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We can look at Shreveport Communities over a 30-40 year span. We will find gross devastation expanding in many of the more western and east west sectors to the north west of center sections of the city.
Example: Queensborough, Sunset Acres, Woodlawn, Caddo Heights, Allendale, Hollywood, Airport Park Area, Motown, parts of Cedar Grove and various other communities, declined to points of dire poverty, with a high degree of destitution. Broadmore is not what its previous history presented, and part of Highland have been forever changed. Some areas where old money once resided, have been impacted by 'new money", which has changed the historical standards.
Factors: Previous residents became aged and some passed on, education became secondary consideration as basic survival in improvished conditions too center stage.
Jobs began to leave the area in the 80's, by the 1990's employment devastated had consumed a great many of the indusrial areas, the supply chain for those indusries were made to look like swiss cheese; slowly, more and more business closed. Some due to bankruptcy, some due to the retirement of the owners and the Children sold off the business or cared not to return, so the owner simply liquidated and closed. We too as a city became victim of the " Outsource malady that swept this nations. Some small business were consumed by conglomerates,who grabbed the client base and closed the business. The cycle hit not only this region and this city, it hit and devastated the entire nation. By 2008, We saw massive economic default. Lending became stagnated and much of the socio-economic model suffered in many ways, which reverbrates still to this date.
Delinquency is always increased when poverty becomes more saturated and lowered to become "dire poverty". Communites began to reflect the lack of upkeep, which again the cycle within poverty is self perpetuating, as blight brings crime and widespread despair grips communities. This changes the dynamics of the city, as it spreads from community to community. Crimes have become more pronounced by media focus, as well as categorical crimes are relative to various communites, as to the types of crimes. Yet, Crime remains being Crime. it is not pratical to say which is worst, when crimes devastated individuals and groups of individuals lives. Some crimes damage the entirity of city, especially the impacts of white collar crimes and its impact on the society of community and city as a whole.
American or World History has always demonstrated the ravages of destitution upon the communities, its people and ultimately upon the cities.
More devastating conditions of Poverty's Spread, results to present increased volumes of lower educational achievement within many communities, the drop out rate increases, The impact of long term impovished conditions produces lower performance results in local and state run programs. For those who seek ways to work out of these conditions, the enrollment in lower grade technical programs increase, as the social programs step up their offerings.
Other matters began to take hold and affect the indivduals and community, such as, physical health maintenance challenges become a higher focused contentender, with many varied conditions to contend. This is compounded by the increased need for mental health services. Often times, improvished communites are the last to understand the high need for mental health services. Poverty itself is a System Sickness within the Social Condition of community and individuals, and ultimately of the city itself.
Middle Lower Economic Class : 10-40% above poverty
(Upper)MiddleLower Class: 30-70% above poverty
The ravages associated the Lower Economic Class becomes an often overwhelming challenge unto many individuals, communities and cities.
Invariably, these things tell us a great deal about the needs and focus necessary by those who aspire to want political position. It also tells us as a society, the non function which the current minimum wage produces, as well it tells us theimpacts upon a nation, by the decades of corporate greed and its Outsource obsession. the devastates is present from the West Coast to the East Coast, From the Canadian linke to the Gulf of Mexico.
This encompasses the Continental United States.
If anything would assume none of this to be important, they may benfit from actual research, but may be more vividly impressed to understand by driving through the whole of the city communities and get first hand visual confirmation.
Afterwards, they may then correlate that with the factors of our over-all economic industrial make up. We might then get a better understanding of what impacts the nature of City.
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This is just TMI. BTW...no one is trying to "regulate you"...such choice of words is quite telling. Anyway, I'm out. next posting I see of yours I simply will make a choice not to view nor engage. Good luck.
This is just TMI. BTW...no one is trying to "regulate you"...such choice of words is quite telling. Anyway, I'm out. next posting I see of yours I simply will make a choice not to view nor engage. Good luck.
Honestly, you can only speak for yourself as to what is (TMI) "too much information". I happen to appreciate information. You can't possibly know what interest others or what does not as to how much information people engage.
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"regulate you"...such choice of words is quite telling
I previously explained to you on another post when you addressed your want of brevity, I understood exactly your aim and point, of saying people generally respond basically to brevity. I said then, That I was not concerned with Brevity, you chose to ignore it, as if your expectation is suppose to change my actions. you may underestimate people more than I do. there are people who do explore material for their own wants and aims, and many people ream many things and may read without comment, and those who want to comment on some things do so. The Shreveport Forum does not get a great deal of comments on many postings, its just the nature of the site and forum. I rec'vd emails from people who appreciate the info, as well as calls from people whom I shared the link with.
As to you reading or not reading, I equally so addressed that, by saying: "Each person can write what they choose. If you don't have interest in the post, move along to something that interest you. It's a quite simple process."
Yet, you insist on continuing to bicker about what I write. then make the statement as to what you will do when you see my post. as if that is suppose to have an impact. You have not engaged subject matter, you came with your "ZZZZzzzzz" posting, which I do not consider as being engaging the particular subject material. but I did not make any statement saying you can't make such posting.
instead, I said:
"One of many things is certain, I don't write with an aim to assume everyone is without the ability to comprehend. Those who choose to read, think and explore, will do so; those who choose not to will go on to articles that interest them.
Relax, post and blog as you choose and I will do the same. That's the nature of the programs options.
Many Articles speak of the young people and their challenges in the economics of our times within our cities. A recent article by the Presidents Panel, addressing this was posted: “15 economic facts about millennials.
These are very big matters in our current day society.
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"There aren’t enough good jobs for young workers. Student debt is out of control. A weak economy is forcing millennial to delay many important life decisions, such as buying a home, getting married and having kids."
As discussed earlier, many are strapped with student loans, low paying jobs and many have to move back home with their parents, and many are finding they have to enroll in various tech programs to be job ready, because their degree are not relevant to the available work.
We just witnessed the CEO of Microsoft, have to retract a statement he made about women seeking to ask for a raise. People are aware, here is a man who makes millions per year + bonuses, making disparaging remarks about women who seek to ask for just compensation for their work.
We see in many industries, CEO's making 300-450 time more than employees. [What it does not say is, 300-400 time what amount. is it 300-400 times a median wage figure, for example. 300-400 x $25.00 an hour, or 300-400 time $200 an hour. ??????? We do know this, what ever it is, it is a big factoring number, when we see people making $10-$20 million a year. What does it average out to per hour. (example) in some cases, based on standard hours wk per yr, is it $10,000+ per hour? ]
We know as individual and working people, there is not much anyone can do that is at a worth of that type of money per hr or per yr Especially, at a PUBLICLY TRADED COMPANY. We've seen collapse after collapse by the actions and choices of the CEO types.
'Question": How many can's of Soda would a company have to sell just to pay the CEO with a pay rate so high? How many hours must employees work just to produce enough product to pay the CEO salary?
The young generation will be asking these type of questions. They see their homes, their personal lives, their communities and their cities falling into despair, they watch as their jobs are sold off and the executives cash out and walk away with even more millions. leaving in the wake, unemployed people, devastated communities, crashed cities and massive blight or empty and abandoned structures. they watch as a supply chain of business are forced to fold and close as a result of these single individual choice made by the incompetence of CEO bad decisions and greed pursuit choices.
"one article, spoke of a CEO's concern about stock ticker prices dropping if they paid employees more, which would cause the CEO's stock holding to be worth less. The option is not to pay the employee more, to insure the stock price does not dip due to compensating employees.
We may need a remake of the concept of CEO:
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The earliest cite in print for CEO that the Oxford English Dictionary has is 1972. Interestingly in 1955 only 1 head of a Fortune 200 company was titled CEO, This marks the period American Industry began its fast decline.
In some European Union countries, there are two separate boards, one executive board for the day-to-day business and one supervisory board for control purposes (selected by the shareholders). In these countries, the CEO presides over the executive board and the chairman presides over the supervisory board, and these two roles will always be held by different people. This ensures a distinction between management by the executive board and governance by the supervisory board. This allows for clear lines of authority. The aim is to prevent a conflict of interest and too much power being concentrated in the hands of one person.
In the United States, the board of directors (elected by the shareholders) is often equivalent to the supervisory board, while the executive board may often be known as the executive committee(the division/subsidiary heads and C-level officers that report directly to the CEO).
Sadly in American, in some instance, the CEO is allowed to be Chairman of the Board and President of the company. Purely a conflict in position which become to center too much power in the hands of a single individual.
It's pure collusion. these companies generally go the path of 'outsourcing", consolidating, discarding employee, and ultimately positioning themselves to sell the company. the end result is a collapsed company, or a merger, which resulted to cause 10's of thousands to become unemployed, and across the board wage reductions, along with the assumption of unbearable debt. The CEO walks away with mega millions and wipes his hands of the whole matter.
When this happens, communities across the nation suffer devastating blows.
In Shreveport, what is the impact of the closed General Motors Plant, what was and is the impact of the closed Western Electric (Lucent Technologies) plan. The result was community disruption, high unemployment, closed small business and community decline in standards.
Again, the Executives walked away with a Kings Ransom, able to never have to work again except by choice.
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PLEASE REVIEW FOR YOURSELF: 2014 CEO Compensations. (CEO income level is so far removed from the awareness of average citizen income levels, they are out of touch with the challenges of the working citizen).
While many of the people resulted to loose homes, change their plans for their kids education and left jobless with a skill set which was non transferable, because there was no like industry to take those skills to.
Many employee who works 15-20 yrs in a field of Industry and the company leaves; result to meet challenges finding new work, because their skills are not a match for available work. They take low pay jobs, two jobs and some find no jobs.
Previously, I addressed the responsibility of Industry unto the community it sprang up and built itself up within. Yet, many of these Industries leave, with no responsibility for the maintenance of the massive facility, no clean up plan, and over time they leave massive unmaintained facility which over time becomes 'community blight".
The coming generations will have no choice but to make massive changes in how these thing shape up and turn out. Conditions of life is forcing people to think in terms of 'Ethic Responsibility of Industry", "national responsibility of Industry", and they will explore the concerns of Executive power and executive compensation". These elements have to be addressed if we expect any stability in our system of industry and community. As well as in regards to community, citizens and city.
Boards and Panels of Independent Citizen make up, will become need to become more mainstay, in big industry as it relates to citizens, community, city. The re-emergence of Unions may come back to bear upon Industry for the protections necessary for citizens, community and city.
We as a nation had in place a federal program to assist citizen with Green tech, via the usage of solar panels, we had huge investment in the solar company. Yet, our congressional group allowed 'massive dumping by Chinese companies" to wreak havoc on the American solar company, ultimately causing its collapse, while the increase in Chinese solar panels dominated.
The Department of Commerce has again found in favor of the petitioner, SolarWorld, in that company's trade case against Chinese solar module makers. This afternoon's preliminary decision imposes significant tariffs on Chinese solar modules in the anti-dumping portion of this case.
Today's decision also closes what SolarWorld called a "loophole," which allowed Chinese module manufacturers to use Taiwanese cells in their modules, thereby circumventing U.S. trade duties.
Thus hindering our transition to potential widespread usage of solar panels in the average citizen homes. The political play of this became a detriment to Americans in the form of lost jobs, opportunity and the loss of means to reduce our home and business energy expense. We as a public from lack of information, apathetically allowed this to happen from our basic lack of understanding of what was taking place, the political posturing which became a culprit which resulted to be a slap against the American people.
Many local and regional solar start ups had to close, resulting to people loosing great deals of money and being left with debt they could not meet. Yet, due to lack of information, we supported the losses which resulted.
We have Apple now with nearing a Trillion Dollar Value, yet we have not as American people demanded Apple to employ American and Produce its phone on American soil. "Why" ?
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Samsung has a powerful influence on South Korea's economic development, politics, media and culture, and has been a major driving force behind the "Miracle on the Han River". Its affiliate companies produce around a fifth of South Korea's total exports. Samsung's revenue was equal to 17% of South Korea's $1,082 billion GDP.
In 2013, Samsung began construction on building the world's largest mobile phone factory in the Thai Nguyen province of Vietnam. Samsung has been able to achieve the largest market share of nearly 31% in the global smartphone segment, as of 2013.
Even with the creation of facility in Vietnam, Samsung will not allow its citizens to become unemployed by destroying all its production on the South Korean lands. It seems to understand the need to retain some key industry within its own lands. It does produce on other lands, n the 1980s, Samsung Electronics began to invest heavily in research and development, investments that were pivotal in pushing the company to the forefront of the global electronics industry. In 1982, it built a television assembly plant in Portugal; in 1984, a plant in New York; in 1985, a plant in Tokyo; in 1987, a facility in England; and another facility in Austin, Texas, in 1996. As of 2012, Samsung has invested more than US$13 billion in the Austin facility, which operates under the name Samsung Austin Semiconductor. This makes the Austin location the largest foreign investment in Texas and one of the largest single foreign investments in the United States.
Now how is it that, Samsung, can build industry here, but American companies claim it cannot build its own industry upon its own lands.
These are questions the coming generations will have no choice but to ask.
We must become a society who pursues information to improve our understanding. Once this begins to happen, we will put pressure on elected officials, corporate industry and those who pass policy to allow the exodus of industry which results to devastate our citizens, community and cities.
We as a nation of people with vast education facility, know the premise, "Industry Builds Nations", therefore, The Lack of Industry, destroys nations.
We are at a cross-road - where the pursuit of information and the greater development of understanding is becoming a necessity we can't discard; If and As, we hope to build a prospering future as citizens, community, city, state and nation.
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Depending on the Individual, It may very well not be a suitable posting for "single setting reading". unto some it may be of little interest at all, yet unto others they may read parts as it suits them and their time.
Yes, it is a lot of information. It could be presented in outline and bullet format.
Although our conversational reality, deals with it in segments, often disconnected unto other components in our concept of community, citizen, city and conditions which affect it. often times rendering disconnected view points.
That's why the title is: Every Place is but "Perception and how its factored"
The same info could be placed In brief styled format of pointer, definition and caption as an efficient means to communicate.
Additional dialog pushes the mind to think. yet, in our current society, often we are not unaccustomed to this process. Generally, We seek to get a point, connect it to a mental concept and arrive to summarize.Today, we live in a 140 character society, we have widespread and noted condition of having short attention spans, yet, living in the age of information, is confounding on many fronts as we have built a society upon brevity of sound bits.
Rendering us, knowingly and unknowingly susceptible to being easily manipulated and highly driven by drama influences and even misled. It's quite unfortunate.
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What I hear a lot in various situations is: "I don't understand the details". I hear it when people shop, its said when people consider to invest, as well as other situations.
We may need to re-consider how we engage information, to make better functional choices in our decisions and actions.
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I understand Brevity's aims and point.
If you recall at the Crash of 2008, some of the proclaimed best minds response was, "they did not understand what happen", their follow up was, "they don't know what to do", and their third was "they did not see it coming".
They relied on the brevity of base statics, with vague summary. their method of training was not to think it through in a multivariate factor which relates to the individual. Therefore, they missed the impact upon citizen, community, city, state and nation.
Ethnics was not an element of concern or interest. By 2014, they were back doing the same things which lead us down the path of 2008 economic crash, only today they have amplified the same mindsets, thus resulting in more dire consequence for the citizen, the communities, city, state and nation.
This writing ties the elements together via extended summary, with details inclusive of examples.
It's intent is simple. "the presentation of information, for "the provocations of thought", with an object that the readers may gather an over-view of converging factors.
I take no offense at the comments by visitors to the post. Honestly, I'm not truly to win a popularity contest.
Thank you, my your posting and blog experience continue to be positive for your interest.
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What we face as a city is to get a vote soon:We have a Mayor's race in process
*Can anyone perspective state the position, goals and aim of any of the Candidates?
*What are their values and goals for the city?
*What is their concept for Senior Citizens?
*How do they view the Youth and Young Adults?
*Do they realize the 11th and 12th graders, will become voters during their elected term?
We see the same with council races:
*what do we know of their aims, their plans and their can do strategy?
Their elections into office, WILL HAVE AN IMPACT ON CITIZEN, COMMUNITY, AND CITY.
Many elements matter. both on the local level as well as how they stand on the State and Nation Level.
We may need to know some of these things, before we cast our votes based on road side signs and billboards.
Are we aware we are near the completion of an 8 year term, that had NO "Economic Development Program"?
We experienced an 8 yrs span of city employees having no raise, when cost of living index increased. We've seen a 17.98% inflation increase. $100 dollars in 2006, today requires $117.98 to purchase the same goods and services. (in some commodities and services the inflation increase is much higher).
Are we aware of what is within many of the Measures, Issues and Proposals which go before the Local and Regional Political Administrators?
Do we truly know how they vote on issues? what information do they utilize to support their position and their vote?
In the current society. It is very simple to UPLOAD A PDF documents, therefore they can easily create a summary which outlines what and why (any) Elected Person has taken the position they take.
As citizens whom these individual is suppose to represent... Are we willing to accept BLIND REPRESENTATION, when those who are entrusted to represent, can't and don't tell us what consensus they have for the decisions being made, nor do they put up a summary of the data they used to make the vote or position selection they made.
We BLINDLY give these people too much power, and avenues where they have no concern for a sense of accountability unto the citizens; In some cases, they think being elected has made them above those whom elected them. When the first position is they were elected to SERVE THE PEOPLE. Instead, some sadly, have adopted a disposition which implies they are not accountable to us, instead they pose a challenge to us as if we must be accountable to them.
Try for yourself: Ask any local or regional politician a question about a vote they made, and see what kind of response you get. (That's if they will even make time to talk to you)....
We have politicial canididate who take the public to be imbecils, (medical category of people with moderate to severe intellectual disability) when they put up ad's saying, someone has voted with Obama on all issue. As if to use the "biased connotation connected with the name of Obama, (among Republicans), as being all that is necessary to garner a vote.
People need to pay attention to actual facts and actual ideology of the individual canididate, not not get caught up in the bias, bigotry and madness of this type of campaign distortion). Don't be led by drama, madness and insignifigant buzz words, get information on issues, measures and other relative matters which will ultimately directly impact your life, based on whom you cast your vote). If a canididate under-rates you to the level of imbecil, you might want to be careful about your considerations of such a canididate.
Remember you are not voting for this canididate opinion of President Obama... You are voting for what this canididate can do for you within your local and regional community. Most have said absolutely nothing about what they can do in the local and regional community. They pretend they can change the National Stage,when they don't have that level of power nor that level of position.
By all means, put things in perspective. That you may cast votes that actually stand for something. It's your community, which will be impacted by your decision.
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{Be mindful when reviewing the charts and considering your income and your living standards, as well as the condition in community, city and region, to contrast you views against the corporate culture who continually claims 3-4+ $Billions in Profit - PER QUARTER (every three months). Factor this against a flat wage structure which has failed to keep pace with inflation or cost of living increase basics). This may help give some idea why so many American's are unable to meet any solid saving standards.
In Shreveport: The figures for the charts are off target, as we have a great population who fit within (The Lower Economic Class). There it will take some person work to truly grasp how this chart can and does apply to our city and regional citizen population.
The pointers in this discussions pursuit involve gaining understanding which relate to our communities, city and the level of actual performance as to where we fit, and why we are not as progressive as some indicator suggest. Those from other cities may use the data to factor how their community and city performs in more actual terms.
There is a link to a "caculator" at the bottom of this post.
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American Saving Rates:
The U.S. personal savings rate has fallen sharply over the past 40 years and remains low at 4.5 percent
Be mindful, these figure for saving does not generally apply to the:
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(The Lower Economic Class)
Non-Middle Lower Economic Class: (Dire Poverty, Below Poverty and (at) Poverty
Middle Lower Economic Class : 10-40% above poverty
(Upper)Middle Lower Class: 30-70% above poverty
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Even though the personal savings rate increased after the financial crisis and subsequent recession, it is still low compared to its history. Currently, the personal savings rate is about 4.5 percent of disposable income. In the 50-year period between 1950 and 2000, the personal savings rate averaged about 9.8 percent. Personal savings includes contributions to retirement accounts like a Roth IRA or a 401K.
What Is Your U.S. Income Percentile Ranking?
Our second chart shows how the distribution of income changes when individual Americans are grouped into families, which the Census Bureau defines as being a "group of two people or more (one of whom is the householder) related by birth, marriage, or adoption and residing together":
Our third chart is similar to the families chart, but here, individual Americans have been grouped into households. Households are different from families in that they consist of "all the people who occupy a housing unit", regardless of whether they are related to each other by birth, marriage or adoption, or not, and even a single individual who lives alone is considered to be a distinct household.
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And as a bonus, we'll also break down the numbers for your Individual income to tell you how you compare to your fellow male and female Americans.
I do hope these shared thoughts, links and data will help us as individuals become more actively concerned and involved in pursuing methods and addressing the matters and concerns which directly impact our lives, that of our offspring and the over-all of our communities, city and regional conditions and realities.
We have the ability and capability to speak up and push for change, that we may grow progressively by the voice and stand of the people who make up these communities and our city.
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