Louisville Sucks Part II

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 Louisvile, 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 sweatshoops.

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.

So add in the low wages and the low expectations and you'll see why Louisville has thousands of homeless and hundreds of thousands of poverty stricken residents. Nearly 33 percent of the old city of Louisville proper are considered poverty level out of a population shy of 300,000. Overall the city counting all 750,000 residents the poverty level is about 13 percent which is artifically low based on current incomes and cost of living. 

Louisville and its idiotic leaders including the Metro Council of Do Nothings talk a big game and talk the talk but they refuse to walk the walk. All the while trying to act as if they are an international city yet could be the farthest from being a world class city. Not even close Maxwell. To note the Get Smart TV Series of the late 1960s. Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer Greg Fischer should have been one of the main characters in a sequel of that show.

These and other reason are truly why Louisville Sucks because the Metro Government and many businesses want it that way

Louisville Sucks

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 Louisvlle 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. Including Dixie Highway which is now slightly under construction and probably will be until 2050 although its only 20 miles in length total.