Posted on 12/29/2011 4:21:54 AM PST by radioone
It was a proud day in Medellín, Colombia. Mayor Alonso Salazar smiled as he announced the city's latest accomplishment, and a sycophantic press reported his happy message verbatim.
The 12,000 desperately poor people of Medellín's Comuna 13, a shantytown set high atop a steep hill, had spent generations climbing up and down some 530 mountainside stairs to reach their homes. It has always been a 35-minute walk, each way, a challenge for even the healthiest among them. But it is no longer.
What did the city do to alleviate the pain of its most destitute? The city of Medellín, long known as the home of one of the world's most notorious drug cartels, built the people of Comuna 13 six sets of escalators. One column up, one down, both outdoors, both designed to carry the poorest of Medellín's poor back up to their miserable hovels...at a cost to the taxpayer of some USD 6.7 million.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Liberal communities never invite the poor to move next door......instead, liberals love plantations, reservations and segregation.
That would make a great bumper sticker...
“Vote Democrat - The party of
plantations, reservations and segregation.”
I forgot --- internment!
But that doesn’t rhyme!
From this article:
“One of the best definitions of the difference between the conservative and the liberal is this (which I first heard enunciated by Newt Gingrich, though I have no idea whether it’s original to him or not): the liberal defines success by how many people he has managed to help through government action; the conservative defines success by how many people he has freed from need of such assistance.”
By the way, all the people of Medellin are very proud of this escalator and will take good care of it. This helps them be able to get to work and take care of themselves much more easily. It’s an improvement to the infrastructure...and not a liberal project per se. It’s a cultural difference that many here cannot understand. Hard work is praised and encouraged there. People are very proud that they DO for themselves.
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