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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-11-10 00:00||
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#1 In the 1950s, a prosperous city of nearly two million people, with the highest per capita income in the nation. Today, after a half century of Blue State policies and leadership, the place looks like Detroit.
Posted by SteveS 2012-11-10 00:48||
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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2012-11-10 03:05||
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#3 Bodie is in better shape. But this is what happens to all ghost towns that lost their economic reason for being.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2012-11-10 07:22||
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#4 New tourist attraction of how not to manage a city? Better come armed. What'd they do in Detroit, bring in Zimbabwe consultants and then hire them to run the city?
Posted by JohnQC 2012-11-10 07:28||
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#5 Remember "Escape from New York"?
Maybe make it a prison.
Posted by Spert Trotsky2693 2012-11-10 13:58||
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#6 But taking away detoilet dwellers rights to make bad decisions would be -- un-democratic. And racist!
Posted by M. Murcek 2012-11-10 16:37||
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