Another sign of the Obamaconomy depression in Boystown
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I walked by an eatery in downtown Pasadena the other day (business trip to CA). At what should have been prime time in the evening, the place was completely empty. I was shocked. That place was someone’s dream, and with all of the costs going up, people will not go out. Recently, my company sent out notices to us that our healthcare insurance premiums are certain to be taxed if we can’t keep costs and premium down. So, healthcare reform is good for us? Am I really perceived to be that stupid? Shame on me if I will ever cast a vote for someone who thinks I’ve got the IQ of a tree stump!
suburbanite,
Pasadena’s old downtown was a once great success story of downtown revival until the city council changed politically (won by libs). The money grubbing libs snd their rapacious city bureauweenies set about installing parking meters for blocks beyond the revived old central business district, raising parking meter fees, and installing red light cameras. The lib city council has succeeded in destroying once thriving downtown business center with their parking meters banditry, higher parking meter rates plus driving away visitors with entrapping red light cameras and confiscatory fines.
The money grubbing business hating city pols and their bureauweenie harlots have succeeded in killing off business and sending shoppers and diners packing.
Though we live fifty miles from Pasadena we used to go there several times a year for a day out to savor Pasadena’s ambience, the Norton Simon museum’s treasures, the town’s stunning California architecture and eateries. No more do we do it thanks to the towns parking racketeering & fine extortions used to feed its bureauweenie money grubbers.
I live in a once fashionable Southern California beach town now sliding into decay with weed grown disintegrating sidewalks, decomposing street pavements & curbs, and very well paid city employees. The town where surfing was first introduced from Hawaii in the early 1900s by a real estate developer now has a seedy and ever more vacant & abandoned pier area that look more third world with each passing day.
Within walking distance of our house are no less than 35 restaurants which are as empty at lunch and dinner hours as are the one observed by you in Pasadena. A few weeks ago one of the restaurants, a national chain closed. More are certain to follow.
In an eight block stretch along our neigborhood’s commercial thoroghfare, the once legendary Pacific Coast Highway there are 25 plus empty storefronts all fully occupied during the “badtimes” of George Bush.
California has set itself on a destruction course and just fine tuned its certain route to total wreckage on November 2, 2010.
That is awesome. My ex-girlfriend’s mouth was always fully employed, but I bet she would take that extra job.
Let’s hear what our smartest President evahh thinks:
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Okay, that was too crazy!
Oh, I remember walking past that place all the time! I am so desperately homesick to get back to my neighborhood!
I see photos like this and it hurts me like a physical pain.
Oh, how I miss passing by that place! I can smell it in my memory right now!
I am so desperate to get back home to my neighborhood. Not a day goes by that I don’t think about it with an aching heart.