Oh - THAT Fattah- didn't put him together with the Chaka Fattah that I knew about in Congress.
He is certainly one of the most ideologue liberal members of congress - probably left of Kennedy if that's possible. And even crazier.
I do remember my father saying that Philly was going down the tubes - and that was 50 years ago.
The poor but decent neighborhoods where I grew up (West Philly, Overbrook Park, Oxford Circle) are not at all the same decent places they once were.
I revisited the West Philly neighborhood in 1986 (40th & Girard) and it looks like Berlin cica 1945. That's not how it was when I grew up - not at all. We weren't rich - but the streets were clean and safe when I was a kid.
A long time ago.
*Your* Philadelphia was lost a long time ago, my friend!
Hold fast to your childhood utopia that was this once-great city. You will never see *THAT* city again. Sad.