“...Copper City... what happened?”
Manufacturing left New York - we had gloves in Gloversville, Collars and Ironworks in Troy, textiles in Cohoes, leather in Tannersville, just to name a few examples quickly. Westinghouse, Kodak ... I am naming these off the cuff without even doing a search.
All gone, to be replaced with Hunger Games type competitions pitting locales against each other for casinos and giving power to Cuomo and the state.
It is beyond sad. The upstate cities and towns are now filled with Section 8 people on drugs imported from Mexico and paid for by the U.S. Government via their handouts. We had lovely downtowns, now we have Walmarts. Liberal policies have destroyed New York State, which is a place of much natural beauty.
Go Trump!!! it was NAFTA type trade deals that did not protect Americans that were part of the problem causing manufacturing to flee the state and the country - the goods produced “locally” were of much high caliber as well. Trump gets all this and want to fix it.
My husband was at the Trump rally last night at the Albany Times Union Center. It was filled (17,000) and people are fired up for Trump.
Thanks for the account
When looking at the two pictures then and now of the community it looked like one side of the street had been demolished. Do you know how or why?
I remember when Hillary! first ran for the Senate - she kept harping on “bringing jobs back to upstate NY”. Another failure on her part - eh?
Love to hear more about what your DH thought of the rally and his experience. It seems that the crowd was pumped - obviously it was YUGE - but it’s always great to get an onsite report. Too bad you weren’t able to attend - maybe another one.