Posted on 08/08/2020 12:56:22 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Worst philly mayor ever!
Just another progressive Marxist s-hole.
The ACLU may have been part of it, but in NY State and probably elsewhere it was to balance the outrageous budget on the back of onetime capital selloff.
That nicely left the problem to the next set of election winners. Along with the retiree promises. Pass the cost forward into the future has always been their favorite trick.
I think we still have Kendra’s law, which expensively monitors medication, but the Dems would probably like to get rid of that too.
*** Philly Metro Ping ***
The assumption is that without the substances being illegal, there’s no demand for any crime or black market in play. However, from all my observations, it’s often more complex than that and the criminal elements don’t want to leave or disappear, in fact, the gangs will try to adapt. Another problem is that when you have situations like this where there’s hardly anything to do besides maybe read a book or watch TV inside your home, it gets more tempting to give some drugs a try. At least that’s the times where I relapsed regarding my problem with booze. Hell, when I found myself bored, the urge to go find a bottle and take a drink got pretty strong.
“Compassionate euthanasia.”
Put a bucket of heroin on each street corner. Problem solved.
They don’t have Democrats running cities in Taiwan.
Everyone knew to stay in their neighborhoods. There was none of this multicultural and diversity crap with different peoples mixing beside summer festivals, generally run by churches with highly ethnic parishes.
It was possible to safely navigate the city and as a white kid I didn't feel too much like a minority unless I was in an ethnic neighborhood of European extraction. Forget about West Philly. No go zone. The writing was literally on the walls of where not to go. Forget about going north of Spring Garden, if my memory isn't failing me. There was order. There was segregation. The mob enforced it. The cops enforced it.
Sorry for the long winded post, I'll get to the point. Was Philadelphia better run by the mob or by the Democrats today in the absence of the mafia? I'm not old enough to know what it was like in the 50's when there was a Republican machine that ran the city. Note: I moved away from the Philadelphia area when I was 18 and went to college. I had no desire to live there again and still don't. That was almost 40 years ago. It wasn't all that great then and it certainly is a hell hole today.
Camped in front of the Rodin Museum. The sculptor Rodin is famous for a sculpture know as “the Thinker.” A sculpture of a man kneeling with his head on his fist. The piece is part of the larger work Called the gates of Hell. The Thinker is at the top of the two doors contemplating the gates of hell. Appropriate place for a homeless camp.
Its the Ben Franklin Parkway, from Logan Circle to the Art Museum. JFK Boulevard runs east and west from Municipal Plaza to the 30th St Station.
I started out around 9th & the blvd then Kensington, Juniata, Tycony, University City (41st &Woodland) and finally, the Art Museum Area (19th & Fairmount).
IMO, Unions were the behind the scenes power, the Teamsters in particular. The two main powers behind/vying to control the unions are known/easy to figure out.
Very close to the the Barnes Foundation as well.
I call it Kenny-Town. If enough people did this, it would go away.
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