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Thanks so much Forbes Magazine!

Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 5:58 pm
by Jeannie
Gee Ladies
After that glowing article about Waterbury in Forbes,now our neighboring wealthy suburbs are throwing us under the bus. I think they're planning on buildng a fence around our city like the Mexican border.
Here's one message from a Woodbury resident :


"Anywhere but Waterbury. Crime is high, people are suffering and students have no chance. The city is so bad off that when it snows, school is cancelled. They have no funds to plow the roads! Houses are falling apart and 40% are boarded up. I know people who work in the community and have seen the horrible lives of waterbury people. Other towns nearby are OK. The home prices may be higher but the taxes are lower. I am a mortgage broker so I see this all the time. To purchase a home for $200,00 is possibole, your mortgage payment will be around $800 and so will your taxes. Most of the tax money is to pay off debt from the town's mismanagement. If you look on realtor.com the houses and prices look good but there is no resale for profit. I see a lot of short sales, this means cannot sell for what you owe. The best neighborhoods of waterbury are not as good as the worst neighborhoods in surrounding towns. Woodbury, Middlebury, Southbury, Oxford, Wolcott, Watertown, Goshen. Check out mapquest. Ask me more if you want. I am not a Realtor but I have lived here my entire life.Good luck."

Thanks so much for sharing that with me. Hey Carol Ann and Virgina. I think I'll put Marley in the car for a road trip at midnight. We'll cruise around the million dollar homes in Woodbury and toss a few M80s in the mailboxes. I loved his quote"The horrible lives of Waterbury people"
Wait until all the crack dealers read these emails. They'll triple the price when their kids come to Waterbury to buy their drugs. Little do these morons know that all the crooked people and cops who work in Waterbury live in their so called perfect communities. I love it!
We have the only parking lot for the cops private cars that look like Jay Leno's garage. Ferraris,Mercedes 600s,Jaguars and Hummers. You can tell the new recruits. They only have BMWs and Z08 Corvettes. They'll get there.
One note of interest. Our newest Mayor, Michael Jarjura is a lawyer,was a State Representative and owns a family business with his father and 6 brothers. "Seven Js"They are one of the biggest banana distributors on the East Coast. He made $350,000 last year from the business but won't release any other financial information.
Oh. I almost forgot. He and his partner Charlie LaFlamme are big real estate developers. Charlie and his son drive Rolls Royce Corniche convertibles.
I see Charlie who is about 78 in the little cigar shop I go to. He's a hoot. He peels off 100 dollar bills for all kinds of lotto tickets and always wins!
Just last year they spent a million bucks for this wooded property. Two weeks later the Mayor anounces a Massachusettes company is coming to Waterbury to put up a big shopping plaza. It just happened to be right across the street from the property he just bought. Gee whiz. What a coincidence.
The Mayor is the first to know what businesses are thinking of moving to Waterbury. Do I smell conflict of interest? I'll give him three years before the feds move in.

Love
Jeannie

Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 8:13 pm
by Virginia
Jeannie,

Perhaps I should not say much, but........... I knew a guy who was intimately involved in what is/was called the "southern mafia" out of Little Rock. They take/took no prisoners!

I am serious when I tell you this, unless, well, gee, it never dawned on me? :oops: Maybe I know someone in Waterbury who may know "too much?!" SL and I would come to "the wake" for her if she gets in too deep and, do they still provide concrete overshoes? Of course, maybe it would look like an industrial accident - police accident investigation report: "Well it appears that she got her dress caught in the printing press in it sucked her in and now she is all over these business cards and fliers she was printing about her run for mayor!" Yep, it was just an accident!

Damn, girlfriend, be careful - we love you!

Virginia

Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 9:48 pm
by DeeDee
Golly gosh.....LaFlamme is such a great name.....I think he's working in a drag show down here now. Heck Jeannie, I spent a week in Waterbury one day...nice place and I didn't even get mugged. Move down here and enjoy our third world country driving. BTW, Obama is gonna be a block from me tomorrow at the arena, Hillary was a few blocks the other way last night...we MUST be important here!!!! I'm having a new roof put on my house.....Hillary wanted a photo shoot nailing a shingle on. Turned her down 'cause Barrack trumped her with his offer of a pic pumping gas into my mommy van. I'll take free gas from anybody. Where is Ross Perot when you need him?? So, enjoy life, be you (hugs) and we deal with what we have, the best we can :lol:
Hugs
DeeDee

Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 6:33 am
by Absaroka
I doubt Jeannie is in any danger. She's just speaking of common knowledge I suspect.

I used to live and work in Southbury at the training school. What an idyllic seeming place which in reality was truly abyssmal. After working there I understand why parents sometime kill their children rather than letting them live in an institution. I also lived near Willimantic for a while which is sort of like a little Waterbury out in the country. This part of the country has a lot of that- little inner cities stuck out in the country.

It's also very true that many of the people who live in the burbs make a living off of towns like Waterbury, either legally or illegally.

Something happened to a lot of smaller American cities in the mid fifties and early 60's. Some call it moving to the suburbs for peace and quiet, others call it white flight. Some say that the unions demanded too high wages and others say that the manufacturers just abandoned the cities. Probably some truth in all of this. Graft and corruption certainly play their part but I do not think they are the whole story. But the combination of all these factors culminate in the fact that there is something about our social-economic structure that just doesn't work.

Jeannie you are also very right about where do all the rich kids from the burbs go to cop. We even had an expression for it which is not printable here.

Absaroka

I never thought about that!

Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 6:47 am
by Jeannie
Hi DeeDee
That is a great last name! You should drive here in Waterbury.Not only do we have right on red but straight and left on red. If your car gets hit in an accident they always take off if their car can still run.
My pickup got hit last year in front of my shop at 1am on saturday night and the bozo took off. I just took collision off my insurance.
This is true. I go down to the police station to fill out a report and the cop had a sense of humor and said" It wouldn't of mattered if he stopped. He probably had a suspended liscense,no insurance and outstanding warrants. We call it the Waterbury trifecta."
Barack Obama is speaking at Weslyan University commencement in Middletown CT because Ted Kennedy couldn't make it.Dick Cheney was just here at the Coast Guard Academy making a speech and his 45 fell out of ankle holster and he shoot himself in the foot. Luckily he had on his steel toe wingtips.
I have to get going to work and get back to my horrible little life as a Waterbury person. Pray for me will ya Hon.Hugs and have nice holiday DeeDee.

Love
Jeannie

PS. It is more dangerous on the roads in Florida. You have a good chance of being run down on the sidewalk by an old man in an Oldsmobile.Check and see if John McCain is in town before you go out Hon.