Posted on 02/01/2020 7:38:45 AM PST by Kaslin
Many major U.S. cities run by liberal Democrats are in rough shape. They are afflicted by the problems of homelessness, violent crime, gangs, and unemployment to a far greater degree than the country as a whole. Consider the following:
Chicago's violence and gang-related drug problems are well-known. What’s less well-known is that the city hasn’t had a Republican mayor since 1927. The city’s finances -- like most Democratically-run major cities -- are in shambles. At the end of 2015, according to a 2017 report by the Fiscal Times, Chicago had assets of just $4.7 billion against liabilities of more than $14 billion, a funded ratio of barely 33%.
The homeless population in Los Angeles has risen from a staggering 33,000 in 2010 to over 55,000 in 2018. The city -- already dominated by a liberal super-majority of legislators -- has just recently pushed through massive local tax increases designed to address the homeless crisis.
San Francisco actually has maps so people can track where the worst incidences of human waste are on the sidewalks. The homeless population now approaches 7000 and there is no law prohibiting sleeping on the streets, sidewalks, or other public places. Discarded syringes are everywhere. San Francisco’s property crime rate is the highest in the nation and “smash and grab” thefts involving broken car windows are so commonplace that repair shops have waiting lists. The DA’s office no longer prosecutes “victimless” crimes like prostitution or drug possession, resulting in a massive influx of drug dealers into the city.
Frighteningly similar situations exist is nearly every other major Democrat-run city, all around the nation:
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With love from Los Angeles.
“track where the worst incidences of human waste are on the sidewalks”
“The homeless population now approaches 7000 and there is no law prohibiting sleeping on the streets, sidewalks, or other public places.”
Doesn’t exactly sound compassionate letting homeless people sleep in crap...even if it is their own crap..?
All spoiled kids are brats.
Because they are just money laundering machines to politicians and their families. Instead of the mob paying off the politicians, the politicians have eliminated the middle man:(
I live in Wake County, North Carolina - a traditionally red state except for the metropolitan areas of Wake and Mecklenburg Counties. (Raleigh and Charlotte).
Raleigh keeps electing Democrat mayors and city councilmen.
That is a frightening prospect - that this beautiful and much admired city could devolve into another destroyed city by Democrat control. Before it’s too late, Raleigh, WAKE UP!
Fantasy alternative sense of reality.
Left out Durham - the worst city in NC re: crime - and traditionally run by liberal Democrats who also control the police force.
Corruption on several levels. Of mind and of values.
I think it is the other way around. People congregate where there is food, they overpopulated, and begin to starve, then the lib politician comes along and promised free stuff, the people (sadly) vote for them, the libs take control...ever promising free things and no need to work. It is a perfect set up for liberal control. The alternative to free stuff is hard work to earn the stuff...that is the ideology of conservativesc. Who would vote to have to work when you can not not to?
> Why Are Liberal Cities Such a Mess? <
Liberals are like a parent who gives a child all the candy he wants.
Conservatives are like a parent who gives a child only one piece of candy. And then only after dinner.
Guess which parent is more popular.
And guess which parent does more damage.
You NAILED it!
Obvious answer: Because Leftists are such a mess.
Because they are liberal.
>> All spoiled kids are brats. <<
Yeah. Commonsensical rules and common courtesy are for other people, not for me. /s
Cities can easily devolve into huge cargo cults.
The infrastructure appeared out of nowhere, and politicians promise free stuff that appears out of nowhere.
The primitive human mind views this as magic, and worships the cargo!
their policies encourage every one of those things, and their vote buying is why they are in debt.
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