What I said in earlier takes of this video was that so much money is spent on amenities "for the children." But it's spent in places that aren't easy for all the kinds to get to or require resources many of the children can't afford. All the children have to see the downtown. When the city won't do basic things like maintain the parking garage or accept a FREE park someone was going to give them, what does it tell the children? It tells the ones who have the means to get out that they should leave when they become adults because the town is hopeless. And it tells the ones who can't leave that they might as well blast the mind away on drugs because they're stuck in a town that's hopeless. Nobody is going to move to Clarksburg because of a splash pad in Nutter Fort. Let Bridgeport spend the money on those things. Clarksburg should spend its money preserving the things that actually set it apart from Bridgeport.
Oh, Ryan! What a good post. I pray someone listens!
What I said in earlier takes of this video was that so much money is spent on amenities "for the children." But it's spent in places that aren't easy for all the kinds to get to or require resources many of the children can't afford. All the children have to see the downtown. When the city won't do basic things like maintain the parking garage or accept a FREE park someone was going to give them, what does it tell the children? It tells the ones who have the means to get out that they should leave when they become adults because the town is hopeless. And it tells the ones who can't leave that they might as well blast the mind away on drugs because they're stuck in a town that's hopeless.
Nobody is going to move to Clarksburg because of a splash pad in Nutter Fort. Let Bridgeport spend the money on those things. Clarksburg should spend its money preserving the things that actually set it apart from Bridgeport.