Mayors should go figure

Mayors should go figure

EDITOR:

After reading “Peace in the Valley” in the Oct. 9 Vindicator, it seems that the mayors of Youngstown and Girard did not pay much attention to the three R’s while in grade school. It stands to reason that V and M made known its desire that its billion-dollar plant should be located in Youngstown to complement the existing plant. Evidently the mayors did not realize that that was a primary consideration. Further V and M made known that it would not get involved with the two cities in resolving the question of the property involved. It should have been abundantly clear that in the future the company did not want to deal with two cities. It was enough to have to deal with the federal government and the state government, without dealing with two cities.

The arithmetic is even simpler than the reading and writing that the mayors did not understand. The fact of the matter is that by the time I was out of third grade, I could read and write, and, more importantly, understood that if zero were multiplied by any number from one to infinity, the answer would always be zero.

These mayors tried to put the cart before the horse. There is no income to split and there might never be, but they should not have risked letting the opportunity slip from our grasp.

LEONARD J. SAINATO

Warren