Municipal Failure Supreme Last One Out, Turn Off The Lights

Municipal Failure Supreme Last One Out, Turn Off The Lights By Joe Ingino B.A. Psychology Editor/Publisher Central Newspapers ACCOMPLISHED WRITER/AUTHOR OF OVER 800,000 Published Columns in Canada and The United States On April 16, 1971, real-estate agents Bob McDonald and Jim Youngren put the words, "Will the last person leaving SEATTLE -- Turn out the lights" on a billboard at S 167th Street and Pacific Highway S near Sea-Tac International Airport. The two realtors, who work for Henry Broderick, Inc., put up the billboard as a humorous response to pessimism generated by the national aerospace industry's nosedive, known locally as the Boeing Bust. A Sign of the Times The recession came as The Boeing Company, the region's largest employer, went from a peak of 100,800 employees in 1967 to a low of 38,690 in April 1971. McDonald said their out-of-town clients "were amazed that Seattle wasn’t a ghost town with weeds growing in the streets. Sadly the comparison to Oshawa. We also have weed growing on our streets in the form of cannabis shops.... Everything else is closing or has closed. Have you been downtown Oshawa lately? Well, take a drive and see the similarities to the above... God forbid take a walk. Oshawa was once the jewel on the regions crown. We had power. We had standards. We had an exceptional quailty of life. Ever since Nancy Diamond, took out the fountain at Memorial Park. Life has slowly deteriorated to a notch above a war zone. I have been warning the City of GM move to pull out. No one listened. Scared, city officials failed to stop GM from slowly taking jobs other places and leaving us with an enviromental mess. Much like The Boeing model above. Oshawa has turned in to a zombie wonderland. Made up the homeless, drug addicts, drug dealers and some of the worlds uglies prostitutes. I blame the Mayor for doing nothing but waste your tax dollars to the tune of 2 million dollars on a private para-military security company that gets him a personal bodyguard. Your Money. He likes to fill his mouth that Oshawa is resilent... The only resilient thing about him is his neglect for Oshwa and to work with people. The two downtown councillors. Complete disgrace. In the two terms they served 10yrs. Oshawa downtown has become a war zone. Yet, they push for a new downtown mini park. In my opinion. Rick Kerr and Derek Giberson should do the honorable thing and resign. Convenience stores are closing, restaurants... It appears that the only shops opening are vaping shops and cannabis. The mayor talks about supporting local small businesees. He does not. But in their defense. Kerr, has no real business experience. Giberson a third rate wonna be musician never really had a solid job other than that of being elected. We can’t expect more. But we can expect for them to resign... before the last one of us has to turn off the lights on Oshawa, due to municipal incompetence.