Davis County needs ideas as to how to increase the number of businesses of any kind and the jobs available. Give us your ideas by submitting a comment to this blog.
We’re not looking for gripes or complaints, but honest, positive ideas, no matter how far-fetched or silly they may seem, that will help this community grow now and in the future.
Community leaders are searching for just these kinds of ideas. Some ideas may be impossible to act upon or accomplish, but that doesn’t mean they are bad ideas.
Just as important, your idea may tweak the imagination and creativeness of someone else to come up with an idea of their own or a variation of your idea.
We don’t want in this forum things like “we can’t afford to build a new school” or “we shouldn’t build a hospital addition” or we shouldn’t be doing some other ongoing project. We’ll accept those kinds of things in other forums.
In this forum, we want positive suggestions about how we can move forward as a community economically.
So let the ideas flow.
by jjvon
03 Apr 2009 at 17:44
I applaud your initiative in stimulating ideas regarding economic development in our county and suspect that you have stumbled upon a very important element which you reported on recently: i.e., no comments.
The “no comments” comment is significant especially when you consider developing any modern non industrial business today will require more than just a passing experience using computers and the internet. Considering the mental assets of a community is essential. My assessment of the county’s computer literacy is clearly inadequate but for the purpose of this “comment” I will assume it is minimal.
I would propose that Davis County develop an “innovative technology” center the purpose thereof being to develop the mental talent, skills and support requisite to creating new internet based businesses.
by pkinney1
04 Apr 2009 at 07:34
Small town Minnesota is having more or less the same economic issues Bloomfield is going through. Read a story this morning about a woman who is trying to help. Here is a link to the story: http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=583283&catid=2
Another link on this same subject is http://www.the350project.org/home.html
Hope this is useful
by John D Schroeder
05 Apr 2009 at 20:43
First, trade at home. Give the local merchant a chance to meet your price or order the item for you.
Second, buy it in Iowa.
Third, buy American.
Fourth, never buy a foreign product, no matter where it is made, and send the wealth created by that economic activity out of our country forever!
If we would all do this it would create a tremendous increase in the number of local, state, and American businesses and jobs.
Remember, a fundamental of economic science is that the government does not create goods, consumer services, or wealth, that is why no country in the world counts government spending in computing it’s “gross national product” a universal measure of it’s economic well being.
by farmer
07 Apr 2009 at 18:01
We need to import money. How do we do that? We need to take what we have for resouces, make a viable product, export it to those who want it, and import their money. We need to take an in depth look at what we have for resouces. Yes, we have labor, but if you look at American Tank, they imported steel, made tanks with local labor, and exported the tanks out of area. There is labor everywhere. So what do we have for raw resouces that do not need imported? I don’t know. Let us look around and find out.
by justininbfield
07 Apr 2009 at 20:33
I believe that for Bloomfield to prosper, or any community of our size, the population has to be educated about the need for prosperity and what may happen if nothing ever changes. I know this town is filled with wonderful and intelligent citizens but even among them there are some who may not fully understand WHY economic development is important. As we fall into the habit of everyday life, including running our errands locally on the town square, we forget that without economic development there may someday be no town square.
Education is the key. What happens to communities who don’t strive to recruit business/industry, keep up the appearance of a beautiful downtown, and ultimately attract the next generation of citizens? NOTHING.