B-Man Posted Tuesday at 02:58 AM Posted Tuesday at 02:58 AM Gavin sure has a lot of time on his hands. 1
B-Man Posted 20 hours ago Posted 20 hours ago JOEL KOTKIN: What’s the matter with Los Angeles? The riots fit a pattern a steep decline. Over the past 20 years, the LA region has lost 750,000 people under 30 – the biggest decline in youth among all large U.S. counties. Even the immigrants are leaving; between the 2010 and 2020 Censuses, the number of foreign-born residents actually dropped. Looking ahead, the state’s Department of Finance predicts no population growth and a reduction of well over a million people for L.A. County. What went wrong? You can start with the political takeover of the city by ever more leftist leaders. Once dominated by Republicans and conservative Democrats, the city has fallen ever more into the progressive mold, genuflecting to green, gender and racial ideology, which has left LA with an awful reputation among businesses and particularly developers. Indeed despite the city’s advocacy for more housing, it is among the least proficient in building them. There have been declines in everything from manufacturing to Hollywood. Not everything is failing. There are pockets of success, particularly in the revived aerospace industry, located south and west of the city, but also in spots such as the Asian-dominated San Gabriel Valley or a host of largely successful Latino-dominated cities to its south. But overall Los Angeles, particularly its central core, now suffers from all the plagues associated with older cities, such as Detroit, Cleveland, Manchester or Liverpool. Far from being “the better city”, Los Angeles is now best known for riots and failing to solve a massive homeless problem, the second worst in the country, despite billions in expenditures. https://thespectator.com/topic/whats-the-matter-with-los-angeles/
JFKjr Posted 20 hours ago Posted 20 hours ago 12 hours ago, B-Man said: "Human Aliens" has a certain ring to it, I'll give him that! 1
njbuff Posted 18 hours ago Posted 18 hours ago What a far cry California is from when the great Ronald Reagan was Governor.
AlBUNDY4TDS Posted 17 hours ago Posted 17 hours ago 6 minutes ago, njbuff said: What a far cry California is from when the great Ronald Reagan was Governor. Shiiit, I'd give my left leg to have Gary Coleman be governor at this point. RIP.
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