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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: GOBUCKS on June 20, 2013, 09:58:42 PM
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Thu Jun 20, 2013, 09:58 PM
FarCenter (13,576 posts)
Gary, Indiana Is Deteriorating So Much That It May Cut Off Services To Nearly Half Of Its Land
NBC News recently profiled the depressed city near Chicago for its Poverty In America series, reporting that about 6,500 of the 7,000 properties the city owns are abandoned, and Gary officials are thinking about auctioning the buildings off for $1 because the city doesn't have the money to demolish them.
Things are getting so bad that Gary officials are thinking about cutting off city services to about 40 percent of the city's land and moving residents to more viable parts of Gary, NBC reports. This is a drastic move, but it may be necessary as the thousands of abandoned properties are attracting criminals.
Gary's deterioration is not a new story. The city's economy was decimated when the steel industry collapsed. Gary has lost 55% of its population since the city's peak in 1960. Back then, 178,320 lived in Gary. By 2010, the population had dropped to just 80,294. Gary might have lost even more people since then — U.S. Census estimates put the 2012 population at 79,170.
U.S. Steel used to be a big employer in Gary, providing jobs to 25,000 people. Now, just 5,000 work for the company, according to NBC. Competition overseas led to massive layoffs in the steel industry.
http://www.businessinsider.com/gary-indiana-is-deteriorating-badly-2013-6
When I drove through Gary in '67, visibility was maybe 100 yards.
It's clean now. Clean and empty.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023058282
So, once a busy, prosperous city, Gary has collapsed and is now just another blue hellhole.
Who's at fault here? Hmmm?
If you don't know the answer, you haven't been reading the DUmp.
It's obvious who caused this calamity.
Response to FarCenter (Original post)
Thu Jun 20, 2013, 10:27 PM
Initech (39,602 posts)
3. This is the end result of four decades of no tax revenue.
**** Reagan.
Response to Initech (Reply #3)
Thu Jun 20, 2013, 10:29 PM
FarCenter (13,576 posts)
4. Gary had tax revenues when it had industry
How does Reagan figure in?
Response to FarCenter (Reply #4)
Thu Jun 20, 2013, 10:36 PM
Initech (39,602 posts)
5. Reagan and the BFEE killed industry and municipal government.
Pretty much all our woes can be traced back to the BFEE in some way, shape, or form.
It's the DUmp democrat's answer to every problem.
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Pretty much all our woes can be traced back to the BFEE in some way, shape, or form.
:rotf: :lmao:
I love this. They'll never let it go.
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Pretty much all our woes can be traced back to the BFEE in some way, shape, or form.
:rotf: :lmao:
I love this. They'll never let it go.
Never, and it's hilarious.
Response to FarCenter (Reply #4)
Thu Jun 20, 2013, 10:36 PM
Initech (39,602 posts)
5. Reagan and the BFEE killed industry and municipal government.
Pretty much all our woes can be traced back to the BFEE in some way, shape, or form.
I would really love to hear this retard expound on that. I really would. I want to know how Reagan killed municipal government. On a guess, I would say that this Cro-magnun would blame PATCO. Because he killed the magical revenue that allows for ridiculously inflated Union retirement packages to be funded in perpetuity.
Reagan killed the magic.
What a bummer.....
EDIT:
OK, I had to Bing it.
BFEE - Bush Family Evil Empire.
There is no hope for these people. There really isn't.
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Response to FarCenter (Reply #4)
Thu Jun 20, 2013, 10:36 PM
Initech (39,602 posts)
5. Reagan and the BFEE killed industry and municipal government.
Pretty much all our woes can be traced back to the BFEE in some way, shape, or form.
Most of America's woes can be traced back to when liberal ideology starting taking hold in the culture and bringing to an end the traditional moral and ethical values this country was created with.
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Where's the Jackson 5 when you really need them?
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Things are getting so bad that Gary officials are thinking about cutting off city services to about 40 percent of the city's land and moving residents to more viable parts of Gary, NBC reports.
And that shithole will slip into further decay like Memphis after this happens. No one wants to live around a bunch of ****ing gang bangers.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/american-murder-mystery/306872/
Southaven, Ms. thanks you liberals for their new tax revenues.
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And that shithole will slip into further decay like Memphis after this happens. No one wants to live around a bunch of ****ing gang bangers.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/american-murder-mystery/306872/
Southaven, Ms. thanks you liberals for their new tax revenues.
I read the liberal comments......they just can't admit they make mistakes......all the time with all their programs.
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So this is another conservative run city? Wait, what? It has been run by leftist democrats? NO. WAY.
Still looking for that one example of where leftist democrat policies bring long term prosperity.
At least parasites never completely kill the host organism, something that leftists have not.
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Another Democratic city falling apart?
:ownit:
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Another Democratic city falling apart?
:ownit:
Democratic cities attract flies and maggots with offers of other peoples honey......but after you eat the honey, it too turns to shit.
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U.S. Steel used to be a big employer in Gary, providing jobs to 25,000 people. Now, just 5,000 work for the company, according to NBC. Competition overseas led to massive layoffs in the steel industry.
Why did that happen, far-leftofcenter??
Take a wild guess. You can do it. :loser: