Take Care of Business: Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey, ep. 4
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- After World War II, Cleveland was booming, thanks to its leadership role in heavy industry and a business-friendly climate.
Today, the citys high taxes and onerous regulatory demands make it nearly impossible for new businesses to set up shop while choking the life out of existing companies.
While relatively laissez-faire cities such as Houston are growing even during the current recession, Cleveland remains stuck in a rut.
How can city officials make the city a more welcoming place for entrepreneurs to thrive?
Reason Saves Cleveland with Drew Carey is written and produced by Paul Feine; camera and editing by Roger Richards and Alex Manning; narrated by Nick Gillespie; music by the Cleveland band Cats on Holiday and Max Bowerman.
This is the fourth of six episodes that will air March 15-19, 2010.
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As a proud Clevelander it has been truly wonderful to see these videos made, good to see Drew Carey still staying loyal to his home town I hope that these ideas actually get some needed attention.
I just returned to California from my first visit to Houston. It's encouraging that there is a place in this country that demonstrates sound economic practices. Cleveland would kill for Houston's skyline.
Thanks for another great report, Nick and Drew. I live in Houston and it is a great city, hot and humid in the summer, but the rest of the year, great weather. And we have tons of great things to do.......parks, culture, shopping, museums.
Please send Drew and Nick to Rhode Island. Our whole state could use a dose of Reason
Every government employee should be required to watch this series.
Houston & Texas FTW, proud to be a Texan.
I do like Drew Carey's referrence to Sim City. It's Great!
LOVIN THIS SERIES
stellar times four!
Love the councillor with the HatWig. I don't get how their minds work. The city is in a shambles, everyone is leaving, and still they carry on as they do. Unbelievable.
In a similar vein to "tsummerlee": I see these but all I see is Kansas City, Mo.
Thanks, Drew for lending your name; and especially thanks to Reason,TV.
Hope it helps.
@davidmesaaz - you proved my point... it was the case with California... and likewise will be with Texas. You are right it's economics. There is a time when NYC (not even state) was the manufacturing capital of the country... till the land became too valuable.
So GO is the "Government of Ontario Transit System." They've been working on fixing the intersection of two important rail lines. They were busy working on it 1 year ago when I moved to my new house. They are still working on it now. They have the ground dug up under the intersection, and near as I can tell from the train, it has not changed in one year.
@davidmesaaz - right you are again proving my point.... as Texas becomes more popular... it's costs of production will go up and it loses it's cost advantage (unless you build on every open space in the state). This is like going in a circle.
I know I will get alot of bad posts for saying this but I will say it anyway. Clev has to deal with unions. Dealing with them is a huge handycap for a business and for a city. Notice that what Clev was built on was union jobs in the auto and steel industry. Now where are those jobs at? Most are gone. I remember the Chevy plant on Chevy Blvd. the parking lot used to be full. Now it is empty in comparison.
I love this series! I live in Canton. Same situations are here. I loved the Joe Cimperman clips. I remember when he challenged Kucinich for his congressional seat. Needless to say it wasn't close.
I'm watching these videos of Cleveland, but all I see is Detroit.
Ok, with the help of this "fixer" it took the guy a year and a half to get a permit for a parking lot.
Is *anybody* surprised that the city is choking?
A parking lot should take about 2 weeks to get approval, with no fixer.
@davidmesaaz - I'm not against the policies... it's just the reality that once Texas isn't so cheap anymore... there will be a new "darling". Btw - the NYC metro area still did better in the downturn than most metro reasons... and it's the most expensive place in the country... Upstate NY was still manufacturing and didn't change.... so it loses because it has high wages (and cold weather). California's problems are multiple. Texas state goverment is broke too - so it's not just "taxes".
It is pretty catchy.
@davidmesaaz - there is nothing wrong to move to increase profits... but don't make it sound as if it is altruistic. You are right it's how much the dollar buys - and if your quality of life doesn't get you better schools or healthcare and such... then what? why are they moving to Texas?? Cheap land... Just as they did to Florida.... and just as the people who are leaving California for Arizona and Nevada. That's always been a part of human migration - especially in the United States.
The reason is probably because they get paid by the hour and not for the job itself, like commission. Then you take your time. I'm sure you've heard the stories about when the government subsidized the "real" robber barons to build railroads. They built the tracks to go around in circles and they laid the tracks out in the cold so it froze and they had to rebuild it. All to make sure it took a longer time.
@libertyfizz - generally speaking that's how it works. the more people in a place means the more services necessary which means taxes generally increase. the companines that moved to the southern city went there often because of lower costs... and as more companies and operations move to a place - the costs go up. If they can offshore their operations they will do that do. It happened with PLENTY of manufacturing... and with TECH it will happen even faster. That's capitalism.
Great video's. I live in Lakewood and would love to see the area fixed. You are showing the problems and are showing the fix for it. Now the hard part. How do you bridge the two. How do you make the changes to be able fix the problems?
Maybe community organizers like ACORN would do well there.
@tkullervo - why are the deficits so huge in Texas? why does Texas have so many medically uninsured and comparatively high poverty? why is the violent crime rate relatively high? How do these things happen if Texas is so much better than everyone else???
@davidmesaaz - continued from last comment... the one thing you got right is that there tend to be more jobs for the rich than poor created in NY... but again - NYC and upstate NY are 2 different economies. You know why jobs for the poor aren't being created there?? Simply because they are moving to places like Texas where they can pay cheap wages and not offer benefits. Texas ranks terribly in the amount of uninsured workers and % on min. wage. That is not "rocket science" on Texas grows!
As of 2018, Texas has the 13th highest GDP per capita in the country. The US has one of $50,577 while Texas has one of $53,795.
we need to study houston a little better. the same old same old here ain't getting it done.
--thanks Drew --
@davidmesaaz - i said "ONCE Texas isn't so cheap" as in the future... And look at the child poverty rates in Texas - uninsured - school achievement in relation to NY and Texas is worse off. Texas as a state still has a higher unemployment rate AND has higher crime. And no NY state is not losing population... it's just not growing fast - because it's mature... there isn't much place else to build... hence the change in representation. (continue...)
we dont get "federal money" back, we are getting our own money back
@davidmesaaz - a lot of businesses you mention open sites in Texas because their labor costs are low... but they need a presence in the US. It's not hard to figure out. Aside from the years the Bush administration was pulling strings for Texas behind closed doors. Healthcare - poverty rate - violent crime - school aptitudes etc. are still on the lower rung of states. How does that happen with so many jobs being created??
Nick, you gotta trim those burns!
@ScottCleve33, I live in a town of about 25,000 people. If I could get 1,000-1,500 people behind me, I could run this town. Maybe there aren't enough business people with influence to save Cleveland.
@davidmesaaz - those are COMPLETELY different societies. they have no empires to support... nor are their interests spread far and wide. You CANNOT compare them to the US.
@singlespeak
I think Canada is doing better than the U.S. right now.
What a little DWEEB that city counselor is.
SLAP SLAP SLAP!!!
It has to be the city government, because the weather in Houston SUCKS.
Of course, I am biased, being from Dallas and all, hehe.
@davidmesaaz - Sweden - Denmark and Switzerland are terrible examples to compare. They have WAY MORE taxes and regulations than anywhere in the US.. and all three of them have higher living standards than Texas and the US as a whole for that matter. They are complete different cultures.. that is a real apples to orange comparison. And yes - prosperity does lead to higher regulations in some shape or form. As Singapore and China get richer there cost advantage will disappear. It's Economics!
@davidmesaaz - it's not what I say - it's the measured figures. And that 2008 # is misleading... delve deeper into the #'s. Again - once something becomes more popular then it becomes more expensive - which eventually brings more regulations. This is not a new story. California was once what Texas is now. NY 100 years ago was the "New London". 50 years ago Cleveland may have been the "New Liverpool". Everything goes in cycles. A time may come when Texas will be "too expensive".
@davidmesaaz - your comment didn't prove anything. Look at the poverty and unemployment rates in both places. Many businesses are not struggling that relocate. They do so to make MORE profits by finding people who work for less. The same reason jobs go overseas. When comparing US states to China for example... a report just came out that Texas was #2 in net losses to China - with California being #1. Who can leave for cheaper grounds - usually does! International or domestic.
@ledzep1234567 - Houston has a lot of cheap open land - oil money - and 8 years of a very friendly federal government to them. It's not a hard equation to figure out.... but Cleveland can't re-create that stuff... they have to find their own way.
can we all start a PAC to get EVERY CLEVELAND POLITICIAN out of office whenever each of them is up for election?
I hate to say it but I can't see things changing. The same people keep voting the same people in who keep doing the same things that keep failing with the idea that they need to do even more of the same failed ideas.Untill people realize that what is going on needs to be rolled back and try something new, we are going nowhere.
He means California. That state is the third worst in the nation for "business tax climate," according to the Tax Foundation.
@jonsaguard Tell me about it.
i love how nick keeps appealing to sports futility, people feeling sorry for cleveland's sports teams ended the day they won the lebron lottery. quit complaining, no one feels sorry for you. the indians also dominated in the 90s.
What's with the link to 9/11?
@davidmesaaz - you don't read well - I told you from the beginning not to compare them. And I find it HILARIOUS that someone from Texas wants to talk about similarities with Europe. The vast majority of time - your type goes around saying that the US is not Europe. And if you think other countries putting up a "show" in NATO then you SADLY mistaken. Go check the percentage of budgets and GDP those countries spend on their military compared to the US... it is MUCH less. You can't be serious.
It took a decade to build a parking lot?!
Haha. That's not even sad anymore, that's so pathetic it is funny.
"He had been trying for the past decade but with my expert help it only took him another year and a half to get a permit to expand his parking lot."
This sounds like a silly exaggerated satire of bureaucracy and yet he says it with a straight face. No literally he sounds like some exaggerated super-strawman character in a parody of the bureaucratic villains in Atlas Shrugged. As if to say 'Oh c'mon no real life Red Tape could be THAT obstructive, that's ridiculous.'