Yeah... not a surprise. I've seen videos like this from Philly and other places. Sad.
It occurs to me that if they "fix" the infrastructure, which is what one of the subjects complained about, the people would still be there, doing what they're doing. But that's a good point about the jobs having gone away. And yeah... they were "cool" for the video, but who knows how they act when they're off camera.
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You typoed the "youtube" in the first set of brackets.
But yeah... not a surprise. I've seen videos like this from Philly and other places. Sad.
Thanks! Sorry about that...
It's crazy to me that the city lost THREE major sports teams... just insane. Imagine just the jobs lost from that as well. Like... if you look at just one sports team, most people have no clue and they think only of the people who work the stadium. You have (for example in football), at least 100+ people who JUST work for the team itself... which doesn't even count the 52-man roster and the practice squad (another 16). Most of those people will actually live in the city they're playing for. Those 52 are all being well paid, and of the ~100 football staff, at least half of those are going to be decent 6 figure salaries, and the rest will include everything from interns to trainers making 75-100k a year, plus equipment and media staff.
Then you look at the stadium. On any given day, there are 150+ employees supporting a stadium that do everything from maintenance, cleaning, office staff, marketing / sales, ticketing, community relations, you name it. During game-day, that increases to about 1,500 people. But that doesn't even cover the whole thing... there are typically anywhere from 20+ other companies that support the stadium, everything from those who have an HVAC contract to the people responsible for the grounds (mowing and landscaping outside, to the professional crew who makes sure the grass inside the stadium is properly cared for and striped). There's dozens of other companies, from telcom to videography.
That's THOUSANDS of very high paying jobs (not counting the 1,500 you get during a single game day) that are just lost. None of those people will stay. Multiply that by three (three sports teams gone), and you're looking in close to $10k good jobs that are gone. If those sports teams have gone, then already many of the businesses had.
What a disaster. And when you look at it... it's ALWAYS the left and progressive policies that lead to this, every single time.
Deterrence of such crimes must be immediate, harsh and unusual. Round up his entire family, line them up, the neighbors too, force them to chop, stab, slice, scroat, strangle the IQ impaired demon, ' Oh Mama ! Please Don't stab me ! ' ' Kid, I want to live, you blew it, I have to do this to stay topside ! ' Yeah, cruel and unusual, torture so medieval like, a glowing hot iron, singeing the baubles. Immediate 98% reduction in crime, like, overnight, the Dempartie_Nazi_Hamas_Communists bemoaning the rights of the madmen, ' He was sick on drugs, that wasn't the DeCarlos I know and grew up with, he's normally a really nice guy, always willing to help in our community, I would post bail, if I could, Yo '
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Does that seem too draconian, too mean and nasty ? Like, ' I better not let him go, or they will waste my family ! ' Totally effective deterrence from the first day, laws upheld, criminals, murderers, imprisoned forever, life. That would be just, I think. Yeah.
