Comments on: A little hint at life in the other Georgia

By: Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:52:23 +0000

DB Gwinnettian I like that word snarcasm, because that’s what it was. It’s good to know that I’m recognized as a fool by both the left, and
the right.

By: DB, Gwinnettian

DB, Gwinnettian — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:40:19 +0000

Click on the link and read the story before commenting on it. Otherwise you expose yourself for the fool you are.

Chris, I’m pretty sure you are missing an extra-heavy dosage of snarcasm from Mr. Douglass @ 4.14.

By: Chris Salzmann

Chris Salzmann — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:33:22 +0000

Frederick Douglass June 29th, 2009 4:14 pm SAID: How did things get so bad since Jan.20,2009?

CHRIS SAYS: Here’s a quote from the story that JB was commenting on: “”Most of the manufacturing plants that employed Jenkins County’s industrial workforce of 1,025 closed down between late 2007 and early 2008. “”

Click on the link and read the story before commenting on it. Otherwise you expose yourself for the fool you are.

By: lovelyliz

lovelyliz — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:04:15 +0000

I don’t know about blaming all this on the love of money. I’d blame it on the love of wealth. Money is based on something, too often these days, wealth is not. Money is liquid capital. Wealth on paper is not, but that is what people were spending and trading on: THIN AIR.

By: jms

jms — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:28:07 +0000

Ga. Tech Dad,
What will condoms do against muggers?

By: sd

sd — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:20:45 +0000

I don’t blame the corporations. I blame the consumers.

We ALL bought a bunch of crap from China that we did not need and now we are screwed.

You can blame that on capitalism, but no one was forced to buy that plastic stuff all over your house.

By: wbk

wbk — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:10:00 +0000

DebbieDoRight

June 29th, 2009
9:21 pm
“they cannot see the need to take preemptive measures domestically in the form of laws to protect lives. ”

Yeah like late term abortions. You liberals have killed more than Hitler or Stalin and you remain self righteous.

By: Normal

Normal — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:31:07 +0000

DB; When I was five, I was the only American kid in a small German town. Mom would tell me that everytime I would wander aroun the area, she would get phone calls or visits from townsfolk, telling her where I was…talk about “it takes a village”…

By: DB, Gwinnettian

DB, Gwinnettian — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:27:03 +0000

Normal @ 8.14, we probably don’t disagree all that much, actually.

I spent formative years in a rather small town. It’s been decades since then, but when I’ve been back in that area (as family obligations require) there’s been very little if any signs of growth, and some disturbing signs of decay.

It’s clinging to life, with the usual downtown death-rattle and big-box stores on the outskirts sucking whatever oxygen is left.

Yet while I see it for what it is—somewhat pathetic, really, compared to the more powerful burgs I’ve called home since—I wouldn’t trade what I had living there, those years, for anything.

I’m just saying, I am not unsympathetic, not at all. However, small towns—perhaps we should think of them as “startups”, here in America?—have become ghost towns for a lonnng time now. If there’s a way to preserve them and find a way to link them more efficiently with the rest of the world so that they can be more viable, I’m all ears.

Don’t forget, I’m one of those crypto-Commie Euro lovers who sees what small towns are like in places like the UK, Germany, France, etc. and wonders why we don’t have that same love for all of our big cities AND our small towns. I don’t want to write ANY of them off. But as we’re structured, it seems like we have to, no?

headed upstairs…

By: Normal

Normal — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:14:36 +0000

DB: I will disagree with you about the small towns. Small towns used to be the essence of America, where family values always prevailed. And the pride in ones town. I remember Hinesville GA would lock up the town and follow the High School football team on a road trip. That type of feeling, unity of community is lost forever with the demise of each small town…
I do agree that the rest of it is much ado about nothing…