Posted on 05/18/2015 3:24:46 PM PDT by Rockitz
Speaking in Camden, New Jersey, President Obama just uttered the following Detroit-esque words of doom:
*OBAMA SAYS CAMDEN IS SYMBOL OF PROMISE FOR NATION
We discussed Camden in 2012, 2013, and 2014... and had a different opinion.
And this...
All over America, formerly prosperous communities are being transformed into crime-infested wastelands of poverty and despair. At one time, Detroit was the greatest manufacturing city that the world had ever seen and it had the highest per capita income in the entire country. But now it has become a rotting, decaying hellhole that the rest of the planet laughs at. And of course Detroit is far from alone. There are hundreds of other U.S. cities that are suffering a similar fate. In this article, the focus is going to be on Camden, New Jersey, but the truth is that there are lots of other Detroits and Camdens all over the nation. Jobs and businesses are leaving our cities at a staggering rate, and what is being left behind is poverty, crime and extreme desperation.
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
He is wanting the entire usa to look like camden.
I have been saying its his plan all along.
In 1963 while in West Berlin I took a tour of East Berlin, just a couple years after The Wall was built.
The two experiences were eerily similar.
My husband and I accidentally drove into Camden. It was like we’d driven into a horror movie. The few people we saw looked like zombies. We didn’t like Philly at all but it looked like paradise compared to Camden. Even in a locked and moving car I was afraid.
Try East St Louis. Its a REAL garden spot.
His promise for America differs from what Americans perceive as promise. FUBHO
we used to keep our sailboat there at pyne poynt marina. i guess it is still there as we donated to the sea scouts. they splashed the boat on time every year. various creatures lived on boats on dry land. there’s also a yellow submarine, concrete boat hull, and a torpedo. among many other objects. The Barnegat lightship is aground there. high tide water goes in low tide water runs out.
nice picture at this link if it works.
http://marinas.com/view/marina/6132_Pyne_Poynt_Marine_Service_Camden_NJ_United_States
here’s a google link not sure if they work
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9564585,-75.1133837,64m/data=!3m1!1e3
People keep telling me it's because of NAFTA.
The photo that you posted brings back fond memories. I worked at NYS in 1965-1967 as a nuclear engineer fresh out of college. I worked on the “TRUXTUN”, DLG(N)-35,which was a nuclear frigate.All of the people that I met and worked with at New York Ship were friendly, competent and hard working. The shipyard folded because the value of the outstanding common stock was less than the value of the physical plant. Speculators swooped in, purchased all of the stock and then sold off all of the machinery and the land. It is interesting that your photo dates from before the time that a drydock was constructed just north of Newton Creek. The drydock was immense and built to support construction of the supercarrier U.S.S. KITTYHAWK, CVA-63. Here is an intertesting valid (I think) factoid about NYS. During WW II, NYS had the highest employment level of any shipyard in the United States -— a reported 42,000 employees working three shifts, seven days per week to support the war effort.
It is a symbol of promise - he promised to fundamentally change America and this is an example of his promise...
Thanks for the very interesting background info on that photo and your comments regarding New York Ship.
It’s a real heart breaker to compare the hundreds (thousands?) of places like Camden and Detroit as they were then and the way they are now.
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