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MAYWOOD is a tiny city in Los Angeles County, just south of downtown Los Angeles, where almost everybody is Hispanic. Two or three families are squeezed into most of the single-family homes with cheerful, toy-strewn yards, and locals say with a certain pride that if all are counted Maywood’s square mile or so is the most densely populated area west of the Mississippi. The place is blue-collar and modest but well-kept and welcoming. People especially like the new medians separating lanes on the main drag: a gift “from Obama”, as the mayor, Ana Rosa Rizo, calls them, since they came with federal stimulus dollars.
But those medians are about the only sign of economic help for Maywood, which, on July 1st, became the first municipality in California, and perhaps anywhere, to have no employees at all, after laying off nearly 100.
Just pray the water system does not break and the criminals leave the place alone.
This is the real cost of spending all our money on an expensive and failing Empire to protect International business. We pay to protect shipping from piracy and the shipper do not pay a dime. We lose men and money in Afghanistan so India can eventually buy natural gas from Central Asia. Will India pay us for their access? I don't think so. The profit will wind up in Dubai.
We need to pull back from being the world's policeman and spend the money taking care of our problems. Let somebody else go bankrupt protecting the world's investment community. We can no longer afford it.
Just pray the water system does not break and the criminals leave the place alone.
This is the real cost of spending all our money on an expensive and failing Empire to protect International business. We pay to protect shipping from piracy and the shipper do not pay a dime. We lose men and money in Afghanistan so India can eventually buy natural gas from Central Asia. Will India pay us for their access? I don't think so. The profit will wind up in Dubai.
We need to pull back from being the world's policeman and spend the money taking care of our problems. Let somebody else go bankrupt protecting the world's investment community. We can no longer afford it.
what do you suppose the reason is that we go through all that trouble?
How about a few words on how illegal immigration ruined this town?
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