Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Negative DDN Comment of the Week: "Indian Country"

The commentariat at the DDN can either be a source of anger and frustration, but it can also be a source of entertainment. Usually in the "Jerry Springer Show" sense of entertainment, but sometimes comments rise about the norm and show a bit more wit.

I like this one as it illustrates the Wright-Patterson AFB employees perspective (well, at leat one employee but (s)he is probably representative. Cute reference to Indian County, but one wonders how one drives from Warren County through Dayton to the base.

Well ‘tl’, this is just entertainment for me. I live down in Warren county and work at WPAFB. So I only have to drive briefly through ‘Indian country’ to go to and from work. I avoid Dayton like the plague it is. Until the voters in Dayton proper vote out the current regime, nothing can be done about the situation. And I cannot vote in Dayton, being a non-resident. I can only shake my head in wonder over it all.

The Big Paw
2009-06-16 12:45:44.6

6 comments:

Brian said...

Forgive my naivety, but what on earth is that supposed to mean. Indian Country?

Anonymous said...

That statement really begs for a tollbooth on I675, right at the Warren County line.

Anonymous said...

It sounds like someone is saying that Dayton contains natives and elements that the writer doesn't want any contact with. IE, it sounds like a racial thing. Since Warren County is lily white I'd assume that it is racial.

It's also showing how little that WPAFB really has to do with the life of the community. Those people are in their own little self satisfied high income enclave and screw the neighboring community.

Anonymous said...

Maybe he just drives by LexisNexis (which has outsourced much of its development to India) on his way to work. :)

Jefferey said...

"It's also showing how little that WPAFB really has to do with the life of the community. Those people are in their own little self satisfied high income enclave and screw the neighboring community."

I am really starting to think this is true vis a vis Dayton city, at least as a generalization (their are exceptions, of course).

Joe said...

Several of the people I work with at WPAFB live in the City proper. Apartments/Houses in the suburbs near the base are too expensive and don't offer the same qualities Dayton offers. The average age of non-military workers at WPAFB is older (40-50?), at my estimation. I really wonder sometimes who they're going to replace this workforce with when everyone starts retiring.