No, really: Planet Earth Begins Eating Bankrupt City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (h/t Kevin B)
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Tell the darwinists that this is what evolution really looks like.
mike
This post could have easily run under another of Kate’s headlines: The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
And how ’bout that oily SOB, ‘…Randy King, who was Reed’s communications director for 18 years…’ featured in the vid at the end of the piece in Kate’s link? Folks like him, as well as his boss the mayor, need the tar & feathers treatment.
.
Oh.The poor fool thought the world was ending. Tell the stupid Beyotch to get a life. Good thing she has a vagina,as that is her only saving grace.
This is the fate of many a Dem controlled city. Chase out industry with excessive taxing and regulating while spending like crack heads on a binge, then try to replace the lost industry revenues with a series of airy-fairy dead end high spending failed schemes. Much like Canada, the left gravitated to city governments and the current US economic woes are exposing the insane waste and mindless management of left-controlled city councils. I read somewhere where over 30% of US cities are facing bankruptcy if they don’t turn things around in a hurry.
Closer to home, my own city council spends like these Harrusburg crack heads. Buying into unneeded white elephant projects seems to be a genetic trait of Liberal/Dem politicians – it’s as if they don’t believe the decadent free spending inflationary 70s ever ended.
Is this going to happen to all the imminently-bankrupt cities? Detroit? Chicago?
That would be wonderful.
I wonder what happens when one of those sinkholes reaches the Susquehanna River? Much
less Three Mile Island?
On the plus side, there is a big fun restaurant on the west bank of the river.
So anyway, what is Harrisburg using for money these days? It doesn’t look as though the
city council has been shut down.
What’s with this fixation on museums some politicians seem to have? Today I read at various sites,of the Winnipeg HR museum, the Harrisburg Civil War museum ,currently residing in a warehouse,and in Timmins,Ontario, a Shania Twain museum that’s gone broke, cost taxpayers 10 million and never had even a third the number of visitors required to break even.
I guess Timmins,and Harrisburg,aren’t world class destination type towns.I’m planning on visiting Winnipeg this Summer, will NOT bust my butt to visit the HR Museum, if it’s open.
On the bright side,this Harrisburg Mayor makes Theresa Spence look downright honest by comparison!
Sit back and watch the rot. Any city that values corruption and waste over sensible spending and activity deserves it.
Sounds a lot like McGuinty and his Windmills.
“Missing audits, convoluted transactions, including swap agreements make it difficult to state how much debt the city owes. The best estimates put total debt over $1.5 billion which would mean that every man, woman, and child would owe $30,285.[25] These numbers do not reflect the debt of the school system ($13 million deficit expected for 2012), or unfunded pension and healthcare obligations. The heart of the city’s financial woes is the trash to electricity plant, the Harrisburg incinerator that was supposed to generate income but instead, because of increased borrowing, has a debt of $320 million.[26]” (wiki)
Harrisburg is a state capital, and has a decent small international airport, as well as a local airport. Maybe a bit more than Timmins, though I’ve never been to Timmins. Putting a Civil War museum in Harrisburg, when Gettysburg is within driving distance, is just plain cracked.
Too, too common. In Nanaimo we have a swank convention center that hosts little else but city council meetings, because it’s too expensive for locals to use for events.
Council has just voted to spend $100K on a high-tech outdoor toilet to accommodate the louts who urinate on downtown walls after leaving the bars. And they’ve just rescinded a contract to a local security company, whose two employees have, according to downtown merchants, done an outstanding job for the last two years.
Instead of two private sector employees making $15 or $20/hr, we’re going to get 4 public sector employees who will do (perhaps) the minimum amount of work, while being paid city wages, benefits and pensions.
Oh, and our property taxes are going up another 5.3% while small businesses are closing.
Forward thinking…. you betcha.
You get what you deserve for living in Nanaimo. Seriously what a sh9*hole.
It is the failed ideas of the parasitic mindset of those that dominate politics of all levels these days. They refuse to understand that in order to provide service you must have an economy based on product. They shut down, over regulate and otherwise just plain discourage real productive industry and try to replace it with feel good imaginary projects like these. The reality is that without real world productive industry, these projects will ultimately fail as nobody with have the available income to make them viable. Listen to the mantra of those that follow the ‘I believe’ meme in politics and you will soon discover that reality doesn’t care what you believe, it just persists.
They should try a lot of bike lanes and chickens coups … the key to cities is chickens.
Every day brings a new story about the decline of the U.S.A. This is just the beginning because, as last November proved, way too many people just don’t get it. These know-nothings aren’t going to enjoy the ride to the bottom. They’ll be even less happy about the welcoming party they are met by – those who knew better but were pushed into the hole as well.
Ah, but there is no shortage of people who theoretically are on the side of the Constitution who say one must not fok with them and theirs, lest one alienate them: http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2013/02/shock-system-better-to-shock-war-makers.html
Personally, I think that letting the metropolises fester and rot in their own “diversity” is a great idea. Hell, I probably out-Owens Owens!
Just remember “Theres always the lottery”!
Socialists, Liberals along with Communists are math deficient , while having roving fingers. Gypsies with Power.
You want the chickens to stage a revolution … coup?
Or do you mean coop?
My thought when watching the video was the citizens (voters) of Harrisburg got the government they voted for. As John Lewis wrote, building a Civil War museum in Harrisburg when Gettysburg is an hour’s drive away is insane.
USA… Always USA. Right, Kate? Who cares about Canada anyway!
As a Canadian I care about Canada.
Take for example, Brampton’s new Rose Theatre with solid copper decorations, built when Canadian economy tanked and world price of copper was at all times high.
Google ‘Brampton rose theatre’, switch to Images and look at the close-ups. You’ll realize what I am talking about – decorative joists, light fixtures, all copper. Just what an industrial city really needed: an exorbitantly expensive opera theatre in the middle of downtown with paid only parking in the area.
“Take for example, Brampton’s new Rose Theatre with solid copper decorations, built when Canadian economy tanked and world price of copper was at all times high.”
Not really. The Rose Theatre opened in 2006.
Tell the darwinists that this is what evolution really looks like.
mike
This post could have easily run under another of Kate’s headlines:
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
And how ’bout that oily SOB, ‘…Randy King, who was Reed’s communications director for 18 years…’ featured in the vid at the end of the piece in Kate’s link? Folks like him, as well as his boss the mayor, need the tar & feathers treatment.
.
Oh.The poor fool thought the world was ending. Tell the stupid Beyotch to get a life. Good thing she has a vagina,as that is her only saving grace.
This is the fate of many a Dem controlled city. Chase out industry with excessive taxing and regulating while spending like crack heads on a binge, then try to replace the lost industry revenues with a series of airy-fairy dead end high spending failed schemes. Much like Canada, the left gravitated to city governments and the current US economic woes are exposing the insane waste and mindless management of left-controlled city councils. I read somewhere where over 30% of US cities are facing bankruptcy if they don’t turn things around in a hurry.
Closer to home, my own city council spends like these Harrusburg crack heads. Buying into unneeded white elephant projects seems to be a genetic trait of Liberal/Dem politicians – it’s as if they don’t believe the decadent free spending inflationary 70s ever ended.
Is this going to happen to all the imminently-bankrupt cities? Detroit? Chicago?
That would be wonderful.
I wonder what happens when one of those sinkholes reaches the Susquehanna River? Much
less Three Mile Island?
On the plus side, there is a big fun restaurant on the west bank of the river.
So anyway, what is Harrisburg using for money these days? It doesn’t look as though the
city council has been shut down.
What’s with this fixation on museums some politicians seem to have? Today I read at various sites,of the Winnipeg HR museum, the Harrisburg Civil War museum ,currently residing in a warehouse,and in Timmins,Ontario, a Shania Twain museum that’s gone broke, cost taxpayers 10 million and never had even a third the number of visitors required to break even.
I guess Timmins,and Harrisburg,aren’t world class destination type towns.I’m planning on visiting Winnipeg this Summer, will NOT bust my butt to visit the HR Museum, if it’s open.
On the bright side,this Harrisburg Mayor makes Theresa Spence look downright honest by comparison!
Sit back and watch the rot. Any city that values corruption and waste over sensible spending and activity deserves it.
Sounds a lot like McGuinty and his Windmills.
“Missing audits, convoluted transactions, including swap agreements make it difficult to state how much debt the city owes. The best estimates put total debt over $1.5 billion which would mean that every man, woman, and child would owe $30,285.[25] These numbers do not reflect the debt of the school system ($13 million deficit expected for 2012), or unfunded pension and healthcare obligations. The heart of the city’s financial woes is the trash to electricity plant, the Harrisburg incinerator that was supposed to generate income but instead, because of increased borrowing, has a debt of $320 million.[26]” (wiki)
Harrisburg is a state capital, and has a decent small international airport, as well as a local airport. Maybe a bit more than Timmins, though I’ve never been to Timmins. Putting a Civil War museum in Harrisburg, when Gettysburg is within driving distance, is just plain cracked.
Too, too common. In Nanaimo we have a swank convention center that hosts little else but city council meetings, because it’s too expensive for locals to use for events.
Council has just voted to spend $100K on a high-tech outdoor toilet to accommodate the louts who urinate on downtown walls after leaving the bars. And they’ve just rescinded a contract to a local security company, whose two employees have, according to downtown merchants, done an outstanding job for the last two years.
Instead of two private sector employees making $15 or $20/hr, we’re going to get 4 public sector employees who will do (perhaps) the minimum amount of work, while being paid city wages, benefits and pensions.
Oh, and our property taxes are going up another 5.3% while small businesses are closing.
Forward thinking…. you betcha.
You get what you deserve for living in Nanaimo. Seriously what a sh9*hole.
It is the failed ideas of the parasitic mindset of those that dominate politics of all levels these days. They refuse to understand that in order to provide service you must have an economy based on product. They shut down, over regulate and otherwise just plain discourage real productive industry and try to replace it with feel good imaginary projects like these. The reality is that without real world productive industry, these projects will ultimately fail as nobody with have the available income to make them viable. Listen to the mantra of those that follow the ‘I believe’ meme in politics and you will soon discover that reality doesn’t care what you believe, it just persists.
They should try a lot of bike lanes and chickens coups … the key to cities is chickens.
Every day brings a new story about the decline of the U.S.A. This is just the beginning because, as last November proved, way too many people just don’t get it. These know-nothings aren’t going to enjoy the ride to the bottom. They’ll be even less happy about the welcoming party they are met by – those who knew better but were pushed into the hole as well.
Ah, but there is no shortage of people who theoretically are on the side of the Constitution who say one must not fok with them and theirs, lest one alienate them:
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2013/02/shock-system-better-to-shock-war-makers.html
Personally, I think that letting the metropolises fester and rot in their own “diversity” is a great idea. Hell, I probably out-Owens Owens!
Just remember “Theres always the lottery”!
Socialists, Liberals along with Communists are math deficient , while having roving fingers. Gypsies with Power.
You want the chickens to stage a revolution … coup?
Or do you mean coop?
My thought when watching the video was the citizens (voters) of Harrisburg got the government they voted for. As John Lewis wrote, building a Civil War museum in Harrisburg when Gettysburg is an hour’s drive away is insane.
USA… Always USA. Right, Kate? Who cares about Canada anyway!
As a Canadian I care about Canada.
Take for example, Brampton’s new Rose Theatre with solid copper decorations, built when Canadian economy tanked and world price of copper was at all times high.
Google ‘Brampton rose theatre’, switch to Images and look at the close-ups. You’ll realize what I am talking about – decorative joists, light fixtures, all copper. Just what an industrial city really needed: an exorbitantly expensive opera theatre in the middle of downtown with paid only parking in the area.
“Take for example, Brampton’s new Rose Theatre with solid copper decorations, built when Canadian economy tanked and world price of copper was at all times high.”
Not really. The Rose Theatre opened in 2006.