Letter: Where are the Jobs?

I knew that the situation in Muncie jobwise was bad, but not this bad! According to new statistics just released, one out of every three people in Muncie live at or below the state and country's set poverty level.

What are our elected officials doing if anything to make this situation better? It's not like we dont have the space or the factories available. There are too many old factories just sitting empty that could easily be re-tooled to build most anything that is being built today. There has to be something we can produce other than empty minds.

Our mothers and fathers and grandparents got to work in Muncie. They actually built useful products that were widely used worldwide.

The Ball Brothers Jars are still world famous, and, of course, Chevy & Warner Gear. The greed of our forefathers has shipped all the jobs that use to help to build our world because of looser pollution regulations and cheaper help because most nations are worse off than we are!

Well, it's time to wake up the people that are suppose to be trying and bring new factories and new industries, be it industrial or medical technologies, we have the space, we just need to fill it.

We use to build things to last. Built to near perfection. Built with pride, and I should say , without the help of todays modern machines and facilities. Built by hand with hands-on attention to detail every step of the way. That is a thing of the past now that everything is computer generated and assisted.

Now you have somebody overlooking some lightbulbs, waiting on the red one  to go off so they have somebody to stop the operation of that particular machine. You aren't operating anything, you are there as a safety valve in case the machine breaks down and stops the line. Where's the pride in that?!

Talk about being  bored to death, but I guess that's better than no jobs at all.

Jeff Ellison
Muncie, Indiana

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