Posted on 01/08/2014 9:39:24 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
Los Angeles is a city in decline, strangled by traffic, weighed down by poverty and suffering from "a crisis of leadership and direction," according to a report released Wednesday by a 13-member citizen panel.
The Los Angeles 2020 Commission, convened by City Council President Herb Wesson to examine the city's economic woes, offered a harsh assessment of civic decision-making, warning that Los Angeles is heading to a future where local government can no longer afford to provide public services.
The panel, chaired by former U.S. Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor, said Los Angeles lacks a coherent approach to economic development and trails other major cities in job growth. City government spending is growing faster than revenue and the pension benefits of city employees are at risk, said the report, titled "A Time For Truth."
"The city where the future once came to happen has been living in the past and leaving tomorrow to sort itself out," the report said.
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I know the solution! Elect more democrats!
Give it to Mexico.
Hell...we were just thinking about moving to LA...
Initiate an immediate search for any remaining Republicans.
Raise taxes!
Elect more Democrats, and expunge the evil of capitalism from America once and for all. That will surely improve their financial position. After all, the great economist / political philosopher Karl Marx told us that was the path over 150 years ago. Nothing that’s happened since he wrote “Das Kapital” has proved him wrong.
Yes...Bush’s fault dontya know!
But but I am told that immigrants, both illegal and legal, are economic booms to the areas they move into.
It is Mexico..thats the problem
Los Angeles was in trouble when I left there almost 21 years ago.
I like this answer from the link.
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Obama will soon visit L.A. and give a speech on LBGT issues. Everybody will be OK.”
Actually that is pretty close to the truth. The dimoKKKRATS in power have been looking after the special interest groups such as the queers, La Raza etc and not as the city as a whole.
A Third World people can only create Third World conditions. Hollywood has been losing out to cheaper filming locations for years and once it is gone then LA will resemble Bogota or San Pedro Sula.
Well, a former mayor did call it a “Mexican City”.
It is Bush's fault for bringing in tens of millions of Third worlders on his watch.
Look at the solutions they came up with. They all involve giving taxpayer money to Democrats.
Gee? LA In decline? Who would have EVER guessed!?>
They’re inkling for a bailout —
Elect Maxine Waters as Mayor and remove all doubts about the collapse.
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