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There is nothing to stop these cities from looking like Detroit. They were in trouble a century ago, and despite a surge during World War 2, they peaked in 1950 and have continued their decline since then. Politicians are not being up front about the harsh reality that the cost to renovate the decayed infrastructure in such cities far exceeds any return on the investment.

Even worse, with the exception of the Grievance Industry, healthcare, and maybe education, industries are better served outside of a city.

-Accommodation
-Accommodation and Food Services
-Administrative and Support Services
-Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services
-Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting
-Air Transportation
-Ambulatory Health Care Services
-Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries
-Animal Production
-Apparel Manufacturing
-Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation
-Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing
-Broadcasting (except Internet)
-Building Material and Garden Equipment and Supplies Dealers
-Chemical Manufacturing
-Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores
-Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
-Construction
-Construction of Buildings (if you even need them)
-Couriers and Messengers
-Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
-Crop Production
-Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
-Education and Health Services
-Educational Services
-Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing
-Electronics and Appliance Stores
-Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing
-Finance and Insurance
-Financial Activities
-Fishing, Hunting and Trapping
-Food Manufacturing
-Food Services and Drinking Places
-Food and Beverage Stores
-Forestry and Logging
-Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles
-Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores
-Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing
-Gasoline Stations
-General Merchandise Stores
-Goods-Producing Industries
-Grievance Industry (large numbers of payees in cities but not the payers nor overseers)
-Health Care and Social Assistance (large numbers of payees but not payers in cities)
-Health and Personal Care Stores (large numbers of payees but not payers in cities)
-Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
-Hospitals (heavily controlled by government socialized medicine)
-Information
-Insurance Carriers and Related Activities
-Internet Publishing and Broadcasting
-Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing
-Leisure and Hospitality
-Lessors of Nonfinancial Intangible Assets (except Copyrighted Works)
-Machinery Manufacturing
-Management of Companies and Enterprises
-Manufacturing
-Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods
-Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods
-Mining (except Oil and Gas)
-Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction
-Miscellaneous Manufacturing
-Miscellaneous Store Retailers
-Monetary Authorities - Central Bank
-Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries
-Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers
-Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions
-Natural Resources and Mining
-Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing
-Nonstore Retailers
-Nursing and Residential Care Facilities
-Oil and Gas Extraction
-Other Information Services
-Other Services (except Public Works)
-Paper Manufacturing
-Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
-Personal and Laundry Services
-Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing
-Pipeline Transportation
-Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing
-Postal Service
-Primary Metal Manufacturing
-Printing and Related Support Activities
-Private Households
-Professional and Business Services
-Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
-Publishing Industries (except Internet)
-Rail Transportation
-Real Estate
-Real Estate and Rental and Leasing (if you even need it or it isn't government operated)
-Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
-Rental and Leasing Services
-Repair and Maintenance
-Retail Trade
-Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation
-Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities
-Service-Providing Industries
-Social Assistance (mostly government run. It's a big minus, not an plus.)
-Specialty Trade Contractors
-Sporting Goods, Hobby, Book, and Music Stores
-Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry
-Support Activities for Mining
-Support Activities for Transportation
-Telecommunications
-Textile Mills
-Textile Product Mills
-Trade, Transportation, and Utilities
-Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation (Public transit is subsidized and still loses money. Needed less as industries leave cities.)
-Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
-Transportation and Warehousing
-Truck Transportation
-Utilities
-Warehousing and Storage
-Waste Management and Remediation Services
-Water Transportation
-Wholesale Electronic Markets and Agents and Brokers
-Wholesale Trade
-Wood Product Manufacturing


9 posted on 03/18/2024 10:12:50 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

> There is nothing to stop these cities from looking like Detroit. <

I gotta agree. Take Pittsburgh, for example. Pittsburgh has been run by Democrats since the 1930s. But those Democrats were by and large old-school Blue Dog Democrats.

No longer. Both the city and the school district are now in the hands of “progressives” and their insane, woke ideas. That’s a one-way trip. No going back to the old days.


13 posted on 03/18/2024 10:23:45 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: T.B. Yoits
Much like cities that died before and during the riots in the 60s, cities that hosted the Democrat Riots of 2020 are doomed.

Who would forget this Pittsburgh curbside Qween, a racist ghettopotamus, who got in the face of innocent white people to steal and drink their beer?

Yeah, those customers will be back.



22 posted on 03/18/2024 2:28:57 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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