Posted on 01/20/2005 4:18:11 PM PST by BurbankKarl
Ya think?
What?...you mean, someone in California media has actually acknowledged that Socialists have taken over the state???
This just cannot be -- why, this is an outrage! The liberal, leftist MSM, is actually trying to sink itself!!
Oh, the Daily News isnt liberal...that is why their paper's are increasing in subscription (esp in San Berdoo and Pasadena) and the LA Times is falling like a rock.
I've been trying to tell the Anti-immigrant FR posters from LA that their problems aren't immigration problems but rather local government problems.
Similarly, their crime problems aren't immigration problems but rather local government problems. LA, which is several times larger than Houston only has a third the number of police officers. LA has severe gang problems, Houston doesn't.
Ha!
>>I've been trying to tell the Anti-immigrant FR posters from LA that their problems aren't immigration problems but rather local government problems.
"The study recommends a five-point plan including schooling politicians in basic economics, developing a serious strategy for economic growth and working with local industry to identify job trends and needs."
Why not require that any one running for a political office take this course at their own expense rather than having the taxpayers pay for their education? No Pell Grants....
The STUPIDEST MOVE that LA is contemplating is restricting activities at the Port of LA-Long Beach due to "emissions" concerns. This is the BUSIEST port in the USA. Don't the morons see that this will only send more business to Oakland, Tacoma, and Seattle? Jim Hahn and his ilk must not be very bright.
Yet all these morons here on FR were arguing that we should "support Hahn" to keep the city from falling into the hands of the "Mexicans" under Villagorosa.
American President Lines is pulling out and opening in Seattle.
the Union Pacific shutdown due to the mud decided it. Ports are upgrading in Mexico too.
At the same time, companies most involved with Los Angeles' rise to global prominence -- Broadway stores, Lockheed Corp., Hughes Aircraft Co. and Security Pacific Bank, First Interstate Bank, Great Western Savings, logos that defined the downtown skyline -- had or were about to disappear through mergers.
si. i was there then.
there was another department store that upscale women liked, but can't remember the name--buffums, something like that.
hahn's father was beloved in the black community, and had been a long time player in los angeles politics.
but his two kids ... well, um ... that's nepotism.
in a country that rebelled against royalty, why can't the wives and kids of politicians go do something else?
thanks!
where'dju get that at? i bookmarked it.
god, i love socal.
when i got there in 1985 it was starting to fall apart.
the author is correct--the los angeles times reached its peak 1960-80.
the chandler kid wanted to surf, not run the paper.
yeah, and i've been to los osos.
i almost got swept away by the ocean there at the montana beach. whew!
Please explain your reasoning.
I must have misread your last sentence in your Post # 6. There and in other posts on this subject you have pointed out LA's police staffing vs Huston's. Hence it would lead one to believe that LA's problems are due to it's small police force.
I like to point out that many places with high immigrant populations have none of the problems that other places with high immigrant populations . We had a lot of gang problems in Houston in the 80s. (Asian, Mexican, black etc...) Instead of blaming immigration and passing the buck to Washington, we solved the problem ourselves by treating it as a local gang problem.
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