Posted on 06/05/2019 5:36:42 AM PDT by simpson96
It takes a lot of resilience to look over one’s shoulder at California. We Americans are a proud people and love our country. We know we’re wildly imperfect, but we also have seen our country overcome difficulties to become a more perfect union.
California, not so much.
One glance at the formerly Golden State is a frightening embarrassment. The latest indictment of liberal leadership is the trash heap of Los Angeles. Literally. Despite the emergence of louse-borne typhus, Los Angeles can’t seem to get its act together.
Steve Lopez of the Los Angeles Times reported a week ago on the obscene condition of downtown Los Angeles, “A mountain of rotting, oozing, stinking trash … stretching a good 20 yards along a skid row alley. Rats popped their heads out of the debris like they were in a game of Whac-A-Mole, then scampered for cover as a tractor with a scoop lurched toward them. … The trash problem is not confined to any one street, but this particular location on the 800 block of Ceres Avenue is surrounded by food distribution companies that sell to shoppers, vendors, stores and restaurants. I counted seven within a block, so you have to wonder — given the colonies of football-size rats — about the potential contamination of the food supply chain and the spread of disease.” What does the city say when confronted about the slow, or nonexistent, pace of cleanup?
A “spokeswoman for the city Department of Public Works said the backlog on service calls for trash pickup around homeless encampments sits at just under 8,400 currently. … ‘If it’s a homeless encampment, it’s a lengthier process because humans are involved and we have to meet certain protocols,’ she said, including a survey of who’s there, an inventory of personal property and
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New York would be close to perfect if we could tear down Penn Station and get a decent building in its place. For years, they talked of turning the post office into Penn Station but that, of course, came to nothing.
Tammy Bruce is also a native Californian. She grew up in LA, I believe.
social messes are created by local politicians’ poor decision-making/intentional decision-making who then extort cash from the state and fed.gov.
its really as simple as that!!
EXACTLY!!
The Left seems the destruction of Western Civilization: Judeo-Christianity, Capitalism and Democracy.
Then, they will impose their police state - following the murder of millions. They’ve been doing this for a while.
These cities (across America) are the breeding grounds of the next revolution.
And it appears we desperately need one to uproot the Leftist Establishment that has taken over our society.
And it appears we desperately need one to uproot the Leftist Establishment that has taken over our society.
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If you’ll recall, the Left feared the Tea Party. What we need is to resurrect a Tea Party like movement, except this time it will have to be more aggressive. A Tea Party on steroids, if you will.
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