Posted on 01/13/2021 7:49:12 PM PST by bitt
The state of cities around the country is rapidly declining, leading to the greatest rates of emigration since the days of disorder and distress in the 1970s. Eight cities stand out as the worst run in the country, when ranked with markers like costs of living, education, poverty, and crime. These are New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Washington, Portland, Oakland and Chicago. Despite billions of dollars doled out annually, every one of these cities has dire mismanagement issues.
Cities that use the most dollars per capita are some of the worst run cities. Washington spends some $15,600 per citizen annually, over 12 times that of cities such as Miami. New York has a budget hole of over $540 million. Debt in many cities is driven mostly by pensions and public payrolls, with New York ranked first with its glaring $64,100 in debt per citizen, Chicago second with $36,000, Philadelphia third with $27,900, San Francisco fifth with $22,600, and Oakland in seventh with $21,100.
As social programs continue to balloon, burdensome taxes on residents and business to fund government initiatives result in exorbitant costs of living. Before the coronavirus, the metro areas of New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, Portland, and Oakland had growing costs of living. Manhattan residents shell out 150 percent more than the national average on food, taxes, housing, and transportation.
Even with billions of dollars meant to fund public education, many cities have failing school systems. The deficiencies are reflected in graduation rates across New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Portland, each below 80 percent. New York spends more than double the national average per pupil at $28,800 annually. Its school system often lets down gifted students, running without an accelerated program in an eighth of its districts. A committee created
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Its school system often lets down gifted students, running without an accelerated program in an eighth of its districts.
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Not anymore. Mayor deCommio just eliminated it from all districts
How many trillions have been poured down the sewer drains of our inner cities and continue to flow?
What’s the cost of the Great Society likely to end up being and who really has benefited the most and suffered the worst?
It seems to have grown so immense, no one even notices it anymore.
You could send them all to some decent private schools for that, or even less. Meanwhile, I see public school teachers and “administrators” driving around in new Mercedes all the time...
Of course they‘ll keep voting for it, they’re literally RETARDED (look it up).
Looks like kristinn has hit the big time.
DC. No other city is worse.
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***These are New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Washington, Portland, Oakland and Chicago.***
Each has it’s own BOSS TWEED raking in the dough.
There is not one city in the WORLD that you could pay me to visit. I thank God every day that we live in a small town in the Heart of Dixie.
Would those include Las Vegas, Phoenix, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Detroit and Milwaukee?
Just sayin’.
Let me guess before I read it. Red states...
Has to be.
Just saw Texas rated as the 28th best place in the nation to
live for families yesterday.
Can’t believe they missed putting it in the lowest 10%.
The government can never grasp why things are do bad, when
they’ve spent so much time implementing Communist fixes.
Free enterprise fixes always seem to work, but that would be
bad for ‘the cause’ so they ignore them.
Education is touched on again.
I’d bet a $10 spot that education people who devised
the last five fixes for education that failed, will now be
directed to come up with a fix.
They will. In three years they’ll be asked to do it again.
Capable people need not apply...
A long time ago, maybe 60 years, the teachers were pitied because their pay seemed on the low side. They were even compared with garbage collector’s pay.
Well, that has changed significantly!!!!
Now, educators, in some districts, are making six figure incomes and retiring in style. Administrators, such as Superintendents, are RETIRING ON $500,000 per year!
One reason is that our dollar has lost so much in purchasing power. OK, I’ll give that but still, I ask,
Who is watching the store?
WTH. I see Kristin Tate on the original.
“The government can never grasp why things are do bad, when
they’ve spent so much time implementing Communist fixes.”
A portion of our society elects pathetic government reps to control/force/punish the populace opposing their desires. This side of socialist/communist have firm beliefs and ram their ideals down the U.S. citizenry’s throat.
The “so called” opposition party to the aforementioned have neither the “sac”, “courage” or “desire the personal financial impact” to confront it. In simplest terms, they enjoy scraps and bending over.
The irony is...our government is us! It is not a majestic, God like entity! “We the people”?
No more money, no support and all my efforts for the rest of my life go to the establishment of the “Constitution, MAGA, Freedom or call it anything but Repubican Party.
Coward phuckers can die on the vine!
Peace be with all!
Dallas and Houston elect corporate Democrats and uncle Toms.
Not surprised.
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