Or until the well of using other people's money runs dry at the federal level.  Huge deficits cannot be sustained indefinitely.  Sooner or later, it will come time to pay the piper.  Declining tax revenues due to a sluggish economy will exacerbate the situation.   It is entirely forseeable that the malaise that has hit Greece with its European-style socialist government and economy will manifest here in the United States.  Only there will be no European Union to bail us out.

 

Middletown needs to learn to stand on its own.  But there has been very little effort upon the part of the city fathers.  The attitude is that "If we don't go for the money, someone else will."  Over and over, you hear the remarks made at city council, "I want to do what's best for Middletown."  And then they vote to accept this federal grant or that one.  Is this what is truly best for Middletown? They never seek to come up with viable solutions, only a continued reliance upon federal and state funds to be pumped like an intravenous transfusion into the gangrenous body of a city that does not know how to take care of itself.

 

What happens when the money runs out?

 

 

 

Middletown will lag far behind any recovery when it comes to this area by years for these very reasons.

 

The Ivory Towers sense of priorities are ass back wards.  Protect the employees jobs downtown, Tax the Citizens to the poor house and continue to provide little to no services.