The reason that Schenectady was so great back then --- there were no Nayboobs --- Republicans and Democrats loved their hometown and worked together to make it a great place. Thank God that the Democrats in Schenectady County have recaptured that spirit of working together and caring for the community.
Yes, Schenectady was great...... but NOT for the above reason you are claiming......just AGAIN proves you are not now nor have ever paid property and school taxes.\
"Back then" there were no 100% property tax exemptions for businesses. There were no taxpayer funded gin mills, no taxpayer funded theaters, no taxpayer funded restaurants, no taxpayer funded hair salons, no taxpayers funded bakeries, no taxpayer funded appliance stores, etc.
Homeowners did NOT have to bail out failing businesses. See, DV, because you do NOT now nor ever paid property and school taxes, you have absolutely no clue what it's like to be a homeowner, struggling financially in a tough economy, trying to decide whether you are going to make the repairs to your house as ordered by the government or are you going to pay the SUPER HIGH taxes as ordered by the government.
Back then, DV, if business couldn't make it, oh well, tough sh*t, if they failed, they failed. But today, YOUR OWN SOCIALIST BRAIN says that homeowners MUST foot the expenses of the businesses. Like your precious VanDyck....TWICE the taxpayers had to bail them out of bankrupcy. And how about the Parker Inn, DV????? Uh,, taxpayer funded private business, uh, tell us DV, tell us DV, tell us DV, tell us DV......who paid for that place????? Huh?????? Huh???????? He struggles, and what happens YOU SOCIALISTS come to the rescue....TAX THE HOMEOWNERS TO FOOT THE BILL.
Downtown thrived because homeowners had money to spend, and it was the homeowners choice---NOT the governments orders--as to which business the homeowners would choose to their money. But in YOUR pea-brain, you want the government dictating to the homeowners which businesses they MUST fund. I thought we lived in a country oif freedom, freedom to make our own choices to which businesses we will spend money, but in Schenectady, it's the government dictating to the homeowners.
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
The reason that Schenectady was so great back then --- there were no Nayboobs --- Republicans and Democrats loved their hometown and worked together to make it a great place. Thank God that the Democrats in Schenectady County have recaptured that spirit of working together and caring for the community.
NO, reason it was so great back then is becuase you were in diapers and not spewing your rhetoric and BS all over the forum and talking $hit!
I worked on Mr. Robert's campaign for Mayor (the Roberts, Johnson, Carpenter and Notar team) in the late 1970's while I was in high school. Personally, I think that after he lost that election - Mr. Roberts lost the spirit that originally made him an attractive candidate for public office. After he lost a bid a few years later for the NYS Assembly, he left the city all together. I was not involved in Robert's 1982 campaign for the State Assembly because of a commitment that I made to the late Assemblyman Clark Wemple and my late uncle, Judge George Severson. Frankly, I am quite happy with the representation that Jim Tedisco has provided that Assembly District over the years -- so I don't regret staying out of that campaign.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
I worked on Mr. Robert's campaign for Mayor (the Roberts, Johnson, Carpenter and Notar team) in the late 1970's while I was in high school. Personally, I think that after he lost that election - Mr. Roberts lost the spirit that originally made him an attractive candidate for public office. After he lost a bid a few years later for the NYS Assembly, he left the city all together. I was not involved in Robert's 1982 campaign for the State Assembly because of a commitment that I made to the late Assemblyman Clark Wemple and my late uncle, Judge George Severson. Frankly, I am quite happy with the representation that Jim Tedisco has provided that Assembly District over the years -- so I don't regret staying out of that campaign.
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid - John Wayne
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I worked for the entire ticket not just one candidate. The Democratic ticket that year was a great one and I have absolutely no regrets supporting the ticket.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
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