Dragonlady
Designing Woman
Drink that Kool Aid. Democrats run the cities because Republicans have no ability to manage anything. It was Republicans who created these conditions of poverty, debt and crime, and then threw up their hands and moved to the suburbs.
Your portrayal of American cities is both false and dangerous. It's being sold to you to frighten you into voting Republican. New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Chicago are some of the greatest economic engines in the world. When the World Trade Centre came down, American corporate leadership was decimated and the nation was plunged into a recession. If New York City was the crime infested hellhole you portray, no sane person would live or work there, and the place would look like the set of Escape from New York.
All cities have pockets of poverty and crime, because it takes a lot of money to live well in a big city, and Republican economic policies that set a minimum wage at $7.50 an hour, and lower for restaurant workers, with no universal health care or other benefits for low wage workers, creates poverty, and poverty creates crime.
Look at the increases of violent crime, and drug addiction in the fly=over states where the auto industry has left the state.
