The U.S.A. has unlimited land, oil, natural resources, and an exponential growth in technology in the private sector, and 200 years of accumulated wealth. So we should be doing much better instead of going bankrupt. the problem is too much government and the news media made worse by Obama and democrats.
Don’t worry...Obama is going to require the red states to bail out the blue.
Red states have way too much money anyway.
Albert Okura, the man who owns the museum at the site of the original McDonald's restaurant, founded Juan Pollo, his own fast-food chain specializing in grilled chicken, in 1984. Okura says his success is based on the same principle as the one behind the McDonald's serving machine in his museum: He grills each chicken the same way, down to the second.Bizzaro World indeed.Juan Pollo now has 32 locations, making Okura one of San Bernardino's few modern-day success stories. He would like to open a restaurant in Los Angeles, but doesn't have the necessary funds -- a restaurant in Los Angeles would cost much more than all his restaurants in this city where no one wants to live.
Okura calls himself the "Chicken Man" and says his life goal is to sell more chicken legs than anyone else in the world. He's also trying to get his name in the newspaper to help advertise his company. For example, for a festival celebrating the anniversary of the founding of the first McDonald's, Okura rented a sports car and parked it in the museum's parking lot.
He was trying to appear like a successful businessman, but the car was unfortunately stolen from the museum parking lot. The next morning, Okura's name was indeed in the newspaper -- under a headline reading "Car Stolen."
It's a sad example of what a lack of infrastructure investment and an almost religious aversion to higher taxes have done to cities across the United States.
American cities are drowning in debt because it is impossible to provide all of the needs for a good part of their populations that won’t lift a finger to contribute to their own upkeep. Here in NJ it was good to see so many cops laid off in our cities; the residents don’t have the money for police protection, so they shouldn’t have any. The same goes for schools, fire protection, sanitation, etc.
It is also representative of the bankruptcy of a country that failed to use its prosperous decades to sustain a functioning government.
They spent like there would be ever increasing taxes, property taxes would go up forever. That's why the damned pensions for government workers are in 6 digits! That's why they have NO money for infrastructure!
Wait until we start hearing a tax where a person has to pay “their fair share” of the municipal debt to move out of a city/county/state.
When we start hearing about that, we will have arrived at the doorstep of communism.
Virtually every major city in the US is run by the Dems. Their policies have bankrupted the cities and left huge debts for their children. When you subsidize something, you get more of it.
Ahhhhhh. The Germans. Always letting people know what they think. If not with magazine articles, then with tanks.
I’m sure this is all Bushey’s fault!
This reliance on public infrastructure is surely what President Barack Obama meant when he declared during his election campaign that entrepreneurial success is not possible without a strong government, telling business owners: "You didn't build that."
Obama's comment was directed at the mistaken belief that each individual is completely and solely responsible for his or her own success or failure. Republican politicians stubbornly block most attempts to increase taxes in the US. Indeed, America is in crisis precisely because it has held this belief in an individual's complete and sole responsibility for far too long.
I guess we need more taxes and more government spending aka investments. This is a German perspective where taxes are among the highest in the world.
This is what happens when you steal from the producers to support the lazy. You get more lazy while the producers flee. Kind of a miniature version of what’s happening to the US in general.
The sole reason my American cities are drowning in debt can be firmly placed on the people who live in those cities. Most lack the ability to speak the American language. Their schools turn out generation after generation of illiterates or dropouts. They do not have simple American values and principles. They look at government as the solution to every problem. It is their culture and I want nothing to do with it and I do not want to pay for it.
From the original article:
“The federal government no longer undertakes large-scale projects as it did with the Hoover Dam in the 1930s or the interstate highway system in the 1950s.”
Not so.
Today we have new large-scale government projects, such as:
- ObamaCare
- The perpetual unemployment benefit system
- A burgeoning “disability industry”
- And of course — the free Obamaphone program!