Octopuppet spewed a viral orgasm yesterday over on
Rite-Aid's Closing is a Blow-to Canton Neighborhood, a piece on the company's decision to close its E.
Tusc store, the site of the original
Schuman's Drugs. The closing leaves the 4
th Ward not only
drugstoreless but virtually
storeless. The article includes many statements from local residents, some of them elderly residents at Girard Gardens, without transportation, and stranded. Being Canton, this in itself is not seen as problem. Take some initiative folks. Get a job. Buy a car. Drive to the other side of town or North Canton! Get Davies to deliver your drugs...oops, maybe they won't go down your scary street. Or in a pinch, pick up your prescriptions from your local dealer. Hmmmm, we wonder what the price is for street insulin.
Ward 4 resident and activist Donna
Whelan's point that nobody votes down there is well taken, and I Hate Canton acknowledges that this is part of the problem that needs fixed. Unfortunately absentee slumlords are barely brought up.
Still, that an entire ward has been abandoned by the city and is virtually bereft of commercial services is not acknowledged as particularly odd by our
Reppies. What can you expect from the people who live there, they yowl. After all, if people in the 4
th Ward don't shoot it out at the OK Corral with the local thug element, it's their own fault they can't get their
Proventil,
Tagamet, and
Premarin, and
Paxil. And who in Ward 4 doesn't need a daily diet of of
Paxil to get through the day--especially if they read
Rep comments about their neighborhood?
The
Octopuppet hydra led the charge against the abandoned (6...count'em...6):
meridithb48
They should have closed years ago. Why stay in the GHETTO where criminals feed off you daily. If the folks there would have raised they kids to be decent citizens and not druggies, gunnies and hoes maybe they could still have the priviledge of a drug store.meridithb48g
enie--the scum are their own kids. That is why it will never end..demsndoesThe police are outnumbered a 100 /1 by scum and their supporters .And if the police don't approach them with flowers and candy the abuse allegations and law suits start flying.snoozieS
ounds like these people in the picture haven't done squat for that ghetto area.
JulieSGee, maybe if the area wasn't such a crime ridden dump, they would stay. Get a job, get a car, and drive to another store...maryNow that the MRDD levy passed, I think you are going to see many more places shut down in Stark County. The taxpayers don't have any extra money to shop at these stores.demsndoesY
ou notice they are not stealing a lot of condoms from there.Hair straightener and lotion , so they can be successful in their reproduction efforts.Tom DeweyThere is no choice but to honor Octopuppet entities
meridithb48, demsndoes, snoozie, Julie S, mary, and Tom Dewey as the collective Village Idiot for May 22, 2009.
I Hate Canton never did get around to posting Sunday's Village Idiot award. We remedy that situation now by joining Sunday and Monday's award (May 24 and 25) and sending it off with love to Octopuppet and the following people inside its head who made it all possible by trashing the now comment defunct Rite Aid's Closing is a Blow to Canton Neighborhood
Of course the Belden area is rundown exactly BECAUSE of the people living there! It is not the city's responsibilty to paint your house, mow your lawn, raise your kids, find you a job, and have a drug store on your block! Enough of this victimization crap! Take responsiblity and place the blame on the individuals causing the problems!
There is and has been more money than ever funding education, social programs, and rehabilitation programs and things continue to get worse. BLAME the people that are NOT contributing to the greater good of society. They are a cancer that destroys everything they touch. These cancers DO NOT respect the contributing, law abiding citizenry, so why continue to enable their behavior? NO more execuses for them, history has proven this is a failing proposition.
In a short time, every city neighborhood will be just like the Belden area.
I Hate Canton finds it hard to believe that John Saxton would approve of these shennighans and even lowlife mayors like EE Curtis must be spinning that Canton would be maligned in this manner.