Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
Don’t worry, building 6,000 condos at LIncoln Yards will fix everything.
It’s just starting in Los Angeles. The only thing California has going for it is the weather, and even that is starting to get dicey. Watch and enjoy as people and businesses vacate that disaster.
Just hope they don’t take their progressive policies and voting to their new locations
It is not the end in the long term but in the short term it is. People are attracted to cities. But, when cities aren’t safe (not talking about Covid, just regular safety) they leave. Cities have energy and are efficient. Despite the problems, it can be an incredibly easy life. You don’t need a car and other things. You have access to entertainment, restaurants, and interesting people. Easy access to airports to get away.
Tell me which city in America has that today? They are horribly mismanaged geographies of graft.
For most of the history of civilization, cities have been disgusting cesspools of crime, disease and filth, inhabited mostly by the poor and impoverish. Elites with means lived outside the city in large farming estates; in essentially commuter suburbs. And the ‘cities’ that did exist were mostly just administration capitols for the greater region as most people lived in rural areas. Even at the height of the Roman Empire, only 10% of the population lived in cites, the rest lived in small communities dotting the landscape, roadways and waterways. In the late 19th century, public works figured out how to… Read more »
You’re extreme.
In what way?
You’re extreme.
Bye Bye Chicago