Pete Seeger - PittsburghTown

[DShaw42011]

Proud to be from Pittsburgh

[TheUSNationalist]

Everything I've replied with here makes me think of this:

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[TheUSNationalist]

"Soote on the windowsill means food on table"....once a city where good jobs and prosperity for everyone nestled warmly beneath the black nimbus crown of smoke filled skies....now the rumble of empty stomachs and broken dreams groan from the jobless, the hungry, the hopeless, groan through the clear crisp skies and echo off the polished facade of 'renewal'....

[TheUSNationalist]

.....Pittsburgh, the industrial core of America now clear and clean and empty and atrophied, and hopeless, like our jobs, our marriages, our children's future and our Nation.

[ruhle65]

@TheUSNationalist Wow! You havne't been to Pittsburgh in awhile have you. There ain't nothing atrophied about it. The city has more start-ups and VC money pouring into it than anywhere else in the US. More high-tech innovation, more health care research....and more jobs - 1oos every month in new companies - being created there than in many of its former brethern cities. You need to rethink your comment because its way off base.

[TheUSNationalist]

@ruhle65

I've lived in Pittsburgh for the past 40 years (and still do) and everyone I know lives in Pittsburgh. There are no blue-collar jobs and that is pathetically ironic for a city that is supposed to be emblematic of blue-collar USA. Pittsburgh is held as a fine example of the emergence of America in the 'post-industrial' era. Don't be fooled folks, it sucks.

[TheUSNationalist]

@TheUSNationalist don't be fooled folks, prior to the 80's you (anyone) would graduate highschool and go to work in the mill for the equivalent in todays money of 40k-50k a year, full benefits package, pension. Now you graduate highschool and go to work in walmart for 20k a year. How is that not atrophy? We Pittsburghers (yinzers) who simply want to make a secure living to provide for our families and not get buried in school loans are SCREWED. Welcome to Pittsburgh, the New America.

[ruhle65]

@TheUSNationalist Learn math, learn science,...that's what's starting new companies in Pittsburgh and I know lots of these people. They live in those neighborhoods and they're creating jobs for people who want to achieve something.

[ruhle65]

@TheUSNationalist Nothing wrong with a good blue collar job. This country still depends on them. but you have to grow and want to move with the advances. Those who don't will always be left behind. And China will laugh at you as they take over the world while people complain about the good old days.

[TheUSNationalist]

@ruhle65 Maybe it looks good on paper as you sip your capachino and scan the stats from your laptop, (don't let any of that cream cheese from your $3.00 bagel drip onto your tie) in panera; but it doesn't look so good when you got 5 kids and no job because you never cared to make it big, you just wanted to feed your family and work for a good company.  But there are no more good companies for common man in Pittsburgh.

[ruhle65]

@TheUSNationalist i don't drink coffee or eat at panera. the problem sounds like you haven't been ambitious enough to try something new. Its not all about steel mills anymore - I'm from Pittsburgh, grew up there, went to school there, as did my whole family. My grandfather worked in the mills. Now its about sci and tech research and development, building robots, teaching our kids to be smarter and to want to achieve greater things.

[paulbnoble]

nice video