Posted on 11/21/2012 10:19:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
EVERY major urban area is following in the footsteps of Detroit, Detroit just got a head start.
Let the patient die...not on life support like Detroit.
Good!
People in urban centers overwhelmingly vote liberal. They deserve to live in crap holes.
On a good day.
Unfortunately the people who vote for the mayor and city council members think they don’t deserve to live better than this.
As so I have to conclude, who am I to disagree.
“The slow, steady decline of a once great city”
To be followed by The slow, steady decline of a once great COUNTRY.
Well the car was not mine, (screw any engine damage), so I floored it and drove pass the gang and continued into the downtown proper area with the high rises. So basically, it was more dangerous for my car to break down near downtown Los Angeles then it was if my car broke down out in the middle of the desert.
Picture reminds me of one of the side streets the last time we were in Mexico many years ago.
The picture missed the guy covered in black plastic bags asleep against the wall.
Is the author any relation the Jerry Dunphy, the LA Newscaster?
My understanding is that 400,000 people in California run out of unemployment money on January 1. That is the next big test. What will the Democrats and Republicans do?
I wish authors of these kind of what-ought-to-be-serious articles were less in love with getting in as much of their own story-telling and merely descriptive verbiage, and more in love with getting as seriously and straight-forward-like to the facts, amd more in love with replacing all that useless verbiage with more facts; which in the case of the decline of L.A. there are plenty more of - but the author ran out of space to include them - I guess.
Where was that taken?
If the writer’s new neighborhood is clean, safe, affordable, and blessed with good schools, I guarantee him it will not be that way for long. Illegals flood into the affordable areas, bringing with them crime, gangs, and blight. It’s happened to many another “nice, clean, safe, affordable” suburb in California, and it will happen to Mr. Dunphy’s as well. If it doesn’t happen fast enough, the government will bring in Section 8 housing to hurry things along. I take no pleasure in saying this, but it happens to be the truth. Enjoy your nice neighborhood while it lasts, Mr. Dunphy.
I have an old photograph. In it is a four year old tow headed boy, me, in tiny cowboy boots and jeans, my blond mother wearing a skirt and blouse, my balding father in sport shirt and slacks. The photo is taken in front of a smallish single family house with a smallish front yard. Neat. Tidy. Well maintained. In the driveway is a one year old Murcury sedan. Nothing special. Just an ordinary young family, smiling, in front of their house...
...on 110th street just off Wilmington in Los Angeles.
LA was once a great city??? I must have missed that. It’s a city, but great? no way - meets none of the criteria. It is simply a large, rat infested, congested city - nothing great about it.
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