Posted on 09/01/2010 9:31:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Forever is a very long time.
The article provides a slide show and explanations as to why these cities are dead forever.
But here is the list for those interested (if you want a detailed explanation, please click on the site ):
1. BUFFALO,NY
2. FLINT, MICHIGAN
3. DETROIT, MICHIGAN
4. CLEVELAND, OHIO
5. HARTFORD, CT
6. NEW ORLEANS, LA
7. ALBANY, NY
8. ATLANTIC CITY, NJ
9. ALLENTOWN, PA
10. GALVESTON, TX
Albany won’t die until the state government moves out.
Now...how many of these have now, and have had for quite a while, Liberal/Democrat leadership and governing bodies?
We didn’t need industry. Free Traitors explained that to us.
This is no bog deal. I say board up another 100 cities, no make it a thousand.
We can’t compete. We can’t make good products. We don’t need a tax base.
Service sector jobs is where it’s at. $12 dollars an hour is the new $20 per hour. Excellent...
Dude. Upgrade your account.
Who the hell built up the Japanese after WW11
They were either destroyed by being a Democrat utopia or union town IMO.
Three cities in New York.
What does Chuckie Schumer have to say about that?
Thanks. The only city I wouldn’t have guess is Buffalo, NY.
Besides the cities in Michigan & Ohio, the one that kept hitting my mind like a neon sign is Allentown. Or any of the big steel cities, really. And there are a lot of those, with other names.
We’ll have to be adding auto support industry cities to that list any time now.....
“We cant compete. We cant make good products.”
Apparently, you subscribe to those beliefs. Sad, really.
In 5 to 10 years at most you will be able to add Dallas to the list.
The surrounding cities are all Republican controlled and doing fine. The City of Dallas is now controlled by Democrats who are taxing and spending all of the businesses out to the surrounding cities.
Public schools have largely stopped producing students capable of producing PRODUCTS!
Very little math, science, shop, business, physics, chemistry, etc.
Too much sociology, psychology, victimology, pseudo-environmentalism (pretending to fix things that aren’t broke).
You might know what a port is--it's a place where goods move from one place to another--as in trade.
Dallas is rapidly turning into a toilet. The Texas GOP is infested with open-border RINO’s like Florida’s GOP.
It's no mere coincidence that so many of these cities are in the old "Rust Belt" region and located along the Great Lakes or other waterways that served as trade routes in the past. Many of these cities grew as industrial hubs because of their locations on these routes and/or their proximity to key resources used in steel-based manufacturing (iron ore and coal in particular).
Albany, NY is a perfect case in point. That city grew because it was situated near the confluence of the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers, and served as a canal-based "crossroads" of the Erie and Champlain Canals. That city lost this advantage once railroads supplanted the canals and rivers as the primary mode of freight transportation in the region (a long-running process that continues to this day).
Other cities on that list lost their "advantage of place" when plastics began to supplant steel in many manufactured products. Look at all the auto plants that have been built in the Southeast over the last two decades. They can thrive there not only because of lower labor costs, but because the auto manufacturing industry doesn't require close proximity to steel producers anymore.
In some parts of the city of Detroit, you can actually buy a house for less than the price of a Toyota Camry.
Mayor Dave Bing (former NBA star) has a plan to raze certain parts of the city and convert them to just greenery.
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