[Bon mots]

Hartford is a sewer.

What once was a nice and prosperous city has been converted into a ghetto.
Not only that, but it cannot be fixed. The city has a mill rate of 64.8200 mills! (SOURCE)
That means, that for every $1000 worth of property you own in that ghetto, you must pay local property taxes of $64.82.

Now imagine, you are a businessman and want to build a $10million factory or plant in Connecticut. To put it in Hartford, which has some 18% unemployment, you would have to hand over $648,000.00 per year to the tax collector!

As a businessman, you know how hard it is to make an extra $650,000.00 per year - and to hand over to politicians to disburse to the welfare 'gimmes' in exchange for votes. Not exactly value for your money.

For what? For the mistake of putting your $10million investment into that ghetto? What could you expect? An illiterate, thieving welfare-mentality local population, high crime, you would need to build high fences with razor-ribbon to keep out the local apes.

People wonder why all the jobs move overseas... they don't move, they are chased out of town!

Can't fix that. Most of our cities are going the way of Detroit, the ones run by Democrats and unions get there first and fastest.

Want to see where Hartford is going? Look at Detroit.

[kearnyirish2]

“An illiterate, thieving welfare-mentality local population, high crime, you would need to build high fences with razor-ribbon to keep out the local apes.”

It certainly makes it difficult for any urban area to attract business, when that business would be required to fund three multi-generational welfare recipients, one police officer, one public school teacher, and one social worker for every employee in the company. The fixed costs of operating in a welfare reservation are prohibitive; these cities can’t die fast enough. It has spread beyond the cities’ boundaries, where states are expected to feed, clothe, house, and pretend to educate these “wards of the state”; Obama’s program is to nationalize the wealth re-distribution (he seems quite open about it). Texas taxpayers will be feeding the permanent underclass of Newark NJ if Obama has his way. The states themselves have basically buckled under the financial strain (see Newark NJ laying off hundreds of cops, etc.); Trenton had no more money.

Life along the frontier of the welfare reservations in NJ has become increasingly violent, as war parties head out into the suburbs (since they’ve picked their hives clean). These sorties are increasing in frequency & violence.