Posted on 03/10/2013 5:07:48 PM PDT by wesagain
As Detroit – beset by violence, debt and social woes – prepares to undergo a historic takeover by the Michigan state government, the city of Atlanta could be sliding toward a similar fate.
Some are quietly wondering whether Atlanta is in danger of becoming “the Detroit of the South.”
The city has experienced an ongoing succession of government scandals, ranging from a massive cheating racket to corruption, bribery, school-board incompetence and now the potential loss of accreditation for the local DeKalb County school system.
For several years, problems of this sort have fueled political reforms, including the creation of new cities in northern Atlanta suburbs. Due to the intensification of corruption scandals in DeKalb, some state-level reform proposals could become national news very soon.
‘Super-white majority’ cities
As a result of the unsavory politics in urban Atlanta, northern suburban communities acted to distance themselves. Beginning in 2005, many communities began the process of incorporating into cities.
Thus far, Milton, Sandy Springs, Brookhaven, Dunwoody, Chattahoochee Hills and Johns Creek have done so.
These cities, after breaking away politically from urban Atlanta, have become so successful that a libertarian think tank, the Reason Foundation, has featured Sandy Springs as a model of effective government. The Economist has also applauded the northern Atlanta cities for solving the problem of unfunded government pension liability and avoiding the bankruptcy that looms over some urban areas. The new cities may soon be able to create their own school districts, which would free them even further from the issues besetting Atlanta.
While incorporation has been popular with residents of the new cities, not all of Atlanta is as satisfied........
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I moved out of Atlanta a few years ago right when this process was getting underway.
All I remember where the incessant cries of racism from the Atlanta politicians.
An 0bama initiative. And here are its goals: Goals
“Every city is going to become Detroit, eventually. Just a matter of “when.””
And the ones that are being “run” by Blacks are already in overdrive to get there. The overspending is bad enough, but when you read the complete article, it reads just like the scenario in Detroit with all the corruption and thievery! The Black Community is in desperate need of more Ben Carsons and Allen Wests. That these amazing individuals were able to evade the “norms” in their “community” proves there is a way.
that’s where the atlanta school superintendent got the idea from!
And my question to you then is, how they gonna stop it? Come in and arrest people? Take money away? Turn off utilities? These decisions have no backbone if there are not people who can enforce them. The decisions are simply out there waiting to be enforced in some way. If you have a city of thousands, even hundreds, how will they enforce it?
Sandy Springs is a great success story.
If you look at a map of Fulton County (which contains the bulk of the city of Atlanta), it’s a weirdly-shaped area...sort of like a lopsided dumbbell with broad areas in the north and south and a narrow central “neck.” The city of Atlanta takes up that central neck and a chunk of the southern end of the county. The northern end contains a number of what used to be unincorporated areas and a few fairly well-off suburban cities (like Roswell and Alpharetta). The northern end of Fulton County is by far the more successful and affluent area when you compare it to the bulk of ATL proper and the other areas of southern Fulton. Significant portions of southern Fulton even outside the Atlanta city limits are pretty much Fallujah with extra melanin.
So naturally the Powers That Be in the ATL fought like wildcats to keep northern Fulton County in place because they were able to milk tax money out of affluent, successful, largely white North Fulton to pay for pet projects in poorer, largely black South Fulton. The folks in the northern Fulton suburbs were getting robbed for decades and until the GOP took over the Georgia legislature, nothing was done about it. Now that all the unincorporated areas in North Fulton have become individual cities, they don’t get as much tax money anymore.
And it could get better yet. The reason Fulton is so weirdly shaped is that it’s actually a merging of three counties back in 1932—Fulton, Milton, and Campbell. The northern part of Fulton County is agitating to the Georgia legislature to let them completely break away and re-form Milton County. If they do that, Fulton County’s golden goose is cooked and it really will be Detroit with better weather.
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A more fundamental question, is in this day and age, do we still need cities? Can we essentially have spread out areas of medium-sized communities, without the need for a mega-sized hub city? Maybe in the past it made sense, but with technological advances, that old model has become obsolete.
Building One America News
BOA Policy Committee meets with the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Domestic Policy Council to seek more support for diverse middle class suburbs
https://buildingoneamerica.org/news
David Rusk is the immediate past president and the founding president of the Building One America.
The Congressional Quarterly has called David Rusk’s Cities without Suburbs “the Bible of the regionalism movement.” “A must read for all practicing local government officials, elected or appointed,” said the Government Finance Review of Rusk’s Inside Game/Outside Game.
>> “as soon as it becomes clear that race is a factor in the continual failure of inner city Atlanta.” <<
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The racial and political nature of every big city’s problems has been apparent for 60 years or more. I can remember when the educated blacks began to join the whites in vacating Oakland, and moving to Walnut Creek and Concord in the early ‘50s.
Only the wacko leftie whites and the blacks that were just too poor to move out stayed in their co-dependant cesspool at the ‘wrong’ end of the Bay Bridge.
For years Atlanta was held up as a model black city with a successful professional class. What happened?
There are some very good Black leaders and administrations in this country.
What difference does it make? Those people who voted for Atlanta idiots and made it what it has become are moving into the suburbs and demanding more “diversity” in every facet of government and schools so they can make us into another corrupt place to live.
Care to list them?
Spoken like a true Democrat party communist.
And like the rest of them, he doesn't want to be identified.
When combined with all of the other usurpation of our rights, state and federal,you too may be correct.
I hope other suburbs that are similarly held hostage by large, concentrated Democrat parasite nests ("cities") around the nation will take note of what the suburbs surrounding Atlanta are doing.
News like this gives me hope that America may be able to rise from the dead.
The pols decided that the primary purpose of the Government was to serve as a jobs program.
Correct-amundo!
Who held it up? Oh, that's right... the Democrat "mainstream" newsrooms.
What happened?
See: Zimbabwe; South Africa; virtually any concentrated Democrat parasite nest ("city") in America.
All they’ve got to do is send Jimmy and Rosalyn in as troubleshooters, and all the woes will be declared solved.
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