Posted on 05/10/2016 7:44:25 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Of all the problems besetting Los Angeles, the most fundamental is this: It doesn't have much of a middle class.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Start with firing most of those public employees, end the embezzlement of public funds by voiding any non-budgeted and paid for benefits, and see what happens.
We tried it the other way, it failed.
This article is bs and I could tell without reading it. All I needed to do was look at who the author was.
“First things first... Build the wall and make Mexico pay for it!”
The LA Basin has become a northern analog of Mexico City! Along with paying for the wall, Trump needs to force Mexico to pay to “repatriate” the three millon Mexicans that live there currently who are not lawfully present.
Actually, though, because of the leveraged impact of government costs on taxes, even the public-sector workers cannot afford to live in the cities.
California has a great climate and beautiful scenery.
The limousine liberals want to live there and they want everyone else off their roads and beaches.
And our big cities have become modern day plantations.
I saw a segment on CNBC about firefighters in Silicon Valley.
A significant number commute over 100 miles each way.
(admittedly with 24 hour shifts that’s not like driving every day)
Public sector unions run all of California and control its political future. Maybe they are waking and realizing the killed the goose that laid the golden egg? No. They are too short-sighted to ever figure that out.
The number of public employment retirees getting 6-figure pensions is astounding...
This would help drive realestate prices down because the city is full of absentee Chinese owned houses that are rented for high rates.
Their are consequences to sending billions of dollars to China every month for years at a time. Eventually, we'll all be working for Chinese owned businesses, today (and since the late 1980s) you are likely to be competeting with Chinese cash to buy property, and if you can't you'll end up renting from them.
Um, I know! Invite in more unskilled illegal immigrants who will mostly live on the dole and those who work will drive down wages, and then raise taxes so that only the very rich or the very subsidized can afford to live there!
Other than that, there is no changing. This IS THE model anywhere "hispanics" have large numbers. From Mexico to the end of South America.
The only way that I see out of this is another WAR on mexico.
Only this time, we keep ALL of the territory that we take, EVERYTHING north of the tropic of cancer, including baja california will become US territory.
Yeah, I don’t see how that’s sustainable.
Obviously a high speed bullet train between Stockton and Bakersfield is the solution.
Omg.
That one has to ask. Everything done politically here is done FOR THE POOR and mostly the poor is illegals. Come on.
Where kids who are poor get two free meals a day, free health care, dental, etc. Where close to 100% of servant and entry level jobs are done by illegals. Where you don’t need to be legal or speak English to perform any necessary function AT ALL. Where whole swaths of building jobs are done by teams of illegals.
And where lucrative entertainment and luxury (real estate, etc) jobs abound for the cronies of the successful. And manufacturing and aerospace jobs dried up.
It’s almost an official fiefdom.
Don’t forget that in LA even the exurbs are slums. Remember Palmdale. A quiet Desert valley with not much there except peach growers and farms. Builders came in and put up affordable little single family homes. My friend and her husband bought out there, just to be able to afford the picket fence dream. For almost a decade they had a wonderful, diverse, safe, new community with Bbqs and kids running from house to house. Then LA turned any empty homes to section 8. Within 2 years my friends, paying high rates on a mortgage when the house’s value dropped precipitously with all the crack dealing and new gangbanging, just left the key in the door and moved back closer to town.
Urban planning in LA. Ha. For decades the west SF valley was BLED with property taxes, and NO POLICE PRESENCE. So many problems. Don’t even get me started aboutnLAUSD.
Why is it “we” that has to rebuild it?
I didn’t build it in the first place. I didn’t destroy it. I lived there and thought I contributed to it.
Raising taxes never creates jobs. Never.
A business environment that has private businesses flocking to Texas, a few million public sector union employees with massive pensions, several million gizmedats and the whole lot governed by the far left.
Never have a middle class in a place like that.
Mexifornia. Send them to Mexico.
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