Posted on 07/06/2015 9:26:41 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
LOS ANGELES — A GENERATION ago, this West Coast metropolis became a “third world city.” At least in the rhetoric of certain East Coast thinkers.
A 1991 book by David Rieff cited visitors who were stunned by “seeing nothing but brown faces, hearing nothing but Spanish on the streets.” The arrival of coffee-colored Latino masses (like me and my Guatemalan-American family), together with the spread of Mandarin and Korean logograms on street signs, led Mr. Rieff to call this the “capital of the third world.”
As a native of the city, I was offended to hear it tagged with such a denigrating label. But in recent years, and for different reasons, I’ve come to believe that a metropolis of the “developing world,” to use a more polite expression, is being born here.
Its center is not in East Los Angeles, or any other Latino neighborhood; nor in our recently christened “Little Bangladesh.” The third world exists everywhere here — in the spread of inequality.
The deepening gap between rich and poor is both a sociological fact and a state of mind. The cost of housing is up dramatically, and so is homelessness.
“If it feels like there are people living on the streets and under bridges everywhere you look, it’s because there are,” Bianca Barragan wrote for the website L.A. Curbed last month, after a survey by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority found an 85 percent increase in the number of people living in tents and cars over the past two years. In all, the census counted more than 25,000 homeless people in the city, up 12 percent over the same period. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Agreed, but one would think the NYT would
at least update the name to “Bushville”.
As far as I can tell no GOP or GOPe person
named Hoover is a candidate for any high
national office.
A friend told me that people are renting tents to live in now somewhere around Silicon Valley. I thought she was referring to those people under the bridges but no, it’s something else. Maybe people are renting out their backyards or something . Whatever it is, it’s not a good sign. There aren’t many good signs anymore, are there?
> Actually, before Islam arrived in Africa with their slave
> trading and other retrograde ways, Timbuktu was capital of
> a large empire and home to the best university in the world
> outside of China.
Absolutely correct! Bang on!!
What happened to Africa is that they were overwhelmed by Moslem invaders who, as they always do, convert as many as possible to their backwards, stagnant, murderous death cult by threat of lethal force. Those who didn’t convert, were slaughtered summarily or sold into slavery.
The proximity of Europe made African slave trading with the Euros a cinch. The Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish engaged in it with relish.
Soon, the Moslems would not even bother looking for converts, but rather looking for slaves for their lucrative slave trade. That’s why northern Africa became Moslem, and pretty much the rest of Africa was utterly destroyed.
My wife and I often discuss the situation of homeless people in the US. We are for now ‘comfortable’ as to finances. However, this position did not come about in the last few years. Years ago after graduating from university and getting my first job I took out a low cost paid up life policy. It was intended to benefit my mother. When I married my wife questioned the paying of premiums as to our needs. I explained to her my logic for such spending. As years went by we increased our insurance/savings to cover our sons and even to a granddaughter. Today after 60+ years of marriage we are financially ‘comfortable’ as to family needs. We have traveled the world, China to eastern Europe. We did not contribute to casinos. We did not spend lavishly on beverages. We did not pay exorbitant monies to watch some other persons make millions of dollars playing with a ball of any kind. We did not go out and buy high scale homes, furniture, cars, etc. So today we question why there seems such needs for so many people who we think made more money in their lifetimes than we did.
I read that book too, and regardless of what else is said in this essay, David Rieff is a complete effing idiot.
I have spent a lot of time in rural PA and OH. I swear I have met people just like Sam Drucker, Hank Kimball and Mr. Haney.
Aww, it’s refreshing to know people like that still exist. Mr. Haney was so sweet!
Well, when thousands of penniless Illegal Invaders show up, the gap between the Rich and the Poor Increases. DUH...
The problem I see is that the more illegals come here the Gap will get smaller!!!
I was absolutely shocked at the condition of the infrastructure.
As The Donald is finding out!
Their mamas let their babies grow up to be cowboys...
And all of their neighbors bailed to the relatively empty places between the Mojave and the stuff west of the Great Plains.
Drove the natives right out of Moab, Pagosa Springs, Leadville...
That could be true, but the dedicated Rich Liberals living in Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Holmby Hills and Malibu will stick around.
They think things are just wonderful. In fact, we have Record Prices for Homes in those areas. They love it.
The Illegal Invaders aren’t hanging around their Neighborhoods, yet. Sooner or later, it will happen.
You must have missed the memo. TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!
” TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! “
Absolutely true.
What I’m saying is that the illegals will make the middle class poorer and bring down the economy.. Not the rich classes nothing much bothers them except a total collapse of the economy!!!
Great post.
These areas are reverting to what they were before Europeans arrived. Obama is nationalizing policies that had previously been state or county matters because the left knows white flight is de-funding the Bronze Horde.
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