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Opinions? Most Corrupt and/or Poorly Run City in the US?
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| February 19, 2006
| Vanity
Posted on 02/19/2006 5:04:55 AM PST by mcg2000
In a lot of ways, this question is both subjective and qualatative.
Fill in your own criteria ... here are a few to keep in mind along the way ...
Scandals - Elections - Crime Rates - Educational Standings - Tax Programs - Income Per Capita - Population Growth - Construction - etc.
TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: corruption; crime; politics
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To: Carl LaFong
Hands down, DETROIT.
What else do you say about a city with a worse unemployment rate than New Orleans? There's not even a hurricane to blame it on, unless you count racism and hatred of the suburbs.
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posted on
02/19/2006 5:58:20 AM PST
by
Kieri
(Midwestern Snark Claw and Feather Club Member)
To: mcg2000
42
posted on
02/19/2006 5:59:18 AM PST
by
standing united
(82nd ABN 1/508th BN Bco 1st Sqd. Alpha Fireteam Leader: "fury from the sky" 8-Duce on the Loose!!)
To: mcg2000
What an easy request. Just look at any American city that's been run (infested) by Democrats for a significant time. It WILL qualify.
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posted on
02/19/2006 5:59:35 AM PST
by
RavenATB
(Patton was right...)
To: sphinx
Similar to Atlanta. While not the worst, the multi-decade mayoral reigns of Andy Young, the corrupt Maynard Jackson, and the even more corrupt Bill Campbell, put the city in the running for a top-10 spot, for sure.
Shirley Franklin, the new mayor, seems pretty darn good, and certainly has things headed in a better direction, though like DC, there are plenty of legacy issues to be dealt with over time.
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posted on
02/19/2006 6:00:09 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
To: Lil'freeper
Talked to my Mom last night and she said most of the liberal media in MD is out to torpedo him.
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posted on
02/19/2006 6:02:20 AM PST
by
DarthVader
(Conservatives aren't always right , but Liberals are almost always wrong.)
To: mcg2000
Detroit.
The city is losing population hand over fist. Large swaths of Detroit look like a war zone.
To: johnny7
I can't really disagree, but remember, Springfield MA, achieves approximately the same dreary results for about half the dough per capita as Boston. Everything cost more in Boston, even corruption.
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posted on
02/19/2006 6:02:56 AM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Large swaths of Detroit look like a war zone.
No accident 'Robocop' was largely filmed in Detroit.
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posted on
02/19/2006 6:07:39 AM PST
by
quantim
(If the Constitution were perfect it wouldn't have included the Senate.)
To: REPANDPROUDOFIT
"All of the prosperous people live outside the city limits and the population that is left keeps electing one of their own, no matter how corrupt. Why do they do this?"
Simple! White flight, and the ones left in the City are not a tax-base, but a tax-burden, and in order to keep the liberal handouts coming, they elect the same ones who keep handing them their welfare.
Makes sense, because, if you elect someone else, the free handout would be over!
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posted on
02/19/2006 6:08:55 AM PST
by
standing united
(82nd ABN 1/508th BN Bco 1st Sqd. Alpha Fireteam Leader: "fury from the sky" 8-Duce on the Loose!!)
To: kinsman redeemer
"D.C."
Absolutely the winner.
Washington, D.C. is like a big sieve. Increasing amounts of money pour into the sieve in an effort to keep it full while money runs out all over the place to no one knows where.
The City makes no progress on crime, education, social concerns and yet looks great to the uneducated eye because all of the money flowing into the place provides an attractive veneer.
50
posted on
02/19/2006 6:15:03 AM PST
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: DoctorMichael
"..........Springfield............." Which one? Ah, there's the problem!
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posted on
02/19/2006 6:44:46 AM PST
by
Socratic
To: Jimmy Valentine
I'm just surprised that after 50 posts no one has mentioned San Francisco, they won't even let the USS Iowa? berth there.
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posted on
02/19/2006 6:48:33 AM PST
by
antisocial
(Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
To: FreedomPoster
"Similar to Atlanta"
The best thing going for the folks living in metro Atlanta
is that the city is landlocked and can not expand or annex
anything.
53
posted on
02/19/2006 6:50:01 AM PST
by
AlexW
(Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia)
To: mcg2000
Detroit
San Francisco and DC should also make the top 10.
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posted on
02/19/2006 6:51:03 AM PST
by
Dante3
To: Gay State Conservative
"More than Greenwich? New Canaan? Darien?"Yep, the Dept of Ed is the favored patronage job bank. More than half of the Dept of Ed employees never see a student.
On balance, that's a good thing.
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posted on
02/19/2006 6:57:30 AM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
To: muir_redwoods
Hartford CT.Did you see the comparison chart in the Hartford Courant yesterday (Saturday, 2-18) re: car taxes, town by town? Property tax on a 2 year-old Mercedes in DARIEN: $900. Same car in Hartford: $5,000! We can only conclude from this that the quality of life in Hartford is more than 5X better than in Darien!
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posted on
02/19/2006 6:57:46 AM PST
by
Snickersnee
(Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?)
To: Dante3
Top Ten 1. Detroit
2. New Orleans
3. Washington, DC
4. Memphis
5. Camden
6. Philadelphia
7. Newark
8. Baltimore
9. Youngstown
10. Buffalo
hmmm ... jmop, but do you see a pattern of these struggling cities?
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posted on
02/19/2006 7:03:48 AM PST
by
mcg2000
(New Orleans: The city that declared Jihad against The Red Cross.)
To: antisocial
I've been noticing Frisco's absence too. Probably due to fear of being called a Homophobe.
58
posted on
02/19/2006 7:18:20 AM PST
by
F.J. Mitchell
(Let's make government a liberal free zone.)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Detroit makes Cleveland look like a paradise...
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posted on
02/19/2006 7:24:07 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(Attention RNC...we're the party of Reagan, not FDR...)
To: mcg2000
What is Buffalo, NY like? I've never been there.
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posted on
02/19/2006 7:30:55 AM PST
by
Riley
("What color is the boathouse at Hereford?")
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