St. Louis was already a decaying big shitty when I lived in MO back in the 1990s, it's hard to imagine how bad it is now. Pretty close to Detroit I suspect, just perhaps slightly less poor black gang bangers and a few more white trash rednecks.
In terms of revitalizing and repopulating the city, it would seem like a better place to ship the refugees in the Concentration Camps being run on the Tex-Mex border than NYC, Chicago & LA, which are already stuffed to the gills with homeless. Of course, because St Looie has been in decay for so long there's no job opportunities and insufficient state and local tax revenue to cover the costs involved in keeping these folks fed, but at least there are empty buildings there and infrastructure in place to heat them and get the toilets flushing again. They might have to share bathrooms in the office buildings and take sponge baths instead of shower but that still better than porta potties and army tents around communal shower stalls.
So the only way to fund it would be through the federal goobermint, and both the state of MO and municipality of St Louis would
A- Be against it since their politics have changed little since the Civil War
&
B- Be forced to staff it and run it,
but given its history & geographic location at the center of the country on the Mighty Mississippi and Gateway to the West, symbolically and practically it seems like the best place to ship the hungry masses yearning to be free the Statue of Liberty talks about so poetically.
In an election year it's unlikely Uncle Joe would float this idea since it would immediately be attacked by The Donald from the courthouse steps at his latest trial, and the right wing media would pick it up and run with it like OJ Simpson in a car chase on the LA freeway.
So it goes.
https://www.businessinsider.com/st-louis-downtown-doom-loop-is-worse-than-san-francisco-2024-4
The city whose 'doom loop' just might be worse than San Francisco's
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The city whose 'doom loop' just might be worse than San Francisco's
Started by RE Apr 14, 2024, 11:29 AM
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