Thanks to Lyndon Bird, the negro father that used to sit proudly at the head of the dining room or kitchen table to eat the food that his wife prepared using his hard-earned wages is no longer there. He was murdered by the 'Great Society' which has turned a very large segment of the population into a filthy,crack using, government money grabbing, sexual animal that procreates with multiple mates and hasn't married any of them.
The 'Great Society' is the diseased society.
Thanks Democrats and Progressives and their fellow communist travelers. Let's get Hillary elected in 2016 and finish off this doomed nation.
Some academic who has produced reams of data proving these clowns are wrong has given them a new name....Density Nostalgists.
Why do people keep animals herded? Easier to control.
The latest figure is an estimate that SIX TRILLION dollars have been spent on The War on Poverty. The result of all socialist government programs is failure and this one is probably the most damaging of all.
I live in a vast metropolis of around 150 people.
Biblical history shows that God’s plan was for people to live on the land, and not clustered up in cities.
I feel a bit convicted, living on the edge of a city on some farm acreage, because I’m comparing myself to Lot, living in a tent towards Sodom.
Cities are totalitarian gulags. They give the tyrants of any age a prime opportunity to CONTROL the masses. Don’t believe me? Look at where the blue is on any state political map. It’s in the cities.
The entire difference can be explained by family structure. Asian cities have them, out cities don't.
I lived in Japan for 14 years and walked through city neighborhoods far more densely populated than anything we have in the United States. Typically, the loudest sound I would hear would be some kid practicing their piano lessons in one of these rabbit hutch sized flats three floors up.
The Marxist/Leftist ruling class in America wants the suburbs and the countryside to itself. That’s why they want everyone else corralled into the decaying cities of America. These liberal elitists want to play “lord of the manor.” They see themselves as some sort of nobility that has to be genuflected to. The want vast estates surrounded by thousands of acres so as to separate themselves from the unwashed masses.
Sending jobs overseas also added to his demise. I would say that jobs were purposely sent overseas because an increasing number of black men were being hired and becoming part of the middle class. And this would eventually upset the white upper class power structure as successful middle class black men climbed the power ladder and would eventually become leaders. Those in power couldn’t have that, thus the reason for the Great Society to wage war on society and prevent blacks especially and a majority of low income others including whites from having hope that they might suceed through hard work. Along with jobs, morals and virtue are what make a society successful. Remove morals and virtue then who needs jobs, remove jobs and hope then despair can destroy morals and virtue.
You’re daft if you think urban living is what is keeping certain urban populations poor. Just take a look at their poor cousins, still in the Mississippi brush, who didn’t move to Northern cities for work.
I agree, statists want to herd us into cities and onto public transportation for control and resource management, but there is truth to creeping poverty in more suburbs—caused by the Obama economy.
American cities are death traps. That’s why Americans flee them. What should have been citadels of civilization have been turned into dangerous shooting galleries by the nation destroying policies of the the Marxist Democrat Party.
City water and sewer systems. Illegal to drill your own well or septic system.
Public transportation. They can tax you out of your auto and remove parking spaces.
They can even make it illegal to do your own home repairs.
You have to conform to their every wish or you can't survive. They can shut off your heat and elec, your water and septic, and even limit your means of transportation.
Screw the cities and the central planners, I do whatever I want and they can't control me.
If I want to put a rifle range in my yard ( I did) I can. If the power goes out I can fire up the wood burner and a generator.
I can raise/grow my own food and hunt and fish on my property without asking anyone for permission or buying permits.
I'll bet its a lot more than a trillion dollars spent. I've seen estimates of $750 billion per year in Federal outlays just to provide financial/program support for the 'families' created by our 41% illegitimate birth rate. Hard to go through the budget program by program and mine this kind of data though?
NYC’s population is somewhat stable but it would be declining if it wasn’t for massive turd world immigration. When the housing bubble crashed the mainstream media predicted white people would ditch their cars and move back into the cities. They were wrong. Leftism’s mental model of reality is so warped that whatever they predict the opposite will happen.
One meme I’ve noticed gaining traction from the left: In the name of halting the evil of “urban sprawl,” they want the government to force everyone into cities from the suburbs. Obviously trying to push us all into ghettos to increase their power and control over our lives.
I don't really care what Liberals think or do. Or what happens to them. They choose their lifestyles, their leaders, their tax structure, their domestic corruption. They get what they allow.
Our criminal statistics are a joke; "Protected" groups are not reported, and what data there is gamed to appear as favorable as possible; if the metropolitan numbers are worse, they report the core city numbers, and vice versa.
New York City? St. Louis? Miami? Chicago? Detroit? Cleveland? Baltimore? Baltimore? Memphis? Atlanta? Buffalo? San Francisco? Los Angeles? Seattle? Oakland? Richmond (CA)? You can have them!
It’s all about Agenda 21 & making the crowds easier to control. The Nazi’s rounding up Jews into WWII ghettos is perfect example.