Posted on 06/22/2008 7:58:17 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
.....Politics hobbles the ability of the police to address crime.....
Which is why white teamster thugs can beat up and maim FReepers protesting the presence of a disgusting excuse for an American President.
Want some pictures of white criminals? Go get the criminal teamster thugs and their accomplices in the local government.
Americans should Avoid Tiajuna and Philadephia. Either place, you can get killed.
RECIPE FOR DISASTER:
1- Democrat city council and mayor
2- Victim mentality
3- Welfare money
4- Banned legal guns
5- Tax businesses out
6- Corrupt police
Voila! A chocolate city or...a cesspool.
I’ve been to Philadelphia a couple of times. I can’t really differentiate it from New Jersey.
Isn’t it true that its poorest suburbs like Camden and Chester have even more extreme poverty & crime than Philly has?
Describes Detroit to a T. However, Detroit is EVEN worse.
1. High School dropout rates @ 75%
2. 400Million deficit in public schools.
3. Unemployment rate approaching 25% and even higher among Black Youth who have dropped out of High School.
4. Mayor pulling a 'Marion Barry' and will probably be reelected in a landslide.
5. Costs of city services exploding at a time when tax revenues are contracting rapidly.
Detroit really makes every other 'Chocolate City' look tame by comparison (IMHO of course)
Going to be a hot Summer or very soon thereafter.
The Big Blue Cities need to be allowed to collapse.
What was it that Mayor Street said about who was running the city?
I read it, and thankas for the post. It truly makes one sad that this city is where the Founding Fathers composed the Declaration of Independece and what’s become of it. It even, for a short time, was the capitol of the United States. I think this tells the whole tragic story.
I totally agree with you and the fact that our society is now a captive of racially PC politics, moral equivalence, and moral relativism is what’s destroying us as a nation and culture. “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it.” - Santayana
“one of the most backward and incompetent city governments in America.”
Ray “schoolbus” Nagin and New Orleans must be in first place.
Killadelphia is its nickname
The same could be said about almost EVERY liberal city...full of filth, crime, poverty, sloths who blame everyone and everybody else but themselves.
Thanks for the observations. I can relate to them. I was born in Philly and raised a few miles from Center City in a NJ suburb. As kids we all went to Wanamaker’s to hear the great organ recitals and did our shopping at Strawbridge & Clothier, etc. Later, I went to grad school at Penn and lived in a house on the 42nd block of Spruce Street. I’m now told by fellow alumni that this is no longer part of civilized society but the Third World. I admit I was prompted to post this article partly because of personal anger about what’s happening to our city’s and culture and also because I directly observed it taking place and was forced to be part of it. It’s been a long and horrendous experience and I hope Americans wake up to what’s happening to all of us.
I've been back a few times, and anything outside of Center City seems like an abandoned area out of one of Heinlein's books.
Did the late Mayor Frank Rizzo have everything under control?/Just Asking - seoul62.......
Philly defenders will not change my opinion: anything outside Center City, Chestnut Hill, and the 20-something hotel that is Manayunk might as well be Detroit.
Even the white areas in the northeastern part of the city are filled with meth heads and welfare dependents. THAT is something you never see in New York in the 21st century.
Philly, like Detroit, is one of the few cities that can benefit from a large influx of immigrants. Even the Vietnamese who go to South Philly usually move out as soon as they scrap some dough together.
I tell people if they want the “thrill” of experiencing was New York was like during the Lindsey/Beame era, all they have to do is move 90 miles south to Philadelphia.
Newark resident: "We have our problems, but at least we aren't Trenton."
Trenton resident: "We have our problems, but at least we aren't Camden."
Camden resident: "Don't get it too close to the spoon, you'll burn the sh-t."
Exactly right, in my opinion. I think that total corruption leads to total corruption as an acceptable social, economic, and political standard of motivation and behaviour, “All power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” - Lord Acton
“1) blacks engage in illegal activity at a rate that is three times more than non-blacks, or 2) they commit crimes in such a way that makes them easier to catch.”
It all goes back to the family.
The family is the building block of society.
Those that suffer the most from the dissolution of the family unit are those in the black community.
You will see a similar rate of crime increase among whites from broken families.
Also - the highest rate of abortion is among blacks.
And what kind of policies have encouraged the dissolution of the family? democrat policies.
What kind of politicians make abortion sound like an easy alternative to parenthood? democrats.
Who do the black consistently vote for year in/year out?
The same folks who helped them get into this bleak situation.
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