End or rebirth for NYC?

[pip]

Originally Posted by dc_denizen

the unending protests (really, riots/looting/destruction on a grand scale) are indeed a disaster. Who is going to invest in these cities anymore, if all it takes for another round of small business destruction/fires/riots/beatings is a cop shooting someone, even if justified? whats going to happen when rioters try to burn down gentrifying neighborhoods?

and the media's egging it on. NPR just interviewed some dolt , author of a book about how looting is to be celebrated and is just , totally justified.

Never thought I'd say this, but I am pretty happy being in the suburbs where we don't have to deal with these Portland, DT Minneapolis and DT Chicago style temper tantrums.

You think the chaos in America is bad now.

Pre covid over half of Americans worked in low wage jobs with minimal benefits or no benefits. Pay check to paycheck.

Millions of jobs have been lost and many of them permanently since March.

Wait until the tens of millions of people don't have a place to live anymore become unleashed.

America is a disaster.

[dc_denizen]

Originally Posted by pip

You think the chaos in America is bad now.

Pre covid over half of Americans worked in low wage jobs with minimal benefits or no benefits. Pay check to paycheck.

Millions of jobs have been lost and many of them permanently since March.

Wait until the tens of millions of people don't have a place to live anymore become unleashed.

this is another lie. Americans, pre covid, had an extremely high standard of living, like people in other first world countries.

median income in the USA is $61,000/year

read this:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...ppear-smaller/



what we do have is behavioral problems among the (white and black) underclass.

[Steely Dan]

take the political BS to the CE toilet.

[JManc]

Originally Posted by tdawg

I also passed a LOT of residential construction. More than I’ve ever seen in Queens.

Long Island City? It's nuts over there with the construction.