[RICK77]

ALL,

Ahhhh... The Joys of Diversity, LA & SO-CAL is going down the Toilet. It may take the whole of California and the Border States with it. Bottom line is LA and California will increasingly become like Latin America, where you get very affluent areas, and very poor areas "NOTHING IN-THE-MIDDLE". To be honest LA is already 2 CITIES, the Western, Coastal and Nortern parts of the city are ALL AMERICAN and Affluent, and the South, South Central & Eastern portions of the City is Mayor Hahn's "LA is a Mexican City" (LOL).

What do you guys think ???

[samtheman]

They are sinking under the weight of the invasion from the south.

Aren't you glad you aren't living in LA?

Aren't you glad the leak isn't at your end of the boat?

[Sam Cree]

"where you get very affluent areas, and very poor areas "NOTHING IN-THE-MIDDLE"."

I think the above is what happens when government begins taking a hand in regulating too much of everyone's lives, as is the case when leftist ideals are applied. Could be a result of the increasing leftism of "Kalifornia," especially combined with the thousands of illegal immigrants who are brought in to increase the rolls of Democratic voters.

[Chi-townChief]

I thought it was literally sinking into the Pacific like in the old calypso song "Day After Day" by Shango.

[Publius6961]

United Way of Greater Los Angeles crunched numbers from dozens of government and private studies.

D'OH!

Pick a place... any place.
If this loser organization of leeches does a "study", I can predict the results.

"Women and the poor hit the hardest" will always be part of the boilerplate.
As a matter of fact that will be the result of their next study too... LOL

[MissAmericanPie]

"But the United Way study also paints a city of promise, where immigrants contribute youth and vitality to the workforce and forge a multiethnic, multilingual version of Los Angeles that has strong links to an ever more global economy. The way to get from peril to promise is for all of Los Angeles to recognize the benefits of narrowing the rift between very rich and very poor"

Idiots, they can "paint" that pig any color they want to and it still won't sell. Youth and vitality to the workforce? What work? There are no jobs, no manufacturing, I would like to know how the fastest growing jobs, sales clerk or security guard is going to attain the status of middle class, by giving them free middle class homes, auto's, and monthly welfare checks I suppose. Given that illegal mexican children do not stay in school or graduate even now that they have the opportunity, just how many sales clerks and security guards are needed anyway?

If there were still any Americans in Cali, they should take the State Supreme court out and hang them for their treasonus supplanting of their vote to protect themselves from the mess that is there now.

[Lessismore]

Bottom line is LA and California will increasingly become like Latin America, where you get very affluent areas, and very poor areas "NOTHING IN-THE-MIDDLE".

This is consistent with the whole globalization program.

In the past there have been "rich" countries and "poor" countries. When you remove borders and allow free movement of goods and people, this is no longer possible.

Instead, what you wind up with is a more uniform global society with rich and poor closer together. As such a global society matures, it will become approximately like Brazil or India.

The leading political and business classes of the US look fondly on this prospect, since they believe that they will be living in the lavish gated compounds on the hill.

[Sloopy]

What? Poverty and deprivation right under the noses of the very celebrities that love to tell the rest of America how to live, and to whom to give?

Well, maybe Barbra, Susan, Alec and all of the other "concerned" and civic-minded media stars can put on a concert or telethon. Or better yet, all overpaid, under-talented members of the entertainment industry can distribute their wealth among their less fortunate neighbors. Yeah, that's the ticket, and let's make it mandatory. Problem solved. After all, charity begins at home.

[semaj]

"United Way supports literacy classes, quality child care, affordable housing and other ladders to the middle class. And a strong middle class makes the best bridge between what would otherwise be two cities doomed to isolation and fear of "the other."

United Way supports all the above but turns its back on groups like Boy Scouts who promote the moral precepts that made this country great in the first place.

[Anticommie]

(Los-Angeles begins to sink)

Let it sink, there is some more cancerous US cities which should be allowed to sink, one of them is San Francisco.

[Frohickey]

Los Angeles is home to multimillionaire movie execs and billionaire developers. When it comes to the overall value of its goods and services, L.A. County does better than Switzerland, Sweden or Austria. It is also the poverty capital of the nation.

Thats because Switzerland carefully watches the people who enter its borders, and only residents that have jobs, and are not a burden to the welfare system are allowed in.

[madfly]

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[madfly]

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[staytrue]

United Way supports literacy classes, quality child care, affordable housing and other ladders to the middle class

Perhaps they should try family values, no teenage pregnancies, making the women demand that men have honor, a stronger work ethic, a stronger educational ethic, believing in investing and not immediate consumption, and understanding delayed gratification and basic economics.

[Uncle Hal]

I moved out of LA in 95 to N. Cal. At that time there were parts of LA that were exactly like any city in latin america. LA is already lost. This editorial is a day late and a dollar short. LA is already rich enclaves surrounded by a huge ghetto.

[DumpsterDiver]

What do you guys think???

I think, and know, how really sick and tired I am of seeing these dang hand-wringing articles. I also thnk I'll go out back and burn a "have-not" in effigy. Living in L.A. is getting on my last raw nerve. PATOOIE!

[McGavin999]

Have you noticed that all these places are run by liberals?

Well folks, the solution is clear. All Hollywood stars should be willing to work for minimum wage and have the rest of their money donated to the poor. That's only fair, don't you think?

[logic101.net]

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[janetgreen]

This same problem will be coming to other states soon, and will continue until someone has enough sense to close the border to Mexico and start deporting the millions of illegal aliens who are sucking our system dry. Bush doesn't seem to care.

[BurbankKarl]

Hmm. LA County would be the 8th largest state....


In LA County, 1 of every 5 people were born outside the country.

In LA City, it rises to nearly 1 of every 4.

[shrinkermd]

Presently, 12% of all employed people are immigrants --legal and illegal. In some areas this is up to 30%:and most likely this would fit LA. Further, the calculations by quintile of income are always off because there is no correction for two people working in the top quintile, high taxes in the top quintile and unreported income in the form of subsidized housing and health care in the lowest quintile.

Any person can prove egalitarian myths if they choose to falsely report income data. Incidentally, while the top quintile works more than 4000 hours per year (more than two jobs), the bottom quintile works less than 900 (less than one full time job). Finally, because income reported is household income the top quintile is usually 26-27% of the populaton and the lowest quintile is less than that.

All together, you need good data and good inductive reasoning before you make conclusions such as the author above made.