Bob Congel and the Pyramid Co. will make this fly if anyone can. They have been talking about this DestiNY business for 10 years and at the time it was first proposed it would have made sense. Now...after 10 years for foot dragging and political wrangling, the project is a waste of taxpayer’s dollars.
Syracuse (my former hometown) is essentially vacant. GE is gone (Lockheed Martin is not what GE was), Carrier is pretty much gone, Crouse Hinds is pretty much gone. The largest employer is Upstate Medical University.
Ditto for Utica ( GE and Grifiss AFB)
Ditto for Rochester (Kodak and Xerox)
Ditto for Buffalo. ( Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel, Ford, GM, the railraod yards)
Ditto for Binghamton. Also the weather is lousy in that area, the least days of sunshine per year in the continental US except for Seattle area, I think.
Note to the nation: Vote for a 'Rat/RINO for prez and all this, too, can be yours...
As you say. Upstate New York has been turned into a wilderness by more than half a century of misbegotten state tax policy that has directed all the state’s money into the cesspit of NYC welfare.
Here in Vermont, the state is poverty-sticken except for rich trustifarians who have moved in after making or inheriting their money elsewhere. But rural Vermont looks like paradise compared to what has happened to the farming regions of upstate New York, not to speak of the cities.
Well, at least this puts an end to my impression that hillary has done nothing in seven years as the junior senator from NY. Evidently she has done something after all.
I lived in Solvay for about 5 years. Some of the ex inlaws are still there (they own NY Bakery). Syracuse was doing pretty bad then, Solvay Process was being slowly shut down and the State Fair was about the only big draw. Judging by this, the big Carousel Mall project which was supposedly going to make Syracuse a boom town didn’t quite do what they thought I guess.