Posted on 07/17/2012 6:27:45 PM PDT by Kartographer
Do you want to see where this country is headed? If so, don't focus on the few areas that are still very prosperous. New York City has Wall Street, Washington D.C. has the federal government and Silicon Valley has Google and Facebook. Those are the exceptions. The reality is that most of the country has been experiencing a slow decline for a very long time and once thriving cities such as Gary, Indiana and Flint, Michigan have become absolute hellholes. They are examples of what the rest of America will look like soon. 60 years ago, most Americans were decent, hard working people and there were always good jobs available for anyone that was willing to roll up his or her sleeves and put in an honest day of work. But now all of that has changed. Over the past decade, tens of thousands of manufacturing facilities have shut down and millions of jobs have left the country. Cities such as Cleveland, Baltimore and Detroit were once shining examples of everything that was right about America, but now they stand out like festering sores.
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Here our businesses have to fight overpaid federal, state and local inspectors that think they work for them. The overpaid inspectors have no idea what profit is and think it is a dirty word.
Our overpowered government has done this to this country. I personally feel that the greatest error was the 17th amendment to constitution. Making the senators a super house of representatives means that all our politicians work for making the people who can give him the vote happy. If the majority want to steal from the minority wealthy then that is what it takes to get elected. The states no longer have any representation. The states have become simply subdivisions of the federal government, just like cities and counties are subdivisions of state government. It is sad.
Until we get the weight of the federal government off the necks of our businesses we will not recover as a country. I personally do not see a recovery. I see a few lurches to the right every now and then but they don't last.
I think Romney is a nice guy but he hasn't the gonads to do what has to be done. Someone has to tell it like it is, someone has to say the things that Sarah Palin says, that Ron Paul says that Michelle Bachman says. These people are not perfect but they call a spade a spade.
To look at our unemployed population and see people that eat too much because of food stamps and sit at home watching cable tv because they have nothing better to do but are still able to pay for cable is sickening.
I'm not a racist but to understand what is taught to our black population centers helps me to be able to understand why Travon Martin is dead. To understand what our so called black community is taught helps me to understand how it is that EVERY video of a store being mobbed by a bunch of youths stealing and ransacking the store has been by black youths. The black community often raises kids with no father in the home. Children raised by children is a great formula for disaster.
Nearly 75% of crime in the US is committed by children of single parents. 90%+ of juvenile delinquents are from single parent homes.
Our government did this to us for the sake of the “chilin”.
I do not want to be the father of children I did not have. I do not want to feed the children of women who haven't the sense to use birth control. I don't want to raise the children of young men who have “chilin” by several women without being married to any of them or paying for any of their support. two third of the money we pay to federal government goes to support this nonsense.
These are some of the reasons we have what we have in these cities.
These cities on the list have not failed because they had liberal black government in their city halls, they failed because the federal government supported the breakup of the family.
If a woman had to scrape and work hard to feed herself and child she would never have the child. Yes the child would perhaps be hungry but there wouldn't be very many of them. Now our cities are overrun with little children that have nothing better to do than crime. But not worry they are at least well fed.
Problem is many people in these "hell hole cities" are not used to working and probably wouldn't work even if there were jobs. And of course, they would not consider anything but high-paying positions.
Yeah but he forgot to include the greater Los Angelus area and San Francisco as well. Once great cities turned into dumps by progressives and dupes and illegals
“send them back to the jungles.”
Hey, can we do that with the Kenyan?
Explain how we will bring job backs to America.
Not at this time, thanks. :D
I’ll just stick with “bring the jobs back”.
We can worry about the how later.
I have an idea, but I’ll just float the idea on its own right now.
Let’s see if others come to a similar concept before talking about how.
we need to bring jobs BACK to America. Because if we continue sending jobs overseas, we will destroy our country.
Stop sending jobs overseas, and bring back the USA.
Now.
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I agree with you, but that is so very contrary to the NWO platitudes and lies which both parties are wholly invested in.
Bingo, It’s the quintessential mob.
They write the rules they benefit from, and we say please and thank you for the crumbs.
That sounds like my country.
Danny Greene used to hand out free turkeys to the masses while he enriched his ego, but fouled **** up for everyone with power.
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That’s what I was thinking also.
WALL STREET = FRAUD AND CORRUPTION
GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK = LEFTIST UTOPIANS
THE FED IN DC = SOCIALISTS AND MARXISTS
That’s the good part???
You’re only going to do that by lowering corporate tax rates.
It won’t be perfect, but it’s a start.
It’s home.
Some of it has survived.
Because there are demographic pockets where those problems don’t exist in most states. Painting a large city one way or the other is too broad a brush. Painting a whole state is ridiculous.
What’s new? Those 12 places have been “Hell holes” for at least 25 years. I’ve been to them all except Oakland, New Orleans and Stockton.
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Kind of interesting, I considered STL back in the 1980’s as a place to live after I graduated from College but I noticed over a few short years, the place went down the toilet quickly. Back in like 1988 friends and I would travel from Evansville, IN to STL to see the Cardinal’s play baseball and we always stayed at a hotel (was Holiday Inn, now Ramada Inn) off of I-70 and Lindbergh (US 67). At the time, the area near the hotel was pretty nice but I stopped at the hotel like in 1996 and noticed the area really went downhill. Looking at Google Satellite view, the airport has really expanded out and now the hotel is right near the a new runway.
> #9 St. Louis
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