Practical Problems

• Economic stagnation
• Business flight and failure
• Out of control pension systems
• Patronage bloated government
• Plummeting property values
• Dilapidated homes
• Urban blight
• Increasing numbers of subsidized houses
• Elderly losing their homes to taxes
• Abandoned buildings
• Unaffordable health insurance
• Highest medicaid costs
• Highest utility costs
• Failing schools
• Best and brightest leaving the area
• Gang shootings
• Undeveloped waterfront
• Underutilized, government subsidized hospitals