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I live outside Philly. Same thing here. Parts look like Palistine after an air raid. Fifty years of Democrat rule, and I do mean rule not governance. Same with Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Trenton, Wilmington and I could go on and on. What do they have in common? All mayors for years have been Dems, mostly black Dems. Remember New York under Dinkins? I don't think it's a black thing. I think it's a Dem thing that black politicians can't seem to resist.

There was a big article (cover story) in the Weekly Standard on Detroit. Just heartbreaking how a big city can just collapse. There was a picture of a once-beautiful Victorian home just in ruins. This could have been apartments for 4 families in a better-run city. Why do the incompetent and corrupt keep getting elected? Does no one give a shit?

I thought the most liberal city in the US was San Francisco?

Complete agreement.

Let's keep mindlessly throwing cash at it hand over fist. Maybe then conditions will improve!

Show me a place run by liberal-Democrat hegemony that isn't a craphole or well on its way to becoming one.

Yeah John, Philly has the same thing especially in the areas surrounding the big public housing projects north of the center city area. Completely bombed out - and it's in that condition due to the public housing and a bunch of other bad ideas implemented by the chronically corrupt Democrat leadership in the city. It's just a mess and it's getting worse.

I predict Americans rowing innertube boats to Cuba in ten years (or less).

Welcome to the Democratic Peoples Republic of America.

Moonbat here. I work in Chicago, and live in the suburbs, and the idea that Chicago is either a "craphole" or well on it's way to becoming one, is about as wrong as can be. It has it's problem areas, but they are far fewer than 20 years ago.

Mayor Daley is a crook, but he runs the city well. Taxes are too high, I'll give you that, but the city has become more livable, cleaner, and better run during my lifetime, all of which was spent under Democratic rule.

Wait, not complete agreement...

The downfall of Detroit has mostly to do with the downfall of American manufacturing, which has happened to a lot of industries in many states. This is well beyond the control of a mere city government

Bethlehem PA is a good example of a city that did not decline when the manufacturing disappeared (Bethlehem Steel - 2nd biggest steel co in the world at one time, now gone). Pittsburgh has held up pretty well too. But, you know, they didn't have guys like Kwame Kilpatrick and John Street running them.

Last time I was in Chicago, it had slums the size of Pittsburgh. But most privileged suburban moonbats who work in downtown areas never go into them.

I know a bunch suburban Philly people who have no idea of the condition of the devastated neighborhoods because they simply avoid them on their commutes. Maybe whiz by on Rt1 on occasion, but that's about it.

We can only hope that San FranFreakShow will look the same in 10 years.

No great loss.

Nice cheap shot forest. Your powers of perception are beyond impressive. As you pointed out with your rapier wit and intellect, I'm one of those privileged suburban moonbats whose father was a postman (he actually had a heart attack and died while driving his postal truck), and lived in a house with less than 1000 square feet, with one bathroom to share among the seven of us. Life was SA-WEEET! I shudder to think of all the times I had to feed my leftover caviar to the dog because I had loaded up on the truffles.

When was the last time you were in Chicago? Because you seem to be, if I might say so, talking out of your ass if it was any time in the last 10 years. 20 years ago the West side was awful, the south side was awful, and pretty much anything south of the loop was a disaster. Now the west side is filled with 400k brand new town homes, and the South side is where the rich people were moving (before the housing market completely tanked).

Many of the tenements have been knocked down. Problem areas remain (the southwest side, the west side near the United Center, although that is showing signs of turning around), but until the last 3 years, there were very few areas in Chicago where you couldn't have made money in real estate.

Don't be so shocked by what you see in Detroit. Soon, with Leftist Dumbocrats in charge, the whole country's going to look just like that. And it's all being done by the people YOU have elected to public office!

The only thing worse than the lying crooks in DC, are the totally brain-dead, weaklings who keep voting them back into power. And don't think simply because you're a Republican or a Demoncrat, that it's not your fault. It is, because while the people of this country have been busy watching American Idol, the two parties have become one!

The only reason the politicians, the MSM, and Commiewood, treat the people like fools, is because the people are fools. And the funny part? The people are the only ones who don't realize it!

When your homes are gone, your jobs are gone, and you can't feed your children any more, do you know what the elected lying crooks will do for you? They'll tax you more! Why? Because fools are meant to be abused!

Yeah, aside from the war-zone like violence in the poor neighborhoods and the 83% illiteracy rate in the public schools, Chicago is great... as long as you make enough to afford private security and private schools.

That's the way cities go under Democrat rule. The high taxes and declining services drive out the middle class, so you have an elite that lives in gated, high security fortress communities and a large, under-educated impoverished underclass.

Ever wonder why the DETRIOT PUSSYCATS are not in the SUPER BOWL

V the K, as I stated a number of times, there are problems (show me a big city that doesn't). But it is much than better than before. For the record, the middle class was moving back into the city in droves, until the housing market cratered.

Chicago might not be your cup of tea, but there has to be a reason it's on the short list of cities vying for the Olympics, and there definitely has to be a reason why Business Week would rank them the 5th most livable city in the country, and in the top 50 most livable on the planet.

If it truly were the corrupt war zone hell hole you guys keep insisting, I find it hard to believe it would be this highly regarded by others.

You know how Chicago got started? A group of New Yorkers got together and decided, "The poverty, crime, and corruption are great, but it's just not cold enough here."

Shitcago. Get it straight.

FOX News just said that there was a 6.1 earthquake in Alaska a couple of minutes ago.

TOO bad the earthquake was not located in the Castro in San FranFreakShow (SFFS) where it could have done some real geological and social good.

The dumps that are Oklahoma City and Jacksonville are the most conservative cities.

New York City San Francisco Boston and L.A. are progressive cities - and highly civilized and world class.

"The downfall of Detroit has mostly to do with the downfall of American manufacturing, which has happened to a lot of industries in many states. This is well beyond the control of a mere city government"

Posted by: Anonymous at January 23, 2009 9:15 PM

Wait a minute Anonymous... your being far too rational... don't you know this site is all about blaming the liberals for every conceivable problem known to man? It has nothing to do with , for example exposing truths ...like the auto industry leaving Detroit to look for the closest thing to slave labor they could find elsewhere while being able to write off the expense of relocating ... no we dont talk about that stuff here...

Can't you think of any thing to blame those liberal types for?

^--- lol did that guy just say "highly civilized"

Anon - you think San FranFreakShow and LA are highly civilized..........ROFLMAO @ U for that highly uninformed an worthless piece of observation.

To point out the obvious, you are a first class Idiot.

i have many friends at the smyrna tn nissan plant making 25-30 dollars per hour, great benefits, living in $300,000 homes,those are some kick-ass slavery conditions,the closest thing to slavery today is the unions which they regularly reject

So a crappy Chicago joke is your response V? This site is pretty amazing.

I love that crappy joke, I just sent it to my friends.
The fact of -slavery- is that the folks in those 2 dollar a day sweat shops in indonesia or wherever is that the folks sweating to make your 80 dollar nikes are making king dollar in their economy. It cracks me up when people stand in front of the work place that they sell their time to and hold signs that say unfair.
UNFAIR means QUIT idiot!!!
anybody that posts as "anonymous" has no valid opinion and is a coward.
At least make up a name, really,
imagination hello