Los angeles facing a bleak future-random thoughts

On the LA Gang Tour, LA City's dysfunctional government,LA compared to Detroit, permament 3rd world status & de-gentrification,extent of LA ghettos, and other random thoughts on decline and fall of LA:

The LA Gang Tour is nothing but a slick marketing gimmick which attempts to cash in on LA third world blight and the associated burgeoning gang problems, which have always been fundamental features of LA inner ghettos and are now ensconced in formerly tidy LA county burgs such as Torrance, Carson, Santa Monica, Venice, Mar Vista, Culver City, ad nauseum.

LA City agencies and city leaders cannot do nothing: do not look for leadership from them. LA City is essentially bankrupt and is a sealed-off bubble separate from the vast ghetto spreads which start right at City Hall's doorstep. Villarigosa is only interested in his own self esteem, is a selfish promoter of himself, and is in the pockets of the big dwtn developers and other interests. The rest of LA' s leadership elites, virtually all Dem's, are essentially useless flotsam floating in a vast sea of 3rd world ghettos which ring and surround the central LA DWTN district. They are only interested in demagoging the largely immigrant plebeian PPL thru the roman-style concept of free bread and circuses handed out to the public( in the form of endless free welfare, free education for their kids, and a vast array of social services), as long as the the Dems can control the socialist/labor union agenda and keep getting re-elected to perpetual office.

LA has serious problems and is headed toward a permanent Detroit status till US makes long term fundamental changes in the problems of outsourcing all manufacturing & high tech jobs, and stops importing cheap illegal immigrant labor. Otherwise LA wil permanently cement itself as a third world bifurcated city with a hugh labor/service plebian population making average $10 an hr, and a small wealthy oligarchy clinging to their villas and enclaves in a narrow beach front strip and in the hollywood hills.
Very few outside those actualy living in LA really know the extent of the impoverished spread of third world ghettos, which are 80% of the city and 60% of the county. Entire formerly middle class suburbs such as large parts of the San Fernando Valley have simply declined into slovenly untidy decrepit slumburgs. An entire 10 X 15 mile section of south central LA( 150 sq miles),is so transformed into one gigantic 3rd worlds ghetto that u can drive thru it entirely and find not a single person who speaks Eglish as a first language.
LA City hall cannot nor will not halt this process of overall de-gentrification which has accelerated last 2 years in the current economic and real estate meltdown. City Hall and mayor are useles entities. LA is headed toward Detriot-type permanant urban decay as the last shreads of manufacturing have left this city. The last RE bubble only resulted in more ugly housing/commercial additions now pockmarking the city as foreclosed blighted structures.

Update to original post:

This was written almost 2 yrs ago but nothing has changed. If anything, the situation has likely worsened. LA's UE rate is officially 14% but the real UE rate is around 23-24%. The city is overridden by foreclosures and lots of closed shops and commercial firms. I used to drive all over the city as a driver pre-2008 and even then there was lots of decay and deterioration in it's vast slumzones. The real estate bubble was just starting to collapse in mid-late 2007 and i knew back then that all the new speculative real estate developments going up were a ticking timebomb. I have not driven since 2008 but i know that the city has contnued to deteriorate as the RE bubble collapse hit LA harder than any other city in USA. Note: there are few sources of primary source info coming out of LA detailing it's collapses during the great recession/near depression of 2008-2011. The main source of info for most folks about LA is the venerable but dem agi-prop newspaper the LA Times, which is not interested in detailing it's gritty depressionary aspects.