I love how Louisville has all kinds of
signs around the city painted on buildings or hung on the buildings
with these big placards stating how its Mary T's Louisville or
someone else around the city that got some claim to fame even though
most of them left Louisville to do so. In fact, some of them
including Muhammad Ali spent decades away from Louisville despite it
supposedly being such a great first class city. Just in the last 40
years or so before he passed, Ali lived in Detroit, Phoenix, and
elsewhere but not in Louisville until he bought a place in Anchorage
that ended up having mold issues and other problems.
Ever notice, that a lot of these
luminaries don't stay around Louisville after they've made it big
time. Even the formerly esteemed Louisville basketball coach left
Louisville as soon as he got canned by the university because there's
nothing all that special about Louisville and the surrounding area.
It didn't take him more than a week or two to put up his home for
sale and sell it off and then he was already in Florida ruminating
whatever the hell else he's going to do with the rest of his life.
I'm sure he won't be hurting though financially running away to the
bank with all his money.
I've noticed this constantly over the
years that all these people are from Kentucky but they've moved far
away from Louisville and Kentucky in general because there is nothing
really all that redeeming either in the state nor in Louisville.
That's why Louisville and the famous horse racing organization and
its subsidiaries and community supporters have to recruit celebrities
to come to Louisville during that famous horse race in May. They
actually have to pay appearance fees to famous sports celebrities,
movie stars, B listers, etc because there isn't anything else in
Louisville that really is culturally redeeming enough to really visit
there. Its nothing more in many areas than a skidmark on a pair of
tighty whiteys.
Look at downtown Louisville how it
empties out after the latest concert or U of L game at the big
chicken bucket on the Riverfront. Hell, Louisville couldn't even get
an NBA/NHL team while even smaller cities and metro areas outside of
Louisville have teams including real pissholes like New Orleans,
Memphis, etc. Even minor ass cities like Salt Lake, Nashville,
Buffalo, Raleigh, Memphis, Oklahoma City, Jacksonville, etc have some
sort of professional sports or some other civic pride accomplishment.
What does Louisville have? Not much
unless you're into shopping at shitty strip malls and other outfits.
Museums? Ali and Frazier? Nothing much there either. The only real
attraction Louisville has going for it is the Zoo and I'm not talking
about the crime infested West End which is a totally different issue.
You call Standiford Field an
international airport? Really? Despite the fact that it probably
doesn't even have an international flight that goes anywhere directly
out of the country. Even UPS about pulled out of Louisville back in
1994 because the local city government led by light in the loafers
former Mayor Abramson couldn't even get the snow moved out of the
city streets and highways around Louisville. Add in the incompetents
of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet not being able to properly
clean roadways off and UPS your biggest employer would have been gone
a long time ago.
It continues to get better though
because the truth is that Louisville was going backwards for decades
and if you look at the history of Louisville, for those of us smart
enough to know the difference and reading, you'll find that
Louisville once had opportunities at having much more but they passed
up on all kinds of opportunities such as NFL teams in the 1960s which
went to Atlanta. The Colonels in the 70s were a big draw but the city
of Loserville and the owners couldn't and wouldn't come up with 3
million dollars to pay for the franchise fee to join the NBA. Despite
in 1976 having a pretty good basketball arena already there at the
Fairgrounds that would eventually have to be replaced. Even the
dirtball Charlie Finley wanted to move the Kansas City Athletics to
the Fairgrounds old Cardinal Stadium but was rebuffed so Louisville
didn't have anything to actually get its shit together.
So its gotten better over the
generations as one Democratic mayor after the next continued to
ignore the problems in Mayberry as the local population continued to
decline in intelligence and quality. It started with Harvey Sloane
from 1973 to 1977 and again from 1981 to 1985. Then 13 years of
Democrat Abramson first from 1985 to 1998. Followed by David
Armstrong from 1998 to 2002. Then again followed by Abramson again
from 2003 to 2011. Now you have Fischer who looks almost identical to
his wife. Just to have to wonder if its a Kentucky trait to look like
brother and sister?
Louisville likes to talk big and
deliver little. Which is why Louisville compared to other sister
cities in this region of the Ohio Valley, Upper South, and Midwest is
totally a joke and a farce of a city. Louisville acts not much bigger
than say a dump like Owensboro or Bowling Green and maybe that's
because its in Kentucky and they have nothing better to look up to.
Even smaller cities like Nashville have long ago passed up Louisville
in arts, entertainment, culture, sports, business opportunities and
much more.
Louisville still thinks its a bunch of
great neighborhoods when in fact most of them from neighborhood to
next look and act all the same. Add in all the run down buildings and
crappy infrastructure in Louisville that looks like it was built
about 100 years ago and more. Roadways with bike lanes that are so
narrow that I'm surprised that more bike riders haven't been killed
by the SUV driving public and those driving large trucks. All the
while the streets look like someone forgot to pave them at any time
this century. What's up with Dixie Die-way which was the roughest
stretch of crappy road south of the Watterson for years. No one knows
how to properly pave and structure a roadway?
Louisville streets are an abomination
for a city of its size and have been for years. It looks like
something you would see in a run down city like Detroit or Cleveland
neither of which are terribly well off or economically prosperous. At
least they have much more bad winter weather for 5 months out of the
year with freezing weather from November through March. Even the
inner city of Cincinnati has better streets that Louisville and minus
its crime issues, Cincinnati has more going for it than Louisville.
Same goes for Indianapolis, Columbus, most of St. Louis metro minus
the Central City of St. Louis, etc.
Nashville is a nicer city than
Louisville and much more clean as if people can understand basic
trash disposal and pickup. That's another thing about Louisville
that's amazing is that you can drive in the West End or Dixie Highway
and find trash everywhere along the streets and roadways. We're
talking about glass bottles, needles, fast food bags, plastic bags,
cups, etc. As if none of the Kentucky hilljacks actually understand
waste removal and disposal in trash cans. Maybe they're too stupid to
clean out their cars at a gas station or when they wash their
jalopies.
However, the trashiness isn't just in
the West End or Southwest Louisville. Its down roads like National
Turnpike, the Outer Loop, Preston Hwy, Bardstown Road, Newburg Road,
etc. As if no one in Louisville bothers to clean anything during
winter or around any other time of the year except for the world
famous horse race which is Louisville's only real claim to fame. I
remember countless times being on Preston Hwy and stopping at various
places along the way and the whole roadside looks like a garbage can
exploded with cups and cigarette butts everywhere. Kentuckians don't
obviously understand cleanliness or being able to pick up after
themselves.
Its snowing again in Louisville and
they've already got tens of slide-offs in Louisville because idiots
drive way too fast. Watching this on the net and its laughable how
bad Louisville drivers really are despite the fact that the city gets
about 3 months of real inclement weather in an entire year.
Especially from the first of December until March when it finally
starts to warm up. I remember a couple of years ago watching the
Louisville TV stations and how the morons in Louisville couldn't
handle an inch of snow without having hundreds of wrecks because the
inbred idiots aren't intelligent enough to drive slower and leave
just a bit earlier to get to work, home, shopping etc.
It can't even be the excuse that these
are people from California or some other Southern state with dozens
and hundreds of these slide-offs and wrecks.
Anyway, back to Greg Fischer's
Louisville and how badly the place is ran with criminal morons and
degenerates being able to commit crimes and acts of violence then
handled with kid gloves by the local police forces. All the while the
criminal enabling mayor and his handpicked butt kissing police chief
allows the criminal trash, violent thugs, and lifelong losers to
continue to have a free pass. Not to mention every time one turns
around and watches some level of gang violence and losers harassing
tourists and walkers at Waterfront Park or around the Big Four
bridge.
Add in the fact that the Louisville
schools are so pathetically bad that it creates generations of these
useless eaters and lifelong morons incapable of holding even the most
basic and menial jobs. Not asking a whole lot there but when about
half of Louisville students can't even spell, read, and do
mathematics at grade level when they leave school says a lot about
what a totally fucked up system that is. When your metro schools in
Louisville are so bad that you're 122nd out of 159 Kentucky schools
including hillbilly schools in Eastern Kentucky and Southern
Kentucky. That speaks volumes.
In fact, I've been about everywhere in
the United States or at least have talked to people from every state
and generally every region and I've never seen people as
dysfunctional as in Kentucky and Louisville especially. The sad thing
is that this isn't just a few morons causing problems and being
illiterate dirtbags but a large percentage of the local population.
Every state has its scumbags and hicks and ghetto bangers, its just
that Louisville, Kentucky and environs in the state of Kentucky has
more illiterate morons than just about anywhere and that's in
comparison to other states that have some major league horrible
cities which are carbuncles on the ass of humanity.
Kentucky could do so much better to at
least keep the damage to its worst of the worst areas especially in
places like Louisville Metro and even parts of Lexington. Instead it
exports its crap to the rest of the world because eventually some of
these morons leave Kentucky and end up populating other states around
Kentucky which don't need the additional white trash. However, at
least in our states, these people are seen and known as undesirables
and scorned by the locals that live here. Where I live at now, if
someone sees a Kentucky plate they got a good clue there are people
either fleeing Kentucky or are up to no good and if you pull your
Kentucky shit here you'll end up in jail. It doesn't fly here nor in
surrounding counties and you would be welcomed if you acted like
sensible and intelligent people but not if you're white trash morons
from Kentucky.
Another thing about Greg Fischer's
Louisville is the rotting economic structure and increasing
impoverishment of the local population which ends up only benefiting
those in the higher realms of economic power. Kentucky has long
allowed this crap to go on where its smaller communities lose massive
amounts of population to Louisville, Lexington, etc. Essentially
exporting people to other states and municipalities because the local
yokels in places like Central Kentucky, Appalachia, Southwestern
Kentucky haven't done anything for generations to create good paying
jobs and they won't as long as they keep producing generations of
morons incapable of being productive and intelligent citizens. That's
why Kentucky continues to fail economically and have budget deficits,
economic problems, government waste, and massive corruption.
You're fooling yourself if you think
that Kentucky doesn't have corruption in government and the local
chieftains and family member running your various counties while the
infrastructure and tax bases around you are collapsing. All the while
more businesses and factories continue to escape the state or end up
going broke themselves. Its like Louisville and why it looks like a
bombed out post industrial mess in so many places because they've not
bothered to keep up infrastructure and business development. I was
once a member of Young Professionals of Louisville when I lived there
and it was nothing more than a social networking organization that
did very little that actually pushed for more growth and development
in the Louisville region. They were more worried about pushing for
ultra liberal feel good crap like smoking bans and social issues.
Sorry but that doesn't take care of the
economy, education system, or pay the bills to keep a roof over your
head and your finances well off. Not to mention that doesn't help
your state economically and socially progress into more intelligent
and worthwhile endeavors and pursuits. That in a nutshell is why
Louisville is a joke compared to many other metro areas that not only
work on economic development and better wages all the while
Louisville worries about left wing liberal crap like bike lanes,
smoking bans, and other crap. All the while its roadways,
infrastructure, business development are totally backwards and the
city has nothing to really get and keep more people.
Louisville though doesn't think that
way even though their city has went backwards over the last 35 years
or so. Once it had 36 percent of its jobs tied to manufacturing
products which is a noble enterprise and should be encouraged.
However, its now only about 10 percent of the jobs in Jefferson
County, mirroring other cities in the United States especially in the
Rust Belt as jobs have fled those formerly prosperous areas. However,
where Louisville really fails is in its ability to attract and retain
bright people because they end up running off to other neighboring
cities and regions. Indianapolis and Cincinnati are prime examples
where the best and brightest in Kentucky run off to in order to make
a living and find decent employment and career opportunities. Every
time I go to Indianapolis on business, I usually meet someone from
Kentucky or Louisville proper and many of them would like to return
home but they know that they would have problems getting suitable
employment even in Louisville and especially in a harsher economic
climate like what happened from 2008 to 2013.
Even those people would wish to live in
the Louisville area but they know that they would be economically
deprived and held back by the horrid local Louisville economic
structure where jobs for their skill levels and skill sets are often
nonexistent. It reminds me of a friend from Southern Indiana that
lived close to Louisville but refused to move back to his home area
because of the local economy in the Louisville area and he decided to
stay in Indianapolis and then later transfer to Colorado. Louisville
doesn't value education, common sense, and basic intelligence in its
businesses and companies. Which is why Louisville remains an economic
backwater in the Midwest/Ohio Valley/Upper South.
When dealing with the rest of Kentucky
outside of part of Lexington, Louisville, and Cincinnati Metro, they
don't anything to majorly look upward towards with the decrepit
Kentucky educational system not to mention the poverty stricken state
of Kentucky. A state that cannot even fund police cruisers and proper
weapons for law enforcement which is an essential part of
governmental activity. All the while, they can fund needle addicts
and drug users with needles for them to shoot up with that end up in
the roadways around Jefferson, Bullitt, Shelby and Oldham counties
along with other Kentucky counties including parts of Southern
Indiana where drugs have taken over now.
Kentucky doesn't give a damn about
education and it shows when the state ranks in the bottom third in
public education and has for decades despite the fact that they
currently spend 10,192 for every student every year. Even more
ridiculous is that they spend more money than my local school
district in the north but have worse economic and educational
outcomes than my semi-rural district where at least the average high
school student graduates with a decent educational background and
basic set of skills they can move ahead for technical school, trades,
colleges and universities or end up doing military service. In
Kentucky, the state could give a damn less about educating its
citizens because if Kentuckians were actually educated they would
start fleeing the great trailer park on the Ohio River and leave for
better ran states. Therefore, that would leave Kentucky with a larger
percentage of its population being morons even more than now because
they smart people would readily flee Kentucky knowing about the
economic deprivation they face daily.
Greg Fischer's Louisville brags about
attaining 55,000 new college graduates by 2020 but there is little
evidence that has occurred much less that they will stay in
Louisville to be successful and intelligent people. In fact, as soon
as they see the crappy work environment and the crappy pay for jobs
in Louisville they flee to other cities. In fact, years ago former
Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson was running around to other cities
across the country trying to recruit people to come back to
Louisville. Most of them were polite but said no thanks because
Louisville had very little to offer former residents who chose to
stay in Texas, Atlanta, San Francisco, Denver, Phoenix, and many
other locations. That's why Louisville had to do their publicly
funded Impossibility City campaign properly called Possibility City
which is laughable at best. Its so laughable in light of the economic
and job opportunities in Louisville and even parts of Southern
Indiana directly across the river. Louisville had to pull that sort
of gambit in order to try to attract people back but as of 2006 to
now in 2018, its pretty much been a failure as people with
intelligence are fleeing Louisville and Kentucky in generation
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