An opinion sent to NIT –
Consider this. In (Friday’s) Globe, and NIT (Thursday), the story on how the Click is planning to bring back a new Development Agreement to bring this hog plant into Mason City via our City Council.
Appears that one or more of the 3 that ended try No. 1 are up to changing their vote depending on the MONEY.
In Mason City, where growth is totally absent “the Click” (NIT definition: Robin Anderson and her smug, money-grubbing cronies, also known as “the elite”) has decided that our only shot at any population growth is to seek and accept the options on the bottom rung. Like third world style and pay hog slaughtering & processing jobs.
Most will be for a little over $13.00 an hour if you can work at this plantation style Employer for 52 hours a week.
Even with overtime at 1.5 times for the extra 12 hours a week these are low paid positions that will qualify many for public assistance.
In Friday’s DM Reg. page 11A is a story on Ankeny, 110 miles south of MC , but in a whole different world.
Ankeny one of the fastest growing cities in the whole country , like No. 3. 53,299 in 2014 to 56,764 in 2015.
From the Mayor of Ankeny, “It’s a tribute to the fact that the city and school district have created an atmosphere that people want to participate in and live in.” What an accomplishment. People from all over rural Iowa are moving to Ankeny. Especially a lot of young families.
Compare their direction to Mason City’s. One gets fantastic growth, great jobs and a top school district in a beautiful prosperous community. The other is in a race to the bottom and stupid enough to pay the bottom feeder to bring it on.
Morley Safer should have done one of his last stories on these two places in the No. hog place in the US.
