The Trashy Nature of Salem and Washington County........a Real Paradise

Washington County, Indiana and Salem used to be a respectable and respected sort of place that was of the blue collar working type of society where you had a decent middle class and people that actually cared about the community. These people even with their faults were generally salt of the earth and decent respectable people that attempted to do right not only to their community but also their fellow man. Decent people that actually cared about the community, cared about the progress of the community and attempted to not only bring new opportunities and challenges as well provided a quality education and community and personal upbringing. It wasn't always perfect but its much better that the devolved state of society in Washington County, Indiana and Salem, Indiana with its crime issues, drug issues, domestic battery, low life population and general creeps of society making a mess of the town and county. 

Nowadays Salem as well as other Washington County communities such as Pekin, Martinsburg, Livonia, Fredericksburg, Campbellsburg, Hardinsburg, etc are going through being not only an economic and social basketcase but also suffering from the effects of an increasingly lousy educational system over the past 20-30 years where education and common sense is shunned in favor of social promotion of people that you wouldn't allow to run your local lemonade stand even if you gave them a cash box, water, lemons, sugar, stirrer and pitcher, etc. 

This state of affairs may not be intentionally of design but the devolution of education or probably better stated being educationally devolved is having disastrous effects for the future economic prospects of the youth of the county as well as those currently working in the general area even to the point of having to go 50 miles away to find work in some cases. That doesn't say much about the state of the community when the local schools produce the occasional scholar but then also produces a generation or two of total dolts incapable of making change or writing a resume or some other form of communications. 

One notices this when one reads the comments of some of the local Salem, Indiana Facebook pages and I have to laugh at even the basic spelling and grammar that is spat out by the increasingly uneducated population of Washington County many of whom where born here and raised in the Salem school district or those of West Washington or East Washington. Even more laughable is their lack of common sense and lack of logic that is becoming increasingly apparent as well as their inability to communicate or maintain some level of debate without putting up some ignorant response or a botched You Tube video produced by someone equally as uneducated as they are. 

While one can lament the white trash banter on the internet as that of intellectually challenged types one can even see this degradation of the communities of Washington County that look like someone emptied their family trash can along the roadways and highways and byways of the county. I get to do quite a bit of running around due to the nature of business that I am involved in and the thing that amazes me is that it is almost as if Washington County, Indiana doesn't have gas stations, car washes and other places with garbage receptacles even at stores and other venues. Even the very nice Lake Salinda Park south of Salem 2 miles looks like a waste dump with the various idiots and imbeciles of society throwing trash out of their vehicles and leaving junk by the Lake Salinda not only at the boat launch and trail area but all the way along the lake short of the park. 

One can drive through or put on boots and walk through and find a wide variety of trash and refuse and outright garbage that could be properly placed in trash barrels or taken home or to the local car wash or gas station to be disposed of. Some things shouldn't be left out to be around the public such as drug paraphernalia that has been left at the lakeside including down the little roads that are accessible. 

These are things that little kids can get ahold of and be injured by or receive a deadly disease or some sort of blood borne pathogen from the dope abusers that sit at Lake Salinda along with illegal campers and deadbeats. Not to mention the beautiful ducks that exist there and other marine life in the lake such as the fish you just caught. There's no excuse for it and it needs to be addressed by the Salem mayor and other city council members and other officials. I wonder how many of them would like to come upon needles on the ground where their kids are playing. 

Yet this state of affairs has been going on for quite some time both at Lake Salinda and the less popular and less used Lake John Hay which is more off the beaten path. Yet the last two Salem mayors obviously checked out their term of office to do anything about making sure our public places and public parks don't end up looking like criminally infested cesspools with needles in parking lots, needles along the lake and trash and other garbage being left at the sites by the lake where fishing, illegal camping, and other activities take place. 

Not to mention weeding out the undesirables that are regularly causing problems for members of society and their responsible usage of the park. 

One can also note the trashy appearance of Salem, Indiana and the streets that look like something out of a totally undeveloped and underdeveloped area of the world. Places like Small Street, South Posey Street, Mill Street, Elizabeth Street and even MAIN STREET IN DOWNTOWN Salem looking like a cesspool. Not to mention the massive amount of bottles, cans, trash and other junk that has been left along places in Salem like near the Old Train Depot on the South side of Small Street and also along streets like Market and High Street and various other locations. 

The roadways of Washington County aren't much better because of the neanderthal mentality that exists amongst a high percentage of Washington County residents that seem to think that the roadways outside of their homes and other areas around the county are places to throw trash and perform illegal dumping and improper waste disposal. Instead of putting the nonviolent jail offenders and criminal offenders on the roads by chain gang or whatever means necessary the county just lets the problem fester because LOSERS have been running Washington County for years and not doing their jobs and that of the taxpayers who pay for this mound of crap called Washington County, Indiana Government. 

I'm sure that in future weeks my camera in my vehicle will be recording and POSTING these various videos of the trashy places of Salem, Indiana and Washington County, Indiana. Will anyone care much less our incompetent and politically connected but totally useless public officials? Time will tell.  

Washington County Indiana: Where Corruption and the Good Old Boy System Are Hand in Hand

 If you're a relatively new resident of Washington County, Indiana you might see some smiling faces, a few waves and meet occasionally some friendly people that are actually locals. However, that really doesn't get to the bottom of what Washington County and its local government systems and some of the people in them are really about. 

Now my detractors will try to say stupid things like Washington County is the best place that they've ever been or lived yet they really haven't spent more than two weeks outside of Washington County, Indiana and Salem, Indiana other than maybe a short two week or one month vacation where they behave like the usually blind tourist that really has nothing to grasp onto in order to make a judgement call about a particular place. 

My experience with Washington County can be traced back to the better part of five different decades in which I have seen enough of the local system and local people in certain positions that get by with various things because of their last name, political affiliations, being part of the good buddy system or what one might call the Good Old Boys. 

From various branches of county government to even Salem City government here are plenty of scofflaws and deadbeats that get by with their nefarious deeds and actions because they got their little base of local supporters kind of like what one would have as athletic supporters or in my opinion a bunch of jockstraps. That's kind of how some of the so called scions of Washington County behave because their grandfather was someone in county government, city government and local society. 

The other group of morons comes from people that have moved to Washington County and use these quaint but totally out of date terms like God and family and Christian family values as if no one notices their corruption and lying and cheating and the fact that a lot of them including some of the long time locals are nothing more than deadbeats. 

The laughable thing is that when you start looking at court records and arrest records and various other public records there is plenty of what we might call "white trash" in 99 percent Washington County because of their actions. Some of these actions might include theft, burglary, drug abuse, unpaid debts and bills that they refuse to pay even after being sued by their creditors. Even more than a handful of Washington County types have warrants out on them for various felony crimes and things such as domestic violence, gun crimes, drug crimes, drug dealing and other violent crimes. Yet the Good Old Boys around Washington County, Indiana and Salem, Indiana seem to welcome these types of people because they mouth some absurdities about God, Christianity, Family and Country all the while being some of the biggest criminally inspired and lying dirtballs around. 

The reason this state of affairs is allowed in this county and much of Southern Indiana is because some of the LOCAL LEGAL EAGLES benefit handsomely from representing career criminals, deadbeats, drug pushers and abusers and common criminals. They really don't want to improve Washington County, Indiana but would rather it look like a big "white trash" paradise in the middle of Southern Indiana and be the laughingstock of the region and the state at large. Especially when these criminals and deadbeats continue to cycle through the local law enforcement community to the point that they will be charged with a crime and then be recycled through the system multiple times with more and more charges rather than be rehabilitated and made to get a job and become a productive citizen. 

The GOOD OLD BOY system of Washington County, Indiana works that way along with cops knowing about known drug activity and then not investigating the criminal aspect of such activities and then trying to make excuses about why they refused to act when they were told by responsible citizens that were reporting a crime. In most police jurisdictions, reporting of a crime being committed at least warrants proper investigation by a trained law enforcement officer and also brings in other officers to investigate. 

Not to mention in a county like Washington County where malfeasance and criminality go hand in hand among some of the illustrious citizens and enforcers around the county. Strangely enough many people walk free from serious crimes such as battery, domestic violence, burglary, theft, serious drug offenses and such because they're able to cop a plea deal with the prosecutor and therefore the criminal gets smacked on the wrist with the admonishment not to do that again. Yet if you look at the court records you'll find that these same people are regularly in the Detention Center and Hall of Justice regularly in front of judges and prosecutors only to be smack on the hand time and time again for various offenses. All in the name to make sure there is enough work for lawyers, attorneys, paralegals, law enforcement officers and of course the local judges including one "Voice of Justice" for Washington County and another long time judge that seems to have problems understanding the Indiana Code when it comes to legal proceedings between people in property disputes include laws of possession and legal statutes in Indiana which they have violated under the law. 

That's the kind of corrupt nature of Washington County, Indiana and Salem, Indiana that makes it for a long time resident and hometown born individual such an increasingly unsavory community when the overall quality of life in the community is rapidly going downhill. Most because of the increasingly low mentality of much of the population, the third rate public school systems that believe they are top notch when they can't even education K-12 students to the point that they can graduate school with basic life skills and emerging work and career skills. 

Washington County though is increasingly priding itself in being a "Certified White Trash Community" though judging by the character of the population and the mentality and criminality of much of its uneducated and often mentally challenged population. 

If You Run A Business Looking At Washington County, Indiana Don't Waste Your Time

 If you are an entrepreneur or businessman looking to move your business or establish a business in the Washington County, Indiana communities of Salem, Pekin, Campbellsburg don't waste your time. 

Why you might ask?

Simple reasons in that you're dealing with a low mentality workforce with many of the citizens/residents who are on drugs or have suffered from brain damage and poor educational opportunities along with a local government that doesn't really care about economic development. You're wasting your time with anything to do with Washington County government or anyone in most cases in Salem, Indiana. If you have an existing business in Washington County you might even want to consider looking elsewhere to relocate your factories or other industrial and business concerns. 

The quality of the Washington County population at this point is so low that its became a huge business cost for any respectable business to waste their time and money on expanding or continuing operations in Washington County. 

When you have a situation where drug abuse is glorified in a community and allowed to fester for decades instead of being crushed its time to start looking elsewhere. 

When you have local schools that get C and D rankings from the Indiana Department of Education you're looking at a community that is in severe decline. This didn't just happen over a couple of years but generations of poor education and poor educational opportunities along with a culture that simply loves stupidity rather than education. 

If you're a corporate CEO looking at Washington County, Indiana look elsewhere because the community in Washington County, Indiana in many cases isn't fit for productive employment and productive industries and lack of reasoning skills, lack of common sense and lack of education play a big factor in why Washington County, Indiana ranks 82nd in the state of Indiana in personal income and family income being one of the lowest ranked counties in the State of Indiana for decades. Yet the local politicians and local community doesn't really care about better schools or better future for the young other than producing education that lacks quality. Not to mention to the point that a great deal of the students coming out of Washington County schools are functionally illiterate and there are multitudes of Washington County residents who are functionally illiterate. 

Add in the fact that you're going to have problems finding employees who can stay clean of the scourge of drugs and crime issues that are increasing in the community of Salem and other Washington County communities. One might think that Washington County is a great place because its far outside of the limits of the local biggest metro area but that is hardly the case. In a community that only has 28,000 residents in the county as well as 6500 in its largest town you have rampant drug problems that even the local police and Indiana State Police can't even crack and put a reasonable stop to much of the problem. 

Why would that be? Because they don't want to solve the drug problems in Salem, Indiana because the local good old boy system of crooks, criminals and so called legal eagles don't want to dry up their source of criminals going through the system who continue to re-offend and keep in the legal system because they can never escape the corruption, poverty and crime problems that exist in Salem, Indiana. 

As a business person do you really want to waste your time with this sort of rigmarole when there are much more healthy communities that despite every community having problems will actually crack down drug abuses and prosecute but also do things to reform those convicted and not have many of them be repeat offenders. 

Another thing you might not be aware is that Washington County government is largely incompetent when it comes to public finances, debt avoidance, tax issues and fixing things including infrastructure. Not to mention the increasingly decrepit infrastructure in Salem, Indiana and points in between Salem and all areas of the county including roads that are called state roads but might as well be paved over cow paths that are so rough that they damage vehicles and cause suspension problems to occur quite often. 

If you're a business person or CEO or corporate officer look elsewhere in Indiana than Washington County and you'll actually find a better business environment and more motivated workforce than a place where idle hands and drug abuse is often the norm.