Ohio town gets hostile at county meeting over PFJ coming to town

in any small community a business such as a Flying J moving in is a big news item and topic for discussion. In a town of 2100 near where I live a Casey's General Store coming to town was the hot topic for nearly two years. it's just typical small town stuff. I'm sure for everyone who voices an opinion there's 10 or 20 who couldn't care less one way or the other.

 

"This project doesn't do anything for Turtlecreek Twp. residents, and it doesn't do anything for kids in Lebanon High School," said resident Terri Banker. "We ask our kids to perform well in school, get a four-year education and after years of education all we have provided them with is the job of cashier. There was a hope of high-tech, bio-tech - some sort of high-income jobs; if we keep going down this road, we're jeopardizing that. If you put that truck-stop in at 123, you can forget any high-quality development."Read more at#http://cdllife.com/2012/top-trucking-news/hostile-crowd-protests-truck-stop/#oowK5JVGrYJDeaLS.99#

This town is full of crap and i hope they build it for obvious reasons.

But I have the following thoughts on this comment posted above:
1. well somebody has to be a janitor.
2. while we are all are born equal we are all not born smart or smart enough to have a job in the biotech field, be a doctor or a lawyer and we know you don't have to have brains to be a politician. And truck stops offer fulltime employment way before any fast-food restaurant or dollar store.
3. before I sttarted driving and while i was in trucking school i worked for Pilot and actually my job title was "cashier AND "counter sales". So for those going into college for a sales, marketing or a business degree this position would be good to get a small hint of what's those fields might be like, and;
4 their cash register system takes 3 programs to run their register on the counter side and next to Target department stores is one of the most complex registers systems I have ever worked with.

Before trucking I worked in retail for 12 years and ran at least a cash register system in a hardware store, restaurants, department stores, dollar store, grocery stores and a truck stop

 

How is there dillema any different then the entire state of California?

 

Yeah ... they're pitching a fit about Loves going in at Dunnigan.

 

I like the way you "country folk" think.

 

Last time I was up there the Heather Haven Motel had caught fire, did they rebuild that?

 

That I'm not sure of, ill get you an answer a little after christmas but it doesn't ring a bell.

 

That's like El Paso thinking that by building a ballpark downtown (where you can't find parking to begin with) and bringing in a AAA minor league team that the quality of life will improve and El Paso will attract more high end jobs. That's a laugh. The only thing that appeals to employers about El Paso is the abundant supply of workers willing to work for less than $9 an hour. Thats why the call center industry is so popular in El Paso. Manufacturing jobs that would fetch $12/hr in the Midwest barely pay $8/hr in El Paso and most of those are held by temporary workers so the plants can avoid paying for benefits.

 

It is beginning to sound like all of the towns and cities are reading out of the same failure of a play book. I read about our local hospital using the same lame excuse for building a heliport, "the manufacturers will be drawn to the more modern healthcare facilities". It has been several years now, I still haven't seen any new manufacturers, or high tech companies, or biotech industry coming in to town, or the county, and the population is still shrinking. They can't seem to figure it out, that the manufacturers are trying to turn a profit, just like people, and that the government has taxed and regulated them right out of the country. What is it going to take to wake America up, famine, war, what?

 

Sounds a hell of alot like NorthWest PA, El Paso does...