Pittsburgh Hill District

[jwk]

I wonder if it ever will come back and what happened to bring it down? This was a thriving place from the 20's through the 50's.  About the time the families were encouraged to break up and get paid to have more children is when it started to fall apart. 

I believe the broken family is the biggest burden on the United States

If welfare was cut would we be able to fill all the available jobs? IMO yes

Will Dems ever want to cut welfare at the risk of losing votes? IMO no

The Hill District

[davet]

Part of the cutoff or disassociation with the Hill district was the construction of "The Igloo". When that occurred, and all the roads were swapped around, it cut off the easy way into downtown.

That's why there's a big to-do about what to do with the former Civic Arena property.

[bushmaster]

It's a place I avoid along with most of the city. Place is a liberal cess pool any more.

[ridgecommander]

Broken families and few roles models are the scourge on society these days. Kids don't have decent people to look up to and emulate and the lack of parenting has taken its toll.

[jwk]

Apr 21, 2024 17:21:02 GMT -5 davet said:

Part of the cutoff or disassociation with the Hill district was the construction of "The Igloo". When that occurred, and all the roads were swapped around, it cut off the easy way into downtown.

That's why there's a big to-do about what to do with the former Civic Arena property.

The plan I guess is to put a smaller concert venue (4500 seats)where the Arena used to be with the idea it will re-connect the Hill to Pittsburgh. That may be a small part of it but until family values come back especially in the inner city not much will change in my opinion.

[Dutch]

Apr 21, 2024 16:53:01 GMT -5 jwk said:

I wonder if it ever will come back and what happened to bring it down? This was a thriving place from the 20's through the 50's.  About the time the families were encouraged to break up and get paid to have more children is when it started to fall apart. 

I believe the broken family is the biggest burden on the United States

If welfare was cut would we be able to fill all the available jobs? IMO yes

Will Dems ever want to cut welfare at the risk of losing votes? IMO no

The Hill District

SOME of the problem with welfare is it has hard cutoff numbers. Make one dollar more than the cutoff, and you lose all benefits. It encourages people to stay below the cutoff. It discourages those that want to work, to seek work.