Regarding Mike Benbow’s Friday article, “Items from scrapped Everett waterfront project are auctioned off“:
Lost in the maze of finger-pointing, back-slapping and whining about broken dreams is the fact that many businesses were shuffled around or run out of the area, sending even more jobs down the road. Everett’s big dreams of gentrifying the waterfront all boil down to even more jobs lost.
After chasing off most of the mills that built the city of Everett and provided thousands of jobs, the port has nothing to show but a new suite of shiny offices that look over vacant space that used to provide jobs.
People seem to have forgotten that one needs jobs that produce a product in order to truly build wealth (no, that is not a dirty word — ever been employed by a poor man?) instead of just shuffling around and skimming a percentage off the top of money that someone else already earned by taking a resource and adding value and making a product from that resource.
Maybe now the port can focus on rebuilding a working waterfront.
Aaron Everett
Sultan
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