Byker
2020-02-03 03:15:29 UTC
The subject line has the answer, it says "LIBERAL" cities.... there you
go, no need to look any further.
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Why are Democrat-run cities such a mess? After every weekend we can expect
to hear just how many people or children were shot in Chicago over the
weekend. That is appalling, but unfortunately true. Tourist agencies have
demanded that San Francisco clean up their streets. The feces problem is
becoming well known. Los Angeles has an enormous homeless problem along the
fabled Los Angeles river, well publicized. Portland just had riots over
their attempt to move an encampment that was protesting ICE at the city’s
ICE headquarters.
Here in Seattle, there is a streetcar that runs along the waterfront—slowly.
You can get out and walk faster. In any case. the city has ordered new
streetcars. Unfortunately the streetcars they ordered are too big for the
tracks and too big for the garage where they spend the night. I could go on,
but I try never to go into Seattle, nor think about it. The list of
screw-ups is long and amusing if you don’t live here.
A recent list, I forget from who, but some large organization found the best
run city in the United States to be — Nampa, Idaho. Boise was down at number
9. I come from Idaho originally, so I was pleased, but Idaho is a very
Republican state. I started to write a Red State, but the Communist
affiliation made me change it.
Chicago is apparently the center for the illegal alien traffic in illegal
drugs, and I understood that Trump offered federal help. News from 3 hours
ago, “Rahm Emanuel fires back at Trump after President slams city’s crime
rate, ‘sanctuary’ status.” Last weekend 60 were shot, but only 4 killed
outright. A researcher said that the violence is “virtually all carried out
by native-born Americans rather than immigrants.” Chicagoans are demanding
that Emmanuel resign. Chicago has a long history of officials that end up in
jail, at least that is my impression. (I didn’t check that one out)
Seattle and Portland also have big homeless problems. The mistake, of
course, is calling it “homeless” when the problem is addiction. That one is
to be solved by safe sites for injecting your drugs with a nurse in
attendance. They did build an apartment building for alcoholics a while
back, where they could consume their liquor out of the public eye, until it
killed them. I don’t know what happened to that big idea. Perhaps the
problem is simply the absence of what might be called “tough love.” An
insistence on ending the addiction and trying to straighten up. There are
numerous organizations here to help the addicted, but expensive residential
organizations, not free ones. At the other end of the problem is a push to
reduce or void prison terms for drug possession, and to reduce prison terms
for inmates. Is the “need to be nice” the reason why Democrat-run cities are
such a mess? I have no answers, but it looks like nobody else does either.
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