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.
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