Posted on 09/24/2016 12:05:39 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Old Ben’s home turf back in the day.
A big, “unhealthy turd” takes on another smaller “unhealthy turd” and they both continue to spin around the bowl for a few more revolutions.
Struggling rural small towns in the south have been unincorporating, disbanding their police and fire departments and turning utilities where they exist over to private companies. The county takes over police duties and volunteer fire departments handle fires.
Don’t think this would work in a declining, indebted city with a larger population and a major crime problem, though.
This is what Japan did in the 2000s, massive town mergers.
i grew up in Cleveland Heights in the 70’s and east Cleveland was bad THEN.
I’m curious how Cleveland could possibly benefit from taking on East Cleveland via annexation? As described its a money pit with severely diminished tax revenues.
Is Dennis “The Boy Blunder” Kucinich still available to help out?
East Cleveland should file for bankruptcy. Only after the proceedings have proceeded should Cleveland even consider a merger.
Cleveland wants more Democrats, gibmedats, and EBT voters to help their 25% income tax increase approved. East Cleveland needs a teet and it looks like Cleveland needs more dependents so as to better drain the few productive people it has left.
2banana’s Rule:
Long term democrat rule + public unions + free sh*t army = misery, ruin and bankruptcy
Cleveland itself isn’t exactly on the ball maintaining it’s own infrastructure - outside of the areas destined for viewing by the Conventioneers this summer.
Taking on a city with even worse infrastructure doesn’t seem like a recipe for success.
Like the EU we are failing because of our failed policies and ideology so lets band together and eventually fail together, misery loves company
East Cleveland wasn’t as bad as east Cleveland.
It's not necessarily a bad thing, either. When you have an urbanized area with two municipalities that border each other, it's hard to make the case that you need separate municipal governments, separate departments, separate school systems, etc. If anything, that's just an enormous waste of taxpayer money.
East Cleveland is 93% African American in the last Census.
Without that duplication, how are we going to get twice as many government employees on the payroll?
Propose a law to allow the Tea Party to run bankrupt cities. :-)
Cleveland has been losing population—it had over 900,000 people in 1950 and has under 400,000 now. This will put it over 400,000 at least momentarily, and the residents of East Cleveland will now live in a city with a Major League Baseball team (which most of them may not care about) as well as an NBA team.
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