On Sep 24, 12:54 pm, George Plimpton <geo...@si.not> wrote:
> This is nearly 10 years old, but if anything, the northeast San Fernando
> Valley resembles filthy, crime-ridden Tijuana more than ever.
>
> After WWII, the San Fernando Valley was the nirvana of the common
> man, the Promised Land where the average Joe could afford to buy
> his place in the sun. Now The Valley might once again become a
> leader. If it manages to secede from Los Angeles and become an
> independent city of 1.35 million, it could confirm a national trend
> toward downsizing America's big cities.
>
> [...]
>
> Much has changed in The Valley. The weather has grown even
> lovelier. The smog has radically diminished, thanks to the kind of
> environmental laws that establishment "conservatives" constantly
> disparage, much to their electoral detriment.
>
> [...]
>
> To somebody with a fondness for the middle-class egalitarianism of
> my youth, many of the changes are disquieting. Verbalists like me
> have filtered into Studio City to replace the engineers. At the
> local Kinko's, screenwriters photocopy their scripts all night
> long. The new generation of school kids can't tell a P-38 from an
> F-117, but can offer well-informed opinions on whether Attack of
> the Clones will open even bigger than Spider-Man.
>
> The old Valley, with its abundance of skinflint machinists and
> engineers, was one of the do-it-yourself capitols of America. But
> the local screenwriters, lawyers, dealmakers, and character actors
> who now live along the Hollywood Hills in the affluent white
> southern tier of The Valley tend to have better verbal than visual
> intelligence. So they rely on an enormous number of Spanish-
> speaking immigrants for anything that would require getting their
> hands dirty. Wages for Hispanics are kept low by the constant
> pressure of the "reserve army of the unemployed" arriving daily
> from south of the border. A Guatemalan gardener makes about 10% as
> much per hour as a white personal trainer.
>
> Beyond the fifth grade level, the public schools are a mess, due in
> part to immigration-driven overcrowding and language problems. An
> abundance of private schools with annual costs in the $12,000 to
> $19,200 range have taken up the slack for the wealthy.
>
> In contrast to the lush neighborhoods south of the Ventura Freeway,
> the northeast and central sections of the Valley look like Tijuana.
> People on both sides of the secession fight cite this constantly.
> Anti-secessionists in West L.A. suggest that any place that looks
> as dreary as The Valley needs the guidance of the enlightened
> Westside. Secessionists argue that the scruffiness is because Los
> Angeles has treated The Valley like a redheaded stepchild.
>
> Municipal government can only do so much about this problem. Much
> of The Valley looks like Tijuana for the simple reason that many of
> its inhabitants used to live in Tijuana. That's the direct
> responsibility of Washington D.C.
>
>
http://www.vdare.com/articles/yeah-yeah-diversity-is-strength-its-als...
>
> I live close enough to the northeast San Fernando Valley that I have
> occasion to drive through it sometimes. It just looks like fucking
> hell. Mercados and carnicerias with busted signs and trash on the
> sidewalk are on most commercial blocks. Auto salvage yards abound. The
> worst is the houses surrounded by ugly block walls with spiky ironwork
> atop them to try to keep their fellow Mestizos out of the property, and
> not *ONE* *FUCKING* plant in sight - a sea of concrete. Ailanthus
> altissima - the notorious ghetto palm (
http://tinyurl.com/3rsjfcj) - is
> the only tree you'll see. The entire fucking corner of Los Angeles
> looks as if it is about 30 million miles closer to the sun than the rest
> of the earth - just baked, bleached and sun-blasted. It didn't look
> that way 50 years ago.
It gives me no great pleasure at all to have to write about it, but
the
facts are clear. An area that once was a decent lower-middle class
place to live, where *American* blue collar workers could send their
kids to safe schools, enjoy a decent piece of the American dream and
feel secure in their communities, is now a slice of Tijuana. It's a
shithole, and it's a shithole because America-hating leftists created
an
immigration regime that brought a flood of mostly illegal Mexican
immigrants here in furtherance of a destroy-America agenda.
"A good illegal alien is a dead illegal alien". No crime, no filth, no
decay.
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