[dog breath]

I wonder what jobs they plan to attract them with? The industrial base of Dayton is in shambles, most of the industry left to find cheaper labor a long time ago. If they didn't ditch the city because of the high labor rates they left it to have corporate headquarters somewhere more stylish. WPAFB does employ a huge number of engineers from various backgrounds and brings in lots of educated people from places like India. They do not want to live in the city of Dayton when there are lots of nicer and safer suburbs. I can't see what purpose it would serve to bring unskilled people in to live off the backs of the people who do work there except to rebuild the Democratic voter base. The increasing number of Mexicans already flooding into Ohio seem to be driving out the few remaining decent wages, encouraging them will just hasten the decline.

[kearnyirish2]

“I can’t see what purpose it would serve to bring unskilled people in to live off the backs of the people who do work there except to rebuild the Democratic voter base.”

It keeps the public employees on the job (dole), and masks the death of another part of America (at least to some people). They don’t intend to attract them with jobs; on the contrary, they intend to attract them with free room & board, schools, running water/toilets that flush, and electricity - all of the things they don’t have in whatever hole they crawl out of.

[buccaneer81]

WPAFB does employ a huge number of engineers from various backgrounds and brings in lots of educated people from places like India. They do not want to live in the city of Dayton when there are lots of nicer and safer suburbs.

I know a few Wright-Pat employees who live near me the western suburbs of Columbus because they want no part of the greater Dayton area but still want to live in a metro area.

[Rannug]

Well, there are a lot of antique sales places around Dayton.