Allow me to express surprise that the Myopia 2025 people aren’t actively pursuing Ukrainian refugees, a variation on a past theme to cure all that ails Johnstown.
A ready supply could come just from the young men fleeing Ukraine in droves to avoid being conscripted into the military and sent to the front lines to be gound into hamburger by the Russians, all in the pursuit of furthering the legend that Zelenskyy is George Washington, Winston Churchill and Mahatma Ghandi all rolled into one very small package.
Add in Ukrainian civilians tired of having their houses blasted down around them as they dine on chicken Kiev, or who long for the days when the electricity stayed on, the flood of interested Ukrainians likely would make the displaced Afghans that Myopia 2025 once pursued seem like a trickle.
Or maybe Myopia 2025 already is working on recruiting Ukrainians without our knowledge. That is, after all, their preferred method – to operate in secret as unelected elites, hoping to slip their plans into reality before the public catches on to what they are doing behind those closed doors.
Maybe we might be lucky enough to land the main Ukrainian pipsqueak, Zelenskyy. He could just pack up his booster seats and shoe lifts and hop the latest government plane to John Murtha Airport, where he could expect to land to accolades from our lapdog Democrats.
Zekenskyy could dip into the pile of funds he is alleged to have amassed during this war and buy up a couple of those spec $100,000 houses Myopia 2025 proposes for downtown Johnstown.
God knows, the locals aren’t likely to buy them – unless given the kind of government handouts Zelenskyy favors.
Remember, according to the web site theworkersrights.com, Johnstown was No. 1 in Pennsylvania poverty in 2024.
We combined an unemployment rate just under 14 percent with a poverty rate just over 38 percent. Bonuses are that we have a decling population and the lowest median income in the state.
Myopia 2025 number crunchers see fewer people, miserably low income levels and high unemployment and conclude, as their type tends to do, that building houses will fix it all.
I’m sure building houses will help Myopia 2025’s favored contractors. Beyond that, I don’t see it.
If Zelenskyy decides to buy 10 or so of the houses to help out his fellow Ukrainian refugees, then it’s a big win for the contractors. It would be small change for Zelenskyy, pun intended.
For the Ukrainians? Maybe not so much of a win. If the general population there mirrors Zelenskyy’s penchant for whining that a free lunch is not a free dinner, they will be unhappy here.
Underground electrical grid problems downtown mean the power goes off there periodically, just like back home.
While the Russians have not yet felt emboldened enough to attack our downtown, Ukrainians will have to deal with our criminal violence and drug problems.
Our lack of local political transparency will, however, seem familiar to them.
I’d like to compare our unemployment rate and income levels with theirs but, surprise, such statistical information seems to be largely unavailable for Ukraine.
Even if we did have those numbers, I’d suspect they would be inflated, just like Zelenskyy’s supposed 5-foot, 7-inch height.
Here’s an idea: The next time Zelenskyy gets booted from the White House after coming off as a petulant child, have his plane fly over Johnstown to give him the sort of bird’s eye view that might lure him and his fellow Ukrainians here.
If Zelenskyy balks, or asks for a better deal as he has a habit of doing at the last minute, note we have a significant Russian Orthodox population he can persecute, just he has in Ukraine.
That should sweeten the deal enough to get his attention!
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