Louisville Sucks Part II......French For Louisville Suce Deuxième Partie

Since Louisville was named after King Louie I think a little bit of French would be most appropriate for the Possibility City that should called Possum Billy City and increasingly sucks for most of the residents of Louisville. Here is part two of Louisville Sucks or as some of the local even write that Louisville Sux. 

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Along with the urban infrastructure debacle of 2009 until present, the city despite being the 4th largest taxed city in the nation is also a chronic waste of economic resources despite the high tax burden it places on its resident and business community.

Dixie Highway isn't the only place in Louisville that is a problem when it comes to infrastructure and issues with falling apart infrastructure. You can pretty much circle most streets in downtown Louisville, KY as being bombed out cratered streets because of the lack of care and maintaining such roadwork.

Instead, Louisville's liberal leaning mayor has all of these mentally unhinged ideas about sustainability and how he's going to make Louisville into a sustainable city despite the fact that his city is falling apart at the seams and with a weak economy and unsustainable debt issues not only with the city but the publicly controlled Louisville Water Company and Metropolitan Sewer District respectively LWC and MSD for abbreviation.

LWC can barely function being a mayor appointed public corporation where the mayor of Louisville appoints those who run the government office. Same with MSD being appointees and none too efficient seeing that they've been running a debt of over 4 billion dollars. All for a city and a service area of perhaps less than 800,000 people.

Former Louisville Mayor and Lt. Governor Jerry Abramson oversaw MSD and LWC during the years prior to current Mayor Greg Fischer got his hands involved in the mess and has done nothing to really help anything. Add in the fact that MSD spends and screws the ratepayers into the ground every chance they get adds to the angst that many in the community has towards the MSD.

Another reason why Louisville sucks is the mamby pamby work done by the Police Chief Steve Conrad and Mayor Greg Fischer to law and order issues. Instead of cracking down on crime and going after those enablers and criminals that are terrorizing the community, they choose to ignore the problem or try to approach it with a politically correct angle. Therefore, this politically correct nonsense is further reason why in the last several years the crime problems in Louisville, KY have spiked including a spike in murders to where murders are at least 1.5 to 2 times more than they were only a very few years ago. The 2016 Murder Count for Louisville, KY was 123 and the 2017 count today November 1, 2017 is 141 with two months remaining in the year.

Louisville sucks also because of the unsustainable low wage economy that has been created in the city over the past several decades. Louisville used to have a higher wage structure economy than just about anywhere that a person could get a good job and own a home and nice vehicle. However, that is and has been going away for some time now since those manufacturing jobs have been sent off to Mexico, China, and other Third World sweatshops.

The Louisville Solution: Have more service jobs and low wage employers flipping boxes at part time hours and part time pay. Then maybe these people might go full time although they'll entice you with the Metroversity program, etc. If not, you can find one of the low wage 8.50 an hour or 9 dollar an hour job working at one of the fine warehouses around the city that have been springing up for the past couple of decades. All with extra tax breaks and economic incentives while the taxpayer continues to get screwed into the ground.

If that doesn't work for you, then Louisville has plenty of temporary jobs working for maybe 2 or 3 months a year until you are unemployed all over again or laid off like so many people go through at various low wage employers.

Louisville Sucks...But You Already Knew That and You Definitely Know That Most of Kentucky Sucks Too

One might think this is a website primarily based on a dislike of the Louisville Cardinals athletic teams which comes out of a university that masquerades as an athletic program but this is so much more than that.

The purpose of this site is to bring into the open hard hitting news and commentary about Louisville, Kentucky and some of the surrounding Kentucky counties that are often associated with Louisville including those areas in Kentucky systematically included as part of the Louisville Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Louisville sucks because a large part of it is due to Louisville Metro Government or ie. the Metro Council and Mayor which makes policy for the city and Jefferson County of which Louisville Metro now controls the majority of in essence because its taxing district and law enforcement patrols the entire county. Louisville sucks because economically it is a cesspool in what could be a highly prosperous metro area. Louisville sucks because its the 4th highest taxed US city with a crumbling infrastructure, shitty roads, lousy public services, corrupt government, and a populace that doesn't in most cases give two healthy shits about the crime and crap that goes on in their city.

Louisville sucks because of the antiquated and bombed out infrastructure which resembles something akin to Dresden in the 1940s despite a very high tax rate on individual taxpayers are hosed as well as individual business and small businesses. Louisville sucks because of political correctness and having a mayor and police department that is more interested in not stepping on the toes of the criminal class and a certain voting bloc.

Louisville sucks because its school system regularly ranks in the bottom 25 percent of the schools in the entire Commonwealth of Kentucky. A state that isn't exactly among the brightest in the box of crayons nor very sharp to start with and a US state that ranks well in the 40s when it comes to public K 12 education. Not to mention 47th in the United States in percentage of its residents with a college degree or post secondary training of some sort.

The JCPS (Jefferson County Public Schools) at last glance ranked 127th out of 160 some Kentucky school systems. Even down from 118th a few years out of 154 school systems which ranked it in the bottom 25 percent of all Kentucky school systems.

Louisville sucks because at large it has an ineffectual system of government along with a system of incompetence and government corruption that makes it look like the Chicago of the Ohio River Valley. Louisville sucks because it spent 350 million on an arena to give it away for next to nothing so the local college basketball team could play in it for years for next to nothing in rent. All the while the interest on the facility was in the 17 million a year range and the city couldn't come up with enough tax revenue from its Tax Increment Financing district to pay for the arena (which its backers and local politicians claimed that it would do). All the while blowing away 17 million a year just on interest until the principal was due to start payment in 2020 at approximately 16 to 17.5 million a year based on 350 million dollar cost of the facility.

All because they have no NHL team, no NBA, and only two college teams U of L men's and women's along with a smattering of concerts to support a facility. Meanwhile the taxpayers end up supporting the arena through their tax dollars (another thing promised that wouldn't happen by POLITICIANS) at the tune of several million dollars per year which is taken out of the city's general funding which instead should be going to roads and infrastructure.

Louisville sucks because the roadways are decrepit and falling apart all over the city because the city ,stupidly I might add, decided that it would be a great idea in 2009 to take over responsibilty for all Kentucky designated and numbered roads in the city/county of Jefferson. Of which they didn't have enough money or funding to keep the roads repaired correctly and therefore they are falling apart. 

Louisville and The Reformulated Gas Ripoff

Louisville has been selling reformulated gas for as long as I can remember at least back in the 1990s and possibly a few years before that into the 1980s due to supposed smog and pollution problems. One problem though was that reformulated gas was sold in Kentucky for many years while Indiana did not sell reformulated gas and it was usually 20 to 30 cents cheaper by driving down the expressway 5 miles into Indiana and then getting the non-reformulated gas. Suckers!

Just like when Lousyville had vehicle emissions testing back in the 1980s and an older friend went to have his old vehicle tested. The first time it wouldn't pass so he took it back later and it wouldn't pass a second time and the next time it didn't pass but the inspector on duty went ahead and gave him the inspection sticker and passed it anyway. That's the type of corrupt crap that Louisville, Kentucky has been doing for a couple of generations. Maybe this eventually will pass the Kentucky State Cadavers (Legislature) and actually become law to at least save the increasingly stressed and impoverished Louisville residents some money. Of course, the ultra liberal talking heads and government officials in Louisville will have their heads explode but they haven't been using their brains much over the years anyway.

https://www.wdrb.com/news/business/bill-aimed-at-ending-reformulated-gas-in-louisville-takes-step/article_0387191e-3950-11ea-b1ab-037101a8a20e.html

Another Day In Kentucky

It's another day in Kentucky where standards are so low and virtually no one cares until someone important gets slapped over violating labor laws and various other things. Now if this is going on at one place in Louisville and one company that owns all of these businesses how many other labor and law violations are occurring at other businesses in the city of Louisville and Commonwealth of Kentucky?

https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/restaurant-company-owned-by-louisville-s-bridgeman-family-hit-with/article_8fbed57a-3bc1-11ea-b763-576f9026e30b.html

Louisville: Murder City of the Ohio Valley....It's Not Pittsburgh or even Cincinnati....It's Possibility City or Better Called Possum Billy City

The crime infested city of Louisville again makes the news for the fact that already in 2020 there have been multiple shootings and multiple homicides in just 20 days of the New Year

https://www.wdrb.com/news/dead-after-double-shooting-in-russell-neighborhood/article_3fe30b76-3c01-11ea-99e8-b36acb44bdea.html

Another Indication That Kentucky Sucks and Louisville Sucks Just As Well as the rest of Kentucky.

Imagine this that Kentucky has the most corrupt government in the whole country. Just another indication that Louisville sucks and Kentucky sucks as well.

 https://louisvillefuture.com/archived-news/harvard-study-kentuckys-state-government-one-corrupt-country/

Imagine..........Louisville Is Basically Broke Again Part Two

Long having been a city ran by an incompetent government and business community Louisville, Kentucky has long been ran by incompetent yes men and bureaucrats. This type of quisling behavior has long been noted by those who aren't from the local political class and business community that talks a good game but delivers very little. Of course, that of which they can't steal from either the public treasury or their employees by skimming the little they get in decent pay and benefits from their increasingly smaller paychecks. Maybe that's why Louisville has one of the largest homeless populations in a city with only 770,000 people and a metro population of 1.2 million over several surrounding counties including Louisville Metro but also in Southern Indiana and Central Kentucky also called Kentuckiana.

The interesting thing is that Louisville is supposedly a crossroads of the lower Midwest and upper South but can't seem to get its act together and be able to get out of its own way. This can be noted in the fact that Louisville has a lot of things going for it including a large navigable river, one of the larger airports that could be used for increasing the level of shipping via air of which there is some done. Not to mention near the middle of the Eastern US with links to surrounding cities such as Cincinnati, Nashville, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Chicago, Columbus and many others within a days of driving distance of 12 hours.

Yet it remains a stagnant economic backwater in the Commonwealth of Kentucky which is a state that has long ranked at the bottom of the economic spectrum with ranking 47th in personal income, 47th in family income, 47th in median income, 47th in educational attainment, 43rd in quality of its universities, 41st or worst in K-12 education which it has ranked near the bottom of US states for decades. Even worse is that Kentucky schools are such cesspits of total incompetence that only about 44 percent of high school students in 2018-2019 were proficient or better in high school level reading. Mathematics and science scores are even worse with scores respectively about 40 percent and 36 percent in each category. That's the extent that Kentucky schools have been mismanaged for years along with a state government which has been mismanaged to the extent that its considered the worst ran state government in the entire United States by Governing Magazine.

Even worse is that Kentucky despite billions in revenues over the past decade has been unable to manage its state finances to the point that it has the 3rd worst state pension problem in the United States with a shortfall of 37 billion in 2018 dollars. Considering at that time being only better than California and Illinois who have worse pension problems but also state populations 8 times that of Kentucky in the case of California and 2.5 times that for Illinois. Here's a nice article that discusses this.

https://theintercept.com/2018/10/21/kentucky-pensions-crisis-hedge-funds/

Interesting that Kentucky continues to kick the can down the road while the common people suffer from lack of investment, horrid educational outcomes, a third world infrastructure that is billions overdue on basic investment just to get the road infrastructure graded at an C level by the various engineering societies that grade roads in every state. Despite this, Kentucky just partnered with the neighboring state of Indiana on a 4 billion dollar project to build two new bridges over the Ohio River in Louisville that is relying on tolling existing interstate crossings to pay because Kentucky is so fiscally busted that it cannot afford to pay for it out of existing revenue.

Even worse is that Kentucky's roadways and bridges were ranked at a D level in most of the past several years having received a C- for the year 2019. Here are a couple of articles that discuss this problem of how Kentucky has basically let its infrastructure go to pot so to speak.

https://www.wvxu.org/post/kentucky-receives-c-grade-its-aging-infrastructure#stream/0
https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/kentucky/

Of course in Kentucky, priorities are seriously skewed when cities such as Louisville received a brand spanking new basketball arena in 2010 that has never been able to pay for itself out of the TIF financing bonds that were issued and paid for by TIF tax dollars of the Louisville downtown restaurant and bar district. Interestingly though that Louisville between 2010 and 2020 was scheduled to only pay the 15-17 million dollar a year payments just on the interest yet the arena authority and the TIF district fell way below these projections.

Even worse is that the city of Louisville for most of the decade had to pay to keep the arena and the Louisville Arena Authority district financially solvent by the tune of the city first starting payments of 7 million a year which later increased to over 10 million dollars a year over 30 years for whopping total of 300 million dollars. Of which the city of Louisville doesn't even have the money to fix its city employees pension problems as well as fixing city streets and infrastructure. Here's another article about the burgeoning debt of Louisville and its Arena Authority. Of course as usual Louisville strikes out again. These following articles show just about how smart the current and past leaders of Louisville Metro are and how none of the so-called Metro Council political butt kissers do nothing about it.

https://www.constructiondive.com/news/debts-for-kfc-yum-center-stadium-in-louisville-swell-to-1b/527917/

https://www.wdrb.com/news/despite-refinancing-louisville-arena-authority-to-make-higher-annual-kfc/article_60bcdd5b-c141-5f62-8105-819849c21ef9.html

I might also add that Lexington also spent a great deal of money on renovating the 44 year old Rupp Arena over the past several years in order to give it a new look and makeover at a time when the government in Kentucky couldn't pay their debt obligations and started to look for new taxes and fees with which to soak the citizenry. Nothing says priorities more than having two top twenty basketball programs in Kentucky while only 44 percent of students can read at grade level and 1 out of 10 adults have no teeth and have lost all of them due to lack of dental hygiene and poverty. Only in Kentucky could you be so incompetent in a supposedly first world nation.

Meanwhile, Kentucky's politicians of both parties have proven to be such losers that they cannot even stem the tide of the state losing money and becoming increasingly a poverty stricken economic basketcase with limited opportunities for its citizens that they have to increasingly go to other states in order to work and live. Meanwhile the population of Kentucky still increases with now about 20 percent of the state being functionally illiterate at a time of widespread literacy and 90 percent high school graduation rates. Of course, we know that many people pass through school due to social promotion and authorities just having to cover their rear ends to justify keeping their jobs and glossing over those left behind.

Of course, the 120 fiefdoms that consist of the 120 counties of Kentucky have a large number of incompetent and often stupid public officials that shouldn't even be in government to begin with and only get in due to name recognition and family ties. Here's looking at you in making Kentucky and even shittier place to live than it already has been for several decades. Its a good thing that Kentucky residents don't travel a whole lot outside of their little bubble in most rural areas because if they actually got out and experienced much of the United States other than the South they would realize how badly they've been getting screwed over the years.

Imagine.........Louisville Is Basically Broke Again

After decades of financial mismanagement Louisville, Kentucky is showing up again with its hand stretched out being the incompetence based city that it has been for many years. Of course with its hand stretched out trying to squeeze the last nickel out of the pockets of the taxpayers in a city that is the 4th highest taxed city in the US. Don't believe me......it's right there in the type in the articles listed below. Of course, since its Louisville and only about 35 percent of the recent high school students can read at their grade level tested and then graduate from the system that produces more illiterates I shouldn't expect much out of the Louisville schools or society.

https://www.wdrb.com/news/lmpd-officers-applying-elsewhere-amid-concerns-about-pension-pay-low/article_9a2c767c-370f-11ea-a610-db36353726e0.html

https://www.wdrb.com/news/louisville-s-nonprofits-in-battle-for-funding-as-city-s/article_ceda1c3a-33ea-11ea-ac09-f78a49657d01.html

This time it is going to have a serious effect on city services and the competence or must I say incompetence of city government is astounding that they have known for years that the city is on precarious financial straits even though the national economy is relatively strong and unemployment is low. It just shows the type of incompetent government that exists in Louisville, Kentucky and overall the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Not to mention that Louisville regularly ranks among its regional cities as being less than favorable when it comes to people making living wages and having quality jobs and incomes.

In fact, Louisville, Kentucky in a recent year ranked 18th out of 20 peer cities in the Midwestern and Southern United States when it came to various factors in the socioeconomic realm including personal income, family income, median income, quality of jobs, educational opportunities, educational achievement and much more. Behind regional cities such as Nashville, TN, Cincinnati, OH, Columbus, OH, Indianapolis, IN, Charlotte, NC, Kansas City and countless others. Even including the crime stricken community of St. Louis, MO which despite its crime problems in the North City and North County still came out far ahead of Louisville, Kentucky when it came to economic growth, unemployment and various income based statistics as well as educational achievement.

It's a quite pathetic indictment when a city like Louisville ranks far behind all of these other cities when it comes to job creation, economic growth and overall incomes. Then again, its the Louisville mentality and the mentality of the Commonwealth of Kentucky to be at the bottom of the barrel and refuse to do the work necessary to improve by attaining improved education, financial management and improving job quality and overall economic indicators. Louisville has long been a city that sits on its laurels and makes excuses from its business community and so called civic leadership.

After decades of making these excuses and continually allowing the infrastructure and quality of life in Louisville and surrounding areas to deteriorate, one would think that Louisville would have a major wake-up call and start addressing these things. Then again, its more of the Louisville mentality and things that wouldn't be allowed to fester elsewhere totally get ignored by the ignoramuses on the Louisville Metro Council and Louisville Metro Mayor's Office.

Now the police are starting to figure out what a mess that Louisville Metro financials are and with the morale problems by local government allying itself with more criminal elements of society and refusing to allow police to do their job the crime issues are starting to spiral upward while the crime issues such as murders and violent crimes and all other forms of criminal activity are being tolerated.

Increasingly, the Louisville Metro Police Department and its officers are having their hands tied by the Louisville Metro Government and Louisville Metro Council as well as the local right to know media and Metro Mayor Greg Fischer and his handpicked "yes man" Steve Conrad and his lieutenants padding their pensions while doing nothing about fixing Louisville's crime issues.

So accordingly the police are moving off to other jurisdictions either within Louisville/Jefferson County such as Anchorage or surrounding police departments in other counties near Louisville if not other states. All because the pay and working conditions is better in other locations than financially strapped Louisville. More on this in part Two.....Louisville is basically broke again.