Comments on: L.A. Times finally admits L.A. facing broad decline https://calwatchdog.com/2013/02/25/l-a-times-finally-admits-l-a-facing-broad-decline/ Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:28:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mark https://calwatchdog.com/2013/02/25/l-a-times-finally-admits-l-a-facing-broad-decline/#comment-8685 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:28:41 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=38309#comment-8685 When I lived there for 5 years in the 80′, I knew for a fact that I live in the best place on earth…I will keep that as a sweet memory. LA has become a depressing place..the vibe is gone, the dream is gone. The voters killed California. The only industry you here about is Hollywood and the rest i irrelevant. I have photo of me and friends playing frisbee on the beach. I think they even regulate that now! Now the “middle class” is moving to states like CO and AZ to kill those states. Liberalism is like cancer, it grows and grow until it becomes out of control and eventually kills the host. Once the liberals can no longer live in what they created they move on to destroy another state…its over folks.

]]> By: Bill Gore https://calwatchdog.com/2013/02/25/l-a-times-finally-admits-l-a-facing-broad-decline/#comment-8684 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 06:00:21 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=38309#comment-8684 Driving or trying to get around LA has become impossible. Downtown the ramshackle chicken buses and trucks held together with baling wire are reminiscent of Mumbai or Jakarta. But this is the diversity that will cleanse the angelino soul of the many sins of the evil whites who actually built the place. But don’t get me wrong, I’ve never really liked LA, even back in the good old days. Pull off the freeway anywhere and it seems like a ghost city, with the whining roar of the freeway never too far away. The mythic valleys and cities of the basin now seem to have nothing left but myth and sun-rotted reputation.

]]> By: Donkey https://calwatchdog.com/2013/02/25/l-a-times-finally-admits-l-a-facing-broad-decline/#comment-8683 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 02:03:39 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=38309#comment-8683 Hondo, I agree, the love of easy money, brought about by the war on drugs, created what we have today, a PIC and no control of our borders!! 🙂

]]> By: Hondo https://calwatchdog.com/2013/02/25/l-a-times-finally-admits-l-a-facing-broad-decline/#comment-8682 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:12:38 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=38309#comment-8682 My city of Angels has lost its wings. More than 90% of outstanding murder warrants are for illegals. And it was Bush#2 who brought most of the illegals in, hoping they would vote republican. What was he thinking. You can’t blame the illegals for coming here to get free stuff. What third worlder wouldn’t.
Mexico wasn’t a hell hole 30 years ago. That was before the drug trade totally corrupted the country. I’ve traveled all through Mexico several times back then and it was a safe, Catholic country. Wonderful people. But everything got corrupted by amerikas drug craze. Then Kali offered idiotic amounts of welfare with no ID required. But there is no such thing as a free lunch. Just like the black family was destroyed by welfare, the hispanic family is going too. And with it goes the city, just like Detroit.
Hondo…

]]> By: us citizen https://calwatchdog.com/2013/02/25/l-a-times-finally-admits-l-a-facing-broad-decline/#comment-8681 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:09:13 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=38309#comment-8681 Well when LA is a sanctuary city for all the illegals, what in the heck do you expect! They bring their third world views with them and just duplicate the hell holes they came from.

Bob the traffic is HORRIFIC!!!!! I had to go 60 miles through LA a few years ago and it took me 6 freakin hours!!! There were accidents everywhere. There isnt a morning that goes by now that some big rig hasnt flipped over and they shut down the whole freeway. It is shear torture. I have actually turned down some jobs because of the drive.

]]> By: stolson https://calwatchdog.com/2013/02/25/l-a-times-finally-admits-l-a-facing-broad-decline/#comment-8680 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:03:13 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=38309#comment-8680 True sad story–my friend’s hubby has a business in TX and expanded into CA. The EPA rules were tightened and they also told him he would pay a lot more on machinery etc. It was quite a lot of money–so he closed the CA business and incorporated into TX business. It is a company with large machinery. Some lost jobs as couldn’t relocate. They would not work with him at all on the regulations and said they prefer he leave if he felt them too expensive. While this was not in L.A., but I believe the Ontario arena, it is still indicative of a mindset. When I was driving through L.A., it was so jammed and the roads in poor shape, I couldn’t wait to get to my destination north of the city.
Drove through Hollywood area, visited friend in North Hollywood (who has since moved out of there) and the Hollywood hills area. Just seemed crowded and overrated to me. I met a few people from East L.A., all in from Mexico years ago. They were anxious about increasing costs and poor city management. Asked what they thought about the mayor and they were kind of indifferent–just that he is a politican! LOL.

]]> By: Donkey https://calwatchdog.com/2013/02/25/l-a-times-finally-admits-l-a-facing-broad-decline/#comment-8679 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:19:56 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=38309#comment-8679 Any person with half a brain knows that the economy in California is in the tank. The news outlets have been spreading the governments unemployment propaganda as well as Pravada did during the 1960’s, but the feeling is that someone is lying.

We have allowed the AQMD, CEPA, and ARB with its CEQA requirements to run manufacturing out of the state. This is nothing less than unaccountable bureaucrats distroying the economy for their jihad on anything that might seem dirty.

Which reminds me of something. I have always loved anything mechical, cars, boats, nuclear reactors, plans, my dishwasher, washing machine, and any type of tool, whether powered or unpowered. So one day was in the midst of changing the head gasket on my 1965 Mustang and a couple of my pals from college drop by, these guys are different from my high school pals, I am filthy dirty, one of them looks at me and asks, “is it legal to work on your own car like that,” I responded, “I believe so.” My point is, we have allowed the state to become so powerful people are asking ridiculous qestions, which may actually have a basis in truth. 🙂

]]> By: Sean Morham https://calwatchdog.com/2013/02/25/l-a-times-finally-admits-l-a-facing-broad-decline/#comment-8678 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:17:22 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=38309#comment-8678 Villacrooka is a CORRUPT piece of S&*t!!

]]> By: CalWatchdog https://calwatchdog.com/2013/02/25/l-a-times-finally-admits-l-a-facing-broad-decline/#comment-8677 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:49:14 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=38309#comment-8677 Taxes, both city and state, also are a lot higher than they were in 1990. And there’s AB 32. And it costs twice as much to own a home. And…

— John Seiler

]]> By: Bob Morris (@polizeros) https://calwatchdog.com/2013/02/25/l-a-times-finally-admits-l-a-facing-broad-decline/#comment-8676 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:29:01 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=38309#comment-8676 We lived in LA for years and get back there every so often, and always remark at how much worse the traffic has gotten. And it was bad when we left.

Two Fridays ago it took my wife about an hour to drive 5 miles on surface streets on the Westside of LA. A city this paralyzed by traffic is not a city that works.

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