And from the article, about the 30 blocks of squalor on West Chestnut Street in west Philly, I think this must be the laundromat, donut shop, porn house, even a Halal meet store... not mentioned by the blogger, who "supports" the Occupy movement.
I lived in San Francisco for 25 years and it has been in a headlong slide into a citywide slum for at least 20 years.
It is, without a doubt, the most physically filthy place I’ve ever seen. It has become an open running sewer...and I grew up two blocks from a steel mill near Pittsburgh, PA, so I know filth when I see it.
I'll be damned if I can tell the difference.
It’s amazing that there is anyone out there that still thinks that the US has a future continuing as it is.
If you told the average person that a dictatorship was in the offing and that there would be mass violence and starvation in the US, with possible foreign intervention, they would look at you cross-eyed for about five seconds, and then ask you if you saw last nights American Idol.
The post America era is going to be a very dangerous place indeed.
The Detriotification of America proceeds apace...how Biblical!!!
I pose the question: why would a reflective, far-seeing couple of the middle class have children in these times, knowing the kind of world they likely would grow up in?
And yet, if they don’t, then the children already here have no prospect of things ever getting better.
It’s a quandary.
LOL!
Not where I live, Bunky.
Not only are there no street lights, there's barely any traffic lights where I live.
The unemployment rate in North Dakota is 3%.
Fast-food restaurants in South Dakota are paying hiring bonuses for want of workers, due to job growth outstripping worker influx.
If it's bad where you are, MOVE.
Political correctness KILLS.
Just imagine if something causes the food to stop being delivered. I am sure the denizens of these wonderful democrat strongholds will act with dignity and care for the others there.
Sacramento is not really big but I saw massive changes.
From 1970 when I was 10 years old, to present, I have seen Sacramento go from a sprawling open cow town, to complete fill and congestion.
In the 198s and 1990s, middle class whites abandoned the city of Sacramento for outlying suburbs Rocklin, Roseville, Loomis, Lincoln, Davis, Folsom, Fair Oaks, and El Dorado Hills. They forfeited the city to an influx of former residents of the East Bay Area, Oakland, Alameda, San Leandro, Hayward, Richmond, and El Cerrito.
Now much of Sacramento proper is coming to be as rough, rundown, ugly and crime ridden as those East Bay Area communities are. You can see it coming. The whites with money (hell, anybody with money — whites, asians, blacks, Indians, Middle Eastern, Hispanics, ANYBODY) are all moving to the outlying suburbs, conceding the ever-more decaying city.
It is really sad to see a city disintegrate like Sacramento is doing. I spent most of my life there and it was never a beautiful or nice city, but it was generally clean and neat and safe liveable. You could raise your kids in peace and quite.
Good luck with that in the future if you don’t live in Rocklin or El Dorado Hills or other solidly middle class enclave.
Really really sad. Disgusting really.
I won’t go near Oakland after twilight.
I have friends who invite me to Oakland A’s games but I’ll only go to early ones.
I will never go to a Raidah’s game...ever!
it is absolutely hilarious that so many freepers are so daft as to think that these cities have declined simply because dems run them
and stupid
plenty of cities that run very well despite being run by democrats and for one reason
they lack what has destroyed the other cities
Dems don’t help but they can’t destroy cities without other components
Memphis prospered well enough under Dems many years ago when it was majority white
my hometown...same thing
and so forth
And from the article, about the 30 blocks of squalor on West Chestnut Street in west Philly, I think this must be the laundromat, donut shop, porn house, even a Halal meet store... not mentioned by the blogger, who "supports" the Occupy movement.
This was the subject of E Michael Jone’s book “The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing”
“Focusing on Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Chicago, Jones shows that Government sponsored “renewal” of American cities was not a program that failed by going sadly awry, but instead was a planned destruction of the ethnic neighborhoods that made up the human, residential heart of the cities”
http://www.culturewars.com/Reviews/SlaughterReviews.html
Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland? People were saying the same things about these cities 30 years ago. I’m not saying things aren’t bad, but they haven’t been good for a long time now.
Cities like New York and Boston are thriving—fewer and fewer dodgy areas all the time.
Detroit, like some other cities but generally not our largest ones, is another story altogether.