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By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted March 23, 2011 at 11:54:14

Hamilton's problems are not unique. Stagnating incomes, declining manufacturing jobs and a wide-reaching sense of political disenchantment are becoming the norm for large parts of the globe. And in Hamilton, we see a fair bit more of it than many of our neighbours.

If a new paradigm sweeps the globe, it may well hit here first. We have far less to lose and much more to gain from such changes than Toronto, Burlington or K-W. An intact core, a large number of tradespeople and an enormous chunk of idle land, buildings and and machinery in the city. And as far as disenchantment goes, it always holds the potential for enthusiasm about something new.

"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century." — Lewis Mumford

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