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Originally Posted by Mike B.  I agree 110%! We have young people leaving Dodge City (by the droves) after High School, they go to College and get a job in a larger city and they only come back to visit friends and family.
A four year college would fit this community nicely. However, since that may not happen, we should look at cleaning up our messes and start encouraging businesses to come here. I have always said "Why Not Dodge?" for new businesses. Dodge City/Ford County Developement Corp. needs some authority granted to them to start cutting some major deals. I have nothing against using tax abatements and other incentive to bring new industry into our community! Other incentives may include capital and utility abatements.
We've got to do something soon! Otherwise our young people will dry up just like our wells! |
Those business's that we give the capital and utility abatements need to be something besides meatpacking plants and ethonal plants. The meat plants do much harm to the community and with the influx of illegals and all the baggage that comes with that. (gangs, courts, school system etc) Why can't we get a nice chicken factory here....lol.
Also I think that it would be hard to bring in new business here because we do not have a employment pool to draw from. The unemployment rate here is very low and places are already having to draw from the bottom of the barrel just to fill positions (see Walmart).