With all of the natural resources, plentiful water, relatively clean air and quality land one would think that Lawrence County the cities such as Mitchell and Bedford would be prime locations to open new businesses and attract growing industries especially considering that within about 20-25 miles you have an instant connection to the outside world including the rest of Indiana and the United States.
One has to question what kind of leaders exist in Bedford and Lawrence County that can't even run a lemonade stand when you could give them plentiful water, a pitcher, stirrer, lemons, sugar, cups and a cash box and they still end up failing.
Not only has Bedford and Lawrence County stagnated over the past several decades but in fact it has been going into reverse in a major way even since the late 1990s early 2000s. Even worse is that longtime employers have left Bedford and Mitchell to be replaced by low wage retail outfits, junk shops and virtually nothing else of real value to the community. Gone are places like Carpenter, Visteon and now Manchester Tank will be leaving. You would think that these people running Radius, Indiana and the rest of the so called economic development gurus would be working hard to bring in new businesses. Instead, the only thing being brought into Bedford is more and more in the way of illegal drugs and other narcotics that are destroying the community and turning it into a laughingstock.
Instead of focusing on serious economic development efforts and re-developing areas that have turned into industrial brownfields due to companies moving out of the area or outright closing the powers that be in county and city governments in Lawrence County along with the so called Radius people haven't really did much of anything for 20 years. At one time, Bedford was a pretty growing and better quality community instead of the drug infested and alcohol abusing place that it is nowadays and no one seems intent on stopping it. Even though law enforcement through the county sheriff and the various local yokels of Lawrence county go on drug busts and enforcement activities against street level dopeheads and users nothing ever really gets cleaned up.
Then again could it be that they don't really want to solve the drug and alcohol addiction problems in Bedford, Mitchell and the rest of Lawrence County because its extra revenue for the local authorities to make excuses and get their pockets padded at the same time while having more and more drug busts and court actions which will line the pockets of the legal community as well as the various police officials and officers and employees of the court system along with the judges and so called community protectors.
Could it be that they've decided that they don't really want to fix the horrendous drug problem in Lawrence County and would rather play pat a cake with their friends telling them what a great job they are doing while all kind of drugs turn Lawrence County into a land of walking zombies and unemployed addicts incapable of holding jobs and therefore end up having to commit crimes to survive or pay for their drug habit. Could it be that the LOCAL LEGAL EAGLES in the SO CALLED JUSTICE profession don't want that drug abuse problem to end because that would put an end to their ill gotten gains through first bringing in the dope while also going after the low level users and street dealers while keep their own hands clean by selling the dope to the locals after which they prosecute and detain these people and pay their own salaries through the public taxpayers bailing them out.
All the while Lawrence County officials and various mayors and public officials of the small cities of Lawrence County including Bedford have done virtually nothing to attract new businesses and bring in new industries to employ the local workforce outside of a little bit of a pickup at NSWC Crane and a couple of other businesses. Maybe that is the goal to turn Bedford into a little retirement community of nothing to really offer except a retirement angle which creates really nothing but a parasitic economy that produces nothing and creates nothing of value. Of course, unless you're one of the drug pushers in Lawrence County or one of the surrounding Indiana counties like Orange, Washington, etc that also are involved in drug offenses and bringing in drugs to pollute the youth of the community who are increasingly becoming middle age drug abusers.
That's in a nutshell the type of community that Bedford, Mitchell and Lawrence County in general has become over the years. Uneducated, lazy, drug abusers with other substance abuse problems who commit crimes against their fellow community members while the rest of the community ends up paying for their incarceration and court costs including the local yokels of the Bedford Police and Lawrence County Sheriff getting their nice government sponsored paychecks while totally ignoring the people at the top of the drug supply chain bringing in the garbage.
Of course, the Billy Bob mentality that many exhibit in Lawrence County wouldn't ever allow them to realize that their country cousins would be so vapid and ignorant to turn their community into a cesspit of drugs and lowlifes. I mean, after all Cousin Cletus wouldn't do that and he's not crooked even though the facts are that these same people constantly turn their heads to protect people who are criminals themselves.
Maybe that's why Bedford needs to change signs at the city limits and call it Methford or maybe Mitchell could be Methford and Bedford could be Bedrock because Stone Age thinking is quite popular in Lawrence County.
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