It's not just that but the state does not help things. This area was reliant on old technology companies such as Kodak which refused to adapt to new technology. My mother's uncles worked there back in the glory years of the 1950's through 1970's and many engineers advised top management of changes in the imaging business but the accountants and execs insisted on riding the film business until it went belly up. Kodak today is an embarrassment to those earlier workers. Then ineptness such as Xerox of where my wife's father and his brother (who created nearly a dozen patented ideas for Xerox) which never saw value in products it developed such as the computer mouse and let other companies steal or refine Xerox ideas. Archie McCardell who many IH devotees will recognize was CEO at Xerox before he went to IH. He was a part of the culture there that embraced inflexibility and arrogance on product warranties. The attitude was "too bad you don't like it but what are you going to do about it." Then the Seneca Army Depot downsized during the 1980's and nothing is left there now for jobs other than some security jobs. New things have come in but they have been lower wage jobs if not minimum wage jobs. Some new car dealerships have left or closed and have been replaced by 5,000 dollar or less used car lots. The only ones building new homes are the Amish and a few public assistance apartment buildings have gone up. It's not uncommon to drive down a street (not very long) and see a half dozen homes with for sale signs out front. Oh, and the new casino barely open for a year now recently received a negative rating for its debt servicing ability from Moody's.
I don't disagree with anybody that says its about being positive and setting goals but some days it is pretty darn bleak around here never mind what is going on with agriculture.
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