We Need a Great Jolt

Have you driven on Route 28 lately? Have you noticed anything in particular? While people are waiting to work, business property after business property remains motionless in time. The Pet Center complex has only a third of its store fronts operating. Large buildings remain unused. And for a good stretch of land, one side of 28 has yet to develop.

How can it be that a town that has so many cars driving on its roads not be a town where business is expanding at a large rate?

What Salem, New Hampshire needs are a few ordinary citizens to stand up and do extraordinary things. We need businesses to develop! We need someone to take the old Pet Center property and put in restaurants or clothing stores! We need someone to buy the undeveloped land on Route 28 and build the stores and community centers that will serve the town well in the future.

We need someone.

Our town needs as much money as it can get to put towards developing the town more! Businesses are like dominoes: You build one; it attracts customers that will allow another to be built, and so on and so forth. Meanwhile, the town collects taxes from these enterprises which go into the school systems or the library or the roads, enabling other citizens to perform better and build an even better community in the future.

It all starts with one spark, one jolt of energy that will enable Salem to jump out of the recession and be a shining city on a hill, a model for the rest of the country to follow. While some people may fear what development will mean for Salem, they shall have no worries. Route 28 in Salem can be the commercial district envied state-wide, while Main Street can contrastingly hold its small town feel.

What people must realize is that Salem has so much potential in it to be the community of the future. With massive unemployment in neighboring communities (mainly in Massachusetts), Salem has a large workforce to build its success on. Even though the economy has crashed and it is unclear as to when a “bounce back” moment will take place, Salem citizens must jump at the opportunities the crisis has given us. Where the nation has dropped down, it is a perfect time to rebuild a new and brighter future. Nothing should stop a citizen with a vision from accomplishing their goals.

Salem has great potential. We have great motives. We have great citizens. We don't need to fight between Right and Left, the economy is built up of left and right wingers alike. Through Government enabling and Private Sector investing will take us out of the recession. No one can say their one view is right and someone else is wrong. We need to put aside our problems and develop our future.

We need a great jolt.