Living in the Brevard County area my whole 40 years of existence, I have seen many changes to the area, as well as changes in the people. For instance, in the 70's and early 80's, if you were not traveling at 60 MPH on A1A, you were blocking traffic. Now a days if your traveling on A1A, your luck to be going 35, due to the fear that police officers on beach-side have instilled in the public. Some changes are good, and others just plain stink.
It is my intention to bring to light what we as Brevard County residents, go through on a day to day basis, as well as changes that we have endured over time, and what we can do to preserve our community. This County is the perfect place to live; on the coast, and not too far from the attractions of Central Florida, but far enough away to separate ourselves from the Tourists. For the most part our towns are clean and well taken care of, with islands of wealthy individuals, living amongst the not so wealthy. We have our old slummy areas, our communal areas, and our pieces of Paradise. And the people range from the high technically skilled, to the ordinary layman that's been laid-off; people from all nationalities and ethnicity's; spanning indigenous family and snow birds. We are a cross section of the life that is typically facing the general populous of the United States today.
Celebrating our achievements is great, but we also need to acknowledge our down falls and splits in the seams of our bulging growth. With the economic times as they are, we the people of Brevard County have been hit harder than most, with our out of work percentage reaching the upper eighteen percentile. Marion County seems to be neck and neck with our numbers, but the people have been told that the Recession is ending. If your like me then you have gazed in wonderment as the typical TV news outlets have tried to sell us on the "up turns" in the economy. Really then explain all the people being foreclosed on in their homes because the primary pay check has been laid off due to the lack of contracts. Then we have to look at Cities that keep on taxing their people into the ground like Palm Bay. If you haven't heard, they're trying to add an additional "Fire Tax" on the citizens. Of course they have seen this as a "Stop Gap Measure". If our Government would take their head out of the sand and declare the economy what it is, a "Depression", and not a "Recession", then maybe companies would stop raising prices on our essentials, like food, and start looking at this as a long term problem.
As you can tell, it's going to be a bumpy ride. We are in this together, so let's come together and take care of this County and ourselves.
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