Posted on September 10 at 3:28 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I don't think thats true. I think no matter how messy something gets you can always clean it back up again.
If we can get people to stop thinking like voodoochild, than this city could come back, and it takes the ingenuity of programs like this one to do so. There was a time that the streets of Schenectady were the equivalent to those of downtown Manhattan at 5:00. I think that potential still lives within this city. Once you have something like that its always there. It may lay DORMant for a while, but its still there. And its up to us to revive it, because we all live here, so we need to start taking responsibility for our community. And as the buildings go up so will the prosperity, and when the prosperity goes up the drug and crime rate will go down. Because no drug dealer is trying to live in a rich well to do town were its citizens are looked after by not only the police force but one another. And that it is how it started, it only took one of them and they scared all of that away from us that we once had. With that said I will have to agree with you, this project isn't going to break the cycle, it's going to bring the people here that can, the question you need to ask yourself voodoochild, is can you? will you be part of that change. If you can make one person believe who isn't a believer and all it takes is one, than imagine what can happen when we bring 313 of those people together.

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