Re: Mayor, ANYONE Please Help with Maryville Road Archived Message
Posted by Tre/D on March 15, 2011, 7:25 pm, in reply to "Re: Mayor, ANYONE Please Help with Maryville Road"
Hey look, it might not always be just. People will live where they want to live and I have not had a lot of luck convincing how well people do indeed have it in Granite City. I don't bash 'up the hill.' I know a lot of families who are well rooted there in the old part of town and out on farms who are some of the best people you would ever meet. All I bring up is a mentality. - First is our unfortunate inferiority complex - our own belief that our town is not worthy of our pride. I combat that attitude as much as I can. I love Granite City with all my heart - and a few lowlife hoosiers are not going to ruin the reputation of a town that has some of the friendliest, most giving and most caring people. - The second thing are the expatriates of Granite City. They tend to thumb their nose and become quite obnoxious when they leave. More than a few of them have pissed me off over the generations. It's like they are coming back to a foreign place - even though it is their Alma Mater -- their mother land..their home town. Yet, they act like they are put out to have to spend some time in '$#!+$ville'. - They annexed a big swath of riverbottom land that takes any a lot of our economic opportunities. I applaud Mr. Niebur and the crew up there. They had it together at times when we didn't and we are dearly paying the price. But everyone wants to move up there and spend their money up there. I am simply saying -- TAKE PRIDE IN WHAT IS HERE! TAKE PRIDE in the fact that we have a great city! Our city cannot get any better if its own people cannot take pride in its own self. I don't blame Edwardsville. Hell, it's one of the most beautiful towns built on Granite City money. But it's going to be a severe need for me to spend my money there or Fairview.
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