[PRCo] Re: Fayette County Economy

[John Swindler]

>From: Harold Geissenheimer <transitmgr2 at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: "pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org" <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Subject: [PRCo] Fayette County Economy
>Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 19:19:15 -0500
>
>
>Greetings to Fred and every one
>
>I am not a social worker and have no political interest.
>
>Pennsylvania and other states does have a problem of shifts in the
>economy.  You find it in Scranton as well as Fayette County.  And
>in West Virginia and elsewhere.  Northern New York state also.
>
>Indistries change.  Technology improves   Mines and factories
>close.  Russia and China are faced with the problem also.
>
>Do we just wipe these places off the map?  The people who live there
>are good people.  There is ample infrastructure and schools.  Can
>we just walk away?
>
>I had direct personal contact thru the National Guard with men from
>these areas.  I know people who gave their life to Westinghouse
>and now its gone.  The West Penn and PRC became victims of
>these changes.
>
>Perhaps we need aid and training programs instead of Aids in Africa.
>
>Your comments.
>
>Harold Geissenheimer




Pennsylvania suffers from two problems:

1. we got old (collectively)

2. we didn't encourage inward migration (with a multitude of causes and 
effects)

The result is an aging population and a declining work force.   But we - and 
the US - are in far better shape then some of the other ticking 
economic/demographic time bombs in the world.  If we can avoid doing 
something stupid in next few years, I suspect that we will all be very 
thankful that we are living in the US in the following decades.

Well, you did ask for comments, Harold

John S.



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