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| yass | Aug 31 2013, 03:17 AM Post #1 |
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I was just reading headlines about maps for safe passage for children in Chicago going to new schools due to 47 schools being closed. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-cps-releases-maps-of-safe-passage-routes-20130809,0,4881483.story I got to thinking about businesses' I've been calling the past few months... on Friday's, only to find out they're not open on Friday's. It's a twist, because they used to be open on Friday. Some are government and some are not, but all, I would say, are closed on Friday to cut back, save money, because they can no longer afford it. Detroit Michigan has been hit hard. Someone made a thread a while back about buying a house in Detroit for $500. You can actually find deals like that, but who would want to live there? There is much too much crime, the houses may be low priced but the property taxes are high. There are so many empty houses in Detroit. Detroit is filing for bankruptcy. All this downsizing is leading to no-where-ville. I mean, where could it be leading? There's no remedy in sight. I can imagine Detroit far in the future... the uninhabited ruins of a city that those in the future will wonder about. What happened to the population? Until someone puts an end to interest and usury, ruin and desolation is our future. It's harder and harder to make ends meet. |
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| epona | Sep 3 2013, 10:33 PM Post #2 |
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It's everywhere....spooky. In my town, a medium large town, there are tons of houses for sale. People. Where are they going? This is something I started noticing right after the millennium. Would be driving downtown and notice how thin traffic is. This was before the big bust. At times there should've been tons of cars. There are still humdinger traffic jams, etc. But the 'pattern', the 'flow' was just "off". It didn't feel normal. Then a few years later the big economic bust happens, and then houses go up for sale left and right. There was a house that got demo'd and the basement buried and you couldn't even tell. Heck I did a doubletake walking the dog. As I didn't even know it had happened!!!!!! You could not tell by looking at the grass, leaves, trees, anything unless you just knew the house was absolutely there before. How can that happen just down the street from me? Well, when they say big cities aren't the place to be when it hits the fan, they are right. Poor Detroit. Poor Michigan, with their dictatorship gov't. doing whatever they please with assets that people worked hard to pay for over generations. Things are crazed, are they not? Watched a show on tv the other night about NY beachfronts that got wrecked by hurricane sandy. Gov is paying for businesses and people to rebuild. Nuts! It will happen again and again. What they need is a seawall like they have in Galveston, Tx. That would take the brunt of the wave action and help, but even that is not a preventative for huge storms like that. People that live there buy the property knowing that if the sea edge eats the sand and gets too close to their property line, it then belongs to the state. Too bad, so sad, and very legal. Being on the beach is nice on a sunny day, anything else, forget it, way too scary. So do I feel sorry for them? Yes that their stuff got destroyed, but no if they expect people to pay for it all to be rebuilt. You live on the edge of the sea with absolutely no protection at all, that's the chance you take and everyone knows it. You know, white people haven't had that many children per couple in the past two generations. So it seems most of the whites are dying off. The Hispanics are mostly Catholic and have been having huge families. Blacks have more children than whites seem to be in the middle, but there are many immigrants here that have many children, Tibetan and Somalian. Most children I see nowdays are non-white. Finally someone in the Federal gov has figured out they "need" people to have children so they will have 'workers' to support the social security system and hold up the governmental financial structure. What a laugh!!! Now they have to actually "want" people to immigrate and eat their words! The same thing has happened in Japan, where they actually pay young women when they have babies and give them special breaks. So maybe it's part of the fact the boomers are dying off and the economic stuff and 'other weirdo whatever'. The lady living next to us has now admitted to herself she cannot upkeep her yard and home anymore and is having it fixed up to sell soon. I imagine there will be tons more like that too. Since many white children don't live in the same home anymore, up for sale it goes. I imagine in the future, after things run down further, if it turns out that way, most things will be dozed and newer models built. Homes with walls that light up, no need for the grid, in harmony with the environment. One day. Young people today have dreams, and maybe one day they will make them real. Hope so. Edited by epona, Sep 3 2013, 10:36 PM.
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