individuals already provide the community with countless jobs and are patrons of many cultural institutions.
Seizing wealth simply because others have more is neither legitimate or moral. If you want something, go out and earn it.
Unions are a scourge that ensure that any business (aside from monopolies) will fail. Businesses succeed from the coordination of labor and capital - and the cost of labor is most accurately measured by a free, competitive market. If businesses must pay unionized wages (e.g. above market wages), or waste money on unproductive work rules, then they are unable to invest in capital improvements at the same rate their competitors are. Over time, the company will be unable to compete and will fail. So unions are good at extracting higher wages over a short period of time, but this can never been sustained. Unions will kill the goose that lays the golden egg every time.
WNY needs to focus not on getting the most out local residents and companies, but on making the region attractive to others. Of course I wouldn't hold my breath on this.
1) If people assumed risk and the money was really theirs to begin with then they are entitled to every penny of profit. However, as we have seen in banking and other industries, the big players are not using THEIR OWN MONEY. They are grabbing bailouts, taxpayer handouts, incentives, etc., and playing with that money.
2) The failure to make capital investments is equally shared by major shareholders who take payouts / retirement buyouts, etc., as ways to filch money from the company they run.
The people who provide the jobs are the people who work. I find it funny that given the opportunity, most CEO's will cut back on labor, not grow it. Tell me how this "creates" jobs?
The sense of entitlement (from all parties) is what's killing the country. However, it is not a sense isolated to unions alone.
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