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On 4/5/2024 7:10 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Apr 5, 2024 at 4:00:25 PM PDT, "moviePig" <never@nothere.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/5/2024 5:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>   On Apr 5, 2024 at 1:28:21 PM PDT, "moviePig" <never@nothere.com> wrote:
>>>   
>>>>   On 4/5/2024 3:29 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>     FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>     On 4/4/24 11:40 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>>     In article <uunqht$152al$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>>>     super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>     On 2024-04-05 00:03:47 +0000, FPP said:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>     So you'd be OK with higher taxes to fix our problems at home, right?
>>>>>>>>>     Because that's how things work.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>     Tokyo has 14 million people, I doubt "everywhere you go" is so clean it
>>>>>>>>     would pass a Drill Sergeant's inspection (google "Tokyo slums" if you
>>>>>>>>     don't believe me).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>     Kimmel's rant fits in well with our homegrown rightwingers' racist dog
>>>>>>>>     whistle about "dirty Blue-run cities" though.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     How exactly is it racist to point out how filthy and trash-strewn and
>>>>>>>     graffiti-covered the blue cities are?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Because when you look at the states that are consistently at the bottom
>>>>>>     of the barrel in terms of education, infant mortality, income, etc, -
>>>>>>     they're all Red States.
>>>>>     
>>>>>     Which has nothing to do with why the sidewalks of Los Angeles are covered
>>>>>     with human shit and the sidewalks of Miami are not.
>>>>
>>>>   No, that'd owe to tourism.
>>>   
>>>   You're saying it's the tourists that are shitting on our sidewalks?
>>>   
>>>   Really?
>>
>> Kowtowing to tourism is a sacred calling in So. Florida.
> 
> And it's not in L.A. with Hollywood, Venice Beach, the Walk of Fame,
> Disneyland, etc.? Tourists are all over the West Side. The TMZ-style buses and
> vans clog traffic everywhere, shuttling loads of them around to various stars'
> homes and places where various movies and TV shows were filmed.
> 
> (Hint: the streets of Dallas aren't covered in human shit, either. Not exactly
> a tourist Mecca.)

I haven't been to L.A., which I'm sure has plenty of tourist trade.  But 
I've not seen any state's economy so dedicated to it as Florida's.