Tucson, Arizona - Economic Conditions
If you are reading this far and away from southern Arizona, methinks, you should not dwell too much on relocating here to sit under a cactus and shoot arrows at the wandering javelin galloping nearby.
The economy in Tucson stinks, still, as last reported in the newsprint, 6th poorest in the nation as a town or city - whomsomever you wish to distinguish. Now get that: (6th) SIXTH poorest in America. Not just in Arizona - in the whole friggin country.
The streets must be better in Baghdad. My PT Cruiser has rattles and short circuits from banging around on the city streets. Pot holes enough to swallow whole tires.
Tucson started a street car project 30 years ago. Now - get this, I was the general manager of a huge mall here in town back in the late 70s when a guy walks in and asks me for $$ support to start up a Street Car line from one end of town to the University.
Three days ago, they delivered the first street car from Portland, Oregon where it was manufactured.
Arizona makes it hard to bring in business here. Thee is a lot of red tape involved. They used to make a lot of movies here, especially in Tucson. Thanks to a Democratically controlled (read ENVIRONMENTALIST) there are damn few if any, and no Westerns shot in Tucson.
It took them over 30 to get the idea of a street car from my office to dropping off that first car three days ago. Now, with the anti-business climate here, where do you think they went to BUY the street cars? ---Portland, Oregon, the ancestral home of the American Communist Party.
If Tucson Arizona sat down with the street car manufacturer when they first started and made them a deal, they could have opened the plant here, had a jillion jobs in southern Arizona, and consolidated a market in Tucson.
The ENVIRONMENTALISTS have been stalling on a copper mine just outside a town for years. Everybody from the EPA, governments, and Jesus has ok'd the thing, but the Birkenstock crowd has held it up on technicality.
If you wonder why our country is stalled and stagnating, now you know.
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The economy in Tucson stinks, still, as last reported in the newsprint, 6th poorest in the nation as a town or city - whomsomever you wish to distinguish. Now get that: (6th) SIXTH poorest in America. Not just in Arizona - in the whole friggin country.
The streets must be better in Baghdad. My PT Cruiser has rattles and short circuits from banging around on the city streets. Pot holes enough to swallow whole tires.
Tucson started a street car project 30 years ago. Now - get this, I was the general manager of a huge mall here in town back in the late 70s when a guy walks in and asks me for $$ support to start up a Street Car line from one end of town to the University.
Three days ago, they delivered the first street car from Portland, Oregon where it was manufactured.
Arizona makes it hard to bring in business here. Thee is a lot of red tape involved. They used to make a lot of movies here, especially in Tucson. Thanks to a Democratically controlled (read ENVIRONMENTALIST) there are damn few if any, and no Westerns shot in Tucson.
It took them over 30 to get the idea of a street car from my office to dropping off that first car three days ago. Now, with the anti-business climate here, where do you think they went to BUY the street cars? ---Portland, Oregon, the ancestral home of the American Communist Party.
If Tucson Arizona sat down with the street car manufacturer when they first started and made them a deal, they could have opened the plant here, had a jillion jobs in southern Arizona, and consolidated a market in Tucson.
The ENVIRONMENTALISTS have been stalling on a copper mine just outside a town for years. Everybody from the EPA, governments, and Jesus has ok'd the thing, but the Birkenstock crowd has held it up on technicality.
If you wonder why our country is stalled and stagnating, now you know.
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