To the editor:

I had read with great interest the Article on WPRI’s Facebook Page about: "A 198-page report on Rhode Island's economic woes is out today - with a detailed diagnosis of how the state ended up in its current situation and ideas on how to turn things around."

After living all my 63 years in Rhode Island this SADDENS me to no end! I had seen this coming back in the mid 90s when I had lost my job of 25 years due to an OFF the job injury helping my Mother around the yard after my Father had died in the Spring of 95 and was hard pressed to find a REAL JOB THEN while I was in my mid 40s. BOTH of our sons have since LEFT Rhode Island because there is NO Work to SUPPORT A FAMILY.

As it is we had to do the same so as of TODAY ... 01/19/2016 ... It has been ONE MONTH EXACTLY since we left Riverside and the State to live with our younger son and his family because being RETIRED we no longer could afford to live in Riverside, Rhode Island!!! The VOTERS have ONLY themselves to blame for continuing to vote THE SAME GOOD OLD BOY NETWORK MACHINE!!! I can only wonder what will happen as we had lived in one of the TWO Cities that went BELLY UP … EAST PROVIDENCE … which especially East Providence although they claim they are "JUST FINE" … lol … are STILL not totally stable enough and doing their best to run every Big Industry TAXPAYER out of the City and the State is not stable enough to help any of the Municipalities anymore. Just before we left my "Prediction" to family and friends was that SOMETHING HORRIBLE was going to happen to the State of Rhode Island if not to the City of East Providence specifically if not BOTH and that they better prepare OR LEAVE!!!

We are SO glad to leave Riverside, Rhode Island because we were getting so fed up with their Cosmopolitaness yet miss the friends we left behind.

Paul Maziarz

Auburn, Indiana