Tucson, Arizona - A brief history of it's Economy
As I sit here in this community, my frustration grows as the elected city officials brought back into office, continue to shoot themselves and their constituents in the foot.
Tucson, the second largest town in Arizona has been pronounced the sixth poorest city in the United States of America. It is no wonder.
You don't need a Wharton education in economics, marketing or finance to figure this one out. The local newspaper is populated by burned out hippies from the late sixties, writing in their daily about limited growth, the desert cacti, rocks and desert until one's brain explodes.
Readers hardly know that the national government is perverting the Bill of Rights, whole sections of the government are mal-functioning, but little of that is known here.
The latests rock band schedules, drink prices and restaurant menus are published with irritating regularity along with city-wide "eat-ins" down town. On at least two occasions at year, there are celebrations of the " sixties "on one city street where it would be difficult to separate Tucson from San Francisco in one's head from Haight Ashbury.
The economy is stiffled artificially. The city's golf courses run a dificit of at least $`10 million a year, one of them in a west side poor Barrio neighborhood represented by the Vice Mayor. A Phoenix Collegee wanted to plow over the course, bring 500 million in cash, build a college and bring oodles of jobs.
The " community" said no. \
Rosemont Mine wants to open an operation out in the desert bring a thousand jobs, millions of dollars and new opportunities to the area. No soap, says the "environmentalists." The tweety birds aree affected.
Meanwhile, the economy here shows stores closing, minimum wage jobs all the rage.
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Tucson, the second largest town in Arizona has been pronounced the sixth poorest city in the United States of America. It is no wonder.
You don't need a Wharton education in economics, marketing or finance to figure this one out. The local newspaper is populated by burned out hippies from the late sixties, writing in their daily about limited growth, the desert cacti, rocks and desert until one's brain explodes.
Readers hardly know that the national government is perverting the Bill of Rights, whole sections of the government are mal-functioning, but little of that is known here.
The latests rock band schedules, drink prices and restaurant menus are published with irritating regularity along with city-wide "eat-ins" down town. On at least two occasions at year, there are celebrations of the " sixties "on one city street where it would be difficult to separate Tucson from San Francisco in one's head from Haight Ashbury.
The economy is stiffled artificially. The city's golf courses run a dificit of at least $`10 million a year, one of them in a west side poor Barrio neighborhood represented by the Vice Mayor. A Phoenix Collegee wanted to plow over the course, bring 500 million in cash, build a college and bring oodles of jobs.
The " community" said no. \
Rosemont Mine wants to open an operation out in the desert bring a thousand jobs, millions of dollars and new opportunities to the area. No soap, says the "environmentalists." The tweety birds aree affected.
Meanwhile, the economy here shows stores closing, minimum wage jobs all the rage.
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