Posted on 06/27/2009 7:14:30 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
How did some cities(Chicago, New York, Phili, St Louis, LA, SF) and some states (IL, NY, PA, CA) get so screwed up? I mean where did they start to go wrong? Just wondering.
of course they won’t..i am not expecting them to. But it would be nice for someone or a few to start making a peep. The only one that I know of is Ron Paul.
I was just wondering what the news was on the troops coming home on Tuesday from Iraq. I turned on Fox around 6:30 tonight and that was the breaking news but I’ve seen no mention here or on Drudge.
Too many Rats in the cage syndrome.
Here in Pa unions, unions, unions.
Liberal leftists like what’s in power in DC screwing up the country are also running cities like you mentioned. Ask yourself—who’s in power.
Liberal power grabs...like these, from the POtuS. They may sound familiar;
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing, with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasions from without and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the civil power.
A lot of these expenses are due to politicians' promises to labor unions, other interest groups in order to secure re-election.
Also there is a lot of pork-barrel spending and back-scratching - examples: millions of dollars was recently spent on changing all the signs on the Triborough Bridge to rename it to the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, despite a NY State budget shortfall of 14 billion dollars at that time; the Lieutenant Governor's office is fully staffed, even though there is no Lieutenant Governor; Governor Paterson has an enormous staff, to which he recently gave very large raises; - that sort of thing.
My Oath is Sworn. I am proficient. My aim is true.
SF has a big budget hole for the next fiscal year.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/11/BA9N184NJP.DTL
I sent your Q to two friends——a conservative and a left-wing nut. I hope they both answer because the comparison should be interesting!
I think you forgot Detroit and Michigan.
Proud cess pool of Democratic mayor/s and 8 years of a useless democratic governor.
Don't ask me what the answer to this situation is.
>> States like Michigan are dragged along for the ride by cities like Detroit.
In Michigan’s case, unions run amok didn’t help the conservative cause, either.
That's it in a nutshell. It basically amounts to people thinking the constitution would protect us and not paying attention.
Here’s background on Chicago...with current information:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2151323/posts
Probably the states you mentioned thought they could “afford” being liberal in the late forties and early fifties. The money was just rolling into New York, California, and Michigan after the war. It was not rolling into Alabama or Mississippi. The money flow lasted about fifteen years and by then they’re stuck. Also, the more “conservative” people started leaving for other places leaving the more “liberal” people behind. Also, remember that in the late forties and early fifties the “people” believed in big government and just about big anything. Mostly, it was being in the right place at the right time to catch the wave of the time. When the wave receded they have what they have now.
chicago got screwed up by the mob and prohibition.
The west coast got screwed up by illegal immigration and hollywood. These two things combined created a situation where there was a huge huge gap between the haves and the have nots. Marxist ideas thrive in such an environment. especially when the “haves” are immoral trash like what populates hollywood.
The rest of the country doesn’t have a good excuse, as far as I can tell.
Their agenda, which they KNOW is not beneficial for a stronger nation, is designed to usher in their socialist utopia. They are fiercely devoted to their Marxist faith and being people of amoral character, will do anything....anything, to bring their faith into our reality.
Unfortunately, most voters couldn't care less about this. As William Buckley stated in the 1950’s....”The Communist Party in America numbers about 5,000 people. Unfortunately they outnumber the anti-communists.”
NY is run by liberals.
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