Youngstown on BBC World Service- 10/28/08 (Pt. 1 of 2)

Tuesday, 28 October 2008:

"Business Daily today comes from Young's Town [sic] in Ohio, the steel town that once made the cannonballs that the Union side used to win the American civil war as Bruce Springsteen points out in a marvellous song.

Now the town's flattened and rusting but is there hope? Hear the voices of Young's town with some help from Bruce Springsteen."

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[theone1087]

My mother was born in Youngstown, Ohio among 5 other children. Her parents worked in the Steel Mill industry and she tells horror stories. Most of them began circa 1970, right around the time before figurative slave labor markets opened in Asia and Nixon took us off of the Bretton Woods exchange. I don't blame China or Asia in general for the loss of well-paid unionized jobs for honest work, I blame the avaricious corporate titans who've owned this country lock, stock and barrel since 1980.

[topher dulburg]

The mayors trying to turn this town around hopefully it works

[jj walker]

ik thought the same thing the whole interviews revolved around it 

[Human Activity System]

Who gives a shit about Bruce Springsteen's song? Get the feeling BBC wouldn't be there if he hadn't written it. Maybe not the President either?

[walktxrn]

Youngstown is NOT a dump. It is not one of the world leaders in steel anymore, but... It was listed as one of Entrepreneur’s Magazine Top 10 City to start a business, has an Outstanding State Univ, and the YBI(Ytown Business Incubator) is bringing jobs into the city from out of state and even from Silicon Valley. The city school system is the biggest drag on the region, but the schools around it are some of the best in the state, things have been tough in Ytown, but things are improving. Period.

[chuckufarley1234]

Youngstown is a dump. Period.

[todengine]

The Heaton Hopewell blast furnace went out of blast when most of the workforce left to join up for the War of 1812, so there is no way that furnace made cannonballs for any war.

[westonsz]

Idiot politicians have ruined America

[belia1313]

My father was born in Warren,Ohio but grew up in Youngstown went to Ursuline high school -he worked in some of the steel mills back in the late 30's and early 40's. He grew up in the great depression and now may he R.I.P he past away in April 2008 he was 81 glad he died before he saw this 2nd coming of another depression.