It is covered with graffiti, smells of urine, has bums sleeping in every doorway, and we’re told that the shining towers are the reason for the bums and the urine smell, and that the we must pretend the graffiti is art; that the bums wouldn’t be bums if the towers didn’t exist.
Unfortunately the “shining city” is out of working order right now. Check back after the next revolution though. The city has suffered some setbacks due to unforeseen pension insolvency, looming budget shortfalls and civil unrest brought on by “community activists” which surprisingly has not yielded any positive results for the community it supposedly promotes.
Were shipping it piece by piece overseas.
Unfortunately the city is sinking slowly into its sewers, flowing with acidic mixes of corruption that ate the foundations away.
It was sold to the chinese and mexican business interests for a handsome profit.
I got mine, and I'm gonna burn all of the bridges to make sure you don't get yours.
Welcome to the new world economy. If you can't beat ‘em, exploit ‘em.
If you can't make them work for slave wages, find new slaves.
If US workers refuse to work for slave wages, import more new third world workers into the US.
Lawyers, bankers, stockbrokers, professionals, and doctors are too expensive; replace them with H1-B workers, because they work cheaper, and provide more shareholder value.
And don't even think of criticizing these views, because the free trader-investor-china quisling-outsourcing-slave labor-blame unions, feds, laws, states, towns, exchange rates, phases of the moon, and everyone because nobody will work for free crowd here on FR will show up shortly to strongly inform you that their contract employees in your choice of third world shithole country are just better than you are, solely because they are slave labor, and you are not.
The shining city got burnt to the ground by American socialists.
The Shining City began dimming in the mid-1960s. Those who remember the 1950s experienced the post-war exhilaration but also the pressure of the Cold War, the fear of an ultimate nuclear exchange. Existential threats magnified the appreciation for the country we had.
Congress and the Supreme Court came along with things like using the Commerce clause to destroy the Republic, leaving behind the US nation-state. Rather than a compartmented dirigible, we now live in a single-cell gas bag, locked into a nose dive by an entitled citizenry bankrupt, loosed from the constraints of the Constitution.
The tree of liberty is parched and prime for watering.
The Democrats (Marxists) replaced it with Detroit.
It sure isn’t baltimore, “The Charm City”.
Was “Rugged individualism” a la Reagan actually an idol? A carry over from when he played cowboy?
We do not need to fall upon socialism to regret the loss of the concept of church as something more than a building where you go on Sunday.