Posted on 09/01/2010 9:31:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Can we add our own? I will nominate Duluth, MN. It has much going for it in the way of location (rail from the prairies/western coal fields meets international port on the Great Lakes), setting and natural beauty. Destroyed first by literal Communists, many of whom still live there, followed not surprisingly by gangbangers/welfare parasites. Has lost jobs and population consistently for the past 40 years. Hub of Rep. Jim Oberstar’s district, the poster boy for term limits.
Hmmm.....the wife has family in Duluth, and funny, the never mentioned all of the Communists and Gangbangers running around. If we are taking nominations, why the hell isn’t Youngstown on this list?
Actually for the snowbelt cities the lost population has moved very far away, down to the sunbelt. There’s been a big “seeking warmth” trend to the population in the last 10 to 15 years, most snowbelt states have lost population and most sunbelters have gained.
Now the sunbelt cities on the list you’re probably right, the people are probably still fairly close.
Don’t worry!....All these dead cities like Detroit will return...maybe not as we would like.....
Oh Noes, Zombie Cities.
((btw your pic link didn’t work for me, so I’m sorry if you posted a zombie pic.))
I agree with what you addressed, but I don’t think my comments missed the mark. They were merely another facet of a problem that was created by folks who didn’t see any problem at all with destroying our manufacturing base.
I agree that manufacturing was what used to pull us out of economic downturns, and I do agree that Obama is not helping right now. Obviously, he is screwing us into the ground.
Unfortunately, our side did the same thing in the 90s and this century as well.
I know Clinton was President, but our Congress played along with screwing us with him as it relates to manufacturing.
Look at our nation today. How did this work out for us.
We’re boarding up and bull-dozing cities. And yet you’ll still get defenders of the policies that caused it.
Thanks for the additional thoughts.
Look at Charlotte.
Eighteen years after the Free Traitors had their way, is the U. S. doing better today or worse? Be sure and get back to me sparky.
Can you name one? And to the extent you can, I would argue that liberal policies will kill the party sooner or later. Yes, there are other forces at work, but liberal policies only serve to exacerbate not alleviate. A liberal looks at the deterioration and does not ask how to restore economic growth. Instead, the liberal seeks someone to blame and demagogue, aka “the rich” and ends up driving anyone who could bring growth right out the door.
So where are the manufacturing or service jobs? If our population has doubled in the past 50 years, so then, the output of industry should have also at least doubled.
It hasn't.
The cause of this, in one word: Outsourcing...
the Far East, Mexico, and other countries manufacturing is BOOMING, along with their exports TO the US...
Nope.
I prefer “Top 9” lists...
Galveston, TX is alive and well. I was just there.
Stayed at the Galvez.
Typical tourist town.
What kind of ships were used to ship those jobs? Were the jobs crammed into wooden crates, or big canvas bags? Were they loaded by guys driving forklifts...? Couldn't those jobs have been sent offshore in a cargo plane?
Yeah, right after an honest protectionist comes along and explains why, if Caterpillar wants to sell a bulldozer in Clombia, a Cat bulldozer built in the EU enjoys a 30% price advantage over a Cat bulldozer built in the US. Then, have someone explain that trying to rectify that situation in favor of the US makes me a “traitor.”
You’re the second person to contact me about a comment that ran against everything else I was saying. I thought you folks would understand that I was quoting those to fostered this current situation. I didn’t agree with it.
Sure unions were out of control, but those unions didn’t affect all of manufacturing. From what I’ve read, I believe the private sector union membership was 15 million or less in the mid 90s.
Hartford, CT... doesn't surprise me at all. The Socialist "Utopia" of Hartford has been dead for decades.
The reason people misunderstood your “sarcasm” (if that’s what you still think it is), is because no one has ever met someone who has said, “We can’t compete. We can’t make good products. We don’t need a tax base.”
Free trade didn’t destroy these cities - over-regulation and politics did.
Imagine yourself as a manufacturer in Buffalo. You face OSHA, FDA, EPA and all the heavy-handed NY State equivalents. You have almost forced unionization, high property taxes, high school taxes, and high taxes on employment. You will soon be taxed for health-care, even if you never offered it to your employees. You face politically-connected tort lawyers who will take millions from you for the slightest mistake, and therefore, you pay astronomical insurance rates as well.
Is ANYONE surprised when a company decides not to manufacture for export, set up plants overseas, and then also use those plants to import into the USA?
Scott Norwood killed Buffalo!
“10 American Cities That Are Dead Forever”
Bull****!
Each of these 10 cities would be super-prosperous successes if they:
1) got rid of the thieving democrat party hacks in charge.
2) lowered all taxes
3) fired all the crooked public union workers
4) got rid of all the socialist hyper-regulations
5) zero corporate taxes
6) no sales taxes
7) make it easy to open a new business in 1 hour at no cost
Yankees 8; Dixie 2; Low score wins......
The Hurricane of 1900 is what killed Galveston. Until 1900, Galveston was the largest city in Texas. After 1900, all of the industry moved inland to Houston.
During most of the 20th Century, Galveston was basically a tourist town. In 2008, Ike killed the tourist industry.
Galveston will eventually come back as a tourist town, but it will never be a major city.
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