The city that spawned The Jackson Five.
It’s been a basket case for 30 years. Long before woke and China virus and CRT.
Globalization was the death to Gary, Indiana and so many more mid-sized American cities.
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“ So how did this once-thriving center of industry collapse into the semi-abandoned “Murder Capital of America?”
Black people in elected office.
That’s how.
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Gary today.
Looks stunningly prosperous & vibrant. Eh?
“So how did this once-thriving center of industry collapse into the semi-abandoned “Murder Capital of America?”
Once upon a time, Democrats were elected to office.
The End.
Gary Indiana is an inland port that was doomed when ships were built that were too large to navigate the St. Lawrence River.
Due to some road construction, I got diverted off the highway while going through Gary, Indiana.
I ended up driving a few miles through desolated buildings before I could get back on the interstate.
Now this is a toll highway so when I went to get back on, my FastPass transponder wasn't working. However, there was nobody manning the tollbooths. So I just ended up driving through the tollbooths without paying.
Never heard anything about it so I guess it was no problem.
I believe Gary, Indiana was where the Michael Jackson family were born and raised.
So why didn't that happen before? Because Nixon took the US off the gold standard. Before 1971, trade deficits had to be paid for in gold. Too many gold transfers meant your currency had to depreciate, raising the costs of imports and reducing the trade deficit. Removing gold destroyed this balancing mechanism.
In addition, this was not "free trade," as all foreign competitors subsidized or gave domestic producers a protected market.
At the time it was argued that this happened because US steel producers had failed to modernize. But the billions needed for that instead had to be spent on pollution controls, effectively an enormous tax US producers had to pay but foreign producers did not. Effectively a reverse tariff that penalized US production and encouraged imports.
So Gary became a wasteland because the US government delivered a left hook followed by a right uppercut right on the chin of US industry.
The story isn’t complex at all.
Our “leaders” betrayed us and gave away most of our industrial capacity to foreign countries.
Straight 100% cause and effect chain there.
Not really. In its day, Gary was humming, but let's get real...