This may burst a bubble or two out there, but no corporation with any smarts is going to come here and throw jobs at us. Worcester has nothing to offer except a city council and municipal bureaucracy that caters strictly to non-profits.
In fact the entire city is populated with non-profits with a sense of entitlement - the horror of all horrors for any potential investor in this city. As an example, do you recall our socialist Mayor Joseph C. O’Brien’s recent public antics? Picketing in front of Clark University for higher wages for non-Clark cafeteria workers? That sends a persuasive message to potential investors eh?
What's the affect of the dozen non-profit colleges and universities on investing in Worcester. Of critical importance to a potential investor is a qualified workforce, which is notably missing here considering the presence of the dirty dozen. Ironic huh? Extrapolating that thought. How many high-tech, low-tech, or no-tech start-ups have Holy Cross, Clark University, or WPI graduates incorporated here in the last 3, 5, 7 or 10 years?
How many of their graduates are in the local workforce (we know there are thousands of Clark grads populating the non-profit sector) considering that in the last 10 years those three have awarded some 30,000 degrees. If it were noteworthy, we’d have surely heard about it right? But we haven’t. Have we? So much for the Worcester Consortium and its propaganda machine eh?
Ya know, one would think among all those pampered twerps ensconced in one of those bastions of higher education, somewhere a Brainiac is chilling out in a dorm room munching Twinkies and cruising the internet for porn, and maybe, just maybe, incubating the next big idea that will propel him to fame and fortune and boost Worcester's profile as a high-tech incubator. Nope – ain’t happening here, cause that pimply twerp has three things on his mind – sex, beer, and gettin the hell outta Wusta!
The simple fact is, Worcester is nothing more than an incubator for 12,000 plus pubescent children to sow their wild oats and then move on, leaving behind a path of destruction in the surrounding neighborhoods - Clark University and Holy Cross College being the worst – and on the lives of voters and taxpayers, while the City Fathers and City Mothers turn a blind eye to hundreds of serious student indiscretions. Not to mention a couple murders and rapes.
Well, having put that in perspective, what can Worcester do to prevent the impending financial meltdown due August 12, 2011? Before Worcester can become a magnet for investors, it needs to renounce it socialist dogma and rescind its pathological non-profit protectionist stance. But, you're thinking, that’s impossible? And you're right.
The only solution is a PILOT program. Worcester colleges have a tidy $1,266,100,931.37 in endowments. A couple million wouldn’t make a difference to them. Would it?
If a PILOT program (successfully implemented in Boston) is not mandated, what will become of Worcester? Nothing good I’m afraid. The repercussions will be hard and in some cases devastating on the taxpaying residents, because the city council doesn't have the courage to make the life saving critical decisions.
And so, the slaughter of residential taxpayers by the very people you elected to represent you is being planned as you read this, lead by Worcester Mayor Joseph C. O'Brien. And bought and paid for by your local police and teachers unions.
